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“Review and update all risk assessments”
Aren’t they supposed to be true and accurate though rather than made up?
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If I’m in London…
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If you’re looking for questions from the loyal opposition, I wasn’t particularly impressed with the TBI report when I read it.
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Literally every time I have tried LLMs on topics where I have academic training or professional experience, it has given utterly misleading directions or explanations that sound plausible to a novice, but which you’d only learn are wrong after a reasonable chunk of study or on-the-job experience.
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People leaving a music venue at 1am may get into illegal taxis. Having a tube network means some people might fare dodge. Who bloody cares?
Having more music venues in London means work for musicians,
DJs, bar and security staff, plus people going to other pubs, restaurants etc.
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The average user won't necessarily bother. We've "got nothing to hide" (except all the things we'd rather hide).
If you are the Bad Guy the government are so worried about, "plug phone in every few days and set up a script to copy the encrypted backup image to a remote location" is trivial.
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The bit that's strange is most people aren't using Advanced Data Protection as it is a massive faff, and only really meant for people who might face an advanced persistent threat—journalists or activists in high risk countries, say.
There's also a simple workaround: backing up over USB.
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The nation will be very sad if the Queen Elizabeth II Advanced Pothole Research Institute gets cancelled. It's what she would have wanted after all.
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I spoke to lotsa people who thought sociopolitical trends could be fixed through magic algorithm tweaks.
When people discussed mis/dis-info (and radicalisation), there was an unstated assumption it was an online problem.
Fox News & crappy tabloids: inducing brainrot long before iPhones or TikTok.
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Hot take: post-2016 (Brexit/Trump), lots of progressives/liberals overfocussed on social media—Cambridge Analytica, Russian botfarms etc.
Problems w/ existing media—phone hacking/Leveson reform, ownership, 24h news cycle—and public understanding (of science and politics/law) faded from view.
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So many software developers I know got their start pootling around with crappy phpBB forums or building IRC bots or whatever.
Effectively regulating that stuff out of existence closes a way people get started, and strengthens the monopolistic tech giants. Also, it makes the web a lot duller.
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If it was banned for being filled with shit, I’d be much more supportive. The ban being for “doing all the same sleazy privacy-invading stuff Google and Facebook do while having the audacity of not being American” is rather concerning though.
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Or my particular grump: the compatibility of existing anti-circumvention rules on copyright and AI training.
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The government’s own consultation document seems remarkably unaware of what IP rights it is concerned with.
No mention of database rights, which one would think is a very close analogue… but only a few IP nerds care about.