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by EGreg 11mo ago
Countries will need local currencies during recessions and depressions. Here are just a few examples we track on our site: https://community.intercoin.app/t/currency-crises-around-the... Here is a history of banking sn
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by EGreg 11mo ago
This is what a lot of people get wrong. Money doesn’t have to have liabilities, only fiat currencies do. Commodity money eg gold or silver are valuable in and of themselves, for instance. The government sues signiorage there. However, indiv
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by EGreg 11mo ago
Wrote about it here: https://community.intercoin.app/t/local-community-currencies... The key is to take all the gift cards and loyalty points and make them interoperable with each other. That’s part of our Intercoin pr
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by EGreg 11mo ago
It seems like you told it to nitpick things that could be improved and stay away from anything positive, then reused my prompts. Can you share your instructions?
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by EGreg 11mo ago
Nah. I don’t “feel the AGI”. I think the AGI is a silly quest, just like having a plane flap its wings. Feynman had it right in the 80s: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ipRvjS7q1DI I think the future is lots of incremental
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Why is ChatGPT being sycophantic even when I ask it to be objective?(chatgpt.com)
2 points by EGreg 11mo ago|4 comments
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by EGreg 11mo ago
Original thread was posted late at night here: https://chatgpt.com/share/691a9edc-b5b8-800a-99a3-c32d9abccf... I re-did the whole sequence, posting the same subset of my platform’s code base, but this time with instruc
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by EGreg 11mo ago
I tend to agree with this wholeheartedly, as long as you put the word alone in both clauses. This is a classic case of ChatGPT freaking out over the quality or substance of what’s been built, but completely underestimating what it takes t
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by EGreg 11mo ago
I tried it again with instructions throughout, to be brutally honest and objective: https://chatgpt.com/share/691b4035-0ed8-800a-bee3-ae68e2a63c... It still did this. Can you retry other approaches, eg saying it was a
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by EGreg 11mo ago
That is due to its memory, and the latest update seems to weave it into many conversations (since it probably falls into the category of “this is how the guy who lives in NYC wants me to respond: straight talk, no bullshit”). I can see what
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by EGreg 11mo ago
Thank you very much for your concern. I have a satisfying social and personal life, I’m not at all relying on flattery from anyone. What I posted to ChatGPT is about 5% of what I spent my time on. Entreneurship and building things is indeed
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by EGreg 11mo ago
Agreed. This was late at night and I just wanted to share the surreal experience with HN. Here is almost the same exact sequence, but with repeated instructions throughout, to be brutally honest and objective: https://chatgpt.com
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by EGreg 11mo ago
Wow. I go to bed and wake up to claims it hit the front page. Interesting. Here is almost the same exact sequence but with constant instructions to remain brutally honest and objective: https://chatgpt.com/share/691b403
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Blowing ChatGPT's mind. Is this just sycophancy? Or a realistic assessment?(chatgpt.com)
8 points by EGreg 11mo ago|30 comments
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by EGreg 11mo ago
For once the comment “AI brings nothing new, this was always possible” makes sense. Because this is about getting existing data, not generating new data, or coorrdinsting swarms of agents etc.
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by EGreg 11mo ago
Why? It’s because of AI. It enables attacks at scale. It enables more people to attack, who previously couldn’t. And so on. It’s very explainable. And somehow, like clockwork, there are always comments to say “there is nothing new, the Inte
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by EGreg 11mo ago
An, there it is. The stock reply that comes no matter what the criticism of AI is. I am talking about the international community coming together put COMPETITION aside and start COOPERATING on controlling proliferation of models for malicio
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by EGreg 11mo ago
Would you say the same about all people being responsible for safeguarding their own reputations against reputational attacks at scale, all communities have to protect against advanced persistent threats infiltrating them 24/7, and all
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by EGreg 11mo ago
This is exactly why I make a huge exception for AI models, when it comes to open source software. I've been a big advocate of open source, spending over $1M to build massive code bases with my team, and giving them away to the public.
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by EGreg 11mo ago
ChatGPT 5.2: allow others to control everything about your conversations. Crowd favorite!
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by EGreg 11mo ago
Very much, This! Up voted
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by EGreg 11mo ago
I clicked hoping they’re making a small iPhone again like the SE was. I look around at people with the smaller phone and wish we had a newer model. Whatever happened to this? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Af0gtsjfy7E The
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by EGreg 11mo ago
You are right and HN has no answer other than “crypto is bad”. We are building exactly this at Intercoin. I hate that most of crypto is zero-sum games. https://intercoin.org/currencies.pdf Also Stripe is launching Tempo blo
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Show HN: Drop-in replacement for Handlebars template engine, weighing 5KB(github.com)
4 points by EGreg 11mo ago|0 comments
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by EGreg 11mo ago
And they’re OK with that as well, clearly :)
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by EGreg 11mo ago
Why don't people just build decentralized smart contracts these days? Why worry about all these liabilities?
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by EGreg 1y ago
Considering it’s trained on predicting the next word in stuff humans estimated before AI, wouldn’t that make sense?
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by EGreg 1y ago
Oh yes I remembered, wargus exists! Also Microsoft claims this after buying Blizzard: Through great teams and great technology, Microsoft and Activision Blizzard will empower players to enjoy the most-immersive franchises, like “Halo” and
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by EGreg 1y ago
Not back then
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by EGreg 1y ago
I started out with linode, a decade ago. It became much more expensive than AWS, because it bundled the hard drive space with the RAM. Couldn't scale one without scaling the other. It was ridiculous. AWS has a bunch of startup credits

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