LPisGood

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by LPisGood 5d ago
I don’t think system prompts are particularly reliable way to do much at all. It’s better to put it as a hook after each response, or a skill at least so you can trigger it at will if you don’t want it everytime.
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by LPisGood 5d ago
That’s not true in general. Plenty of jurisdictions do not allow you to use contradictory arguments in hopes that one is persuasive.
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by LPisGood 10d ago
One fun fact I’ve heard is that the strategic oil reserve requires like 100-150 million barrels of oil to maintain operational pressure and even be functional. This means we can’t draw it down to zero; not even close.
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by LPisGood 11d ago
The US’s most important export for many years was treasury bonds. As de-dollarization occurs, the United States is bound to face some economic reckoning. It should be noted that even still almost all US debt is held locally.
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by LPisGood 11d ago
One aspect of that balanced budget that should be noted is that it does rely on a sizable funding increase from the state government. Now, that state is legally required to have a balanced budget itself, so perhaps this is a small side note
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by LPisGood 11d ago
“Promise endlessly” is an oft touted criticism of social safety net programs, when the reality is that reducing vast tranches of corporate welfare is typically more than enough to solve budget shortfalls.
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by LPisGood 12d ago
Is it not clear that American election issues are directly related to those things?
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by LPisGood 12d ago
One wonders if the publicity associated with the events in question were part of the sales pitch.
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by LPisGood 12d ago
Right, which is why it is a charitable comparison of the lawsuit, showing how it may be successful.
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by LPisGood 12d ago
It should be noted that suing gun manufacturers for murder has been done successfully. A more charitable comparison might be suing a torrent aggregator instead of the end users doing the distribution.
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by LPisGood 12d ago
My understanding of the case law on this subject is that courts are extremely wary of letting terms of service violations rise to the level of federal crime. It essentially endows anyone with a domain name into an authority which can create
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by LPisGood 12d ago
This does not mean that any launch which ignites people’s bullshit detectors is successful.
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by LPisGood 12d ago
The smarter thing to do would be to steelman the original position and not assume that the weakest of counterarguments — stated confidently and without much further analysis — sufficiently refute it.
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by LPisGood 20d ago
Presumably the characteristic being referred to is superficial politeness mixed with racism or xenophobia.
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by LPisGood 23d ago
I think raw brain energy is not a fair comparison. Humans are not willing and able to serve requests at identical competence all hours of the day. You have to invest considerable resources to get a person to even do so for part of the day.
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by LPisGood 26d ago
Attention is all you need. Seriously, isn’t this the core premise of RAG / modern embedding search systems?
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by LPisGood 28d ago
How do you effectively steelman against your own position without a dynamic “adversary” responding to counter-claims? I feel like every static argument except the most absolutely resolute is vulnerable.
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by LPisGood 29d ago
I pretty much exclusively drink black coffee or plain espresso and I’ve yet to encounter any issues getting it. I have seen lots of complaints and memes to this effect, but never has it been my lived experience. I’ve also never had an issue
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by LPisGood 29d ago
Yes! Airport gate workers can (and have, for me) frequently pull all kinds of strings and make all kinds of adjustments if you just ask (kindly).
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by LPisGood 29d ago
Their scheduling software is also blatantly broken. I understand the difficulty in monitoring a large distributed fleet, but their software loves to say trucks are unavailable where a quick phone call reveals they can accommodate the exact
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by LPisGood 29d ago
It is possible that Anthropic (and OpenAI for that matter) actually put out some pretty low quality software. If you’ve used Claude Code for any length of time you’re familiar with all of the strange rendering bugs, freezes, etc. OpenAI is
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by LPisGood 29d ago
What really grinds my gears is when the app is a _broken_ version of the website. I find the app really expects you to be on the happy path in a way the website does not. Uhaul is a great example of this. The app looks a little better on mo
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by LPisGood 1mo ago
It has really surprised me a few times. It reminds me of that oft touted experiment where a light lit up within some number of milliseconds of a person hitting a button, and people perceive it as happening before they hit the button.
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by LPisGood 1mo ago
Could you not say the same about using a compiler or higher level language or a library you don’t understand or an algorithm you don’t understand or a chip that you don’t understand?
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by LPisGood 1mo ago
It’s not clear to me why people believe determinism has some special property.
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by LPisGood 1mo ago
Small amounts of world knowledge seems like it would inherently be tied to more hallucinations.
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by LPisGood 1mo ago
You do have to worry about scale with lambda though. It’s not super hard to hit a rate limit where warm up times start being a real problem.
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by LPisGood 1mo ago
I can tell it’s getting bad because I went to close some Safari tabs and got confused because the tab next to this was [a dupe of] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49330597 .
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by LPisGood 1mo ago
It is certainly the case that isinstance(True, int) returns True, even today.
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by LPisGood 1mo ago
Now imagine a model shipped in silicon that gives 5,000 tokens per second at Opus 4.8 quality

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