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UnitedHealthcare didn’t seem to have difficulty.

Or opened its backdoor.

CEOs are easily replaceable.

I think the online rhetoric around AI has been way more apocalyptic than the more vague and abstract political stuff. So Trump raped some kids, that’s really bad but that’s not something people feel the need to go out and risk their lives over.

But data centers are going to steal all your water and there will be killbots patrolling the streets? All jobs will be taken away and everyone will be reduced to serfs or killed as surplus population? Drum that into a sufficiently mentally fragile subset of the population long and hard enough and you’ll get them worked up enough to feel like they need to strike first.

Ask Uber how the actions of their employees and contractors aren’t their responsibility.

Emphasis added.

Sheesh, you’re still obsessing over me? What a sad and pointless life you lead.

“More room for deniability” doesn’t mean “perfect universal deniability.”

I don’t see how this distinction affects the question of responsibility at all. If anything, “it’s an employee” gives the company more room for deniability.

The meme is incomprehensible, but it badmouths JD Vance so fine by me.

There’s been a spate of Discord-based hacking attempts lately, two of my friends have had to do this. They can’t get their old accounts back, Discord is basically just ignoring them. Starting new accounts is easy.

The hard part is that they also lost their gmail accounts, that’s a lot more important for most people to be able to recover. I recommend everyone with a gmail account do the “create an emergency recovery code” thing, print it out and store it somewhere safely off anything digital.

I’ve pondered my own lack of interest and I think it comes down to the Artemis program’s design being such a shitshow. Sure, if you throw enough brute force budget and a long enough time you can get astronauts back to the Moon. But they’re doing it in such a poor manner that I doubt anything will come of it long-term. It’s going to be another unsustainable flags-and-foot-prints stunt.

Some of the recent changes hint at NASA maybe finally getting their act together, but I’ll believe it when I see it - NASA doesn’t actually call the shots here. It’s a political program.

On the other hand, it’s well designed to surface inside information. Exactly the thing that lots of people complain about, but it’s a good thing if you’d like to use the prediction market to make predictions like this.

That makes things worse for America, not better.

Heh. Sorry, got busy with stuff when I got home. null

It was an episode of an improvisational soap opera I’ve been attending. Went rather well, they sang a song and at the end of the episode a bunch of characters got “freaky Fridayed” into each others’ bodies so the actors got to make fun of how each other portrays the characters they played.

A sensible chuckle, and then back to work isolating the United States and calling out the ongoing criminal behaviour of the rest of its government.

Trump’s a symptom, the problem isn’t going to magically go away. Though admittedly he’s a very useful cult leader and his death will be helpful in fracturing their support.

I’m in line for one right now, I’ll let you know how it went when it’s done.

Specifically presidential email security. FBI email is fine.

From OP’s post:

Stringent business associate agreements ensure data privacy and HIPAA compliance.

Sure, they could break HIPAA. They could do that with any records, not just transcripts or summaries of sessions. If this is a showstopper for you then no medical practitioners will meet your standards, you’re basically advocating crawling away into a hole to die alone whenever you get sick.

That article is from May 2025, almost a full year ago. In AI terms that’s the stone age.

One of the major problems of getting information about AI inside an anti-AI bubble is that nobody here is actually using it, so they don’t know what its actual quality and capabilities are like now. As I said, I actually set up a system like this for myself on my own personal computer and I keep it updated as new models come out, so I’ve seen what the state of the art (or near-state-of-the-art at any rate) is actually like.

Nothing is perfect, of course. But perfection is not the standard this system is to be compared against. The alternative is the doctor’s handwritten notes and personal memories. Those are almost certainly not as good.

As I said, this is something I do all the time myself. Even with just my piddling little graphics card it works fine, the technology is quite good these days. I’m sure a professional setup being used by a doctor would be a much higher standard than that.

I get the impression no level of quality and no kind of human involvement with the results will likely satisfy you, though. Which means your negative view of AI is not particularly useful here.