LordDragonfang

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by LordDragonfang 6mo ago
Everyone else is already pointing out how competent over unique is purely a positive, so I want to criticize the other implicit assumption here. This comment is just a rehash of the increasingly outdated and incorrect assertion that LLMs ca
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by LordDragonfang 6mo ago
Okay, this is a pet peeve of mine, so forgive me if I come off a little curt here, but-- I disagree strongly with how this was phrased. "Generative AI" isn't just an adjective applied to a noun, it's a specific marketing
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by LordDragonfang 6mo ago
This is so strange, because, at a low level, a branch isn't even a "thing" in git. There is no branch object type in git, it's literally just a pointer to a commit, functionally no different from a tag except for the com
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by LordDragonfang 6mo ago
> If another model can find the vulnerability if you point it at the right place, it would also find the vulnerability if you scanned each place individually. They didn't just point it at the right place, they pointed it at the righ
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by LordDragonfang 6mo ago
> That said, a well-designed scaffold naturally produces this kind of scoped context through its targeting and iterative prompting stages, which is exactly what both AISLE's and Anthropic's systems do. Unless the context they a
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by LordDragonfang 6mo ago
No, you wouldn't. The vulnerability has been in the codebase for 17 years. Orders of magnitude more than 20k in security professional salary-hours have been pointed at the FreeBSD codebase over the past decade and a half, so we already
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by LordDragonfang 6mo ago
> Their job literally depends on them finding Mythos to be good, we can't trust a single word they say. TFA article is literally from a company whose business is finding vulnerabilities with other people's AI. This article is t
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by LordDragonfang 6mo ago
> I mean, I literally posted a quote from the CEO of one of the two major companies saying that SWEs are 6-12 months away from being replaced. Even ignoring the other ways you're misrepresenting the, there's a huge difference b
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by LordDragonfang 6mo ago
One of the five fundamental pillars of conservative thought, as phrased by wikipedia (which is itself merely paraphrasing Russel Kirk, a foundational of post-war American conservativatism), is: > A conviction that society requires orders
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by LordDragonfang 6mo ago
> We’ve been suggesting that programmers are going to be replaced by simpler programming languages, gui programming tools, no code tools, low code tools, and now AI. The difference is that it's actually working this time. Non-progra
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by LordDragonfang 6mo ago
> “I think… I don’t know… we might be six to twelve months away from when the model is doing most, maybe all of what SWEs (software engineers) do end to end.” I think it's disingenuous (as disingenuous as you're accusing these
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by LordDragonfang 7mo ago
If you're on Pro, Group Policy tends to be more stable than plain registry tweaks. In particular, I advise everyone to turn off web search in the start menu, it makes it so much faster and more useful: Computer Configuration &gt
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by LordDragonfang 7mo ago
> A human can sit down to play a game with unknown rules and write a spec as he goes. Some humans can. Many , if not most humans cannot. A significant enough fraction of humans have trouble putting together Ikea furniture that there
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by LordDragonfang 7mo ago
In retrospect, it seems obvious that we hit AGI by a reasonable "at least as intelligent as some humans" definition when o3 came out, and everything since then has been goalpost moving by people who have higher and higher bars for
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by LordDragonfang 7mo ago
> Yet I regularly catch them making errors that a human never would I have yet to see a "error" that modern frontier models make that I could not imagine a human making - average humans are way more error prone than the kind of
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by LordDragonfang 7mo ago
Correct, but in practice this is almost never done, because the way the US legislative system is set up it's almost always more convenient to have judges rewrite laws instead of legislators.
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by LordDragonfang 7mo ago
In the US, the process of removing unjust laws generally involves violating them, so that courts have the opportunity to legislate from the bench.
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by LordDragonfang 7mo ago
Because silent mode is for the notifications . App volume has its own dedicated buttons.
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by LordDragonfang 7mo ago
HN already has something like that -- high-karma accounts can flag comments/posts which are a poor fit for HN. It's just a blacklist, not a whitelist.
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by LordDragonfang 7mo ago
Not every post is from the website of the person who is the topic of it. It's common to have e.g. a blogpost about $thing and then a new account chimes in with "Hey, I authored $thing 10 years ago when I was working for $company,
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by LordDragonfang 7mo ago
I mean, to be fair, both things can be technically true. There can be lots of interesting things being done, even while most can be low-effort garbage. But this is just Sturgeon's Law (ninety percent of everything is crap), not an ac
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by LordDragonfang 7mo ago
That's an extremely niche use case and not even a remotely selling point for probably 99% of buyers, much less the "biggest" one.
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by LordDragonfang 8mo ago
> This is genuinely Well, I have a good guess which of those models is your favorite. I'm not even saying that Claude wrote this - because it still reads as human written, and it's not badly written - but it has just enough C
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by LordDragonfang 8mo ago
Also by the people that just work there(, man). I mean, as dumb as it is, there is a certain musicality to hearing someone with a southern accent sardonically call it the dee-oh-dubya.
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by LordDragonfang 8mo ago
The full[1] quote is: > “Laws are a threat made by the dominant socioeconomic ethnic group in a given nation. It’s just the promise of violence that’s enacted, and the police are basically an occupying army, you know what I mean?” ...Whi
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by LordDragonfang 8mo ago
It's a little weird, too, because Claude definitely isn't the only one approved for use on classified systems in general ; both Grok and OpenAI have models approved, at the very least. https://devblogs.microsoft.com&#x
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by LordDragonfang 8mo ago
They announced it almost a year ago: https://www.anthropic.com/news/claude-gov-models-for-u-s-nat... https://support.claude.com/en/articles/13756069-public-secto...
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by LordDragonfang 8mo ago
> A blade of grass has more humanity and is more deserving of respect than anything being referred to as AI does. Emphatically disagree. Even ignoring the obvious absurdity in this statement by pointing out that an LLM is emulating a hum
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by LordDragonfang 8mo ago
Genuine question, why do you think this is so important to clarify? Or, more crucially, do you think this statement has any predictive power? Would you, based on actual belief of this, have predicted that one of these "agents", le
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by LordDragonfang 8mo ago
I'll be honest, as someone not familiar with Haskell, one of my main takeaways from this article is going down a rabbit hole of finding out how weird Haskell is. The casualness at which the author states things like "of course,

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