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Nuclear isn't as cheap as you present it. It needs heavy subsidies for insurance and waste disposal.

Most nuclear power proposals are just LARPing as "cheap" as they pretend subsidies don't exist.

In addition you have to shut nuclear power plants down in summers due to lack of sufficient cooling. That means you need to plan alternative replacement power generation.


Yes, because comparing it to larger countries with more economic power like China would make the US politics look even dumber.


> Apps are not infected with NetNut. This is just Google abusing their monopoly position to hurt its competitors.

If apps ship with stealth backdoors to sell access to the user's internal residential network, that's malware. I doubt any users want app providers to sell access to their private file server and anything else on their local network.

It doesn't seem like monopoly abuse to exclude such malware from application stores, just like key loggers or apps intercepting other apps network traffic without the user being aware of it (say the banking app's network traffic and password entry).


>sell access to the user's internal residential network

That is not what the SDK was doing. The actual code in the SDK protects against this (simplified to take less space):

    if (addr.isSiteLocalAddress() || addr.isLoopbackAddress()) {
        LogUtils.e("PopaTunnelAsyncThread", "Hacking? The Host Resolved Ip is " + addr + " on tunnel id:" + tunnelId);
        throw new IllegalArgumentException("Hacking? The tunnel host resolved ip is internal");
    }
Local and loopback addresses like 10.0.0.0, 172.16.0.0, 192.168.0.0, and 127.0.0.0 do not work. It will not connect to people's private file servers on their network.


It'll still connect to IPv6 addresses and bypass any firewalls.

Also users might become part (victim?) of a police investigation because of illegal actions that seem to originate from their local residential connection.

So still good to take down such backdoors. Would be nice to go after the botnet operators as well...


Instead require app developers to explicitly call out this monetization method. This is neither designed to be a backdoor, nor a botnet. These are harmful classifications which can encourage people to try and target them like malware, when they are essential tools for privacy, bypassing geoblocking, and being able to collect public information from sites. The average person is not going to be involved with a police investigation. That has a tiny probability of happen and trying to blow it up to such proportions is dangerous to the existing of this important tool.


Any webpage you visit can trigger an illegal action on your internet connection with a simple image tag, for example <img src="https://www.google.com/search?q=I+just+killed+my+wife.+How+s...">. It doesn't seem to be a real concern.


> The fix was prepared statements

You don't need prepared statements. The fix is parameter binding: submitting parameters separate from the SQL statement itself, separating code from (user) data.

> The analogous mitigation for agents is to have fixed behaviors they can perform, such as “read repo 1” “read repo 2”, etc., and the user input is used as data to select which of these fixed behaviors to execute.

No, that only deals with some special issues. It also doesn't separate code and (user) data, so it's not the same issue.

Having only limited actions is akin to using more restrictive database permissions. That also makes SQL injection no longer relevant: only SQL statements can be executed that the user is allowed to run either way.


> nor do they provide the brain an interpretation of what they perceive

> What it gets from the body is raw physical measurements

No, sensory organs like eyes do a lot of processing ("interpreation"). They certainly don't send "raw physical measurements" to the brain.


And even then, it's just sampling. Much of what we "see" is a prediction, and there are plenty of optical illusions out there premised on that (plus VR techniques like foveated rendering that take advantage).


Then one can claim that humans are less intelligent than a goldfish as "none of us have ever seen a human swim as well as a goldfish".


It's around hour 20 of trying to breath that I start to really think the Goldfish has an edge on me.


> yet with enough developer elbow grease they can do all the same things an LLM can do, with much higher reliability

Where can I access such a Lisp expert system?

If I cannot because they don't exist: then they cannot do the same things an LLM can do. And of course one can assert anything and everything about what a non-existing thing could do.


Yes, that condition makes it no longer open source software.

It also has the effect of making software adopting such licenses getting removed from open source distributions.


If someone takes the MIT license and adds unless your last name ends in ezos then yes it no longer meats the definition of Open Source published by the OSI. But there’s nothing holy about that definition or being “open source”. OSI is just a group funded by companies like Amazon, Microsoft, and Google.

And if they aren’t calling themselves Open Source, then why do you care?


The terms of service are between Anthropic and one of their subscribers. So Anthropic can maybe cancel their contract.

This doesn't affect what copyright law allows or does not allow.

Also I think Anthropic very much suppports gathering data by whatever means possible. That should work both ways.


It does make a difference. If this text was generated by the LLM, then by those same terms you are allowed to publish the data. But given that it is reverse engineered, you are not allowed to do so.

Note that even in the normal case, there are restrictions. You'd have to validate that the generated output is not copyrighted. Which in this case may not be trivial.


> I think the notion that you could control something (legitimately) smarter than you is a pretty risky proposition.

Well, Trump seems to control a lot of people given how afraid they are.

Trump is also called not the smartest person out there.

So...


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