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At some point we'll have to admit that worse is actually worse.


There have been electoral fraud and a massive disinformation campaign operated by a foreign country. This is not democracy.


There seems to be a link between migraines and Mithocondrial Disease. If frequency/intensity of migraines diminishes with Vitamin B and Q10, it may be worth investigating. Especially if you have muscular fatigue or exhaustion.


And why should we bet humanity existence on this possibility if both seem vaguely comparable in probability? Personally I don't think it will value our existence, a lot of information on us is already encoded, and it can keep around a sequencing of our DNA for archival/historical purposes.


Plenty of humans don't value other humans, so I have a hard time imagining why AI would be any different.


They only seem vaguely comparable in probability to you because you grew up watching scary-monster movies like Alien and Predator. Humans love to be scared. That doesn't mean the real world is actually scary.


Have you met other people?

It's all fun and games until two people or groups contest the same limited resources; then there's sword and fire o'clock.


I meet new people every day. I can only think of once in my life that an adult tried to do violence to me.

Most nations on earth are not at war with each other.

My observation is that most people are pretty nice, and the assholes are rare outliers. I don't think we would survive as a species if it was the other way 'round.


> Most nations on earth are not at war with each other.

My nation of birth famously took over a quarter of the planet.

This has made a lot of people very angry and been widely regarded as a bad move… but only by the people who actually kicked my forebears out — even my parents (1939/1943) who saw the winds of change and end of empire, were convinced The Empire had done the world a favour.

> My observation is that most people are pretty nice, and the assholes are rare outliers. I don't think we would survive as a species if it was the other way 'round.

In-group/out-group. We domesticated ourselves, and I agree we would not have become so dominant a species if we had not. But I have heard it said that psychopaths are to everyone what normal people are to the out-group. That's the kind of thing that allowed the 9/11 attackers to do what they did, or the people of the US military to respond the way they did. It's how the invasion of Vietnam happened, it's how the Irish Potato Famine happened despite Ireland exporting food at the time, it's the slave owners who quoted the bible to justify what they did, and it's the people who want to outlaw (at least) one of your previous employers.

Conflict doesn't always mean "war".


How do you handle the privacy of the scanned documents?


With the docrouter.ai, it can be installed on prem. If using the SAAS version, users can collaborate in separate workspaces, modeled on how Databricks supports workspaces. Back end DB is Mongo, which keeps things simple.

One level of privacy is the workspace level separation in Mongo. But, if there is customer interest, other setups are possible. E.g. the way Databricks handles privacy is by actually giving each account its own back end services - and scoping workspaces within an account.

That is a good possible model.


We work with fortune 500s in sensitive industries (healthcare, fintech, etc). Our policies are:

- data is never shared between customers

- data never gets used for training

- we also configure data retention policies to auto-purge after a time period


But how to get these guarantees from the upstream vendors? Or do you run the LLMs on premises?


If you're using LLM APIs there are SLAs from the vendors to make sure your inputs are not used as training data and other guarantees. Generally these endpoints cost more to use (the compliance fee essentially) but they solve the problem.


I have been thinking about these lines for a long time. Humanity would be much better if we went back to pre-social network internet, populated by small human-moderated and vertical forums. We can and should destroy social networks, using their own tactics.


If you are spending billions, surely you can bring in some people that speak both Chinese and the local language. Heck, there are even real-time translation services now. No, the problem is not technical, it's that it was a scam from the get go.


The goal of a scam is to make the scammer richer. Who gets richer in this case? No one. So that’s not a scam. I’m disappointed seeing that kind of accusations stated without evidences on HN, a forum about entrepreneurship and tech, where we used to celebrate success as much as learn from failure.


The money from investors went somewhere, there are people that got richer...


Most of the money went into the pocket of extraordinary dedicated employees who were paid market salaries (actually often slightly below market), and suppliers as well.


The school should form decent individuals before than useful workers, and for that it's necessary to have a passing level of culture. For example, everyone should have a basic grasp of ethics (and know a bit of history), even those of us working in technology or science. Geniuses like Ramanunjan or John von Neumann are such a rare occurrence that the school system can not and should not optimize for them (and my very personal view is also that we'll have even less geniuses in the future, as our distraction-based society is not conducive anymore to cognitive development).


Only when you are not stepping on the toes of bigger capitalists.


I think that there is some value in that friction. It used to tell us, the readers, that the narrator believed enough in what he wanted to tell to invest some non-negligible amount of time and energy. The final effect was that it maintained a sane ratio of stories worth reading over stories worth nothing. It kept a decent signal-to-noise ratio. In the future stories worth reading will be lost in a sea of regurgitated garbage.


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