Principal @ Quasi Convex Union. Engineering, design, and research. Systems, protocols, and products. Author of Shoulders of Giants.
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are you using google chrome? have you ever heard of "glic"?
if not, you might want to consider disabling it right away.
open chrome://flags/#glic
here's why 🧵
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here's what really bothers me:
i discovered this integration and its sharing defaults enabled in my browser, and i have absolutely no recollection of agreeing to any of it.
google says gemini requires an initial opt-in.
but that doesn't mean users knowingly authorized automatic access to their private browsing context.
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if you don't want google's ai integrated into your browser, for now:
open chrome://flags/#glic
set "glic" to disabled and relaunch chrome.
i also disabled the related glic flags shown in my screenshot.
you can read google's own documentation here:
support.google.com/chrome/an…
please check your browser and share this.
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Invoking authority doesn't resolve a disagreement. It merely ends the conversation.
teapaw.org/jmflatow/status/211981…
you can have great engineers, valuable technology, plenty of capital, a real market, and still fail as a startup
sometimes the founder's psychology becomes the company's bottleneck:
convex.io/thoughts/the-cost-…
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you can have great engineers, valuable technology, plenty of capital, a real market, and still fail as a startup
sometimes the founder's psychology becomes the company's bottleneck:
convex.io/thoughts/the-cost-…
we literally begged you not to do this, now @binance is the victim
I am hopeful but the current design of 7702 is very subpar IMO. It basically requires 2 signatures for normal use cases, and requires users drastically over-provision trust on the first signature without any guarantee that their second signature will even be used. It should be possible within 1 signature to carve out a single restricted capability, without requiring you to delegate your entire account permanently and without a guarantee of being able to regain control atomically
Argon is a paternalistic nightmare
it's literally everything people have been afraid of in AI
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an information system that refuses inquiry, claims epistemic authority, and treats resistance to that authority as a problem with the user
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