ashdksnndck

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by ashdksnndck 9d ago
But do we have any evidence that “suicide” counts as a negative signal and “unalive” doesn’t?
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by ashdksnndck 16d ago
Unless people are investing their life savings in about-to-expire options, any ridiculous short-term fluctuations in the stock price aren’t affecting them at all.
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by ashdksnndck 1mo ago
Well, if you’re writing reports saying “we know our model only decides to commit felonies 0.001% of time which we judge to good enough to deploy” … I’m not sure that gets you off the hook the hook for the felonies.
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by ashdksnndck 1mo ago
OpenAI and Anthropic both have currently safety teams that look for misbehavior in their models (and to some extent, voluntarily disclose what they find to the public). Going forward, it would be hard for them to argue they don’t know their
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by ashdksnndck 1mo ago
Before long Claude will be writing continental philosophy.
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by ashdksnndck 1mo ago
Ramp showed up late into a market and have had more success than almost every company who tried before them. They seem to have some execution skill.
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by ashdksnndck 1mo ago
I thought human-carried railguns were relegated to sci-fi? The power requirements are so high, the only practical mobile railgun is on a ship.
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by ashdksnndck 1mo ago
Apple admitted to slowing down iPhones to keep the batteries from failing, and agreed to stop doing it and created a new battery replacement plan. I’ve personally experienced the benefit of getting the battery on Apple devices replaced whic
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by ashdksnndck 1mo ago
I went and looked at order confirmation emails from 2019 and confirmed my memory that back then they didn’t list what items I ordered (but did a few years before). At the time I figured this change was intended to fight against Paribus, a s
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by ashdksnndck 1mo ago
OpenAI and Anthropic are believed to be making billions per month in revenue selling tokens to enterprises. It’s not that surprising for enterprise SaaS they would have individual customers making up ~1% of their total sales. Although, perh
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by ashdksnndck 2mo ago
It’s normal for consulting firms to charge for inputs like hours of labor, airfare etc. > but you’re charged for the report itself separately from the summary, and you are not allowed to access the unsummarized report This analogy works
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by ashdksnndck 2mo ago
Suppose you hired a consulting firm to write a report, and they delivered the report but not the internal conversations they had when developing it. You exploit a vulnerability in their phone system to get those conversations. You can argue
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by ashdksnndck 2mo ago
If charging for a subscription causes the business to fail it’s their problem. Alternatively it could be what allows them to make a living.
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by ashdksnndck 2mo ago
Maybe for the accountants! I have always done my own taxes, but used arcane custom spreadsheets that accumulated cruft each year. I told cowork to pretend it was an accountant and reorganize them using best practices, and the result is much
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by ashdksnndck 2mo ago
Google and ChatGPT are both running LLMs on free user queries. If Google is doing it more profitably, it’s because they have a much more mature ad business, and/or they are running a cheaper LLM. There’s no fundamental difference in th
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by ashdksnndck 2mo ago
At least it would save you a keystroke every time, if it enables you to switch from cut+undo to copy.
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by ashdksnndck 2mo ago
Hmm, which of these is simple pattern matching? 1) refuting the Jacobian conjecture 2) keep repeating the same disproven statement, because your priors can’t be affected by new evidence
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by ashdksnndck 2mo ago
It depends on how long it takes to make the video. Most employed college kids are paid minimum wage or thereabouts. $100 is a day’s work.
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by ashdksnndck 2mo ago
Have you driven a Land Cruiser? They’re substantial better than the average pickup truck on most of the issues you listed. For example, the current F-150 crew cab which is the most popular vehicle in the US is 3 ft longer and has a taller h
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by ashdksnndck 2mo ago
Think of the planes as plates of spaghetti.
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by ashdksnndck 2mo ago
Same issue happens in models trained by organizations who aren’t selling tokens. I believe it’s because being parsimonious is simply harder. Achieving the task at hand independently and declaring the job done is easier than building an abst
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by ashdksnndck 3mo ago
Churning is not about taking out debt and not paying it off. It’s about signing up for credit cards and spending money to earn rewards points, and paying off the balance soon to avoid owing interest.
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by ashdksnndck 3mo ago
There are two fairly different stories here: 1) Someone in the administration is leaking news soon before it’s announced, enabling insider trading. This is obviously supported by the evidence from markets. 2) The administrating is schedulin
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by ashdksnndck 3mo ago
I’m specifically referring to the claim that news being released when markets are closed is evidence of insider trading (replying to the comment “There is a reason why these "peace" deals are always announced on Fridays”). The l
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by ashdksnndck 3mo ago
I never got the logic of this conspiracy theory. If you’re trying to make money insider trading off some events, wouldn’t you want markets to be open when the events occur? You’d like to be able to enter and exit your position immediately b
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by ashdksnndck 3mo ago
> It assumes that what is best for the individual is worse for the group. Life is not a zero sum game. That's the Conservative's delusion. Economic and political transactions do not always have a "loser" and a "w
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by ashdksnndck 3mo ago
That’s a lot of unsafe. I worked in a project with 50k lines of rust. 9 lines were unsafe. Turned out one of those was a hairy bug. Now it’s 8 lines.
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by ashdksnndck 3mo ago
People have different beliefs about whether they will personally benefit from supporting some political cause. Therefore telling people that they shouldn’t support causes that are against their interests is a waste of time. It’s like tellin
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by ashdksnndck 3mo ago
This is a negotiated settlement. The FTC agreed to settle without Deere admitting wrongdoing. Deere did give up something far more valuable than the $1M by agreeing to the right to repair. You can argue that instead of accepting the settlem
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by ashdksnndck 3mo ago
I asked about logging in national forest land and it triggered the safety classifier. Logging is a cybersecurity risk, I suppose.

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