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by alwa 7mo ago
“Para-“ tends to mean “around” or “beside,” kind of in the sense of “close to" or "almost”-- paraprofessional teachers or lawyers, paramilitary groups, parallel lines, parasitic symbiotes. In this specific context, American
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by alwa 7mo ago
Nobody said the valley was without fog
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by alwa 7mo ago
Immunity from prosecution, maybe, but not immunity from consequence. I can’t imagine congressional leadership would think of it as a good look—and isn’t the “need to know” based on the congressperson’s role? For example don’t they brief onl
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by alwa 7mo ago
I have no idea how this ended up here, but after giving it a listen, thank you for the chuckle. I wouldn’t have come across it otherwise.
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by alwa 7mo ago
If you haven’t had the pleasure of Los Angeles public-access television’s Let’s Paint TV… https://www.letspainttv.com/ Or, to save your eyes, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Let's_Paint_TV For more
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by alwa 7mo ago
More subtly, what is an education? What is care? As you point out, the LLMs are (or probably will become) perfectly good at the measurable parts of those services; but I think the residual edge of “good” education/care is more than jus
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by alwa 7mo ago
Lobste.rs comes to mind. High enough friction that, even as a seasoned participant here, I haven’t tried over there yet.
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by alwa 7mo ago
Thank you for sharing that literary and well-observed piece of writing. It is evocative and contemplative, a timely counterpart to TFA, and it is indeed excellent. I’d second your suggestion to others.
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by alwa 8mo ago
Or, it’s the kind of place or situation where it’s not about the job/role as some abstract commodity “function,” it’s about specialist > internal generalist > external non-specialist. “We’re making do, but we’re kind of figuring
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by alwa 8mo ago
It seems to me that @tekne is comparing the LLM to a reference source. I took them to be pointing out that unlicensed-practice laws don’t crack down on textbooks, or reading the law for yourself (or even going jailhouse-lawyer or trying to
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by alwa 8mo ago
The LLM-tone doesn’t help: 117 people meet this criteria. And the impact is dramatic: It’s strange to me to think of “bugfixes” in terms of a commodity. Different problem spaces between subsystems and thus different types of (and surfaces
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by alwa 8mo ago
“Possible US-Gov-made iPhone-hacking toolkit is now in foreign and criminal hands“ ?
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by alwa 8mo ago
And yet, the New York Times reports that all the hottest clubs are banning phones on the dance floor. Perhaps in reaction to having lived the downsides of omnipresent social surveillance, the youngest adults in my life are uniformly sober a
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by alwa 8mo ago
I’m glad, then, that Anthropic seem to have chosen the path outside the state. Though who knows what, if any, resemblance the theatrics bear to either the meat of the dispute or its eventual substantive outcome… I’m kind of surprised TFA ma
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by alwa 8mo ago
I thought that was pretty open? Even their more privacy-oriented Zero Data Retention agreement (which isn’t so easy to get on your business account) includes an exception “where needed to comply with law or combat misuse”
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by alwa 8mo ago
I wonder how much is a cost-plus billing issue, too… and a contrast between primes with a single customer in mind and a commercial firm chasing a bigger pie than the immediate program at hand https://www.thespacereview.com/a
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by alwa 8mo ago
CAI’s Content Credential standard accommodates what you suggest, as far as re-signing/provenance, with a chain kind of approach. It supports embedding “ingredient thumbnails” in an image’s manifest, and/or the image’s manifest can
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by alwa 8mo ago
Then again, sophisticated manufactured electronics had long been cheap and available by the time somebody thought to create Arduino as a platform in the first place. And even today, people hack on assembly and ancient mainframe languages an
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by alwa 8mo ago
I thought "basic WYSIWYG text editor" was more WordPad's lane, no? May it rest...
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by alwa 8mo ago
Radiate the signal out through its power cord, silly.
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by alwa 8mo ago
(1988) and real cute From an OG computer scientist [0], about antics at age 12 which might strike some of us as familiar :) [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Les_Earnest
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by alwa 8mo ago
I dunno. The skeeziest people I know would show up squeaky clean on paper, and several of the ones I trust the most have some kind of shit in their past, at least on paper.
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by alwa 8mo ago
I wonder this too. Is there so much of this style, or does it indicate some aspect of the LLMs’ sensemaking?
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by alwa 8mo ago
Then again, sometimes a big feature is so comprehensively broken that it’s hard, from the outside, to break it down into specific flaws. Even if you can reproduce the complex circumstances where they manifest. In the case of the iOS keybo
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by alwa 8mo ago
I guess the hope is that, in a healthy media ecosystem, anything important enough to have a constituency gets reported truthfully and legally fact-checked by somebody . The public are still free to care which truthful things they care ab
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by alwa 8mo ago
When you modify their braking behavior, is that enough to improve their overall driving behavior? Or do forward collisions and rear-enders make up substantially all of what the driver can control, so training the behaviors to reduce that ty
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by alwa 8mo ago
Why would we expect it to introspect accurately on its training or alignment? It can articulate a plausible guess, sure; but this seems to me to demonstrate the very “word model vs world model” distinction TFA is drawing. When the model say
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by alwa 8mo ago
Yes it does! Each ear separately and the case itself.
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by alwa 8mo ago
Isn’t that what the parent is describing? “Ill and cancelled projects” <==> “luck surface area”, and “trying to go for promotion” <==> “cozy vibes and self-interested comfort”?
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by alwa 9mo ago
I'm kind of shocked that 60% of all US adult citizens did report reading a book during the year. That seems much higher than I would have expected. It is a self-reported measure, and it's phrased "read or listened to"-

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