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by acjohnson55 6mo ago
When I read the article, I was taken aback by the clear references to fraud in the before and after photos. We're in an absolutely golden age of grift.
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by acjohnson55 6mo ago
Depends on what you mean by "win". It would be possible to go in, topple the regime and secure the nuclear material. But only at astronomical cost and years of blowback
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by acjohnson55 6mo ago
All those ships stuck on either side of the Strait of Hormuz and their insurers would beg to differ.
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by acjohnson55 6mo ago
A pipeline will circumvent Iranian tolls, but would be vulnerable to Iranian strikes in a war.
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by acjohnson55 6mo ago
I did one of these experiments around 2011, and because it was so obvious that the experiment was contrived, there was a lot of misdirection around the actual experiment, which was testing something totally different from the pretense. Like
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by acjohnson55 6mo ago
Or, they actually do have an intuition of the real objective and they skip steps to more efficiently skip to the outcome.
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by acjohnson55 7mo ago
Just saw this days later - I'm not sure if it was a surge specifically, but it got bricked after a really wacky power swing. So maybe not a surge, exactly.
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by acjohnson55 7mo ago
This may be more correct than you know. Chefs actually don't cook food customers eat. They plan the menu and manage the operations. The cooks cook.
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by acjohnson55 7mo ago
I lost an audio mixer to a bad surge last year. I don't know whether it was additional load or just really bad fluctuations that damaged the device. Nothing else bit the dust, but the, digital board in this mixer got bricked.
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by acjohnson55 7mo ago
Interesting, so a prompt that causes a couple dozen tool calls will end up costing in the tens of dollars?
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by acjohnson55 7mo ago
I like the idea of smarter filtering. But I wonder how a modal interacts with automatic form filling. I don't care for the chaotically ordered list of countries after the suggested country. I think a better version would be nonmodal, b
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6k Bad Coding Lessons Turned a Chatbot Evil(nytimes.com)
5 points by acjohnson55 7mo ago|1 comments
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by acjohnson55 7mo ago
Twitter still attracts top quality initial posts from prominent people, even though the replies are garbage, or worse. Honestly, it doesn't compute to me how people can justify continuing to contribute there.
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by acjohnson55 7mo ago
I agree, I'm sorry to say. I personally believe it's because they replicated the same incentive structure as Twitter. Being provocative generates engagement, which gets you reach and creates the perception of relevance. At first,
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by acjohnson55 7mo ago
> There's no muslim country I ever want to visit. Your loss.
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by acjohnson55 7mo ago
No one misses Saddam. Parts of Iraq are much better off, like Kurdistan. Other parts were utterly devastated by our operations, insurgency, sectarian violence, ISIS, and so on. Some people had religious freedom and now live in areas under t
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by acjohnson55 7mo ago
I hope that it works out for you and your family.
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by acjohnson55 7mo ago
If I were in their shoes, I would be celebrating, too. But this is complicated. If they and their loved ones are already outside the country, they are not directly imperiled by the power vacuum. So the upside is maybe their homeland becomes
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by acjohnson55 7mo ago
I think it's fine to call it a shit move. It's this part: > Canning people when you do well is just a way to milk the cow that others raised for you. I don't think people should reasonably expect to be employed if a compan
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by acjohnson55 7mo ago
Yes, it is considered generous here. I have been laid off or taken a voluntary severance 3 times and never got anywhere near 5 months.
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by acjohnson55 7mo ago
Yeah but the purpose of a company is not to employ people, it is to make money. The employment is a means to an end. If the money continues to flow without the people, that is better. I can imagine creating a system designed to allocate pro
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by acjohnson55 7mo ago
Or the even more legendary Breakfast Dagwood https://violasmithcooking.blogspot.com/2009/08/breakfast-dag...
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by acjohnson55 7mo ago
Why do you think that?
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by acjohnson55 8mo ago
> Autonomous agents fail because they don't have the context that humans carry around implicitly. Yet. This is mostly a matter of data capture and organization. It sounds like Kasava is already doing a lot of this. They just need mo
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by acjohnson55 8mo ago
This is too broad of a statement to possibly be true. I agree with aspects of the piece. But it's also true that not every aspect of the work offloaded to AI is some font of potential creativity. To take coding, to the extent that hand
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by acjohnson55 8mo ago
Fair point. What it really does for me is give me a better UX for having a bunch of parallel workstreams. I could achieve a similar effect thing with scripting, and maybe some clever ways of getting something like the sidebar for seeing the
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by acjohnson55 8mo ago
It's weird being on here and seeing so much naysaying, because I see a radical change already happening in software development. The future is here, it's just not equally distributed. In the past 6 months, I've gone from Copi
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by acjohnson55 8mo ago
Too bad. You missed some interesting stuff. And I say that as someone who sees some of this very differently than the author. Announcing that one line of the piece made you mad without providing any other thought is not very constructive.
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by acjohnson55 8mo ago
It was actually much less anti LLM than I was expecting from the beginning. But I agree that it is self limiting to not bother to consider the ways that LLM inference and human thinking might be similar (or not). To me, they seem do a prett
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by acjohnson55 8mo ago
> I think the near future is going to be something like a high-speed drag race. Going slow isn't an option. Everyone will have to go fast. Many will crash. Some won't and they will win. I think this is right. This is what we as

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