I don't think I have ever seen a correctly implemented data deletion request system that worked well with the company's backups. If it's backed up, it's likely not getting deleted.
I have seen plenty. The key is to take frequent backups and aggressively delete older backups once you know you won't be restoring from that backup. Also, don't appropriate backups to do other things, such as audit logs.
Instead of directly scraping with GPT-4o, what you could do is have GPT-4o write a script for a simple web scraper and then use a prompt-loop when something breaks or goes wrong.
I have the same opinion about a man and his animals crossing a river on a boat. Instead of spending tokens on trying to solve a word problem, have it create a constraint solver and then run that. Same thing.
The bobble is a speculative technology that originated in Vernor Vinge's
science fiction. It allows spherical volumes to be enclosed in complete
stasis for controllable periods of time. It was used in _The Peace War_ as
a weapon, and in _Marooned in Realtime_ as a way for humans to tunnel
through the Singularity unchanged.
As far as I know, the bobble is physically impossible. However it may be
possible to simulate its effects with other technologies. Here I am
especially interested in the possibility of tunneling through the
Singularity.
Why would anyone want to do that, you ask? Some people may have long term
goals that might be disrupted by the Singularity, for example maintaining
Danny Hillis's clock or keeping a record of humanity. Others may want to
do it if the Singularity is approaching in an unacceptable manner and they
are powerless to stop or alter it. For example an anarchist may want to
escape a Singularity that is dominated by a single consciousness. A
pacifist may want to escape a Singularity that is highly adversarial. Perhaps just the possibility of tunneling through the Singularity can ease
people's fears about advanced technology in general.
Singularity tunneling seems to require a technology that can defend its
comparatively powerless users against extremely, perhaps even
unimaginably, powerful adversaries. The bobble of course is one such
technology, but it is not practical. The only realistic technology that I
am aware of that is even close to meeting this requirement is
cryptography. In particular, given some complexity theoretic assumptions
it is possible to achieve exponential security in certain restricted
security models. Unfortunately these security models are not suitable for
my purpose. While adversaries are allowed to have computational power that
is exponential in the amount of computational power of the users, they can
only interact with the users in very restricted ways, such as reading or
modifying the messages they send to each other. It is unclear how to use
cryptography to protect the users themselves instead of just their
messages. Perhaps some sort of encrypted computation can hide their
thought processes and internal states from passive monitors. But how does
one protect against active physical attacks?
The reason I bring up cryptography, however, is to show that it IS
possible to defend against adversaries with enormous resources at
comparatively little cost, at least in certain situations. The Singularity
tunneling problem should not be dismissed out of hand as being unsolvable,
but rather deserves to be studied seriously. There is a very realistic
chance that the Singularity may turn out to be undesirable to many of us.
Perhaps it will be unstable and destroy all closely-coupled intelligence.
Or maybe the only entity that emerges from it will have the "personality"
of the Blight. It is important to be able to try again if the first
Singularity turns out badly.
"I do have some early role models. I recall wanting to be a real-life version of the fictional "Sandor Arbitration Intelligence at the Zoo" (from Vernor Vinge's novel A Fire Upon the Deep) who in the story is known for consistently writing the clearest and most insightful posts on the Net. And then there was Hal Finney who probably came closest to an actual real-life version of Sandor at the Zoo, and Tim May who besides inspiring me with his vision of cryptoanarchy was also a role model for doing early retirement from the tech industry and working on his own interests/causes."
A few people have pointed out that Sandor at the Zoo was more likely a reference to someone else, of course: ""The Zoo" etc. was a reference to Henry Spencer, who was known on Usenet for his especially clear posts. He posted from utzoo (University of Toronto Zoology.)"
this can now be accomplished by vaguely describing the math to chatgpt (or your LLM of choice) in real-time, even if you describe it poorly. You can even take surprisingly bad short-hand notes and convert into good transcripts.
For example, this comment was written by asking it to guess: ths cn nw b accmplsh b vague descri da math to chatgpt (or ur llm o choice) in reltym, even if u dscrb porly. u ca eve tk urpringly bd shrthnad nts n cnvrt nto gd trnscrpts.
Even when you have whitelist approval for certain mailing lists a user subscribes to, you can still use hashcash for unsolicited email. I don't see how to put these aspects in conflict with each other.
ASML has extremely important infrastructure. I hear a lot about ASML having something that can't be replicated without billions and billions etc. But how much of this is propaganda? Is it really true that this is the only way to run the semiconductor industry? Open up their tech, and then we will know for sure. A million people would race to make this as cheap as possible.
I didn't say all laws are 100% effective, or even greater than 0% effective. I stated why we have laws at all. Pretty wild logic you've got here. Let's try this one:
> Making murder illegal didn't stop people from murdering. Only a person can stop themselves from doing something, that's not something a law does.
Should we not have rape, murder, arson, or fraud laws?
You're confusing a bad law vs a law you don't like.
Turns out drug laws for adults are bad because a huge portion of the population does them. This said very few would agree that we should start letting kids do drugs.
Nuance is important and many people don't seem to grasp that distinction on things that hit close to home with them.
The whole field of biological intelligence needs a ChatGPT moment. There's at least four or five different companies running around trying to do this with biological neurons, but unfortunately pong just isn't a spectacular demo.
It would be a lot better if you could just search an index of all the words on the web, and then we can refine our queries against the results to narrow things down even more. As it is right now, search just doesn't work anymore.
