This article gives me the feeling of someone arguing that the Thai restaurant I like isn’t serving real Thai food. They might even be right, but I don’t know because I don’t care. I like the food.

Back to the article, they then list a bunch of things that I think are supposed to be negatives, but includes things like some shortcuts and some software I already use pre-installed.

So let’s grant that the title is true. So what?

I’m having a surprisingly difficult time deciding if I strongly agree or disagree with this statement.

I know VB used -1 as the truth value, not sure about other languages.

Any sufficiently small section of the street is indistinguishable from a straight street.

Tell that to all the buildings blocking the light

Yikes, they’ll have to arrest most of the current federal administration if they ever set foot in Texas if that post meets the criteria for that particular law. That’s going to cause problems.

Oh don't worry, the enforcement is extremely selective.

Never heard of Ken Paxton, I suppose?

ahem, that's senator paxton /s

"For my friends, everything. For my enemies, the law."

Accidentally inferring. They were using basic machine learning to send coupons for predicted future purchases based on past purchases and general trends. And as far as I’m aware, it only happened once (or was only publicized once).

It almost certainly happened regularly since the entire point of the program was to make accurate predictions about future purchases. The practical impact of acting on those predictions only caused mild controversy and became publicized the one time (at least that I'm aware of) but we have no reason to expect that the program was unsuccessful and every reason to expect that it was.

This is a “because I can” type of project.

> Although maybe a better question: why don’t we have a dedicated organ that can sample blood with laboratory like precision and make anomalies available to the conscious mind beyond whatever faculties we currently have?

Because random mutations and selective pressure has never lead to such a trait that persists in a population.

We've never seen randon mutation and selective pressure ever really build anything, only trigger and exploit existing adaptive rulesets... pushed to extremes mutations may often yield a benefit in a narrow situation but at some greater cost, like throwing the backseats out of your car helps you accelerate faster, but reduces the overall utility and flexibility of the use of the vehicle. Im sure if we started honestly looking at organic systems as the product of thought, it would yield a greater understanding of them that we would be able to leverage in industry.

> What pattern do they think this is consistent with?

They clearly stated what pattern this usage is consistent with: using it as a sort of personal scratch pad.

You’re assigning more meaning to the statement than there is. They are simply stating an observation.

Yep, and I hate it. For our kids we’ve started just inviting a bunch of the kid’s friends and extending the invitation to each friend’s whole family and just having a chill house party. We also invite a friend’s family for the kid not having a birthday so they have at least one of their friends to play with too. Kids running around outside, inside, doing whatever they want while the parents all get to hang out and talk. We order some pizzas and other food, set out a few coolers of drinks and some adult beverages too, and it’s always a great time. It helps that the birthdays are in the fall in it’s usually really nice out still.

We also very clearly specify “no gifts”. We don’t have room for more stuff and they’ll get more gifts than they need from grandparents.

I’d say a majority of the parties we get invited to also are asking people to not bring gifts.

I fail to see how that’s relevant to the user of a search engine.

I kinda do care _a lot_ whether my searches can be exfiltrated, might just be me tho

I’m confused how that is relevant to the thread. If you’ve been using Google then you’ve already been sending your queries to Google since the very beginning.

Are you afraid you’re accidentally going to write a prompt injection that sends your query to some third party

If the #1 premium product has a prompt injection vulnerability right out front, what do you think of all the other AI surfaces through the ecosystem?

I still don’t understand the problem since you are the person who writes a prompt.