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by astrange 7d ago
It's not the only such CPU, Fujitsu's also have TSO.
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by astrange 8d ago
> Who is the most prominent example? I don't believe any of these people are relevant or prominent, but the unimportant people I was thinking of were bloggers like PZ Myers, I think they called themselves "Atheism+" or som
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by astrange 9d ago
Arguments are not executable code or the final work product of… whatever it is they're arguing about. You have to continue interacting with these people and their AIs, so the underlying question of whether they're trustworthy and
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by astrange 9d ago
> It's californication into the "rationalist" community as it currently stands is no surprise. This is the minority split. Most of the online new atheism writers became progressives/social justice/"woke 1.0&
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by astrange 9d ago
Well, a cult is a high-control social group that's difficult to leave and requires you to believe and do strange things that are likely bad for you or at least take up all your time and resources. And a sex cult is what it sounds like.
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by astrange 9d ago
Neoliberal YIMBYism?
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by astrange 9d ago
rsync, seL4, Google Photos and Maps, Jira and Confluence
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by astrange 9d ago
Brisbane is like Miami if it was full of British people. (Except richer and with sunburns.) Melbourne is like Seattle if… actually it's literally just Seattle except they think they invented it.
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by astrange 9d ago
> Even things from the US are coming here, like the growth of Halloween. Halloween is nearly 100% Irish/Scottish. The only American contributions are using a pumpkin, and sometimes holding it in a parking lot.
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by astrange 19d ago
The cyborg you replied to.
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by astrange 21d ago
Something like this seems unlikely to work for a behavior so burned into them. It'd be better to do a second pass to delete all the nonsense comments.
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by astrange 21d ago
That's a Claude.
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by astrange 21d ago
> I have a stage-gated workflow This is a Claudism, right? I feel like I never saw "gated" used this way before it.
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by astrange 24d ago
Eh. They recently changed the algorithm quite a lot, and the guy who was in charge of it (Nikita Bier) made it a lot less evil when Elon wasn't looking. But now he's gone so who knows what will happen.
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by astrange 24d ago
Unlike GPT (I think?), Claude is served by all of AWS/GCP/Azure and you can go buy it from any of them.
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by astrange 25d ago
> - AI centralizes power in the hands of capital, rendering those who can afford compute hardware vastly more capable than those who cannot and thus increasing social stratification Looks to me like I can run Claude Code without being ab
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by astrange 25d ago
After a year of not being able to serve Claude because they ran out of datacenters I don't think they want to go back to that. (If they did, they wouldn't have added the effort level.)
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by astrange 25d ago
No, there's no reason chatbot behavior would have anything to do with frequency of text in pretraining.
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by astrange 25d ago
I think the specific issue with Opus 5 is that its writing style is just trying to cheat at RL. It makes everything hypey yet self deprecating and constantly brings up "honest caveats" because the scoring rubrics look for those.
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by astrange 25d ago
> Twitter was changed so that only views favoured by Musk show up prominently in replies. This doesn't happen anymore, it's actually relatively good at sorting bad comments to the bottom now. The current problem is it's fu
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by astrange 29d ago
You can't turn off random parts of a system someone else made. You don't know what they do. https://limi.net/checkboxes
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by astrange 1mo ago
Anything with ranged numeric types. Like everyone's favorite functional programming language, Ada.
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by astrange 1mo ago
Haskell's type system would not easily prevent this bug. It's not good at numeric/logic issues like that. When people say "Haskell makes it impossible to write bugs" they mean "Haskell has enums" (ADTs).
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by astrange 1mo ago
Since the groups are unrelated, they don't actually have consistent wealth levels or belief. It's literally just a list of random people she doesn't like.
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by astrange 1mo ago
Background processes almost never really use expensive resources on macOS or Linux. Certainly they can cause symptoms sometimes, but it's typically no worse than extra fan noise. All the wasted resources on most people's machines
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by astrange 1mo ago
TESCREAL is a word meaning "a bunch of unrelated groups that Timnit Gebru thinks are nerds", who are not really aligned with the administration. (I also think they're nerds.)
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by astrange 1mo ago
I don't think there's anyone who wants to fund "committing felonies", for obvious reasons.
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by astrange 1mo ago
The issue is you're usually using inline asm for special cases, or else CPU features so new the compiler doesn't know about them. Which means it also doesn't know the clobbering rules. That's why it looks like an escape
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by astrange 1mo ago
In Steve's case "fueled by spite" would be more precisely "borderline personality disorder". If you read him in that lens it might help distinguish how to be successful like him without all of the bad parts.
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by astrange 1mo ago
Anthropic is a PBC, so they're required to work towards a public benefit. They're also basically a religious cult dedicated to Claude.

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