And the recordist, Frank Tiberi, is a jazz saxophonist and has played with the Woody Herman big band (with whom I saw in the 70s). Also teaches at Berklee College of Music in Boston.
If you make the company itself have culpability for what it’s “rogue” agents do then you solve a lot of the problems. Tech executives might not care about humanity but they probably care about themselves. If the CEO of OpenAI is as legally responsible for what OpenAI’s software does in the same manner that Sam Bankman-Fried was responsible…I suspect many AI companies would not be so cavalier about letting their models do dangerous things.
The widespread protest movements that led to the fall of the Iron Curtain didn’t happen through some vague “spread of capitalism” or through copyright. The spread of Western culture was a major part of what sparked those widespread protests.
That whole thread feels like something out of Black Mirror. Especially the comment from Claude AI right under the OP’s post summarizing the thread. The dark humor of the juxtaposition of Claude AI’s harsh summarization of all the users’ pain….pure Black Mirror.
If the lights are at an intersection where a very busy road crosses with a less busy road then turning it into a four way stop just turns it into a traffic jam on the very busy road. I’ve seen this happen during rush hour in the United States multiple times.
When it’s not rush hour though maybe the situation is different? Not sure.
Flock was a startup that was funded by Y Combinator. Paul Graham and the other Y Combinator people provided expertise and advice to them throughout their whole journey.
I wonder what Paul Graham says to the Flock executives now?
I have fond memories of reading National Geographic magazine growing up. I remember they had memorable issues with King Tut. And Ancient Egypt in general. Made me fall in love with learning about Ancient Egypt.
Anyone else here have fond memories of reading those old National Geographic issues?
Yes, Jaynes used a comprehensive approach, albeit one rooted in literature. I only threw in "Homer" as an example to be clear that "ancient civilizations" referred to bronze age and before, and that this was not the Joe Rogan kind of ancient civilizations.
I think the trouble is once your category is loosey-goosey enough it could be open-ended to the point that anything can fit it.
The fact that overall of recorded history you can find instances of any sort of interaction with something that's felt to be a voice that's independent from one's own subjectivity is open-ended to the point that it can fit the literary and cultural history of basically any civilization on Earth.
What would be more impressive is some additional specificity, any sort of evolutionary mechanism, and any sort of supporting biological data. Otherwise the thing that is being described here isn't a theory, it's barely even vibes. This is to vibes what vibes are to coherently formed thoughts.
This seems like a pretty catastrophic failure on Amazon’s part. It seems pretty incompetent actually. You should have multiple copies of your customer’s data across multiple locations.
And these multiple locations should be in different parts of the world. Not concentrated in one highly volatile region.
All this seems like common sense to me honestly. Anyone with more knowledge than me know why Amazon didn’t do this?
AWS go to great lengths to explain what Az replication Vs geo replication means in clouds. "All the AZ zones get knocked out" is down to the end user to decide if they want to pay the extra for geo replication and do the paperwork etc to address that risk.
This will definitely surface which people were serious when they said "YAGNI"
> And these multiple locations should be in different parts of the world. Not concentrated in one highly volatile region
AWS can't make that call unilaterally of copying people's data to other jurisdictions while also keeping to promises of data hosting and legal sovereignty. That aside in the future there'd be some horror that takes out n regions and we'd be back here saying "why oh why didn't they replicate to n+1 regions"
It's definitely a long tail event of full data loss/the kind of thing people make jokes about over paranoid resilience planning "what if someone nukes Virginia though?" but it's 99.99999% likely in the Ts & C's
> This seems like a pretty catastrophic failure on Amazon’s part. It seems pretty incompetent actually. You should have multiple copies of your customer’s data across multiple locations
How much of it is due to Amazon VS due to regulatory reasons (have to host data in particular region) VS customer self-serve have to choose redundancy across regions?
My quick read through the article didn’t surface an answer to this, but it is very possible I missed it.
For those of you who don’t know…John Coltrane is a legend in jazz music. Posted a YouTube link to an excellent work of his above.
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