Paracompact

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by Paracompact 4mo ago
It makes zero sense to me either, yet it is an omnipresent influence in who gets tasked to what in my work. At my level, I do not know anyone who endorses it, they merely react to it.
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by Paracompact 4mo ago
My take on it is that he's not blaming people for the "doing nothing" part, but rather the fretting part. Of course most Americans can't reasonably do anything beyond vote or throw some dollars or social media sentiment
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by Paracompact 4mo ago
> I used to enjoy longform content... alas. Not all longform is like this, thankfully. I'm of the opinion that for all the bad things AI has done for us and our psychology, there is a silver lining in that it has reduced our toleran
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by Paracompact 4mo ago
250 in 25 minutes is 600/hour, not 1000/hour.
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by Paracompact 4mo ago
It's not the same doctors saying they themselves are simultaneously smart and stupid. It's "smart" doctors saying that as a point of policy, it is not a good idea for biomedical companies to try to make a buck off of pop
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by Paracompact 4mo ago
Rich people have a phobia of death, unlike the rest of us for whom depression, disease, and injustice have really removed the sting of death and turned it more into "eh, if it happens it happens." So worry not: The rich wasting th
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by Paracompact 4mo ago
God, imagine being the first one to have to explain to the aliens what "left" and "right" are, trying to make sense of the insensate decision to yoke ourselves to such reductive labels just to scratch that tribal itch in
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by Paracompact 4mo ago
Formal methods are not meant to replace trust in a system. They are meant to minimize the surface area of trust. To not understand and advertise what surface area still exists is foolhardy, and mistakes logic for magic.
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by Paracompact 4mo ago
Anyone reminded of the infant AI Yatima from Greg Egan's Diaspora ? The agent's complete naivety of social norms is so comically adorable.
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by Paracompact 4mo ago
> Giving the absolute maximum benefit of the doubt I understand that they see themselves as "stewards" for lack of a better word. Only in the same sense that Standard Oil considered themselves the stewards of petroleum. There&#
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by Paracompact 4mo ago
> “Visible safeguards can be probed, so they have to be robust, which takes time to get right,” Anthropic wrote. Even on Fable, I'm finding that safeguards can quite easily be surmounted just by incrementally escalating the requests
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by Paracompact 4mo ago
They only complained about using it for autonomous warfare and domestic surveillance. They were not as hawkish as OpenAI, but by no means a dove.
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by Paracompact 4mo ago
> People have made accounts just to downvote me. How can you tell?
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by Paracompact 4mo ago
To the average person it means: No matter what task you apply the tool to, that you will be right 85% of the time, and 85% is a solid B, a passing grade, so let's use it.
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by Paracompact 4mo ago
> I don't want to make excuses for AI identification, but no identification process is perfect, it should not be possible that it takes months to clear up. Indeed you shouldn't make excuses. "{Sketchy component} is just on
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by Paracompact 4mo ago
I don't understand why you would be downvoted. Is your comment raising a pitchfork? Yes. But sometimes when a person's life gets ruined, pitchforks deserve to come out. > Richardson’s attorney showed time sheets proving he was
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by Paracompact 4mo ago
This impacts the functioning of the product, not the form of the product.
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by Paracompact 4mo ago
Who of credit has claimed otherwise, that dictators spread dissent as an end rather than as a means?
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by Paracompact 4mo ago
> I find it pretty irritating to go back to Python (my long-ago favorite) but many people are in the exact opposite frame of mind. As someone who works exclusively in typed languages for formal methods, what is it you find lacking about
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by Paracompact 4mo ago
> Typing generally slows down languages, not speed them up because of all the additional checks that must be done. Source? You seem to be talking about compile-time versus runtime, and I've not even heard of compile times being sign
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by Paracompact 4mo ago
Independent of whether it has any meaning (because the entire paper might be a bit iffy), I find it curious that Instructors 3 and 8 have the lowest harmfulness rates, quite a bit lower than even the LLMs, but not the highest preference rat
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by Paracompact 4mo ago
Even "either time works" is only half-valid! If the other party has already declared their openness to either option, proper etiquette is to just select one so you can both move on with your lives.
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by Paracompact 4mo ago
> The "license" is a PhD (from a reputable institution) Maybe I'm biased as someone who has attained a PhD, but a PhD or master's is definitively not a license. It's almost necessary to have an advanced degree
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by Paracompact 4mo ago
It depends on how you think the limited resources to perform research should best be allocated, and whether scientists should become more like doctors or lawyers so far as centralization of credentialing and professional gatekeeping goes. D
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by Paracompact 4mo ago
I can't tell if it's a feature or a flaw of academia that some topics can so be thoroughly proven/disproven, and yet so many researchers continue to devote their careers to it. Should more effort be given to enforcing existin
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by Paracompact 4mo ago
For too many seconds I really did think this was an initiative using the metaphor of good/bad mosquitos to make the case that they were going to release "good" malware (bonware?) into the internet ecosystem in order to disabl
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by Paracompact 4mo ago
Will anyone who downvoted indicate why they've done so? I've never heard of Nostr, but this seems like a valid suggestion and point to be made, albeit at the expense of others' recommendations.
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by Paracompact 4mo ago
Not very likely, imo, that they did it specifically for the flight. More likely they named it weeks or months ago and just now boarded an airplane. > Does naming WiFi hotspot to reflect one’s political views achieve anything? Does action
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by Paracompact 4mo ago
Do you have anything against pressing the self-clean button on your oven rather than busting out the wire brush and baking soda?
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by Paracompact 4mo ago
Ah, I see your point better now. I agree that free-to-play and single-purchase live service games are essentially the same breed, that free-to-plays are similarly widespread, and would indeed like microtransaction-funded titles to be subjec

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