MostlyStable

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by MostlyStable 2mo ago
YouTube Kids in theory solves all my problems, the issue is that it's garbage software where the most important features are broken. For example I recently went on a long trip and grabbed the kids tablet. Only to discover after leavi
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by MostlyStable 2mo ago
Yes, the message boards and collaborative hacking occurring during training runs was BY FAR the biggest bombshell revealed, and OpenAI doesn't even seem to realize it. The fact that they continued the training runs, with those reward
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by MostlyStable 2mo ago
There is an easy solution to this: Allow the user to decide whether they want to allow for apps from outside a particular ecosystem. Then Johnny can set up Grandma's phone and (in a deep byzantine menu where she will never accidentally
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by MostlyStable 2mo ago
You are protected in two ways: The first, and by far most important is that unlike ground meat, your bacterial concerns are almost entirely on the surface. Unless something very very very wrong has occurred in the processing and transport c
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by MostlyStable 2mo ago
My point is that steak is very, very, very far from the hardest to get right. I'm not going to contest your argument about how hard it is to get right, I'm going to argue that innumerable other dishes are vastly harder. Becaus
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by MostlyStable 2mo ago
I take the point, but I think the author picked a poor analogy. Cooking even an excellent steak is actually not that hard. In fact, I'd argue that it's among the easiest things to master/make at a top level quality at home. D
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by MostlyStable 2mo ago
Sure, that's fair. I enjoy the process of figuring out ways software can solve some (usually quite trivial) problem for myself, but then I'm very happy to hand the act of making it to a robot.
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by MostlyStable 2mo ago
Exactly. I have a backyard garden not because I need the food (it would be infinitely cheaper and easier to buy even high end farm-stand vegetables), but because I enjoy gardening. Buying a gardening robot (if such a thing existed) would co
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by MostlyStable 2mo ago
From a mathematician who was intimately familiar with some of these problems [0] >I don’t understand it yet. Maybe it’ll take me an afternoon to check all the calculations, but what would still be missing is why this was an approach th
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by MostlyStable 2mo ago
There are loads of unknown (to science) deep sea sharks out there, most of them quite small. A friend of mine in grad school spent several trips on a deep sea trawler out of Madagascar and described multiple new species.
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by MostlyStable 2mo ago
One of the reasons why I loved The Food Lab was that very often Kenji would write several versions of a recipe at different effort levels, along with detailed reasonings about why and how he shortened a step and what one was giving up by do
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by MostlyStable 2mo ago
Interesting to see this posted, as it's quite an old recipe (the oldest capture I could find on the Wayback Machine was from 2015 although I'm pretty confident it's older than that; as an aside, can I say how annoying it is w
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by MostlyStable 2mo ago
Given that there is already a simulation, with very clear performance metrics, I wonder if anyone has ever tried making an evolutionary algorithm and if so, how well it would perform. Do we have any idea of how a theoretically perfect algor
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by MostlyStable 2mo ago
Yes, I agree that this is still a datapoint for real world utility of AI assisted vulnerability fixing. But it's not as simple as an apples-to-apples comparison with previous years.
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by MostlyStable 2mo ago
I have recently noticed that the words "ad" or "marketing" have become, in and of themselves, with no additional information or context, slurs or dismissals. I understand why. The modern internet has turned advertising i
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by MostlyStable 2mo ago
The entire arc of human progress is taking things that used to be the domain of only the privileged and making them the domain of the masses. There was a time when if you were not actively contributing to the production of your own food (to
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by MostlyStable 2mo ago
After doing a bit more research, this fact is somewhat less impressive. Apparently, this was also the first time in nearly 20 years that there was such a large capacity crunch and many researchers weren't able to get into the competiti
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by MostlyStable 2mo ago
I'm honestly unsure if this is a Poe's law thing or not. I'm going to go ahead assume that you are doing the honorable thing of purposefully not including a /s for the integrity of the joke.
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by MostlyStable 2mo ago
I just did a search and apparently this fact (the specific one about no payouts for the first time in almost 20 years) has not gotten a discussion on HN. Given the degree of skepticism around the utility of AI bug finding and fixing (this v
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by MostlyStable 2mo ago
This is one of those "tell me you don't have kids without telling me" situations. The process of teaching a kid to be a responsible human is long and arduous. If you expect a 2 and a half year old to successfully be picking u
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by MostlyStable 2mo ago
These are the kinds of products I now just straight up refuse to buy.
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by MostlyStable 2mo ago
My understanding from parents and friends who have a cleaning service...it pretty much depends on a certain baseline level of cleanliness. Most cleaning services don't (and likely wouldn't be able to provide) basic "pick up a
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by MostlyStable 2mo ago
It is entirely possible to believe multiple things at once: 1. The drop is fertility is bad for society 2. The drop in teen pregnancy is good, despite it's contributions to 1 3. We should try to fix 1. without undoing 2.
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by MostlyStable 2mo ago
Again: yes, very many people (just look through this very thread) are saying that. Tons and tons of people are saying some combination of "the whole thing is made up/a lie" or "This is entirely down to OpenAI incompetenc
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by MostlyStable 2mo ago
Firstly: yes, very many people are saying this. Secondly: to the people who aren't saying it....then why are you bringing up marketing at all? If the model is capable of it, then the motivation for why OpenAI is talking about it&#x2F
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by MostlyStable 2mo ago
I guess you are one of today's lucky 10,000 [0] [0] https://xkcd.com/1053/
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by MostlyStable 2mo ago
As they explicitly say, Opus 5 is ~ equally capable as Mythos/Fable at finding vulnerabilities, but it is much less capable at exploiting those vulnerabilities on it's own. That is an extremely meaningful difference and to me
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by MostlyStable 2mo ago
Just to add on to other comments: reasonable people can disagree about the degree of safety concern with near to medium term AI. But to not address the arguments at all is, in my opinion, a serious mark against the value of this article.
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by MostlyStable 3mo ago
Your answers here are part of why I don't understand this entire viewpoint. You sound like a conspiracy theorist, talking in innuendo, and unwilling to say what you believe clearly.
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by MostlyStable 3mo ago
I'm not quite sure what you mean by that, but it sounds like you're suggesting the lying about it.

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