@Dave Wilburn :donor:
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(settling into my comfy IANAL armchair...)
Maybe, but it complicates the heck out of any trial. Proving workplace discrimination is already outrageously difficult. Now you're facing the additional challenges that the defendant has no discoverable documents describing their arguably discriminatory decision or biased decision-making process. Their contracted ATS AI probably has no useful and discoverable logs, either.
So what are you left with? Maybe you could convince a judge to make the model and its training data available through discovery, but we're talking trade secrets and an unreasonable amount of data. And at best you'd end up with some situation where an expert witness says the model is biased in general when examined in a lab but you can't prove that this specific decision negatively impacting the plaintiff was due to bias. And even getting this far would be prohibitively expensive for any real world plaintiff. And the LLMs themselves are often nondeterministic even with the exact same input, which is often *by design* (i.e., temperature) for aesthetic reasons.
Am I missing something here?
(settling into my comfy IANAL armchair...)
Maybe, but it complicates the heck out of any trial. Proving workplace discrimination is already outrageously difficult. Now you're facing the additional challenges that the defendant has no discoverable documents describing their arguably discriminatory decision or biased decision-making process. Their contracted ATS AI probably has no useful and discoverable logs, either.
So what are you left with? Maybe you could convince a judge to make the model and its training data available through discovery, but we're talking trade secrets and an unreasonable amount of data. And at best you'd end up with some situation where an expert witness says the model is biased in general when examined in a lab but you can't prove that this specific decision negatively impacting the plaintiff was due to bias. And even getting this far would be prohibitively expensive for any real world plaintiff. And the LLMs themselves are often nondeterministic even with the exact same input, which is often *by design* (i.e., temperature) for aesthetic reasons.
Am I missing something here?
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For their corporate customers, the ability to launder their workplace discrimination behind an opaque discrimination machine run by a 3rd party is a feature, not a bug.
For their corporate customers, the ability to launder their workplace discrimination behind an opaque discrimination machine run by a 3rd party is a feature, not a bug.
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Hiding shipments of military goods in civilian vehicles would be a war crime of perfidy, would it not?
Hiding shipments of military goods in civilian vehicles would be a war crime of perfidy, would it not?
Recent discussions about self-hosting and coop services got me thinking...
How absurd is it that we're all expected to surrender our computing needs to for-profit hyperscalers and cloud service providers? How dare these oligarchs try to make us feel weak and incapable of providing for ourselves?
They want us to forget that three decades ago we collectively created one of the world's fastest supercomputers with distributed.net using nothing more than scavenged compute power from our idle PCs.
They want us to forget that most of us have drawers full of old-but-otherwise-servicable smartphones with performance specs meeting or exceeding that of low-tier cloud service provider VMs, which might be brought back to useful life using open source tech like @nprofile1q....
They want us to ignore open source tech like BOINC, web assembly, and @nprofile1q... 's Vulkan and OpenCL that might allow us to safely run local and distributed compute.
They want us to assume we have no choice but to accept higher electricity bills and greater reliance on fossil fuels to drive oligarch-run computing, and to ignore how the explosion of rooftop solar and the rapid commercialization of sodium ion battery tech could shift our society's power dynamics, both literally and figuratively.
We are mighty.
#solarpunk
How absurd is it that we're all expected to surrender our computing needs to for-profit hyperscalers and cloud service providers? How dare these oligarchs try to make us feel weak and incapable of providing for ourselves?
They want us to forget that three decades ago we collectively created one of the world's fastest supercomputers with distributed.net using nothing more than scavenged compute power from our idle PCs.
They want us to forget that most of us have drawers full of old-but-otherwise-servicable smartphones with performance specs meeting or exceeding that of low-tier cloud service provider VMs, which might be brought back to useful life using open source tech like @nprofile1q....
They want us to ignore open source tech like BOINC, web assembly, and @nprofile1q... 's Vulkan and OpenCL that might allow us to safely run local and distributed compute.
They want us to assume we have no choice but to accept higher electricity bills and greater reliance on fossil fuels to drive oligarch-run computing, and to ignore how the explosion of rooftop solar and the rapid commercialization of sodium ion battery tech could shift our society's power dynamics, both literally and figuratively.
We are mighty.
#solarpunk
nostr:nprofile1qy2hwumn8ghj7un9d3shjtnyd968gmewwp6kyqpq25ys6m6zxxdggtg8vtcycfv2pzmv44h6lsne9d0gy6hz6nd3epvsa3q2xw Yep, I hope I made clear that what is even possible to extract from corporate control ...
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Sorry, I was undercaffeinated and unclear. When I said "internet service provider", I meant anyone providing any sort of online service (hosting, VPN, cloud, email, Mastodon, etc.), not just Internet connectivity.
Sorry, I was undercaffeinated and unclear. When I said "internet service provider", I meant anyone providing any sort of online service (hosting, VPN, cloud, email, Mastodon, etc.), not just Internet connectivity.
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The way things are going, community cooperatives offering computing resources may be the only way out of the big tech death spiral. But building such an organization is complicated and dangerous. Let'...
