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Submission + - A Framework for AI Legislation (mindmatters.ai)

johnnyb writes: There has been a lot of ink spilled about the "need" for AI Legislation, but few details about what that would look like. Here are proposals for a framework for what AI legislation should cover, what policy goals it should aim to achieve, and what we should be wary of along the way.

Comment Question is Good but Misdirected (Score 1) 209

The question isn't whether we should replace filesystems, but rather if we should move core file system services *into* the filesystem. That is, should we embed all of the things that locate does into the filesystem? My answer would be "no" (I prefer single-task entities where possible), but making a filesystem "hook" wouldn't be bad (i.e., trigger X when a file is updated, where X might be an indexing operation). Perhaps we should standardize more metadata, where it is stored, and how it is accessed. There's nothing wrong with storing that *somewhere*. Whether it is the filesystem or elsewhere is a bit of an implementation detail.

Comment Fuck Microsoft (Score 1) 115

I had thought I disabled automatic updates by following a guide online. I was giving a presentation in front of over 100 people on my laptop, which because it is a laptop mostly used in the field is not on my domain. You can guess what happened when I booted up.
Luckily I was able to borrow someone else's laptop and they had Powerpoint installed and I had the presentation on a thumbdrive.

Fuck Microsoft. I complained to them but they said it was my fault for wearing slutty clothes.

Comment They are wrong - it doesn't matter which (Score 5, Informative) 93

It is very important not to reuse the same password on multiple sites. Therefore it is impossible to memorize all of your passwords and you must use a password manager. Once you use a password manager you should go all in on using completely random passwords or passphrases - it doesn't matter which as long as there is enough entropy. So pick 16 character random letters numbers and punctuation or pick 6 word random passphrases from large dictionaries. Since more current websites accept 16 characters than 30+ characters the password choice makes more sense.

Comment Thank god another social app (Score 1) 20

I can't count how many times I've saved my photos on Google Photos and thought, 'If only there were a way to initiate a chat with someone right now to talk about this photo I just uploaded.'. I healed my misery by going into my PDF viewer and making a connection over my PDF viewer's built in social app -- this is not a joke, my PDF viewer has a F*!^@#^ social sharing feature with a separate social media network for sharing PDFs... wtf?

Comment Re:Congrats (Score 1) 222

Anywhere where you have a second derivative where the variable with which you are taking the derivative with respect to is dependent on another variable. You would previously have to use Faa di Bruno's formula to properly take care of this situation. Now you can just do algebraic manipulations.

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