Lerc

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691.
by Lerc 9mo ago
No, How git and GitHub/GitLab/BitBucket should have made git enshittification impossible.
692.
by Lerc 9mo ago
Well I read to the end of the article, and if they had something newsworthy in there they failed to communicate it. It is like someone has written an angry screed about the sky not being yellow and that it's obviously blue, while faili
693.
by Lerc 9mo ago
Kind-of makes sense. That's how businesses have been using KPIs for years. Subjecting employees to KPIs means they can create the circumstances that cause people to violate ethical constraints while at the same time the company can cla
694.
by Lerc 9mo ago
I think the single most convincing feature that I would like in a conversation app is for there to essentially be two companies with a public benefit charter that said that they cannot have common ownership or management, yet provided the s
695.
by Lerc 9mo ago
It would be interesting to see if the harms reported from social media go up or down. I can see people who want to make the case that harms are going up, but if use is coming down it would not be correlated. I'm sure someone with a bo
696.
by Lerc 9mo ago
Yes, but many of those complex state of the art thing are comprised of parts that began as ideas like this. All ideas have to start somewhere. You don't have to have a idea that beats everything in all circumstances. It doesn't
697.
by Lerc 9mo ago
Can you point to the most optimistic six month projections that you have seen? I have encountered a lot of people say it will be better in six months, and every six months It has been. I have also seen a few predictions that say 'in a
698.
by Lerc 9mo ago
I don't think we should allow any form of abusive software, addictive, dark patterns, bait-and-switch. They all need to be robustly regulated. At the same time I don't think you can demonstrate harm without good evidence. Making m
699.
by Lerc 9mo ago
I shall take that as a no, then. I don't think it takes pedantry to think advertising in order to solicit funds for a non-profit is still advertising. If anything the criteria I would apply is does it diminish the user experience while
700.
by Lerc 9mo ago
Do you not think those intrusive banners and popups implying that Wikipedia is about to imminently go broke unless you give them money, are ads?
701.
by Lerc 9mo ago
I'm inclined to agree somewhat about libraries. I'm not entirely certain that it is a bad thing. Perhaps it would be more accurate to say libraries will change in form. There is a very broad spectrum of what libraries do. Some
702.
by Lerc 9mo ago
I really don't like the narrative of 'X is killing Y', or 'Z is dead' Everything being treated as an existential threat. I'm also not particularly fond of the other extreme of toxic positivity where any proble
703.
by Lerc 9mo ago
I once had a visit from cops about dodgy cheques I had been writing. Weirdly they were more ready to believe I hadn't written the cheques, than the were about me not leaving my chequebook at a brothel I hadn't visited. The last t
704.
by Lerc 9mo ago
The main thing here would need standardisation is the environment in which the skill operates. The skill instructions are interpreted by the AI, any support scripts are. Interpreted by the environment. You don't want to give an Englis
705.
by Lerc 9mo ago
I'd be interested to hear what you thought of the programming architecture. Excluding the bug side of things. If they did everything they were supposed to how hard was it to get them to perform a task that distributed the work through
706.
by Lerc 9mo ago
My thought was that to do applications with agents, what you really need is a filesystem and perhaps an entire access rights policy that can handle the notion of agent-acting-on-behalf-of I'm not sure if Unix groups could be leveraged
707.
by Lerc 9mo ago
And that would be OK as a clue if Silverstein was a red herring, Grizzly was also a children's author and Scarry sounded like scary (and also meant something in the same ballpark as Gory, Grim, and Grisly)
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by Lerc 9mo ago
Gory, grisly and grim can be seen as synonymous on a axis maybe close to brutal. They refer to the appearance. brutal evokes the action that happened. The other words are about how things ended up. An autopsy can be gory, grisly and d
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by Lerc 9mo ago
Connections is infuriating. Not only are they using regional specific knowledge, but they use regional relative concepts. Many people do not agree that ant rhymes with aunt. The recent Homophones of words meaning brutal. Gorey, Grimm, Grizz
710.
by Lerc 9mo ago
I have certainly encountered variations on it from multiple technologies. There does seem to be a perception amongst younger people that electric cars are just a thing who's time has come. Without seeing the struggles that people w
711.
by Lerc 9mo ago
I shall echo the comment of pibaker with one caveat. > The exact same sentiment is widely observed across this entire website. You do see this sentiment across this website, but this doesn't mean that it is a view held by the majo
712.
by Lerc 9mo ago
There have been alternatives suggested. While better is a subjective term, most alternatives have either not been successful or have not yet meaningfully achieved a level of success to matter. Flattr took one approach without much success.
713.
by Lerc 9mo ago
This would be really useful if it came in a real estate photo version. Turn the photos that agents post back into the photos they took.
714.
by Lerc 9mo ago
Well they are vastly more aware of the notion of consent now.
715.
by Lerc 9mo ago
They do still train models from scratch, and they are still making larger models. You would expect that to use a lot more resources. It seems to be that GPT 5.x are all likely to be extensions of the gpt5 base model with similar numbers of
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by Lerc 9mo ago
Seems like closer to fraud on behalf of the marketing company they outsourced to. I doubt they commissioned articles on things that don't exist. If you use AI to perform a task that someone has asked you to do, it should be your respon
717.
by Lerc 9mo ago
Experience sharing has an information component, the thing that distinguishes it from a written report containing the same facts is not. What you call content is just low effort content. Slop is a more evocative term that probably captures
718.
by Lerc 9mo ago
Content is not meant to imply fungibility by being nonspecific. It is supposed to represent an acknowledgement of diversity across a wide range of activities. The term content creator represents inclusivity, not genericity. You have used t
719.
by Lerc 9mo ago
Framing GPT 5 as a loss because of its short run like that is a bit weird. They say "the R&D that went into GPT-5 likely informs future models like GPT-6". but that really understates what is happening here. Barring solid ev
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by Lerc 9mo ago
I don't think 99% of the best is a good metric. It is highly dependent on what the best represents. If you had a 100% chance of not breaking your arm on any given day, what kind of value would you place on it over a 99% chance on any

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