Have you bothered to ask the gambler if they want to risk it?
No offense to the astronauts of course, but asking people that have dreamed of this opportunity their whole life doesn't actually tell you all that much about the actual safety of the mission as a whole.
By asking it to cite its sources. Whenever I use AI, I have it pull direct quotes from the text to justify its interpretation. Sometimes it's spot on, sometimes it's wrong. But skimming a paper to fact-check a few specific quotes is still vastly faster than reading a dense paper completely blind.
Right question to ask, however, good readers/professionals do have some sense for this and ability to dig further as needed. On the other hand, books and articles are often over-detailed, with the key stuff buried in the lede or even remaining tacit.
For me, LLMs have often pointed me to answers or given food for thought that even subject matter experts could not. I do not take those answers at face value, but the net result is still better than the search remaining open-ended.
Well how do you know anything in that case? You could be dreaming right now sound asleep, or you could be locked inside a mental institution but living in a complete delusion. You might have been in a coma for the past 7 years and AI was just something you dreamed up.
> Zuck and tech as a whole pivoted to drop safety investments the moment this government came to power.
I think the question to ask here is, if both Meta and the current administration don't care about child safety, why is the age verification stuff going so smoothly? Is helping them do this really the right move?
Well it’s not going smoothly. People on HN are talking about it now, but they are really talking about privacy.
For the rest of the world this has been brewing for more than a decade.
Australia was the actually the one to tip the first domino. This is just a US state verdict on willful harm by a firm. Its not even about age verification.
For meta, shifting regulatory burdens to OS / app stores, reduces regulatory burden.
For governments, part of it is actually trying to come to grips with an impossible safety imperative and another part of it is happy to gain more control and power.
The power grab needs to be curtailed, and the people actually trying to help kids need better technical solutions.
Because people like you then go and vote for politicians without actually understanding what they are proposing.
It's all Trump style "believe me I know how to fix it" and you will vote for the person that pushes your buttons regardless of whether they have a plausible solution or not.
> The proposal to move age verification to the OS level would give Meta less information about the user, because the OS, not Meta apps, would be responsible for gating age content.
I find it hard to believe that meta doesn't already have a pretty good age estimate for 95%+ of their users.
What offloading the responsibility to the app stores (or OS vendors) gives Meta is exactly that, offloading responsibility. In a future lawsuit, they can say that someone else provided them with incorrect information.
I've had to reread the first tweet a bunch, but I don't think Ed is wrong there.
As far as I can tell, in February Anthropic projected their 2026+ annual revenue at $14 billion dollars, based on a month long period. If you added the numbers presented together for the 3 years of time, you would end up at $6 billion dollars of revenue.
But, a month later in a court document they only mention "exceeding $5 billion dollars". For the entire time the company has been in business.
Additionally, the month long period with ~1B would account for a fifth of the total revenue. That's eyebrow raising.
It's much simpler. Reactive UIs and declarative UIs let you built things more more easily. You can almost entirely ignore an entire class of issues (state mismatch for instance).
That of course led to developers building much more complex UIs. Which offset the gains from reactivity. Hence the mess and we're basically where we started.
As the company? No. In fact, it's likely better for you if they do a bad job. You potentially get shielded from blame, but don't actually have to put in the work.
As a user/customer/potential victim? Yeah, you do.
Heh, nodejs uses V8 which shares legacy with WebKit's JavaScript core, itself being forked from KDE's KJS. Fun to think that eventually, some KDE code spiritually made its way to the windows start menu
No offense to the astronauts of course, but asking people that have dreamed of this opportunity their whole life doesn't actually tell you all that much about the actual safety of the mission as a whole.
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