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Comment It takes me longer to read bot-generated code (Score 1) 175

than to write my own code most of the time, so no. I usually use it for small helper functions that can be checked at a glance and boilerplate which I mostly trust to get right without a ton of checking, but otherwise I don't see the value everyone else is seeing. It might be a years-of-experience thing, or it might be nobody using botcode actually understands their codebases, I'm not sure which is more likely.

Comment the danger is real, even if this is marketing (Score 1) 167

We're playing with machines that we don't fully understand, which can move faster than we can, and we're giving them more and more autonomy. AIs don't have to kill ALL humans for us to legitimately begin to worry. A black swan event where a bunch of automated systems all suddenly begin maximizing the wrong expectation value at the same time could cause a massive global catastrophe so fast the damage would be done before anyone even knew it was happening, let alone be able to halt it.

Comment Real easy solution to this (Score 5, Insightful) 61

Two [candidates] said explicitly in filings that they had used the subscription for advertising, even though the company's policies prohibit candidates from using their tools to generate ads

If the AI companies want to guarantee their AI does not get used, they could add text to their EULA that says all data discovered to be connected with political campaigns or super-PACs will be made public and searchable, including contact and payment information. Boom, nobody would touch it.

They won't, of course, because they secretly LOVE the idea of pollical campaigns using their tools, but man, wouldn't it be cool if we have heroes instead of villains in the AI space?

Comment Took 7 years but... (Score 1, Insightful) 179

It wasn't 7 years to find the right spot. It was 7 years to realize Texas isn't as accommodating as he hoped, and he can buy off a broke state cheaper than a rich state. Of course, finding enough people to move to the Texan Everglades was easy compared to finding enough who will live in the bayous to run his steel penis rocket facilities.

Comment We could use a new phone mode (Score 1) 314

You're approaching a border crossing. Before your plane lands, you put your phone into this new mode (call it "future wipe"), with an amount of time you enter at that moment. This locks the phone until your password is next entered. If the amount of time specified passes before your password is entered, the phone wipes itself; no action necessary.

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