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by andy99 11mo ago
Probably a stupid question, why not buy something like CHF then, if one is concerned about eroding dollar value? Is the thesis that blue chips (if google is one) would rise faster than USD is devalued?
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by andy99 11mo ago
Do you ever see later stage episodes of good shows where they’ve either changed writers or run out of ideas and formerly nuanced characters become stupid caricatures of themselves. Homer Simpson and Michael Scott are obvious examples. I thi
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by andy99 11mo ago
Ah, I didn’t actually rtfa and see the paper there, I assumed from your comment it wasn’t mentioned and posted it having known about it :) Anyway hopefully it was useful for someone
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by andy99 11mo ago
Gemini Flash light is $.1/Million input tokens, Claude Haiku is $1/Million. Obviously input dominates here if it’s just a classifier. Training data easily can top 10 Trillion tokens - An earlier Kimi K2 was trained on 15T and even
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by andy99 11mo ago
It’s somewhat ironic that because this kind of stuff is what an LLM thinks constitutes “harm” it may be possible to completely uncensor it by mitigating refusal on such prompts. If they were actually well trained on what was really bad, it
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by andy99 11mo ago
I remember when it first came out, I was watching an Agatha Christie movie where somebody got chloroformed and was trying to ask GPT4 about the realism of if. Had to have a multi-turn dialog to convince it I wasn’t trying chloroform anyone
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by andy99 11mo ago
See https://arxiv.org/abs/2406.11717 Refusal in Language Models Is Mediated by a Single Direction (June 2024) All “alignment” is extremely shallow, thus the general ease of jailbreaks.
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by andy99 11mo ago
I’ll never buy an electric car because of this stuff, as mentioned elsewhere car companies see it as a way to gouge the customer. People who want to push for EV adoption would be well served pushing for open standards, right to repair, inte
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by andy99 11mo ago
I consider “awesome” lists to be part of the slop
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by andy99 11mo ago
I see this as a kind of inspiration / perspiration thing, and I’m on Tesla’s side that you perspire less if you think more. I like to not do the thing for a really long time, and then do it quickly, having thought it through. I see som
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by andy99 11mo ago
Yes I’m also curious. From what I know polygraphs and similar interrogation are for assessing whether there is anything that could be used to blackmail or compromise you. Whether one agrees with the method, the goal seems logical for intell
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by andy99 11mo ago
Don’t forget cloudflare
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by andy99 11mo ago
I have everything disabled for my personal account. For work, when I looked into it, it had to be disabled centrally by my company.
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by andy99 11mo ago
The existence of the features doesn’t bother me. It’s the constant nagging about them. I can’t use a google product without being harassed to the point of not being able to work by offers to “help me write” or whatever. Having the feature o
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by andy99 11mo ago
Yeah I’m curious if they tried training a Bert or similar classifier… intuitively this seems better than tfidf which is throwing away a ton of information.
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by andy99 11mo ago
Awk? https://adamdrake.com/command-line-tools-can-be-235x-faster-...
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by andy99 11mo ago
Pretty sure the whole concept of applying for jobs is done. It’s people putting in minimal effort, mass applying to pretend jobs that aren’t actually hiring anyone. Lots of ways to look for work, applying to public postings with a resumed a
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Air India won't accept last name "Sample" on bookings(onemileatatime.com)
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Ivory Coast response to YouTuber(twitter.com)
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by andy99 11mo ago
I don’t think there are many debatable issues these days, at least mainstream ones. We’ve moved into a polarized kind of post-truth world where the issues of the day don’t share a lot of common ground. Like I feel you sort of need to have t
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by andy99 11mo ago
And if these people aren’t aware, they haven’t even signed off on the “position” they are supposed to be debating. I can’t imagine many public intellectuals would end up agreeing to debate in support of words that were put in their mouth. I
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by andy99 11mo ago
Pretty sure most of the current problems we see re drug use are a direct result of the nanny state trying to tell people how to live their lives. Forcing your views on people doesn’t work and has lots of negative consequences.
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by andy99 11mo ago
Sounds like you’ve never driven on a highway. Taking some imaginary moral high ground doesn’t make one any less dangerous.
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by andy99 11mo ago
Also on surface roads you can basically stop in the middle of the street and be annoying but not particularly dangerous. You can’t just stop safely dead in the middle of a freeway.
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by andy99 11mo ago
I’ve seen it fairly commonly for people to have company stickers on their laptop and have worked places that distribute these stickers. I always found it terrible security, it’s basically advertising what someone would get if they stole you
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by andy99 11mo ago
I feel like I’ve seen this with code too, where it’s unlikely to scrap something and try a new approach a more likely to double down iterating on a bad approach. For the svg generation, it would be an interesting experiment to seed it with
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by andy99 11mo ago
This wasn’t just “add more details”—it was “make this mechanically coherent.” The overall text doesn’t appear to be AI written, making this all the more confusing. Is AI making people write this way now on their own? Or is it actual
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by andy99 11mo ago
Yeah either he’s just really unlucky - it’s certainly possible to intern at a place that then implements a hiring freeze or something, or there is more too this.
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by andy99 11mo ago
If they can get away with it, it’s because they have a product where quality doesn’t matter. If you want to see everything outsourced, “ organization or radicalization that would be required to push back against this” seems like the way to
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by andy99 11mo ago
Probably a better link for the post, the current article appears to be an AI generated ad

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