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New ask Hacker News story: If AI keeps evolving,would you worry about your next generation's survival

If AI keeps evolving,would you worry about your next generation's survival 5 by hanstyle | 1 comments on Hacker News. Imagine this. Twenty years from now, if AI is capable of handling all work, how will your kids make ends meet? If you want to prevent that future, what should you be doing today?

New ask Hacker News story: Ask HN: Are there things more important than 'humanity', such as empathy?

Ask HN: Are there things more important than 'humanity', such as empathy? 5 by dfps | 2 comments on Hacker News. Questions of passing the touring test rely on fooling people that the machine is like a human, but how that machine behaves in situations we would deem important or consequential (eg a man trapped in a room as in Ex Machina) may depend on other things, such as empathy (which is cross species). Opinions?

New ask Hacker News story: Ask HN: Whats the first command you run on a new server?

Ask HN: Whats the first command you run on a new server? 3 by fragmede | 4 comments on Hacker News. When you get access to a new server via ssh, what's the first command you run? ls? nproc? lsb_release -a? uname -a?

New ask Hacker News story: Aaron Swartz's domain aaronsw.com has expired

Aaron Swartz's domain aaronsw.com has expired 4 by karimelgazar | 1 comments on Hacker News. Aaron Swartz's personal site now shows an expired-domain page. WHOIS says it expired Sept 29 (registered via Hover/Tucows). It's probably still in the grace period, so his family or estate can still renew it. If anyone is connected to them, please inform them. I read his blogs often, they mean a lot to me and I am upset about this. Archive: https://ift.tt/oc3nz4t

New ask Hacker News story: Ask HN: Positive text origin verification

Ask HN: Positive text origin verification 3 by Miguel_FierroM | 7 comments on Hacker News. Is anyone working on a positive text origin verification standard? Everyday it gets harder to distinguish between AI generated content and human generated content. This will never really work on the side of the labs but for people looking to actively prove they're the ones that wrote something there's an incentive to voluntarily collect that evidence. Is anyone working on this?

New ask Hacker News story: You're saving one minute and now I can't know if I'm talking a human

You're saving one minute and now I can't know if I'm talking a human 6 by scoofy | 0 comments on Hacker News. I write a golf blog. Recently, it's been getting a nontrivial amount of attention from a very niche section of the nerd-golf community. I've been getting a small number of emails and message from people because of this. This is how it has been going: Me: Oh, this is a nice email. Wait, something seems off. Let me check this in Pangram... Oh, 100% AI predicted. I respond: Hey, thanks for the note. Just FYI, Pangram doesn't really like your writing style. Them: Ahh, you got me. I use AI to help me write. Blah, blah... --- I really don't know what to do here. I still don't know if I'm talking to a human. If you are messaging me because you like my writing and you're using AI to write these short messages for you, I don't know what to tell you. Please stop. It takes two minutes to write a quick message... I really don't care if...