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New comment by Florin_Andrei in "The New Panopticon: How AI Changes Accountability"

Florin_Andrei — Tue, 24 Feb 2026 17:00:15 +0000

If you use AI, the paper trail you leave behind may now operate at a much higher level. Here's why. Also, here are some mitigation techniques.

The New Panopticon: How AI Changes Accountability

Florin_Andrei — Tue, 24 Feb 2026 17:00:15 +0000

Article URL: https://florinandrei.substack.com/p/the-new-panopticon-how-ai-changes

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47139466

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New comment by Florin_Andrei in "Anthropic Education the AI Fluency Index"

Florin_Andrei — Mon, 23 Feb 2026 18:09:03 +0000

I think we're still at the stage where model performance largely depends on:

- how many data sources it has access to

- the quality of your prompts

So, if prompting quality decreases, so does model performance.

New comment by Florin_Andrei in "AI is destroying open source, and it's not even good yet [video]"

Florin_Andrei — Mon, 23 Feb 2026 18:07:34 +0000

Some cleanup needs to happen, when the dust settles.

It's just not clear to me who, or what, will do it.

New comment by Florin_Andrei in "Elon Musk owns Twitter: The story so far"

Florin_Andrei — Fri, 28 Oct 2022 19:33:45 +0000

I would very much prefer that he focuses on SpaceX and Tesla, in this order, seeing as he's more or less custom-built for those jobs, and there aren't that many people like that around.

Running Twitter OTOH? There's an endless supply of "captains of industry" in the Silicon Valley, who would be willing and able to do it.

New comment by Florin_Andrei in "Public health impacts of an imminent Red Sea oil spill"

Florin_Andrei — Tue, 12 Oct 2021 18:44:25 +0000

It's near a place where that amount is just a drop in a bucket.

New comment by Florin_Andrei in "More details about the October 4 outage"

Florin_Andrei — Tue, 05 Oct 2021 18:03:39 +0000

> Those data centers come in different forms.

It's like the birds and the bees.

New comment by Florin_Andrei in "YouTube is banning anti-vaccine activists and blocking all anti-vaccine content"

Florin_Andrei — Wed, 29 Sep 2021 19:00:59 +0000

Crossing the street is also potentially deadly.

Not crossing it, staying home all day until you starve or go insane from isolation is more deadly.

So we choose to cross the street.

New comment by Florin_Andrei in "YouTube is banning anti-vaccine activists and blocking all anti-vaccine content"

Florin_Andrei — Wed, 29 Sep 2021 18:59:04 +0000

> because the other side is too stupid to make their own decisions

The unfortunate reality is - that is the actual crux of the problem. Maybe say "incapable of making" instead of "too stupid to make", since that makes the scope wider. But that is the long and short of it.

New comment by Florin_Andrei in "Peter Thiel, Scourge of Silicon Valley"

Florin_Andrei — Wed, 29 Sep 2021 18:45:38 +0000

> Tucker Carlson

That's the moment when reality-based folks stop listening to what you're saying.

New comment by Florin_Andrei in "Peter Thiel, Scourge of Silicon Valley"

Florin_Andrei — Thu, 23 Sep 2021 19:00:44 +0000

What is generally known as ethics acts as a safeguard against random individuals running rampant and inflicting tremendous damage on society for personal gain.

In a broad context, Thiel acts like someone who has no such safeguards. The future he's pushing the world towards is the caricatural dystopia from Back To The Future (which was originally meant to lampoon Trump-like characters). Fortunately, he will probably fail.

If you don't see this at all, it's probably time to ask yourself just how similar to Thiel you actually are.

New comment by Florin_Andrei in "Sid Meier and the meaning of ‘Civilization’"

Florin_Andrei — Thu, 23 Sep 2021 17:42:29 +0000

Very similar to my play style.

New comment by Florin_Andrei in "Atlassian fired me while I was taking care of my wife who is fighting cancer"

Florin_Andrei — Thu, 16 Sep 2021 19:13:25 +0000

Yup. It becomes a negotiation, and the company by definition has orders of magnitude more negotiating power (arm-wrestling, etc) than you do.

But hey, "freedom", yay!

New comment by Florin_Andrei in "If You’re So Successful, Why Are You Still Working 70 Hours a Week?"

Florin_Andrei — Wed, 08 Sep 2021 19:41:47 +0000

Because nothing else fulfills you.

New comment by Florin_Andrei in "Walking increases spontaneous fluctuations in the brain"

Florin_Andrei — Mon, 30 Aug 2021 13:52:36 +0000

It must be the opposite to their own political dogma, so "it must be evil".

New comment by Florin_Andrei in "Conversations on Quantum Gravity"

Florin_Andrei — Fri, 27 Aug 2021 10:42:02 +0000

Why don't you go ahead and write a few paragraphs explaining your idea.

New comment by Florin_Andrei in "OpenShot 2.6.0 Released – AI and Computer Vision and Audio Effects"

Florin_Andrei — Fri, 27 Aug 2021 10:32:10 +0000

It's a great little editor and I'm using it all the time.

I just wish they added a VBR profile for encoding h.264 video. Every time I make a clip with OpenShot, I have to run the final result through meGUI, converting CBR to VBR, reducing the size of the file quite a lot, while quality remains the same.

The default h.264 profile in meGUI would be perfect. Constant Quality mode, Quality = 23, AVC High Profile. Looks the same as high quality CBR but the video is many times smaller.

New comment by Florin_Andrei in "The mutation that helps Delta spread"

Florin_Andrei — Sat, 21 Aug 2021 22:51:03 +0000

Drowning in details, missing the larger point that actually matters - are you a software engineer?

New comment by Florin_Andrei in "The mutation that helps Delta spread"

Florin_Andrei — Sat, 21 Aug 2021 09:04:51 +0000

If you don't make it clear that bullshit is bullshit, if you pretend like it belongs to the realm of sanity, then the debate becomes a farce - some kind of Monty Python absurd comedy.

New comment by Florin_Andrei in "The mutation that helps Delta spread"

Florin_Andrei — Fri, 20 Aug 2021 23:39:35 +0000

> there are billions of dollars of economic incentives for suppression of early treatment, because vaccines are still under EUA that could be questioned by the availability of therapeutics with decades of safety data

Conspiracy theory. Rather old and naive, I should add.

Zero Hedge is a cesspool of pseudo-science when it comes to COVID. The best data source can be twisted into complete nonsense when folks have political agendas - so namedropping JHU in that context is just empty rhetoric.

Well, maybe it's not "empty" rhetoric, since clearly some naive folks are persuaded by it.