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It's a sad fact that modern day internet service providers basically have to exist as law firms with a tech branch incidentally attached.
Denise (@rahaeli) is no longer active here, but wrote up this outstanding summary of the most important legal obligations. It's everything from DMCA copyright takedown demands to handling CSAM to processing national security letters.
https://denise.dreamwidth.org/91757.html
It's a sad fact that modern day internet service providers basically have to exist as law firms with a tech branch incidentally attached.
Denise (@rahaeli) is no longer active here, but wrote up this outstanding summary of the most important legal obligations. It's everything from DMCA copyright takedown demands to handling CSAM to processing national security letters.
https://denise.dreamwidth.org/91757.html
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Companies have done everything in their power to layoff, alienate, disempower, and demoralize their expert staff in their obsessive quest to replace them with AI.
Why would the few surviving staff expend extra effort to save their employers from these harms, especially after they've already wasted all their emotional energy trying to warn their employers beforehand?
It's a modern day Greek tragedy: Hubris-filled corporate executives ignoring prophesied warnings, claiming the power of the gods as they replace their workers with cursed automatons, and then the predicted fall from grace into ruin as the chorus mocks and laments them.
"No man may escape that which the Fates have decreed," I whisper while clicking to approve the fatally flawed AI slop as my corporate executives demand.
Companies have done everything in their power to layoff, alienate, disempower, and demoralize their expert staff in their obsessive quest to replace them with AI.
Why would the few surviving staff expend extra effort to save their employers from these harms, especially after they've already wasted all their emotional energy trying to warn their employers beforehand?
It's a modern day Greek tragedy: Hubris-filled corporate executives ignoring prophesied warnings, claiming the power of the gods as they replace their workers with cursed automatons, and then the predicted fall from grace into ruin as the chorus mocks and laments them.
"No man may escape that which the Fates have decreed," I whisper while clicking to approve the fatally flawed AI slop as my corporate executives demand.
Hot take: amateur radio would be more popular if the ham communities weren't so full of smug assholes.
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I picked up a general license a little over a decade ago but really couldn't get into it for a lot of reasons, much of it due to personality and values differences.
At least during the brief time I was active, it seemed like anyone willing to talk was just there to pontificate, and everyone else was hyperfocused on superficially collecting QSOs like they're freakin' Pokemon or something. Heck, a lot of the newer and more popular digital modes are almost entirely useless for anything except superficial QSOs.
I also find it a little weird and frustrating that the more substantial uses of amateur radio, like ARES and RACES, seem to have converged on expensive and/or proprietary gear (e.g., Winlink, Pactor, VARA).
I picked up a general license a little over a decade ago but really couldn't get into it for a lot of reasons, much of it due to personality and values differences.
At least during the brief time I was active, it seemed like anyone willing to talk was just there to pontificate, and everyone else was hyperfocused on superficially collecting QSOs like they're freakin' Pokemon or something. Heck, a lot of the newer and more popular digital modes are almost entirely useless for anything except superficial QSOs.
I also find it a little weird and frustrating that the more substantial uses of amateur radio, like ARES and RACES, seem to have converged on expensive and/or proprietary gear (e.g., Winlink, Pactor, VARA).
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I lived in an upper story south-facing apartment in Mannheim during the 2003 heatwave. It was absolutely awful. I think something like tens of thousands of people died across the continent.
What worked for me was opening all the windows for maybe an hour or two in the morning to get some air exchange, and then closing everything up and lowering the Rolladen for the rest of the day and evening. I'm not sure if rolling shutters are common in the Netherlands, though.
I ended up buying a portable AC unit after that. I got used to working without AC in the heat, but I just needed one room cool enough to sleep in.
Best of luck to everyone trying to survive right now!
I lived in an upper story south-facing apartment in Mannheim during the 2003 heatwave. It was absolutely awful. I think something like tens of thousands of people died across the continent.
What worked for me was opening all the windows for maybe an hour or two in the morning to get some air exchange, and then closing everything up and lowering the Rolladen for the rest of the day and evening. I'm not sure if rolling shutters are common in the Netherlands, though.
I ended up buying a portable AC unit after that. I got used to working without AC in the heat, but I just needed one room cool enough to sleep in.
Best of luck to everyone trying to survive right now!
Nature published a peer reviewed paper arguing that Microsoft's claims of a quantum computing breakthrough last year are based on bugs in their Python code and selectively choosing which data to base ...
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Maybe Microsoft's quantum computer claims weren't wrong.
Maybe our universe simply existed in a superposition of those claims being both correct and incorrect, but those claims collapsed upon examination and now we live in the branch of reality where Microsoft Quantum Defender Pro Enterprise for Workgroups doesn't work.
Maybe Microsoft's quantum computer claims weren't wrong.
Maybe our universe simply existed in a superposition of those claims being both correct and incorrect, but those claims collapsed upon examination and now we live in the branch of reality where Microsoft Quantum Defender Pro Enterprise for Workgroups doesn't work.