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by Terr_ 2mo ago
I prefer to say that it's all hallucinations so the time... we just happen to like some portion of them. _______ > In fact [The Bursar] was incurably insane and hallucinated more or less continuously, but by a remarkable stroke
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by Terr_ 2mo ago
This reminds me of pre-GPS systems like LORAN [0], where it also involves ship navigation by demarcating everything into patterned regions. [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LORAN
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by Terr_ 2mo ago
Ironically, a certain level of secrecy is worse than having them fully public, because it leads people to (wrongly) design systems and processes that trust it or assume something from it. All else being equal, I'd rather see national
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by Terr_ 2mo ago
Right, people and organizations failing to (care to) distinguish between "highly distinctive" versus "true" is not a data design problem, it's a social/political one.
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by Terr_ 2mo ago
> Give me facts to decide and I will figure out. Did you try clicking the HN submission link and reading the target webpage? If you want details for each complaint/reason, there's some text with a little arrow, cunningly titled
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by Terr_ 2mo ago
Like some sort of Jaccard Index based on how many tags are shared? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jaccard_index
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by Terr_ 2mo ago
Ahhh, but the LLM processing is the kind corporate leadership and investors will actually agree to buy! Orginally I started writing that as sarcasm, and now I'm not quite so sure.
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by Terr_ 2mo ago
I've seen this debate several times and often there's a terminology issue, where the same word isn't being interpreted the same way by different sides. Often it's a difference between repeatable versus predictable, or wh
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by Terr_ 2mo ago
> or your digital insurance record (which is a VERY BAD IDEA to hand to a cop without this feature) Not just because of the privacy aspects, but what if you're already using your phone to record the interaction?
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by Terr_ 2mo ago
I think that depends on how you calibrate the ship of Theseus: If someone uses an LLM to "proofread" and it suggests one word instead of another, does it stop being the author's work? Two words? Three? Switching the order of
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by Terr_ 2mo ago
1 day ago, 71 pts, 20 comments: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49279951 To recycle part of a comment: > > the NCC shall conduct all Program activities in accordance with the Constitution and all other applicable
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by Terr_ 2mo ago
To take as stab at summarizing (for the folks who prefer text), if there's a crash then: 1. The "GPUs" in these datacenters won't be worth much. (Because they can't easily be used for anything else, not even gaming.
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by Terr_ 2mo ago
> Hey Junior Woodchuck Law Expert: The charitable interpretation is that you meant to humorously qualify what you were about to say next, so that people judge its accuracy in a kind way. In that case, a trailing "here" (to re
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by Terr_ 2mo ago
> those soft skills They may be soft er , but they're really not an identical set of soft-skills. To illustrate the difference, imagine: "Hey, you've got all those soft-skills from tweaking the AI stuff, right? I need you
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by Terr_ 2mo ago
They also tried to nudge-nudge-wink-wink suggest they would help with violence, unprompted.
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by Terr_ 2mo ago
> The records also showed undercover agents surveilling a virtual meeting at Hunter College in New York [...] ; a meeting at a labor center in Minneapolis > The documents indicate that agents made audio recordings of the events. For a
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by Terr_ 2mo ago
> Imagine no billboards Washington State has a ~1960s law which I think was pretty clever: Highway advertisements can only be for things someone driving by can actually on the premises under the sign. That prevents the typical chains of
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by Terr_ 2mo ago
I don't have the math for it, but I wonder how much text/words/tokens are needed before it become easy to embed an ID for authorship as well. There's got to be some number of bytes where it becomes both reliable and ha
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by Terr_ 2mo ago
Like this pattern, where telling me there's just one idea followed by that-one-idea is weird and redundant. > The one idea in this step: a model writes by rolling weighted dice between several words that would each be fine. > The
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by Terr_ 2mo ago
I kinda want my phone to keep working and stuff. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26390833
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by Terr_ 2mo ago
It'd be funny if some quirk of its design caused it to benefit from external radio waves. If so, we might wait a very long time and then be a little disappointed. I would hope this kind of museum would already have a lot of shielding a
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by Terr_ 2mo ago
As a customer who hasn't worked at a fast-food chain, I think the reason I accepted the order-screens so readily is because it seemed like they freed from the human staff from something dehumanizing, being forced to act like a machin
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by Terr_ 2mo ago
Hence quips like: "Most customers only use 10% of your features, but every customer uses a different 10%."
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by Terr_ 2mo ago
Hmm, the fancy interoffice memo plan says that participants will be required to put at least $1m in escrow... but it doesn't say those funds are for paying liability or damages to people they hurt! Instead, it's money to be simp
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by Terr_ 2mo ago
What laws made this legal? How as the money appropriated by Congress? What oversight does Congress have? I'm particularly concerned here because the Republican leadership has already begun insisting they can grant companies total immu
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by Terr_ 2mo ago
"Product Manager, your job is to find the mix of features which is fast and cheap and good, and then browbeat the Engineers into implementing them. Don't just parrot me their excuses, fix it !"
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by Terr_ 2mo ago
It's a little more-complicated in that one of the major bottlenecks comes not from the private organizations per se , but from Congress--though I wouldn't want to underestimate the effect of lobbying. > In the Balanced Budget
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by Terr_ 2mo ago
We should be careful to distinguish between "everything goes back to normal" versus "they you move your money to some other bank." Anywho, you're right that the final example is more-likely to be resolved, thanks to
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by Terr_ 2mo ago
The problem is the creepy big-data-advert-ocracy might propagate that scarlet-letter in ways that are unfair an unpredictable. So a throwaway account for reading Reddit (even as it decays) might lead to an totally unrelated account you do
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by Terr_ 2mo ago
I feel that could easily backfire if your account or IP gets marked as an agent for malicious click-fraud.

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