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by andy99 11mo ago
Seems to me there’s been a weird inversion on the left towards prioritizing individual rights over rights of society. The right to use drugs in public, to camp in a park, to steal copper, to do sexually inappropriate stuff, to break laws, a
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by andy99 11mo ago
A janitor needs to be reliable, it would be tough to manage someone who only wants to show up and clean toilets when they’re desperate for a fix. Maybe someone can build an app to coordinate that /s
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by andy99 11mo ago
Is this what they call “victim blaming”? Why does it have to be society’s fault and not the people stealing the copper? If we have litter and excrement all over the streets, do we blame ourselves instead of the people littering? Is every “t
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by andy99 11mo ago
You’re both making similar points I think. It was “bad” - for all the reasons you mention, but back then it was done seemingly to try to add functionality that people wanted, it was just shitty, and that was as bad as it gets. Now nothing i
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by andy99 11mo ago
How would pivoting to advertising change OpenAI’s valuation? Isn’t it currently driven by leading the charge towards global upheaval through AGI? As opposed to becoming a google competitor? Seems like that warrants a different revenue multi
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by andy99 11mo ago
I’m wondering how long it will be until they are also “sponsored” to have ad content trained in. I personally despise advertising but nobody is building these things out of the goodness of their heart. There needs to be some ongoing incenti
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by andy99 11mo ago
I think it was a good enough joke or witty remark grounded in the crux of the article that it’s worth it. And it’s certainly interesting to see the “whoosh” past many of the commenters
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by andy99 11mo ago
At that point nobody will care though. People pushing for regulation (not uniquely) want power- those that can write the regulation will be in a position to exert a lot of power over a lot of people/companies, making it an attractive t
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by andy99 11mo ago
Stephenson doesn't just write sci-fi, he writes operating manuals for the future. His books predicted cryptocurrency, the metaverse, and distributed computing before most of us knew what TCP/IP stood for. Warning: his ending
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by andy99 11mo ago
Is there some legitimate thing people are doing on LinkedIn that the crap is getting in the way of? One can make a profile and (thought it’s terrible for this) search for jobs without ever scrolling the feed. If you don’t like it just don’t
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by andy99 11mo ago
Agreed, it’s only superficially funny, there’s a ton left on the table that could have made it actually good, it feels like it doesn’t adequately parody CEOs or AI in a way that indicates any insight.
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by andy99 11mo ago
I’m less familiar with consumer facing stuff, but even in the last year I’ve seen projects that formerly would have been three people working over multiple sprints turn into something one person could do in an afternoon. There’s lots of cav
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by andy99 11mo ago
Yes I came to see the same thing. There was an interesting article recently using the Lenin thing as an example of people not having world models. Spaghetti tree is another good one. https://www.astralcodexten.com/p/in-
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by andy99 11mo ago
there was well discussed research recently that training on LLM output can transfer traits of that LLM even if they are not expressed in the training data: https://alignment.anthropic.com/2025/subliminal-learning/
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by andy99 11mo ago
Have you seen comparisons between American and Canadian productivity? It’s definitely more complicated than just socialist leaning government programs make the country more productive.
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by andy99 11mo ago
Demand is internal and speculative. It’s not market driven and in some cases (AI features in existing products) is counter to clear market signals.
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Northwest fuel pipeline shutdown could affect Thanksgiving travel(apnews.com)
2 points by andy99 11mo ago|0 comments
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by andy99 11mo ago
Seconded, I thought it was just me
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by andy99 11mo ago
It says it’s common crawl, I interpret it to mean this is a generic web scrape dataset, presumably they filter stuff out they don’t want before pretraining. You’d have to do do some ablation testing to know what value it adds
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by andy99 11mo ago
Isn’t this before any curation has happened? I looked at it, I can see why it looks bad, but if they’re really being open about the whole pipeline, they have to include everything. Giving them a hard time for it only promotes keeping models
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by andy99 11mo ago
There are a bunch (currently 3) of examples of people getting funny output, two of which saying it’s in LM studio (I don’t know what that is). It does seem likely that it’s somehow being misused here and the results aren’t representative.
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by andy99 11mo ago
Sexual content might also be less ambiguous and easier to train for.
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by andy99 11mo ago
The problem with lots of laws, often poorly thought out or framed, is that anyone can be breaking them any time, allowing law enforcement to target people or groups they don’t like with impunity. Drug laws are an obvious one, but so are tra
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by andy99 11mo ago
Basically means the kind of training examples it’s seen. The models have all been fine tuned to refuse to answer certain questions, across many different ways of asking them, including obfuscated and adversarial ones, but poetry is evidentl
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by andy99 11mo ago
No it’s undefined out-of-distribution performance rediscovered.
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by andy99 11mo ago
So sick of these “Accept all cookies” / “reject optional cookies” dark patterns, sites that do this should be banned
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CornHub(cornhub.website)
109 points by andy99 11mo ago|28 comments
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by andy99 11mo ago
Seems early posters are blaming the customers, but at least in Canada the grocery stores treat their customers with so much disdain that i see no problem with people leaving their cart wherever, if it can make more trouble for loblaws et al
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by andy99 11mo ago
Coincidentally I was just looking for this picture yesterday https://britneyspears.ac/wallpaper/bswp005_800x600.htm (the one absent Britney, but this did cross my mind) I remember this, presumably from slashdot 20,year
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by andy99 11mo ago
Charitably this is just ignorant, otherwise it’s intentionally and maliciously trying to undermine what, as mentioned, is a valuable service that removes censorship by invoking some worst case scenario that appeals to the equally ignorant,

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