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by Terr_ 3mo ago
I'd approach it by looking at the definition of a "spark", and the things we can change to avoid tripping that definition. For a visual spark, it has to be something thrown off which is the right size, material, and a tempera
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by Terr_ 3mo ago
> Why do we think we understand the world more than we actually do? To repurpose a quote originally about believing in good-versus-evil: > Lord Vetinari gave [Vimes] a friendly smile. > “Of course, of course,” he said. “You have to
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by Terr_ 3mo ago
If someone with informed consent wants to run a residential proxy, that's their right and unlikely to be a national-security problem. When it comes to involunary proxies, those are really just one of many possible symptoms stemming f
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by Terr_ 3mo ago
P.S.: If they're so convinced in the (A) effectiveness and (B) necessity of the "safety layer", they have them put their money where their mouth is, and accept legal liability for its failures. The same as with (legally man
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by Terr_ 3mo ago
> Anthropic will make the case that their models should be evaluated with the safety layer in front, because that is the only way the model is available whereas open weight models need to pass the same test just on the weights. Feels a b
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by Terr_ 3mo ago
I expect doing this well requires the underlying system to somehow have a clear differentiation between whether a color is mapped to the natural world or not. In other words, colors assigned to good/warn/error icons can be shifted
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by Terr_ 3mo ago
It's interesting to imagine how the world would be different, if internet advertising giants were partially liable for scams/malware that they facilitate.
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by Terr_ 3mo ago
The public generally doesn't like banks and investment firms either, but they had bailouts in the past.
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by Terr_ 3mo ago
Others have given practical replies, so here's a philosophical one: Sometimes it's just not practical to make much money from being right. I want to acknowledge and empathize how much it sucks, while also putting it out there so t
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by Terr_ 3mo ago
> disrespectful To paraphrase a useful distinction I saw once... Some people talk about mutual respect, but it's not mutual at all because they use a different definition on each side. They demand you "respect" the power o
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by Terr_ 3mo ago
> AI completely broke some of the signals management used as proxies for team competence. This is very similar to how LLMs were already breaking signals in writing . It was (is?) an enormously important proxy (however imperfect) for a b
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by Terr_ 3mo ago
> claiming Jimothy would want it that way. You might enjoy this satire [0], lengthily titled: "I’m Jimothy, the Short-Spined Raccoon Who Has Taken the Internet by Storm, and the Collective Weight of Your Adoration Is Breaking My Alr
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by Terr_ 3mo ago
> The edge cases are really interesting as well, like the fake pin on the back of the phone. "Your honor, I have the real pin memorized because I use it all the time, but since I can never use the duress code, I had to keep it som
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by Terr_ 3mo ago
You can also point out that other countries want to search phones too. "I have to do this because of country X, you know that they're like, amirite?"
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by Terr_ 3mo ago
Scam applicants are problem too. I don't think it's too hyperbolic to say that every single problem in hiring/job-seeking boils down lack of trust.
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by Terr_ 3mo ago
Let's also spare a moment for accessibility issues. For example, is it that wrong for a blind person to invoke a tool that describes a picture when there's no alt-text? Or something which describes/transcribes audio for the d
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by Terr_ 3mo ago
> Saturday morning, I spent a couple of hours getting my arms around some discovery It might be worth distinguishing between LLMs as tools for fuzzy-searching hard facts, versus using them to craft logical arguments. [0] The risk-profile
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by Terr_ 3mo ago
> > just an elaborate mating ritual. You might find the book Blindsight interesting, since... Well, to avoid spoilers, I'll just say the story doesn't put our concept of intelligence on the usual top-of-creation pedestal.
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by Terr_ 3mo ago
(Aware/assuming you're being sarcastic.) I've always felt that statement reveals a serious lack of imagination, or at least a failure to apply it to the question.
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by Terr_ 3mo ago
Grades 1-5 is a little hyperbolic, IIRC my "World Religions" class was probably middle/junior-high school. In any case, it's not the type of lifetime common-knowledge which warrants your scornful response.
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by Terr_ 3mo ago
Meh, I don't see how I could make anything worse, with how they were featured in Leave it to Cleaver , and recently dissed in that song by the Full-Tang Clan.
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by Terr_ 3mo ago
Right, and that leads us back to the more-generalized (but very classic) cui bono ? Who gets the benefits?
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by Terr_ 3mo ago
> The details are worth study Oh, you mean like, I dunno, actually measuring them!? You seem to have misheard "this is excessive extrapolation and theorized details from too little hard data" as "the most-general version
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by Terr_ 3mo ago
I think it's likely that Microsoft is running a process to correlate "new" GDIDs to old ones, ex: "Oh look, this one has almost all the serial numbers of components and attached-devices as that other one, it's proba
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by Terr_ 3mo ago
Right, the danger here isn't stable unique data itself--there's already plenty of that--but the OS "telemetry" which steals [0] it and reports to Big-Brother along with too much other betraying information. Every site yo
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by Terr_ 3mo ago
I'll clarify, by "nothing" I mean no objective data, as contrasted to the author's subjective impressions I brought up just before. There are several places where the author has created mockups of how they think some d
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by Terr_ 3mo ago
So I get that the author has a lot of careful "this is my lived experience" and "this is a guess" disclaimers... but isn't it premature to ask "why", when there's nothing to back up the existence or c
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by Terr_ 3mo ago
> So it’s a false positive? They already told you clearly, so it sounds like you're trying to browbeat them with a fallacy of equivocation over the scope of "it". These things are not equivalent: 1. A biological test for
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by Terr_ 3mo ago
> machines can fill roles [...] it doesn't seem like a bad metaphor I adore metaphors and analogies. Finding a good one for a situation is often how I get nerd-sniped. [0] If I'm being picky here over the anthropomorphization o
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by Terr_ 3mo ago
Literally correct, but you're looking at the wrong layer of abstraction. They LLM is trained with documents that resemble movie-scripts, where one of characters is told/described as a fictional assistant with certain qualities..

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