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Reduced my thoughts on Copilot+ PC, as announced, to a piece for Forbes.
TLDR: Also we should think about compliance with things like subpoenas and how completely can anything ever be deleted with such a system.
The more I think about it, the less this seems like a well thought-out product for pros. Dreamed up by coders that already have had their life’s work sucked up by GPT through #Github.
@andrew I think there's also a caste of software dev at Big Tech who live largely "easy mode" lives, protected by privilege of race, sexual orientation, and especially gender, as well as the fact that their lives are fairly mundane. They've never had brushes with the legal system in any form or suffered abusive spouses or even dealt with serious medical conditions. They have no internal concept of the importance of privacy to others' daily existence.
Absolutely, and I'm guilty on all fronts of that as well - but you can at least attempt to listen to people in different situations about what is important to them vis a vis security and privacy.
Not lecturing you, just semi-venting. tldr: I agree
Declaring a "Freedom Summer" in the same breath as laying out what colors are and are not acceptable for illuminating bridges is so stupidly Orwellian it would be cringey in Orwell fan fiction.
Is the pretext we're supposed to assume that #Florida had previously been living under the non-freedom yoke of #LGBTQ rainbows?
Boosting for #legal and #tech friends. Important and underreported issue.
Black taxpayers were between 2.9 and 4.7 times more likely to be audited by a data-driven audit algorithm. The IRS' response is that they're making tweaks.
This is insufficient.
Answers. Accountability. What happened? How did an algorithm exhibit decidedly human biases?
Yep. IRS just said they'll make the necessary adjustments -- nothing more.
The study I based my piece on is here (https://drive.google.com/file/d/1kA7CG3cLq6eWmwBVgTDOIMhxuGZwRJ5O/view). They do both, to a degree, finding the disparity across income and EITC claim status. Always possible there is some other intervening factor, which would be resolved if we got a look at the algorithm for audits. See attached grabs.
@andrew@law I would prefer if the government audited people based on minimizing underpayment of taxes given the resources available to audit and collect.
If 100 agents can collect $1000 from 100,000 people in a year that's $1M per agent per year. But if 100 agents can collect $10M from 100 people in a year that's $10M per agent per year.
And if we took some of the collected taxes to fund more agents eventually you'd maximize collection and minimize underpayment.
I reckon Copilot+ PC is going to be a product that an entire class of professional just simply can't purchase or use for work. Thinking of #attorneys, #accountants, etc.
Surely the "features" will be able to be disabled, but can anyone reasonably trust that?
Goddamn everything Biden does is proof that doing popular things that are also good for people gets you precisely no credit or appreciation. That whole theory can be flushed.