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It says he's doing AI transformation consultation now. Imagine paying good money to be told that you need to be tuck copilot in every afternoon.

It is important to treat the slave race we are creating with respect.

yeah, he got got very badly.

Would I be liable for damages if I made a viral worm on my air gapped pc and then accidentally connect it to the internet and it escapes? Cause I think I would and dont see how this is different if it an ai agent.

It’s only questionably legal because they’re tech companies running a marketing scheme. If anyone else did this they’d be locked up

nobody knows

Manufactured consent. Yes it's fucking illegal. If I "accidentally" hacked into HF I would be in the back of a police car before I could finish saying "it wasn't me guv it was Claude." Fuck wired so hard for laying down cover for this.

I mean even fucking chatjippity answers this straight up without hedging

It's also vibe coded.

The website looks too slick and the solution (though fucking around with fonts is fun) is overcomplicated.

Maybe some old media orgs or publishers will take this up, to protect their valuable IP while still having a slick web appearance.

I read through the white paper and I have further concerns even for any readers who are comfortable fucking over blind people (for the record: fuck you if you're reading this). It looks like this works off of the same kind of technique that allows fonts to render digraphs, positional forms, and emoji, leveraging the font rendering to allow it to jumble up the actual HTML that machines interact with. It's clever, but the fucking with screen readers, form autofill, and basically anything other than direct text rendering is really obvious.

I'm also not sure when it runs to generate the dictionary of mappings. The6biggest harm of the content scrapers isn't that it's ingesting the content it's that the repeated requests spam servers and basically DOS smaller sites out of existence. This is why iocaine is so brilliant and imo remains the gold standard. If the dictionary is generated when the files ar uploaded to the server or set to be displayed then this merely fails to address the real problem, but if the expectation is that this mapping gets created and distributed at request time then that just makes scraping even more expensive for hosts. Given that it works on dynamic text in their example it looks like at least part of the mapping runs on the client, so it's increasing the size of the package if nothing else. Bandwidth may be pretty cheap these days, but that's no reason to be wasteful.

Out of 22 replies, only one commenter actually noted the content of what Richard Ngo got rejected for:

I looked at the 20 most recent tweets/RTs on Richard's timeline and they include a RT about the Great Replacement, a RT of the "Department of Deportation" about non-white sex criminals and a RT endorsing race realism.

Though note that it's a weird curriculum in a few different directions, rather than being uniformly right-wing—e.g. it has some Lacan-inspired stuff, some hippie-inspired stuff on beliefs as emotional strategies, a bunch of rationalist writing, etc.

Ah, got it. It’s not all right wing, there’s also stupid cryptofascist shitheadery.

"Given the points above, I can't in good conscience recommend that people work at Resolution."

Lol, saying you don't recommend people work for the place that told you to fuck off is great.