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by Terr_ 3mo ago
I object to "roleplaying", because that assumes there's even a cohesive entity that's capable of "pretending" in the first place. There isn't, the LLM algorithm is a document generator, a (really awesome)
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by Terr_ 3mo ago
> Games on Windows just work. Counterexample: I was locked out of Destiny 2 a couple times as they shipped new updates that simply didn't run on Windows 7, even as they continued to claim it was supported. I don't mean subtle b
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by Terr_ 3mo ago
Worse, it's not that LLMs are thinking the wrong thoughts, but those kind of "thoughts" aren't there to be correctable in the first place. Ultimately, we're trying to ensure that the LLM story generator only generat
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by Terr_ 3mo ago
> For increased rigidity, paint with a solar pumped laser to weld the links together. Or unseal purified metal surfaces, press them together, and use vacuum diffusion welding. With enough time and/or sunlight, it can happen on its o
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by Terr_ 3mo ago
Oh, I'm already quite aware that there are very questionable forms of goose biology involved...
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by Terr_ 3mo ago
> Given that, point #2 is not a negative, it's a neutral. It's also fully compatible with point #1. I think that depends on the interests and sophistication of the subgroup-of-investors. If the investor is hoping for AI that ca
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by Terr_ 3mo ago
That stops working when the jamming is coming from a hostile satellite that's also in the sky.
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by Terr_ 3mo ago
> Guardrails are external classifiers I can't help thinking of them as the terrible "security" scripts of yesteryear (often but not exclusively in PHP) which would test input variables for a "suspicious" substrin
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by Terr_ 3mo ago
> Morlocks vs Eloi We will either be experts in asbestos chemistry, safety mechanisms, and remediation... or we'll be helping people tweak it for sale as kitchen sponges and pinatas.
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by Terr_ 3mo ago
Tax-law also makes is sticky: StockX -> Money -> StockY means a portion of is lost as capital-gains tax on the money step. StockY might be better... but is it something that will perform better-enough to be worth the switching costs
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by Terr_ 3mo ago
I assumed that the author's Australia choice was not so much about politics but about the geographical mood, so that the Slightly-Better-Promise(d) Land could plausibly be an autarky with natural borders.
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by Terr_ 3mo ago
My go-to example is always Enron, and the impact on employees whose retirement funds were in their own too-awesome-to-fail employer. Oh, sure, it's way worse because of the fraud-angle, but even if it had just been a more honest kind
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by Terr_ 3mo ago
Yeah, we already have decades of prior-art for what can be done if you take a flying machine, remove the pilot, and then aggressively specialize the aggression, which are missiles that can experience up to 100 gees.
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by Terr_ 3mo ago
I think we need to start distinguishing between different qualitative grades of "computer assistance" here. The executive decision of "fly north instead of east" is on a different tier than "increase angle of flap m
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by Terr_ 3mo ago
> get itself a guaranteed blanket presidential pardon Likely already in-mind for parent poster, but a fitting headline from this week: "Trump Invents the Corporate Pardon." ( https://newrepublic.com/article/
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by Terr_ 3mo ago
> It's probably just because we invest in what we know. I'm mostly thinking of folks that will passively invest in a big broad index fund, and then assume they've reached the end in terms of balancing industry/sector
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by Terr_ 3mo ago
Tangentially: I think a lot of people forget/underestimate the degree to which the industries behind their job are ones that they need to diversify away-from. In other words, a programmer should invest a bit more away from software
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by Terr_ 3mo ago
"Here's me throwing code away because it's inherently bad or no longer suitable for the new purpose."
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by Terr_ 3mo ago
> The paper had an enthusiastic reception. “These promising results might pave the way for the development of an effective clinical treatment,” Kevin Bender, a neuroscientist at UC San Francisco, wrote in an accompanying commentary. At t
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by Terr_ 3mo ago
Occasionally I've advocated to product-owners that their design needs a business/domain-concept for uncertainty or data-quality, rather than treating it as an implementation detail. This is especially true when you've got dat
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by Terr_ 3mo ago
Mini-rant: Promoters claim that the system serves a public good by helping society discover/converge on useful truths sooner. Even where the question/event is of public interest, the opposite happens instead. People with expertise
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by Terr_ 3mo ago
Some people are already trying to make that happen, but I'm convinced it'll be a net-negative.
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by Terr_ 3mo ago
> Nearly everything should be available from a nearby edge peer, similarly to BitTorrent. Back in the days of Gnutella, I remember pushing people to use Magnet links [0] when sharing content. [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/
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by Terr_ 3mo ago
You can also actually see a big discussion without lots and lots of clicking until clicking too deeply makes you lose all your progress and start over.
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by Terr_ 3mo ago
I want to see a vending-machines in City Hall or Post Offices etc., where you can give $1-5 to a charity of your choice and receive an anonymous "Probably Human or at least has Metaphorical Skin In The Game" token. The token can b
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by Terr_ 3mo ago
It's really weird, I mean Reddit's strength was the threaded commenting system (esp. compared to Digg when they were competing) and then they started making almost every commenting-hostile move possible.
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by Terr_ 3mo ago
Advanced version: My account (very old, very established, much karma, no problems) got shadowbanned one morning for no discernible reason, the appeal was "granted"... but it's still shadowbanned even as the appeals page claim
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by Terr_ 3mo ago
> I don't understand why they can't use Anubis or whatever captcha thing I may or may not have seen on New Reddit. This is just the first step in killing old-Reddit for logged-in users as well. It's too easy to use, they m
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by Terr_ 3mo ago
Except comments are really the only reason to visit! Sharing cool links was already old with Digg etc. Worst still, enshittified "new" Reddit will serve a page that claims to have your search terms in it, except the alleged resu
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by Terr_ 3mo ago
> GM says its software business keeps roughly 70 cents of every dollar it brings in. Translation: Customers are getting a bad deal.

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