<rss version="2.0" xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom"><channel><title>Hacker News: infinite_spin</title><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=infinite_spin</link><description>Hacker News RSS</description><docs>https://hnrss.org/</docs><generator>hnrss v2.1.1</generator><lastBuildDate>Wed, 21 Oct 2026 00:06:26 +0000</lastBuildDate><atom:link href="https://hnrss.org/user?id=infinite_spin" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml"></atom:link><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by infinite_spin in "I never authorized an integration that scans my secrets"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I do get the sense that you're not malicious, just that maybe you're not seeing this from the standpoint of someone that assigns a higher value to some elements of privacy. In this case, your user base expects a home automation system. They do not expect that system to scan their computer for passwords, regardless of how "safely" the home automation system were to behave.<p>You might have a heart of gold, and just be having an off day due to <i>reasons</i>, so I hope people cut you some slack, but if I were you I'd update this feature to be opt-in and conspicuous, immediately</p>
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<p>Detection is not itself a remedy, detection is a signal</p>
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<p>being able to detect a forest fire doesn't mean we no longer have forest fires</p>
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<p>people do need the option to repair devices, especially when they contain valuable information, so I don't see an automatic bricking to be a reasonable solution</p>
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<p>Consider the fine tuning already being done to build safety guardrails.. this is the evil version of that.</p>
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<p>I expect this sort of thing when installing/running the client, but I can see why it would be alarming for a CLI installed via NPM to do this</p>
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<p>Honestly, I feel the same way.. it's hard to get out of a bubble.</p>
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<p>>>  Foreign fishing has increased more than twenty-fold since 1981<p>>> Illegal, unreported, and unregulated (IUU) fishing by foreign fishing vessels in Somali waters has been problematic for decades .<p>>> The central government collapsed in 1991, and the ensuing increase in foreign fishing became a justification for piracy against fishing vessels.<p>(<a href="https://www.frontiersin.org/journals/marine-science/articles/10.3389/fmars.2019.00704/full" rel="nofollow">https://www.frontiersin.org/journals/marine-science/articles...</a>)<p>Other areas of the world have had similar responses to foreign commercial fishing:<p>>> In Southeast Asia, as competition for fish and other maritime resources intensified following the Asian Financial Crisis in 1997-1998, increases in industrial fish catch volumes by foreign fleets led to sharp increases in South China Sea pirate attacks organized by residents of villages reliant on small-scale fisheries<p>(<a href="https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0246835" rel="nofollow">https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal...</a>)<p>>> Piracy is a growing concern in Sierra Leone, particularly in the northern maritime areas. Foreign trawlers have been attacked and robbed of both their catch and personal effects. Most of the pirates are reported to be from Guinea.<p>(<a href="https://wikileaks.jcvignoli.com/cable_09FREETOWN258" rel="nofollow">https://wikileaks.jcvignoli.com/cable_09FREETOWN258</a>)<p>However, there is evidence that piracy is more likely to exist in places where illegal fishing has declined. (With the disclaimer that "this research does not refute the earlier-held notion that foreign trawlers produce dissatisfied local fishers who turn towards piracy as a defense against foreign intruders."<p>(<a href="https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0962629824000180?via%3Dihub#sec9" rel="nofollow">https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S096262982...</a>)</p>
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<p>it seems that single issue voters are rare, and that political access is monopolized by the already powerful</p>
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<p>people are in fact,<p>>> tracking locations of flock cameras (<a href="https://deflock.org/" rel="nofollow">https://deflock.org/</a>)<p>>> destroying/removing them (<a href="https://flockstats.org/" rel="nofollow">https://flockstats.org/</a>)<p>>> litigating their use (<a href="https://www.aclu.org/campaigns-initiatives/get-the-flock-out" rel="nofollow">https://www.aclu.org/campaigns-initiatives/get-the-flock-out</a>)<p>What specific response from the general public would you like that it's arguably already happening?</p>
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<p>When I search google, using his name, the AI generated content at the top works.. if I ask what comment he left, suddenly the AI generated content stops working.</p>
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<p>Anecdotal experience tells me that they're just better at hiding it than previous generations. Gen-z is depressed, and depressed people reach for drugs and alcohol to cope. I think we're going to find that the data on this has been manipulated.</p>
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<p>relevant: <a href="https://libroot.org/posts/what-happened-to-the-snowden-archive" rel="nofollow">https://libroot.org/posts/what-happened-to-the-snowden-archi...</a></p>
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<p>Agreed, and while I want to see AGI come into existence, I'm also for policies aimed at harm reduction. This doesn't have to be an all or nothing form of argument.</p>
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<p>It could be argued that "tech" directly led to climate change, e.g. <a href="https://www.history.com/articles/industrial-revolution-climate-change" rel="nofollow">https://www.history.com/articles/industrial-revolution-clima...</a></p>
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<p>This argument should be reframed as "AI has the potential to cause catastrophic loss of life". It's too high of a bar to prove that AI will "wipe out humanity". It's sorta like climate change, it's easier to show that weather patterns are becoming increasingly dangerous.</p>
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<p>yet those movements came with clear definitions. If you have a new definition for intelligence, which isn't just designed as a definitional dodge, then please provide one</p>
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<p>I think it's only a moving goalpost if you can show that the goalpost has moved with a new definition that fits our current usage of it. The people saying "this isn't intelligence", and then claim "we don't even know what intelligence is", are encouraged to offer such a definition.</p>
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<p>That's an interesting take, and I can see how "computer" could refer to a human a hundred years ago, but they also mentioned "status quo", which should indicate that a reasonable person should use a modern definition.</p>
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<p>> Those are distillations of existing knowledge.<p>Definitions are "formal statements of the meaning or significance of a word, phrase, idiom, etc" (<a href="https://www.dictionary.com/browse/definition" rel="nofollow">https://www.dictionary.com/browse/definition</a>)<p>> They are necessarily behind the status quo.<p>The existing state or condition would be what is written in the dictionary, not whatever personal definitions you've constructed.<p>> "You can't call this newfangled contraption a computer, because a computer is a person!"<p>Seems like a straw man. A computer is not a mammal, no matter how much you twist a set of definitions.</p>
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