GoatInGrey

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by GoatInGrey 8mo ago
CRTs are a very interesting display technology with their refresh rate and clarity. I'd like to see an "HD" CRT someday, and however many tons it would weigh!
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by GoatInGrey 8mo ago
On the contrary, we get to read hundreds of his comments explaining how the LLM in anecdote X didn't fail, it was the developer's fault and they should know better than to blame the LLM. I only know this because on occasion I&#x27
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by GoatInGrey 8mo ago
In-person analog checkpoints seem to be the most effective method. Think internet-disabled PCs managed by the school, written exams, oral exams, and so forth. Making students fix LLM-generated code until they're at their wits' end
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by GoatInGrey 8mo ago
The counterargument here is that there is a distinction between an arbitrary line in the sand (C++ stdlb is bad) and using a text-generating machine to perform work for you, beginning to end. You are correct that as a responsibly used tool,
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by GoatInGrey 8mo ago
"Why think when AI do trick?" is an extremely alluring hole to jump headfirst into. Life is stressful, we're short on time, and we have obligations screaming in our ear like a crying baby. It seems appropriate to slip the rin
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by GoatInGrey 8mo ago
The other side of this coin are the non-developer stakeholders who Dunning-Kruger themselves into firm conclusions on technical subjects with LLMs. "Well I can code this up in an hour, two max. Why is it taking you ten hours?". I&
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by GoatInGrey 8mo ago
I feel like there is a nuance here. I use GitHub Copilot and Claude Code, and unless I tell it to not do anything, or explicitly enable a plan mode, the LLM will usually jump straight to file edits. This happens even if I prompt it with som
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by GoatInGrey 8mo ago
That's a significant rub with LLMs, particularly hosted ones: the variability. Add in quantization, speculative decoding, and dynamic adjustment of temperature, nucleus sampling, attention head count, & skipped layers at runtime, a
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by GoatInGrey 8mo ago
My personal theory is that as the excitement for LLMs normalizes, we'll land on something evolutionary rather than revolutionary. Prompt programming will take over what used to be quick/amateur micro programs (this includes user
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by GoatInGrey 8mo ago
Birdy evokes the same energy as "BabySeal". I imagine you can understand why an app called "BabySealChat" would be off-putting to a thirty-something disgruntled developer?
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by GoatInGrey 8mo ago
It's not satire but I see where you're coming from. Applying distributed human team concepts to a porting task squeezes extra performance from LLMs much further up the diminishing returns curve. That matters because porting projec
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by GoatInGrey 9mo ago
In this case, they bought and currently own the sensors and hardware that the ML model is stored on. Moreover, the software runs locally. It's a silly example, but you can think of it as buying a house and the ceiling lights requiring
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by GoatInGrey 9mo ago
How does lane-keeping assist drive you everywhere, or plug in to Google Maps? That doesn't make any sense to me. Are you talking about a separate feature or something?
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by GoatInGrey 9mo ago
Keep in mind that Steve has LLMs write his posts on that blog. Things said there may not reflect his actual thoughts on the subject(s) at hand.
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by GoatInGrey 9mo ago
That, and the catastrophic risk framing is where this really loses me. We're discussing models that supposedly threaten "global catastrophe" or could "kill or disempower the vast majority of humans." Meanwhile, Opus
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by GoatInGrey 9mo ago
To be fair, the user can speak to NATO's value without assigning it a 'critical' value.
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by GoatInGrey 9mo ago
Both are true. Exploits are a very narrow problem with unambiguous success metrics. While also naturally complementing the ingrained persistence of LLMs. Bug reports are much more fuzzy by comparison with open-ended goals that lead to the L
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by GoatInGrey 9mo ago
The tells in music are there. The most common being: vocals have a subtle constant hiss to them, voices and instruments sound different in the second half than they did in the first, the hiss filter gets more prominent and affects all instr
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by GoatInGrey 9mo ago
If the person behind it pretends to have produced it themselves, or (this actually happened) put themselves in AI-generated photos with celebrity artists in their cover/album art, then I will sour on them and stop listening to their up
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by GoatInGrey 9mo ago
There are several rubs with that operating protocol extending beyond the "you're holding it wrong" claim. 1) There exists a threshold, only identifiable in retrospect, past which it would have been faster to locate or write t
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by GoatInGrey 9mo ago
At its worst, Uber had a net margin of -~60%. The AI labs are all running at least negative triple digit net margins, some running negative quadruple digit net margins. This is why AGI has been "forecasted" to death by the labs, b
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by GoatInGrey 9mo ago
I find it hard to believe that you fail to understand that vulnerable people can be influenced and manipulated into acting against their own welfare. Domestic sexual abuse of children is the simpler-to-understand form of this dynamic. Where
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by GoatInGrey 9mo ago
Grok is a hosted service. In your analogy, it would be like a gun shop renting a gun out to someone who puts down "Rob a store" as the intended usage of the rental. Then renting another gun to that same client. Then when confronte
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by GoatInGrey 9mo ago
Both of those things have and do motivate people to perform harm in the real world. It's not random beeps and boops that are nonsensical and challenging to manipulate behavior through.
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by GoatInGrey 9mo ago
How is "It's acceptable because people perform a lesser form of the same behavior" an argument at all? Taken to its logical extreme, you could argue that you shouldn't be prevented from punching children in the face beca
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by GoatInGrey 9mo ago
Instead of an arbitrary net number, why not a multiplier of the median? For example, capping at 300x the median citizen/household.
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by GoatInGrey 9mo ago
Yes.
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by GoatInGrey 9mo ago
Unless you can get the blastocyst and fetus to take supplements, any treatment would be attempting to undo the effects that have already taken place. For now, your best options are ESDM, occupational therapy, modified CBT, ABA, or neurofe
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by GoatInGrey 9mo ago
Under Delaware law (where most U.S. public companies incorporate), directors' fiduciary duties are non-delegable. The actual exercise of judgment must be performed by the director, who must be a "natural person". Other jurisd
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by GoatInGrey 9mo ago
LLM CEOs would be middle of the road, I suspect. Yes, they could be much more in touch with the goings on within the business and make fewer baseless decisions. Though you would not get an innovative or culture-building leader that is nec

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