TeMPOraL

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by TeMPOraL 5d ago
Because: - in bulk, it creates distorted view of reality, by overemphasizing dramatic events; - individually, approximately half the headlines are bald-faced lies, and the other half merely click bait - articles usually correct the lies in
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by TeMPOraL 5d ago
I'll object to "no doomscrolling" a little bit. My first case of doomscrolling was on my PC, in high-school, in early years of Facebook. It happened not with social feeds, but with news . I had this stupid idea that I need t
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by TeMPOraL 5d ago
Is "Hex" real stuff? I know that from university AI courses, from before current ML phase. I thought this was a toy game invented specifically to be nice for AI exercises - bounded, easy to follow, moderate branching factor, and d
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by TeMPOraL 5d ago
Which is also not obvious especially given the way it's presented is that it goes forwards. The naive explanation from the top of my mind (I used to know it better years ago, when I was toying with writing raytracers): because viewport
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by TeMPOraL 5d ago
It's more like that people's typical experience of LLMs doesn't go beyond human-initiated conversations or conversations triggered on cron or some obvious event handler coded in deterministic/"legacy"/&quo
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by TeMPOraL 5d ago
Fun story. The actual reality, as it happened: the older woman became a meme, a topic of gossip, possibly moralizing stories, eventually even brought up by commenters of tech-related social media boards. Meanwhile, as people got used to the
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by TeMPOraL 5d ago
Judging by how many people in this thread seem eager to reinvent the hellhole presented in that episode, it's good enough to recommend as required watching.
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by TeMPOraL 5d ago
They could. They won't, because those ads are probably - if you excuse a little Claudish - the load-bearing part of the contract that allows them to show the content in the first place. (More cynical take: the ads are the whole point
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by TeMPOraL 5d ago
Nor should they. Think about it some more. It's all fun and games, until same technology is used against you. There was literally a Black Mirror episode about this very thing.
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by TeMPOraL 5d ago
Yes. And an app could render the same thing on your screen via the same tech currently used to robustly watermark generative AI image output, and now not only you won't be able to screenshot the app, you also won't be able to take
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by TeMPOraL 5d ago
Makes me think of a Black Mirror episode where similar technology ends up with unlucky/unwanted people becoming inaudible blurs in perception of everyone . As digital dystopias go, this is one of the worst I've seen; the episode
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by TeMPOraL 5d ago
> unless somebody will keep pumping in tons of money to subsidize this I think this is where the distinction between "imported" and "locally produced" berries becomes important. My guess is there are interests pumpi
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by TeMPOraL 5d ago
Apotheosis sounds fun until someone realizes that the Earth must be burned to safeguard the Heaven.
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by TeMPOraL 5d ago
AI does not destroy us {with intent, without intent} {directly, by proxy}, but the resulting state of the world is such that we'd all wish it did.
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by TeMPOraL 5d ago
It doesn't have to acquire it, it's enough to convince the operators that it did . Same pattern generalizes to threats. There's so many angles to go at it too, beyond bribery and threats - humans can be tricked, nerd-sniped
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by TeMPOraL 5d ago
GP seems to imply that should our view be true, then human jails should be empty by definition, because all prisoners are intelligent beings and would've eventually talked their way of it. But this doesn't account for the fact tha
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by TeMPOraL 5d ago
Perhaps. This was also before CDNs were a thing, so they may have decided they can't afford to be one, as more and more people discovered just how versatile the Public/ folder is. Either way, this was the peak of Dropbox; after sh
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by TeMPOraL 5d ago
Do you actually need it, or do you just fear you need it? What's the actual realistic threat model for median developer or median user here? By realistic, I mean that leaking your grandma's recipes or your SSN or your million doll
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by TeMPOraL 5d ago
> It‘s a bit of a „isn‘t Dropbox just FTP on a VM“ moment right now. Since this is not the first mention of Dropbox I've seen in HN threads in the last 48 hours: Let's not forget that Dropbox was at its best when it was &quot
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by TeMPOraL 5d ago
Jails are the inverse of this scenario. But still, plenty of safeguards in the procedures and technical aspects of incarceration exist precisely because that happened occasionally with human prisoners and guards, too.
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by TeMPOraL 6d ago
This principle is basically a movie quote, though.
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by TeMPOraL 6d ago
I predict eventual convergence between UTF-whatever and most popular tokenizer for whatever LLM escapes to become world-ruling AGI. I mean, if someone's seriously going to try encoding birdsong and dog barks, at this point they're
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by TeMPOraL 6d ago
My objection is with the word "organs", which for everyone except maybe biologists and doctors (depending on the specialist definition of "organ") connote the developed piece of machinery inside a living thing. Not the
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by TeMPOraL 6d ago
Yeah, but then it's clear it's describing a good chunk of most interesting and most important problems there are, for individuals and societies alike. There's a lot we can't afford to work on simply because living has st
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by TeMPOraL 6d ago
It's even easier to imagine the operators themselves breaking under this pressure way before "zealots storming a data center with guns". That is the premise of the original AI Box thought experiment - sufficiently smart AI th
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by TeMPOraL 6d ago
That was originally meant for a carry loop, but alas.
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by TeMPOraL 6d ago
Am I the only one who waited to the end for, and was disappointed not to see, a peek into these optimized prompts? I so want to take a peek into that abyss, even if that risks the abyss looking back at me. I'm curious just how twisted
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by TeMPOraL 6d ago
IMO it's a fundamental tension. AI does not fit well inside a product. It works best outside of it. But that means the product - not its functionality, but the business around it - becomes irrelevant. Which none of the product vendor
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by TeMPOraL 6d ago
100% agree, and I predict this is where the actual nearest big battle in our industry will occur. AI subsumes products . Users want that. Vendors, do not. AI does not work well when shackled within confines of a product - it works better f
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by TeMPOraL 6d ago
And larger still than the ones who would bother to replicate the experiment themselves . Yeah, I could tell few sentences in that it's Claude-written article. The style has become that distinctive. Hell, a third of the articles I op

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