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The anti-ai lab crowd is becoming increasingly cult like and putting their blinders up.

Imo, you're focusing on the anecdote, rather than the key question: who decides what is an acceptable reason?

> what is an acceptable reason

"Acceptable reason" for what?

The headline and anecdote do not match.

All the Waymo Driver did was pull over and wait for the Support Team and the law enforcement response. It was in a commercial parking lot. It did not "deliver them to the police". It did not lock the doors. The children would have been free to exit after pulling over. The car simply refused to take them all the way to their destination.

Seeing that they were illegally drinking alcohol as underage minors, and illegally targeting innocent bystanders with missiles, what sort of acceptable reason do you need to contact Support, and thereby have law enforcement involved? I think it was a perfectly acceptable reason for the Waymo Driver to refuse service to these customers who had broken their policies.


Sorry, but your reasoning is incomplete. They could have bet millions on the negative result for each of the candidates that were listed. You aren't forced to bet on a winner, you can instead bet on everybody to lose.


this seems a bit odd to me (change the link to 1 day)

https://polymarket.com/event/nobel-peace-prize-winner-2026-1...

Yulia Navalnaya (widow of Alexei Navalny) had a ton of play, and Navi Pillay didn't even have a market?

edit: and what dang just added about the US - ICC sanctions


Pretty stupid prize to bet on considering the committee keeps even the nominees secret for 50 years.


It would still be detectable though: Does sum(price of all Yes) have an early unexpected down draw?


It would be funny to have such a prize finance itself by doing this. Openly. Game theory working over time on that one.


I hope it gets banned by the next administration.


You just did the tech equivalent of "not to sound racist, but..."


I looked into ZDR, it's basically a vapid claim with little to no due diligence or auditing. I expect most providers to cave with only a minimal amount of legal pressure.


Hyperbole = strong opinions? If you're stating your 'strong opinions' as fact, then you deserve the push back. If you're stating your strong opinions as strong opinions, then fair game.


You say this but fact and opinion are very similar and not at all easy to distinguish.

For instance, if I said the grass is green vs if I said the grass looks nice vs if I said the grass is doing well and looks how it should vs if I said in my opinion the grass is healthier than its ever been.


If a model complains about hyperbole, that doesn’t mean the text is hyperbole, and this can be because of the context of the text or because of the hedging the models are wont to do


> If you're stating your 'strong opinions' as fact

Is there anybody on this site who isn't?


I like the "strong opinions, loosely held" approach myself.


If I want to say that iOS is useless for developing Bluetooth 5 features then this is true for all practical purposes and doesn’t deserve elaboration in my text, even if Apple’s API technically exposes one or two tiny pieces.


It must be considered false for all tech providers unless there is a verification mechanism. There will be big money for whoever sorts that out


[citation needed]


It will scale inefficiently until efficiency breakthroughs occur, but it's really hard to predict when those breakthroughs will happen. Plan on the worst, but be ready and capable of capitalizing when it happens!


I don't have a horse in the race, but these comments are remarkably toxic. This reminds me of the RTFM epidemic on early Stack overflow.


They look to be facts.


It's toxic to call out big companies fearmongering about how their AI is too smart to be accessable? And it's somehow comparable to telling newbies asking question to RTFM?

Really?


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