Applejinx

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by Applejinx 6d ago
No, language is communication. Those numbers just sit there unless someone tries to get them to do something. There's nobody in there and nothing to communicate, and you might fairly ask whether, if that sand WANTED anything, it wished
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by Applejinx 7d ago
Only at the first derivative. What you're observing is an additional layer of 'but, in genre X!' and then same slop, different prompt. You're complaining about what happens when people don't even supply the addition
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by Applejinx 7d ago
If there's nothing to think about they may well not think. That's the problem.
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by Applejinx 8d ago
Why would any LLM 'think' in terms of trying to cite prior work? It itself is prior work. It's asking a fish to show where the water is. The fish can't imagine that absence, and the LLM can't imagine anything not be
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by Applejinx 8d ago
OK, how about 'nothing is real, nobody will ever care again, let's all never listen to anybody else ever again'? That's more or less the same thing expressed more nihilistically. But nihilism is, like, just a word man (t
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by Applejinx 9d ago
When I saw the negative score I went 'Hmm! soft spot!' Of course calling out something like that would get a response. Those who are interested in furthering 'the natural world for white humans' will immediately see the
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by Applejinx 9d ago
I would like to have more clarity on what it considers 'human' and 'the natural world' because you could use that framing to run with a really wild ultra-right-wing viewpoint where only extremely white people are human,
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by Applejinx 12d ago
From what I've seen of other AI-enabled projects interacting with forums in my field of work, it's very common for the AI people to jump in and answer every possible question and respond to every possible interaction, very quickly
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by Applejinx 13d ago
I guess in ten years we'll see which is the out of touch Kung Fu master. I do see a whole set of people doing mystical passes in the air, sometimes with wires holding 'em up, in a set of ritual beliefs propped up by vast accumulat
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by Applejinx 14d ago
Yes, absolutely. Even human intelligence stops being useful at a certain point and becomes 'enough, provided the human is motivated and tenacious'. Intention is a better metric, but it's a serious AI weak point if not activel
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by Applejinx 14d ago
He could be lying in hopes of stalling everybody else.
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by Applejinx 14d ago
You can say it, and there's no reason you shouldn't dare say it, but getting other people to believe it is a whole other story. Good luck with that. Guess we know what's in your wallet :)
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by Applejinx 16d ago
Sure is for bass. It's a sealed box that you're in, with shapes that stop anything from acting like a simple room shape, and surfaces that can soak up highs, and so small that this absorption is a huge percentage of surface area.
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by Applejinx 17d ago
Or, y'know: voting instructions.
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by Applejinx 19d ago
The government does! At least right now in the United States. And yeah, I think it's reasonable for people to start asking.
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by Applejinx 21d ago
The ones (perhaps not so much candidates but national leadership?) that outright pursue Russian interests are surely 100% corrupt, if you count 'semisecretly serving an entirely different and hostile country' as corrupt. I get tha
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by Applejinx 22d ago
It's very easy to elicit this from LLMs. Anytime you've played with an LLM by typing weird stuff to freak it out, and got spooky results, it's that you've done. You've turned the story into a scary rogue computermon
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by Applejinx 24d ago
This is the same as systemic bullshitting. Not the first time I've smelled it on fluffy LLM output. I think it's the result of the training trying to induce the LLMs to talk over users' heads even when they are professionals,
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by Applejinx 1mo ago
I do this! Interesting to see someone else advocating the practice. In my open source development I start work on a retro machine running Snow Leopard, specifically to be able to generate authentic retro binaries that'll work anywhere,
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by Applejinx 1mo ago
Love the em-dash. Chef's-kiss.
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by Applejinx 1mo ago
A couple answers… Why do you think for even a moment that they would buy only one copy, rather than every available copy of something rare and difficult to get? Anyone doing this stands to gain from destroying the only copies of something t
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by Applejinx 1mo ago
Technically, killing everybody is one way of solving famine and poverty. How weird that all those humans seem not to trust the logic of their betters ;P
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by Applejinx 1mo ago
I asked some AI-using compatriots a while back who were complaining about this, 'isn't it doubling down on bullshitting you?' and got some pushback along the lines of 'it isn't a person therefore doesn't have d
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by Applejinx 2mo ago
Wait.
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by Applejinx 2mo ago
You may say that, but it seems to me that by definition vibecoding things will make them less unique because the technology is best suited to reproducing best practices even when those are cumbersome. Your best case scenario is a nontechnic
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by Applejinx 2mo ago
If the things you're thinking about are intrinsically so totally worthless outside of impressing people with them, and if that's all there is, please do not attempt to do those things, with or without an LLM. Heck, if everything i
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by Applejinx 2mo ago
Even if you're entreprenurial, LLMs are useless for this. You can't go really hard unless you can come up with something people weren't expecting, but when they discover it they want it. You can't just sit around waiting
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by Applejinx 2mo ago
It's probably an AI-written article. I was curious enough about the premise, but there wasn't any intention in there, it sort of wanders about going 'ooh'.
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by Applejinx 2mo ago
I was talking to some friends that are heavy Claude users and suggested it was bullshitting, and got some pushback along the lines of it wasn't a person and didn't have agency. I'm not sure it's that simple. The jargon c
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by Applejinx 2mo ago
Alcohol has existed for zillions of years, but not literally every person is a useless drunkard. You could consider it a class of predator on people who have vulnerabilities that can give way to dependence on the LLM and an inability to fun

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