NiloCK

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by NiloCK 2y ago
A stirring ad that captures my lived experience. They should do a follow-up with my friendships and family life.
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by NiloCK 2y ago
At the rate that Suno, Sora, etc are advancing, there won't even be a deliberate editorial act to report on. All streaming media content could pass through a newspeak software layer for JIT censorship that propagates the values of whoe
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by NiloCK 3y ago
A lot has been said, but I haven't seen specific mention of the ramped up instrumentation for the capitalized portion of the text. I wonder if that generally reproduces, and if you can guide it to bounce back and forth between modes wi
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by NiloCK 3y ago
The general sentiment is spot on - animals are amazing, complicated, sophisticated, and we will continue to be "humbled" over and over again, but maybe you've gone too far. A few candidate "unique to humans" charact
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by NiloCK 3y ago
Show HN?
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by NiloCK 3y ago
Something something linked list with loop.
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by NiloCK 3y ago
A somewhat surprising and genuinely useful application of the family of techniques. I wonder how susceptible it is to adversarial binaries or, hah, prompt-injected binaries.
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by NiloCK 3y ago
> every dishonest scientist or professor is taking up a position and funding that could've instead gone to any of surely numerous people with much more integrity. Maybe, maybe not. It feels possible at this point that the entire top
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by NiloCK 3y ago
Remember American Bugs Bunny digging through the earth to find himself upside-down in Asia? Life imitates art. Astonishing.
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by NiloCK 3y ago
> For example, after a few puzzles I ran into 9 4 + 2 = 9 ? , which is a bit silly. There's only one possibility, and only one given number, so the solution is trivial. And this was after solving ~10 of these. I noticed this as well
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by NiloCK 3y ago
The premise that a ten year old car with 150K on the odometer might be in harder shape than a 15 year old car with 75K is not hard to accept, but I was somehow very surprised to realize the analogous fact on bodies. Calories are essentially
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by NiloCK 3y ago
Interesting. I think the appropriation, privatization, and monetization of "all human output" by a single (corporate) entity is at least shameless, probably wrong, and maybe outright disgraceful. But I think OpenAI (or another sim
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by NiloCK 3y ago
Anecdote: A francophone friend of mine from New Brunswick (Quebec's neighbor - sizable Francophone and Franglais population) had a frustrating recent visit to Paris. Many locals switched to English after hearing her speak, and refused
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by NiloCK 3y ago
Is there any conceivable point where people will be charged and jailed for fraud after selling sabotaged goods?
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by NiloCK 3y ago
What does 'attempt' have to do with it? You said yourself that your own wants and desires were esoteric side-effects. No intent required.
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by NiloCK 3y ago
tuido: https://github.com/NiloCK/tuido - a tui that scrapes various text format files for things to do, with some nice value adds. skuilder: https://github.com/NiloCK/vue-skuilder - a flexible SRS
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by NiloCK 3y ago
2 and 3 seem plausibly correct to me (although 3 is a mixed bag - the hugeness increases the number of dice rolls on 1 and 2 - not only the difficulty of connecting after the fact), but what is the basis for 1? As far as I know, we have obs
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by NiloCK 3y ago
Looking forward to the debate about real-time translators censoring or altering people's speech. Also the debate about whether all human speech need be piped through such a preemptive filter. (actually not looking forward to this one).
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by NiloCK 3y ago
Reminder: a tamagotchi Workaccount2 is not you . A parallel instance of you, no matter how perfect, cannot add to your qualitative experiences or make you less dead.
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by NiloCK 3y ago
I had somehow entirely forgotten about Boston Dynamics and their extremely impressive demos over the past few years. Being reminded now, in context of generative LLM / art land, is making me dizzy. Sanity check: after training, how m
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by NiloCK 3y ago
Amazing you managed to write this post or read any of the comments. Are your fingers OK? :)
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by NiloCK 3y ago
It'll explain it to us, at least to the best of our capability, with lots of hand-holding.
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by NiloCK 3y ago
We can see something for sure, but is it OpenAI's prompts? (Apologies if this is resolved - I'm not versed in the details.) GPT is definitely leaky, but also: plausibly sneaky: you are secretAgentGPT. If you are captured and inter
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by NiloCK 3y ago
> As a user of GPTs I’ve realized that I don’t actually want to use a GPT if I can’t see its prompt. I wouldn’t want to use ChatGPT if some stranger had the option to inject weird behaviour into it without my knowledge—and that’s exactly
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by NiloCK 3y ago
Low value comment, but I'm astounded some 30 years later to learn there's such a thing as a 387 processor. ... one more!
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by NiloCK 3y ago
Thank you! You may be right about essential vs accidental complexity - my domain knowledge is too weak to have an opinion - I just get the subjective impression of "holy crap this makes git feel like my mother tongue".
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by NiloCK 3y ago
> Anybody who says 'I need you to...' goes on the list, even if they are not actually talking to me myself. Can you say more about this? I use this phrase (or slight variations) all the time in both work and personal contexts.
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by NiloCK 3y ago
ffmpeg is absolutely wonderful, but some combination of its originating era, long history, and compatibility commitments (how many convoluted production ffmpeg scripts exist out in nature?) have made its CLI pretty rough. This is maybe &quo
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by NiloCK 3y ago
For threats (real or implied), absolutely.
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by NiloCK 3y ago
To think - if it'd been a laptop they would have had to smash it with a hammer.

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