It’s not clear to me which site “this” refers too.

> I think you're missing a few steps there.

I mean, yeah, I thought the format of the reply made it clear it was a joke. The larger point is that compliance isn’t that complicated and only becomes hard if you are invasive. When you’re not invasive it’s actually fairly simple.

> It would be nice if we lived in a world where legal compliance automatically conferred legal immunity.

It probably wouldn’t, because that would mean anyone violating the spirit of a law would be exempt from consequences by adhering to its letter.

I’d gladly make this same argument in court, though. But I’ll never have to, at least not as a defendant, because I respect users’ data (by not even collecting it), so there’s nothing to take me to court over.

It looks to be a distinctly US American idea that everyone is always suing everyone for everything and always going to court. That’s not how the rest of the world operates for the most part.

Step 1: Don’t invade users’ privacy.

There is no step 2.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YeABJbvcJ_k

The problem is all the lies which won’t be fessed up to. This one was because they had to to prove the point, but the bad actors with ulterior motives won’t reveal what they’re doing.

Probably not that many.

https://www.anthropic.com/research/small-samples-poison

https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20260218-i-hacked-chatgpt...

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47715291

Points: 90

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Superbly tone deaf. The only people who might possibly want to read that are those already drinking your Kool-Aid, most everyone else can already smell the bullshit.

Because solving problems isn’t the goal, the goal is money (and sometimes a little fame) with the least possible effort, and software can be changed on a whim and is very cheap to manufacture and distribute and “fix in flight”, it’s the perfect vehicle for those who are impatient and don’t really care about understanding and studying a need.

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47711292

Points: 5

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I recommend you start by understanding the argument instead of straw manning it.

> But the main one is that you have a false dichotomy in assuming that individual success and "helping everyone do better" are mutually exclusive.

So your main objection against my point is an argument I haven’t made? There is a canyon of difference between “we have been sold idea X” and “idea Y and Z are incompatible”. Of course you can have individual success while helping everyone do better, because if you help everyone do better you also help yourself. That’s obvious, you are part of everyone.

> For example, see the free market economy of the past 250 years.

Yeah, that really helps everyone, that one there. No problems whatsoever that anyone can think of.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Free_market#Criticism

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Criticism_of_capitalism

That is true of every right. A right that doesn’t apply when you disagree isn’t a right.

Community Notes did happen without X. It was a feature introduced in January 2021 under the name Birdwatch.

https://blog.x.com/en_us/topics/product/2021/introducing-bir...

Twitter’s acquisition only started over a year later.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Acquisition_of_Twitter_by_Elon...

What exactly are “neutral rights”? Every right is political, and none of them are neutral, you’ll always find someone who supports them and someone who opposes them. Remember when Nestlé’s CEO said that calling water a human right was an “extreme” opinion? And there used to be a time when people claimed owning slaves was their right.

What you are calling “questionable” right now is just something you don’t agree with. I have a feeling history will support EFF’s position over yours.

> Would EFF be leaving X if Elon had not taken over?

That’s like asking “would activists fight for your rights if no one was violating them”. I mean, no, but that doesn’t say anything. Had Twitter not have been sold but they eventually did the same things Elon did, then the EFF would probably have left just the same. Had Elon taken over but not done what he did, they probably wouldn’t have. The EFF is not on a personal vendetta, this is about the service as it is right now.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Whataboutism