Ill never forget I was fired from an aerospace company for designing a new system that was basically a linear diagram compared to the highly complex nightmare web of mystery my boss had desgined for our current system, which simply didnt work.
I was given a chance to redesign and it and when I failed to add the added complexity I was let go.
To this day I reckon the higher ups are still having the same age old problems and excuses from their underlings regarding a system that has an utterly useless design. The guy in charge, rarely in the office, calmly explaining its a fantastic implementation, the new coders we are getting just cant work with it / operate it well because they suck.
I am not bitter, if anything it just made me terrified of being C-suite of any large company, knowing it would be almost impossible to understand why your company is failing.
A few years ago, some UK doctors were warning civilians to request to their Doctor to "NOT be included in shareable data" for this reason.
That in itself was weird. Why would I have to ask for this?
So I did, only for the doctor - a normal english doctor in a nice place, to turn to me and say " I can, but you are either 'on the team' or you are not "
I was confused and I just went " I just rather my health data wasnt shared ".
The point isnt that at one point it was possible to request this, or that doctors "leaked that you could", or that finally Palantir finally got access - my point is, if you think about it, some random Doctor thought it was politically incorrect for me to request privacy from possible future sharing of private patient data with corporate interests. I cant think of any possible benefit or reason he could have had other than some authority, perhaps a gov department, or news article somehow conveyed that it was "good".
If most of the upper middle class think like this is, well then we shouldn't be surprised it got shared with Palantir.
In my later years I just think, it is weird how different people are. So no I dont think this is just idiocy or naughtiness, most people are just rather perhaps ignorant. As always though I dont know, you tell me.
Are you calling me a corporate apologist? For one, corporations want less regulation.
"Being a hacker" does not mean "being stuck in the 80s", IMO. If TooBigTech cryptographically controls everything, it becomes harder to hack. Are you aware that the biggest restriction against jailbreaking stuff is that it was made super illegal... because it helps corporations?
You open with corporations want less regulations then give an example of corporations using law to protect their interests around jailbreaking? Just like they did with copyright/IP rules and the million rules around cars
You should ask the DIY diabetes community what they think of FDA regulations preventing modifications of medical devices.
Being reductive about this stuff is not a helpful framing.
Is that how it went? My feeling is that more and more people are realising that social media are terrible for the children (well, for everybody, but children we want to protect). Therefore more governments are looking into preventing children from accessing social media. Therefore social media companies are trying to lobby for whatever is better for them.
For Meta, it's better to have age verification than to downright ban social media.
In my experience they DO want more regulation. Regulation that helps them. The automobile’s industry was lobbying for years to have all kinds of things mandatory. They invented lots of standards and pseudo standards. At the end they shoot themselves in the foot.
one thing I was wondering, is, if LLMs are word completions seemingly coming up with new solutions could this just be because stuff that was kept secret and now - is no longer is due to ingestion? I dont know enough about it tho
why would you keep secret this particular mathematical idea? it's not extraordinarily important, it's not on the path to some other major result, doesn't seem useful in financial trading. even author calls it good reasonable problem for a PhD thesis.
I feel bravery transcends time better than the odd scientific breakthrough which are often attributed to one, but whose roots came from a "lesser" unknown
Also I’ve noted this odd behaviour imo where if I mention one of my comments is AI - as in “ this is what the AI says about the” because it’s a concise statement to aid the chat - I get severely downvoted. But if I just make my comment basically a human parsed version of the AI comment I get upvotes - with no concern for granularity of source integrity. Which is terrible in two ways.
Your setup sounds awesome can I ask - would a high powered mac studio help yoru setup alot or not really? Im just wondering whether i truly need to upgrade from a 32gb macbook air to a studio with 256gb ram or , if thats just overkill for the models we have ( also the studio would be a m2 which is years old now).
I was given a chance to redesign and it and when I failed to add the added complexity I was let go.
To this day I reckon the higher ups are still having the same age old problems and excuses from their underlings regarding a system that has an utterly useless design. The guy in charge, rarely in the office, calmly explaining its a fantastic implementation, the new coders we are getting just cant work with it / operate it well because they suck.
I am not bitter, if anything it just made me terrified of being C-suite of any large company, knowing it would be almost impossible to understand why your company is failing.
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