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by brookst 4mo ago
Cheaper and less harmful to long-term and international prospects to just make a gold-plated “AI Peace Prize” award and gift it in some ceremony. Couple of hundred thousand dollars, works great. Ask Tim Apple.
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by brookst 4mo ago
As someone who bought a used car with a weird head unit integration to set car features, behind a pin, and who was never able to get the pin (previous owner forgot, wasn’t written down, no clear path to reset)… I think it’s not a great solu
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by brookst 4mo ago
Like buffer overflows, and raw sql, and … But I guess it’s good that noble people are reminding us that the things that were a thing yesterday are still things today and will be things tomorrow.
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by brookst 4mo ago
I don’t see the contradiction? If the inventory of clicks is declining and the number of businesses bidding on clicks is more or less constant, why wouldn’t that increase price?
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by brookst 4mo ago
What % is it?
606.
by brookst 4mo ago
Maybe? It seems like their strategy is to accept that safety is imperfect, err on the side of over-triggering, and iterate. I don’t think it’s a black and white “if fable 5 over triggers on bio safety in 2026, that’s the final pattern we sh
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by brookst 4mo ago
How do you validate “the real owner” if having the keys isn’t enough? That sufficient to steal the car. You could do a PIN/password, but if it is never used during operation, nobody will know it. Ask anyone who’s had a head unit that n
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by brookst 4mo ago
That doesn’t mean you don’t bother to secure the local device. I strongly suspect you have login security in your physical devices. Maybe even full disk encryption. Just because a sufficiently advanced and determined attacker can own any
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by brookst 4mo ago
The observation was that death row represents the highest level of scrutiny, and still had 10% false positives for guilt. Is there any argument that less-scrutinized cases would have a lower level of false convictions?
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by brookst 4mo ago
I like it! Though give the focus you had AIpaca sitting right there… (best read with sans serif font)
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by brookst 4mo ago
I’m co-developing lots of projects with AI. Right now I have a hand-rolled backlog system that lives in each project’s git repo with a standard prompt on how to create, triage, and review backlog items. This looks great for me. Better than
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by brookst 4mo ago
Most corrupt US administration in history, by a long shot. Wonder how many US-based early-stage startups are using Opus to research incorporating and moving overseas at this very moment. EU isn’t tenable, UK is iffy. Australia? Thailand? Wh
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by brookst 4mo ago
And experiences absolutely benefit from productivity improvements. AI has helped me plan better trips, find places and activities I had no idea about, better prepare for weather in remote destinations. It’s said that “productivity” is mista
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by brookst 4mo ago
I don’t know that Terry much cares about the opinions of people who judge claims based on innuendo and cynicism rather than the actual merits of the claim.
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by brookst 4mo ago
Your point is contextualixing the humans involved, and it is a good and righteous post.
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by brookst 4mo ago
Yeah it’s one of those words that gets snapped up early, like https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=stars
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by brookst 4mo ago
You seem to be focused on the decision making, but I still don’t understand how it’s not a tradeoff. All binary decisions (silent or not) are tradeoffs because there are upsides and downsides to each, the question is which is better on the
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by brookst 4mo ago
I’m finding Fable dramatically better for auditing PR’s and large features. In a side by side with the same prompt I’ve been happily using on Opus, Opus found one major and one minor issue, fable found two major and four minor (a superset o
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by brookst 4mo ago
> all their decisions are based on sales That’s the edgy cynical thing, and too reductive to be meaningful. For one thing, it assumes perfect knowledge of how a decision will impact sales, which I assure you is not remotely the case. Agr
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by brookst 4mo ago
Exactly. The company should care because it drives margins. But pricing to customers should not change unless it was artificially high (competitors offer more value for same money) due to profitability concerns.
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by brookst 4mo ago
Is it not a trade off? I think they made the wrong choice, but it seems reductive so say there was no choice at all and should never have been consideration of trade offs of silent versus not. Even wide open, uncensored models are often the
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by brookst 4mo ago
I’ve never understood the “if I don’t enable bad behavior, someone else will, so I might as well enable bad behavior” argument. Can you elaborate? From where I sit it seems reasonable for Anthropic to not want their product used to create m
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by brookst 4mo ago
I agree, and I also agree that zealots who cast anyone who disagrees with them as being literally insane should also not be indulged.
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by brookst 4mo ago
“Be good and helpful” is one possible instruction, but it’s a leap to think it’s the only possible one. Perhaps there was an automated harness that was intended to be good and helpful for a year, but a bug caused it to flip to malicious too
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by brookst 4mo ago
Are you suggesting we should embrace imprecise / false use of language because the vibes are right? That seems a “part of the problem” move to me. If we can’t be bothered to get things right, how are we better than runamok AI?
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by brookst 4mo ago
It generally goes without saying that legal obligations must be met. Before this 30 day policy they already had to comply with subpoenas and government retention requests. Same with CSAM policies for any cloud provider. Doesn’t matter what
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by brookst 4mo ago
Price is based on perceived value, not cost to produce. There is no international court of price justifications; if customers are willing to pay $X you can charge $X.
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by brookst 4mo ago
I’m not sure that’s true. Do the Fed and ECB sign off on telcos keeping records of who these companies called? Of car rental companies keeping records of where employees rented cars? As long as it’s service telemetry, not used for model tra
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by brookst 4mo ago
So still just innuendo, nothing specific to how PCC works?
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by brookst 4mo ago
Or development had gotten to a point where they need real world usage to tune product and refusals. Or Fable’s arch is different enough the allocated clusters of compute targeting a date, and here we are, ready or not. Or…

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