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by Analemma_ 3mo ago
> These are false flag operations. The level of "I need to be the smartest person in the room" bullheaded skepticism on Hacker News has always been bad, but now with these latest LLM developments it is just completely out of co
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by Analemma_ 3mo ago
The first time I saw this I just took it as a given it would be a placebo, and I was rather astonished to find it actually helps quite a bit, my phone-induced motion sickness is reduced significantly with it on. If you're suspicious I&
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by Analemma_ 3mo ago
I mean, no career is ever perfectly secure against future uncertainty (a few years ago I would've joked "... except prostitution", but even that seems threatened by AI these days). The question is a relative one: how stable i
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by Analemma_ 3mo ago
In my own experience (both Claude and Gemini 1M), you start running into problems around 60-70%. A 25% ceiling sounds like total cargo culting to me.
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by Analemma_ 3mo ago
Because in the United States, cops are de facto above the law. Either because of qualified (translation: total) immunity or because if you try to enforce the law on them they throw tantrums and work stoppages. Attempting to constrain thei
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by Analemma_ 3mo ago
Well yeah, when you spend a significant segment of your corporate life being both negligent and an evil monopolist, people tend to assume the worst. Don't like it? Behave better.
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by Analemma_ 3mo ago
Around the internet you can find tons of people griping about GLP-1s, saying "diet and exercise make you lose weight, they have to, the First Law of Thermodynamics, etc. etc. How come doctors don't prescribe those?". And the
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by Analemma_ 3mo ago
My disagreement is that every time he turns out to be completely wrong he silently moves the goalposts instead of acknowledging it. For years he was all-in on "AI is useless, it has no business value at all" claims, and then whe
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by Analemma_ 3mo ago
They're selling GPUs in exchange for scrip which may or may not be able to pay Nvidia's operating expenses depending on whether AI has a profitable business model. This isn't hard to understand.
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by Analemma_ 3mo ago
They're paying the market price for a used book and getting the same rights out of that purchase as you or I would if we bought a used book.
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by Analemma_ 3mo ago
If intent matters when LLMs get involved, then we can't do anything even if they kill millions of people. Anything LLM-related should involve strict liability.
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by Analemma_ 3mo ago
Despite the common misconceptions from TV, the victim "pressing charges" isn't actually a thing in criminal cases: prosecutors can choose to put someone on trial even if the victim doesn't want that. In practice this is
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by Analemma_ 3mo ago
Actually there's another reason too: because it discourages marketing stunts. Personally I don't think that's what this was, but for the people who do think it was a marketing stunt: you guys should be pushing extra hard fo
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by Analemma_ 3mo ago
Because incentives are aligned properly if agents aren't liability-proof for crimes- making someone go to jail for instances like this is how to get the labs to behave themselves, whereas going "ha ha what an oopsie-woopsie"
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by Analemma_ 3mo ago
Everybody but the wealthy shops for airline tickets with price as their only criterion. Airlines are rational agents who operate in a famously competitive and low-margin business, so they respond to this demand-- indeed, they don't h
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by Analemma_ 3mo ago
It’s one reason why I will absolutely not move to a rural area, no matter what the benefits are to cost-of-living and getting away from the city. Rural America is getting completely emptied of all its medical providers, because it’s impossi
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by Analemma_ 3mo ago
You should have at least some money outside of tech to hedge though. There are "everything but tech" mutual funds and ETFs, and I keep about 15% of my investments in there.
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by Analemma_ 3mo ago
What evidence would count? Obviously any dangerous misalignments are going to come from the frontier labs first, because by definition they're the farthest ahead. If nothing they say can ever count as evidence for misalignment it&#x2
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by Analemma_ 3mo ago
Just because you can, doesn’t mean you should. Approximately nobody thought Google’s current emoji family needed a total overhaul, stop breaking our pattern recognition for no reason other than your designers are bored and don’t have enough
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by Analemma_ 3mo ago
The person you sold it to after borrowing it, who paid for it at the elevated price.
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by Analemma_ 3mo ago
- AI investment is basically the only thing keeping the American economy treading water at the moment, and kicking the chair out from under that industry benefits China tremendously. I'm definitely not saying that's the only facto
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by Analemma_ 3mo ago
The LessWrong people hate OpenAI, they all back Anthropic.
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by Analemma_ 3mo ago
I cannot think of a less trustworthy source of information than Emil Michael on the All-In podcast. Why on Earth would you take his statements at face value? I grant that nobody in this situation is totally trustworthy, but if it's his
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by Analemma_ 3mo ago
What does the relative level of government spending versus taxation have to do with whether businesses will self-regulate? You're just spewing non sequiturs here.
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by Analemma_ 3mo ago
The fact that "the name on the ticket must match your photo ID, but you can resell at any time before the event" would instantly solve scalping problems and yet nobody does it is your clue that nobody actually wants scalping probl
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by Analemma_ 3mo ago
Oracle Cloud sometimes feels like an elaborate prank that I'm not in on. I know people and companies on AWS (obviously), Azure, Google Cloud, Hetzner, CloudFlare's various PaaS offerings, etc., but I can't name a single thing
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by Analemma_ 3mo ago
DNS servers never see subpaths you request, only the domain itself, so that wouldn’t help with a hidden path. But there are lots of other ways to get it: caches/CDNs can leak paths, Chrome presumably sends Google a bunch of request det
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by Analemma_ 3mo ago
I don't think the parent is being tongue-in-cheek, and even if he is, plenty of people have expressed that sentiment seriously. Robin Hanson famously thinks addiction is impossible (or rather, that it's a true expression of reveal
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by Analemma_ 3mo ago
This is emblematic of a certain kind of foolish libertarian thinking where capitalism is treated as an end rather than a means. To normal people, the entire selling point of capitalism is that it is pitched as the best way to achieve a happ
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by Analemma_ 3mo ago
Structured data as the communication medium between shell applications is so obviously a good thing, once you've used it, the Unix way of chopping up text with flags and formatting utilities seems barbaric. PowerShell got it half-right

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