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by Terr_ 3mo ago
The signature Hapsburg hallucinations, developed through generations of self-distillation.
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by Terr_ 3mo ago
So, uh, there's something very off here, and I just can't parse WTF the author is trying to claim or convey. Is there missing-context, like it being a follow-up to a prior post? Was there some formatting that broke down so that
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by Terr_ 3mo ago
P.S.: I want to make it clear that this isn't just about dealing with other humans. The dread I contemplate should affect even introverted shut-ins. I want to reduce accidental complexity, discover and understand real problems, solve
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by Terr_ 3mo ago
I don't think anyone's talking about towns where electricity is absent or expensive. Instead it's locations that begin with cheap electricity (attracting the datacenter) but the residents fear a significant increase in electr
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by Terr_ 3mo ago
I have a premonition of future programming despair, and I wonder if it'll be like what Ian McKellen felt: A veteran of Shakespearean plays, doing all those [correction, not LoTR] The Hobbit green-screen shots interacting with no real
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by Terr_ 3mo ago
> I am assuming that is the point you are trying to make. Not exactly. My point is that LLMs dramatically increase the danger and risk of certain types of manipulation, fraud, and brainwashing. Those things will become much easier to do
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by Terr_ 3mo ago
I want to raise the possibility that you (pixl97, simoncion) actually hold many of the same opinions but are clashing because of a different definitions the LLM / bad-thingy scope. * Narrowly - The core algorithm that extends documen
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by Terr_ 3mo ago
> LLMs are impossible to make safe in the same sense that humans cannot be made safe. I am very conflicted by this sentence, the two halves being: 1. Yes, the futility of making LLM's "safe" in that rigorous way is insur
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by Terr_ 3mo ago
I think that's an equivocation, which blends two extremely different kinds of "dangerous", ex: 1. "Our new car has soo much raw power and incredible armor on it, be glad we're the ones building or else bad guy
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by Terr_ 3mo ago
> What's left is the code alone. The necessary work is more than just the deliverable. Even a simple patch implies an indefinite number of other approaches not-taken, and sometimes not-taken for good reasons. Sometimes we explicitly
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by Terr_ 3mo ago
> It’s the same with writing: AI writing is coherent on the surface, but is impossible to edit because it’s built on no real insight. LLMs lie in the unhappy-medium between an abstract machine we can reason-about versus a person we can i
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by Terr_ 3mo ago
At the risk of stating the obvious: We've ample evidence for this insidious effect with ~25 years of Google changes, as clear ads become hidden ads, separation becomes deliberate clutter, and actionable results get degraded into intera
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by Terr_ 3mo ago
I'm quite conscious of being repetitive here, but The Truman Show is relevant again: > Why don't you let me fix you some of this new Mococoa drink? All-natural cocoa beans from the upper slopes of Mount Nicaragua. No artifici
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by Terr_ 3mo ago
> Lost Coast [...] This is also how your pupils work, of course. As a purely temporal change it was neat, but I recall being distinctly annoyed with Lost Coast over how that effect made things worse (less realistic) for scene elements
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by Terr_ 3mo ago
They are being sarcastic.
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by Terr_ 3mo ago
I think you're conflating two separate issues: 1. The accuracy of the label. 2. The likelihood the label will cause problematic misunderstandings. When my rice-cooker logic is advertised as "AI", that's a stretch, sure..
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by Terr_ 3mo ago
Good luck timing it. "The market can remain irrational longer than you can remain solvent." There isn't always a mechanism that will translate being-right about some fundamental fact into making-money from it. P.S. It isn&#
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by Terr_ 3mo ago
> An AI bailout would be a poison pill that would electorally doom whichever party was behind it for decades. Two concerns: 1. In a duopoly it won't doom either one party, not if the bailout-seekers involved are able to bribe them b
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by Terr_ 3mo ago
> ACLU credibility lost with such a sensationalist headline. HN Comment credibility lost with such a sensationalist one-liner? I see your claim, but I don't see how you got there. TFA has enough examples that I don't think you
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by Terr_ 3mo ago
> Seems only fair "You're trying to kidnap what I've rightfully stolen!" -- Vizzini
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by Terr_ 3mo ago
Right, too many games pitch the "realism" of "really like a Hollywood movie", reproducing effects which are really telltale flaws in cameras, microphones, or the theater-experience. This is in contrast to the realism o
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by Terr_ 3mo ago
I'd like to highlight that even if one added an URL-exists step [0], that doesn't do a dang thing for result-set problems of: 1. False-negatives, where relevant posts that do exist are not being shown (imagined or otherwise) to
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by Terr_ 3mo ago
I see this one under "new" (2 min ago) but no other submissions or comments in your profile. (?)
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by Terr_ 3mo ago
Condensed rant: Humans are blind to the most common gasses on our atmosphere (N2, O2) and sometimes have difficulty perceiving its most common liquid (H2O). This is sensible, since otherwise we'd be helplessly wandering through &quot
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by Terr_ 3mo ago
The words that sprung to mind for me were "valuable scapegoat", and hence a sci-fi quote: > Leo realized suddenly that Van Atta was not going to let him get a word of defense in edgewise if he could possibly help it. Van Atta w
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by Terr_ 3mo ago
Yes. The deliverable is not the work done. Imagine you a patch submitted to your code base, you have to decide whether to start deeply reviewing it. You are given an envelope, with a message inside revealing whether the patch came from a hu
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by Terr_ 3mo ago
Shout-out to javascript disabled by default :)
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by Terr_ 3mo ago
Trump, the first president with enough scandals to cause choice paralysis .
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by Terr_ 3mo ago
> I wish i could just opt out of social security and invest the money myself. I'd like to emphasize that SS/OASDI is not an investment program in the first place, it is an insurance program. The two kinds cannot be directly com
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by Terr_ 3mo ago
> It sounds like a defined-benefits fund The first key is that it isn't defined-benefits, in the sense that there is no account labeled "Bob Smith's Accumulated Retirement." Don't be disheartened though, becaus

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