SlinkyOnStairs

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by SlinkyOnStairs 5mo ago
The problem with nuclear deterrance is that it is a game theory divide-by-zero error. For a state like Ukraine, whether they retained their nuclear weapons is irrelevant; They'd never use them against Russia because the retaliation wil
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by SlinkyOnStairs 5mo ago
The drones are currently one of the major forces in the war. The AI tech is so nondescript that your quote is the entire content in the article you link.
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by SlinkyOnStairs 5mo ago
It's not literally him as an individual saying it this once, it's the large amount of it in total. There's people who go around bothering flat earthers, but despite flat earthers claiming the contrary, they're quite smal
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by SlinkyOnStairs 5mo ago
"But the commies will do it" is just an old hat version of what I just described. And in the specifics of military, it's all nonsense anyway. Reagan pulled it with his dumb space lasers and we ain't got those up there an
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by SlinkyOnStairs 5mo ago
> It had the vibe of “These people need to hear the Truth”. Schmidt anticipated the response, but does not understand it. He falls flat on his face here precisely because "needing to hear the truth" is a self-contradiction. The
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by SlinkyOnStairs 5mo ago
> 75% of people answering said they're using it daily and considered it an essential tool they need to work > (The target demographic was middle management, product owners etc) This leaves a fairly wide set of options for what &q
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by SlinkyOnStairs 5mo ago
> because every business has a use case for more intelligence on tap. This is the part I would contest. Obviously there's some disagreement about how much AI is actually meaningfully intelligent for any given task, but even outside
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by SlinkyOnStairs 5mo ago
> The reality is it's insanely hard to convince people (/especially/ consumers. //especially// technical consumers) to pay up to use software. The industry is in an extremely bimodal situation, which dr
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by SlinkyOnStairs 5mo ago
The problem with that approach is that it will also deter genuine submissions, probably moreso than a "no bounty" system. For those who encounter bugs as part of their employment, they'd now need to convince their employer to
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by SlinkyOnStairs 5mo ago
> EU hosting their own ops like they built the Airbus A380: > Database runs in France, front end in Belgium, Operations in Spain... You snark, but is this not EXACTLY how a sizeable majority of modern apps are made? Substitute in so
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by SlinkyOnStairs 5mo ago
> I don't want to grant government the power to make that decision for me. The alternative is letting multi-trillion dollar companies make those decisions for you, which they do with the explicit intent to manipulate you AND to pu
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by SlinkyOnStairs 5mo ago
> I think it would be great if all of these apps had an option to function like you propose: Your feed is a simple view of people you’ve chosen to follow. The end. This is something EU regulation requires them. Earlier this year the Dutc
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by SlinkyOnStairs 5mo ago
> Maybe it depends on topics or length, for me it's usually 1-2 paragraphs of a German article to share online. Same languages, same use case. My experience is different. On both google translate and others. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
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by SlinkyOnStairs 5mo ago
> It's just a token predictor what do you expect? The point isn't that it's unexpected. It's that prior text-to-speech systems were much better about this particular failure mode, prone to spitting out entirely incorr
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by SlinkyOnStairs 5mo ago
You misunderstand. I'm not saying that Reasoning/Agentic systems aren't better . I'm saying they're not an advancement in the tech in the way GPT 1 through 3 were. They're a different kind of improvement. And
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by SlinkyOnStairs 5mo ago
If higher bandwidth networking consisted primarily running more and more ethernet lines in parallel, you would most certainly agree that "networking has stagnated". "Reasoning" and now "Agentic" AI systems are
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by SlinkyOnStairs 5mo ago
The phrase "unreasonable effectiveness" is used here in the context of AI. Where "we put a whole bunch of markup characters in the context" not messing up the output significantly could be considered unexpected. The actu
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by SlinkyOnStairs 5mo ago
It's not just "the death of the open web". These decisions are made whilst America is falling to fascism. Meta may not intend for the abolition of E2E encryption to make fascist crackdown on free speech easier, but that is
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by SlinkyOnStairs 5mo ago
> How is this not grounds to be sued into oblivion by Google and Meta? Because they don't care. It doesn't matter that it's AI slop, it generates views. And Google and Meta can bill advertisers for those views. Zuckerberg
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by SlinkyOnStairs 5mo ago
> This is actual, real, shipping physical product: not vapor, not something that will disappear, not something that will "crash" suddenly. Tulips were real shipping physical products. Railways were real. Housing was real. Wheth
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by SlinkyOnStairs 6mo ago
> a lot of interesting low frequency stuff from people you follow gets buried under the non stop feed of stuff from high volume news that is actively trying to drown everyone out with many updates per day. Every major RSS reader supports
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by SlinkyOnStairs 6mo ago
> Human asks AI "which of these 40 applicants should we hire". This step would also be illegal in Sweden, so it's quite probable they told applicants ahead of time this would be some AI research project. Or they're ab
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by SlinkyOnStairs 6mo ago
Almost certainly. Software firms are pretty bad at self-evaluation and they're profitable enough that Capitalism won't force them to do it either. Right now the subscriptions are still in the range of reasonable business expenses,
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by SlinkyOnStairs 6mo ago
> Development speed was never the bottleneck; it's all the other processes that take time: infra provisioning, testing, sign-offs, change management, deployment scheduling etc. So much of Management (both mid and executive) still co
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by SlinkyOnStairs 6mo ago
There is no "if". They could. There's no separation between parts of the prompt. You sneak that text in, anywhere, and it'll work. Whether Anthropic is using a regex or some LLM to detect the mentions of OpenClaw doesn&#
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by SlinkyOnStairs 6mo ago
What you're missing is that they're "separate" parts of the business. The core Facebook product is users' posts. It's not possible to separate those two. Nor can one downscale Facebook in a way that stops the p
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by SlinkyOnStairs 6mo ago
There's no dollar amount but proper support during and after employment is a minimum, and a large paycheque will both offset some of the human cost and make it easier for people to be pushed to quit the job; Such that they aren't
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by SlinkyOnStairs 6mo ago
Companies of the 20th century certainly weren't more ethical. (Though a few select tech companies seem to be intent on proving the opposite.) But it's not really a fascism thing. While fascism does love the oppression of women, an
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by SlinkyOnStairs 6mo ago
> How else do you want companies to remove and prevent CSAM? Different situation. Facebook has to do CSAM moderation because it's a publishing platform. People will post CSAM on facebook, so they must do moderation. And "just
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by SlinkyOnStairs 6mo ago
"Fun" bonus fact: This isn't the first time Sama (the outsourcing company) has had these problems. OpenAI had them classify CSAM, so Sama fired them as a client back in 2022. https://time.com/6247678/open

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