NiloCK

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by NiloCK 6mo ago
People would have said the same about graphing calculators or calculators before that. Socrates said the same thing about the written word. The determining factor is always "did I come up with this tool". Somehow, subsequent gener
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by NiloCK 6mo ago
I agree with this take in general , but I think we need to be prepared for nuance when thinking about these things. Tokens are how an LLM works things out, but I think it's just as likely as not that LLMs (like people) are capable o
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by NiloCK 6mo ago
Have you considered that your cousin is also better than you tactically? If you're losing 10 games in a row to a specific opening trap then that falls into the "fool me eight or more times" category :)
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by NiloCK 6mo ago
Interesting to inspect any telemetry on this. Could end up on a list.
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by NiloCK 7mo ago
Is there any specific evidence that they are a risk to human health? I mean, I get the instinct that foreign-entity can't exactly be good for me , but the same instinct applied to GMOs, and as far as I know organic foods have never yi
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by NiloCK 7mo ago
I hope at least some of these are direct Chip's Challenge ports. Waiting for some old muscle memory to kick in here.
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by NiloCK 7mo ago
Appreciate the distinction. Probably 'the thing' I'm referring to applies more directly to dealership mechanics.
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by NiloCK 7mo ago
Admittedly I missed this distinction, but does the point still stand? A BMW owner has fussier standards (on average) than a Toyota owner. The 'higher touch' a service you're trying to provide, the less welcome these intervent
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by NiloCK 7mo ago
No idea what `luxury` is doing here, but if I get an LLM receptionist, that ain't it. This isn't to disparage the project - I think this sort of usage will become very common and a decent standard that produces good consumer surpl
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by NiloCK 7mo ago
This is interesting, but I'll throw a little luke-warm water. The observed high-consistency behaviours were run against temperature=0 API calls. So while both models seem to have the silence as their preferred response - the highes
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by NiloCK 7mo ago
When a person dies, not all of the cells in the body 'blink out' at once. I've never died, but I imagine that a near-death person with 80, 60, 40, or 20 percent brain cell function is still in possession of qualia - lived exp
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by NiloCK 7mo ago
(edited for clarity) > https://www.ebay.com/b/Olympic-Medal/27291/bn_55191416?_sop= ... Of course you can buy an Olympic medal. You can't buy the status conferred by the medal (of Olympic champion &#
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by NiloCK 7mo ago
What are you referring to with the phrase "status symbol"? I can't connect it at all to your listed points. An Olympic medal is about obvious a status symbol as I can imagine but it can't (meaningfully) be bought or tran
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by NiloCK 7mo ago
In context, primary source means the subject of the article (the thing the journalist is writing about). Journalism is by definition a secondary source. (Notwithstanding edge cases like articles reporting directly on the news industry its
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by NiloCK 7mo ago
The data sets aren't naively fed into the training runs. Instead, training attempts to sample more heavily from higher quality sources, with, I'm sure, a mix of manual and heuristic labeling.
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by NiloCK 7mo ago
The original suggestion included randomizing the first character of the set, which removes this attack.
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by NiloCK 7mo ago
There's no persistent reveal of password length after you're finished typing. It reduces the length-reveal leak from anyone who eventually sees the terminal log to people who are actively over-the-shoulder as you type it.
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by NiloCK 7mo ago
A concern: More and more plainly, OpenAI and Anthropic are making plays to own (and lease) the "means of production" in software. OK - I'm a pretty happy renter right now. As they gobble up previously open software stacks, ho
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by NiloCK 7mo ago
I've worked in dish pit. I can tell you that I didn't observe a single hand-wash-only holdout. Perhaps such holdouts existed at a point, but a restaurant can only flatter the ego of their performatively-unproductive seniors for so
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by NiloCK 7mo ago
For both claude-code or gemini-cli, hit escape twice, or, /rewind .
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by NiloCK 7mo ago
I know the thing you are describing, but the real bitch is that you're actually just describing the lowest effort default outputs. The help-desk assistant persona. Sometimes speedbumps that deter the lowest effort infractions are suf
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by NiloCK 7mo ago
Moving fast, through the dark, wearing wiley coyote jet-powered roller skates, while simultaneously somehow gathering and smelling many previously undocumented specimens of rose along the way. Not too surprising that stuff is often broken.
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by NiloCK 7mo ago
A room "as clean" as the one under dispute (chardet) is very easy to replicate. AI 1: - (reads the source), creates a spec + acceptance criteria AI 2: - implements from spec AI 1 is in the position of the maintainer who facilitate
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by NiloCK 7mo ago
This may be the purpose of a prediction market for an outside observer. But the outside observer and the US government (or any org that holds private information) have different purposes - it's an adversarial mechanism. In particular:
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by NiloCK 7mo ago
This March 2026 blog post is citing a 2025 study based on Sonnet 3.5 and 3.7 usage. Given that organization who ran the study [1] has a terrifying exponential as their landing page, I think they'd prefer that it's results are in
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by NiloCK 8mo ago
I'll be interested to hear stories - down the line - from the participants in the the LLM SEO war [1]. Interesting that tailwind won out decisively in their niche, but still has seen the business ravaged by LLMs. [1] https:/&#x2F
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by NiloCK 8mo ago
Steam?
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by NiloCK 8mo ago
There's cost, and cost effectiveness. I'd say so far that received negative value for the prompts that I've sent to Gemini 3. Skill issue, maybe, but I can't get gemini to do any nontrivial tasks reliably, and it's
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by NiloCK 8mo ago
People have entire careers promoting incorrect ideas. Oxycontin, phrenology, the windows operating system. Reconciling your self-concept with the negative (or fruitless) impacts of your life's work is difficult. It can be easier to den
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by NiloCK 8mo ago
Every recent model card for frontier models has shown that models are testing-aware. Seems entirely plausible to me here that models correctly interpret these questions as attempts to discredit / shame the model. I've heard the

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