Another nail in the coffin of “An Analysis of Water-Based Assumptions and Recalibration of Expectations for Evolutionary Models”

Iconoclast, what’s wrong with casting creeps as creeps? The guy in the picture enthusiastically helped the Department of Defense kill Iranian schoolchildren.

IIRC, weren’t you also defending the AI creep/abuser Eli Yudkowsky too?

You are simply wrong. Anthropic specifically has been caught extensively lying about their chatbot capabilities.

An Anthropic executive claimed his chatbot had feelings (as an excuse to harass LGBT people).

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This article implicitly references but does not specifically mention, the essay The Network State, which spiritually feels like a predecessor to what Palantir decided to unleash on the world the other day.

For some reason fertilizer is very expensive, and for some reason crop yields might be worse than ever this year… I wonder if those totally unavoidable things (which probably didn’t involve a waste of our tax dollars) factor into this decision (to use more tax dollars)

We got the worst of both worlds. The Pocket functionality got Ship of Theseus’d: The original functionality is all gone, and what remained became a Mozilla-run ad/news network. They removed the Pocket label last.

Netflix has already experimented with putting original games behind a monthly subscription and then killing the games.

I can see other companies trying this too.

Quick, another fix of the LLMs! Let’s not think about what the downtime means for the industry.

It is an argument against the false comparison I was responding to, no more. Although the fact AI companies can’t seem to create a profitable or finished product even with subsidies, points to other issues I have not addressed

It’s unfortunate this Wired article is incurious; it doesn’t go into much detail about the other side of Micay. Yes, he’s a technological genius, and he’s had his fair share of unwarranted reactions, but he was often the aggressor in many online disputes. For example, article mentions this:

Open source advocacy groups like the Guardian Project, as well as the Google Play store alternative F-Droid, started inquiring about partnerships. In 2018, CopperheadOS was featured in 2600: The Hacker Quarterly.

But they don’t mention that a few years later, Micay was accusing F-Droid developers of carrying out a coordinated attack on him. And accusing Reddit moderators of being complicit. And attacking Louis Rossman, a project supporter.

Wired barely touches this, failing to even mention Rossman or interrogate whether the exposés (what a choice of word) were true or now.

In turn, users fought back. A couple people made videos “exposing” their private conversations with Micay; others made a show of deleting GrapheneOS. The GrapheneOS team itself was accused of going after competing projects and dissenting parties.

We can see GrapheneOS’ team, or at least its most prominent member, was indeed going after competing projects. No need to dilute that point, Wired.

Frankly, when I see public-facing evidence of Micay attacking others for no good reason, it makes it harder for me to believe that Micay has accurately represented his beef with Donaldson.

Edit: apparently Daniel Micay feels very differently about the Wired story than I do.

WIRED has published an article about GrapheneOS with a history of the project nearly entirely based on fabrications from James Donaldson. Donaldson has spent the past 8 years trying to destroy GrapheneOS and the life of the project’s founder, Daniel Micay. Donaldson has heavily engaged in fabrications with an ever changing story about the history of the project… Their claims have been thoroughly debunked [where?] at this point and are primarily an issue in the form of an extreme level of fabrications and harassment they started which is carried on without them. James Donaldson has been thoroughly proven to be a serial fabricator, scammer and thief. Despite this, WIRED listened to his tall tales and presented it as a history of GrapheneOS. We weren’t given an opportunity to provide an actual history of the project based in fact as we were led to believe it wasn’t a major part of the article and were barely asked about it.

Edit 2: Micay calls on his community to “oppose” critics on forums.

many of the usual suspects are attacking GrapheneOS and our team with fabrications.

Who?

These attacks should be opposed instead of letting a vocal minority dominate the narrative by investing substantial time in lying about GrapheneOS.

This is good and healthy behavior

Huh.

I was talking about a false dichotomy (before the person I replied to edited their comment to save face)

what are you talking about

Seriously?

One is a deterministic machine on your desk, that you own, to do stuff at your desk.

The other is a nondeterministic thing somewhere else, that you don’t own, to do stuff at your desk.

And you can sell at least one shovel to somebody digging themselves into a hole

The phone in question is the HMD Skyline, which gets a 9/10 on iFixit (and is a 0/10 on the software side, which they conveniently left out)

I’ll live without it and probably trade in the repairable phone (lol) but it really is a bummer

Samsung has their own proprietary Camera app, and its own proprietary Gallery app. The Google issue probably doesn’t apply to you, but even though they’re better than Google options, you’re still locked in too.

Your mileage may vary depending on the cellphone manufacturer, but everything I’ve seen (Google or Samsung based) has been locked in and paired on an OS that was once beloved for having interchangeable components.

I tried this and a recommended fork just now, but I don’t think you can use it unless you fully remove the default provider first. I have a locked phone and I think that makes it impossible for me

The more offensive part is, Google Photos is not only the default image viewer on (Google’s) Android, but (Google’s) Camera app will only open pictures in it too. So it’s cloud crap that’s also literally programmed into a lot of people’s cameras.