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by causal 1y ago
And a digital social credit system can be manipulated to drive behavioral changes en-masse. It centralizes power. Harder to do that with word-of-mouth.
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by causal 1y ago
Credit scores are used for a lot more than finances. You could argue everything they're used for is tied to money some way, but since everything is being sold to us as a service that doesn't leave much out. They are also very much
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by causal 1y ago
Just look at this comment section - one flawed headline is all it takes to get hundreds of people writing essays about how they totally understand how the brain works and knew it all along.
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by causal 1y ago
The irony. It isn't even a new study. Way too much has been written about this flawed study when we should just be doing more studies.
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by causal 1y ago
Instead of trying to balance dreck can we just... not upvote any dreck
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by causal 1y ago
Yeah I feel like HN is being Reddit-ified with the amount of reposted clickbait that keeps making the front page :( This study in particular has made the rounds several times as you said. The study measures impact of 18 people using ChatGPT
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by causal 1y ago
Yeah I dislike that term, because it puts the responsibility on the AI instead of the humans behind it. You wouldn't call it "paper psychosis" if OpenAI had written a letter encouraging psychotic behavior.
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by causal 1y ago
Prompt-injected SWATing even.
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by causal 1y ago
"know" is used colloquially this way even for non-AI systems. "it encodes the training data in weights to predict a token mimicking a human ..." - better?
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by causal 1y ago
I don't think we should have to choose between "sycophantic coddling" and "alert the authorities". Surely there's a middle ground where it should be able to point the user to help and then refuse to participate
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by causal 1y ago
It is disturbing, but I think a human therapist would also have told him not to do that, and instead resorted to some other intervention. It is maybe an example of why having a partial therapist is worse than none: it had the training data
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by causal 1y ago
False positives are still false positives. You don't decide to ignore a possible tumor because everybody's getting MRIs these days.
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by causal 1y ago
This is super helpful. I would read a yearly summary like this.
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by causal 1y ago
Isn't CORS supposed to prevent this?
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by causal 1y ago
Democracy makes problems much more visible. The "other ideas" will just hide problems much better
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by causal 1y ago
I've never understood this line of Marxist rhetoric, isn't like every instance of communist government also a complete merging of state and corporate power? Or is that just more "not true communism"?
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by causal 1y ago
That is not an exception, it's exactly what the Tweet is talking about
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by causal 1y ago
Bad governance does not justify more bad governance. Even if it's true that previous admins have done all this before (it's not) it wouldn't justify a thing.
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by causal 1y ago
Trying to give something more power because you think it likes power is generally considered risky https://x.com/TimothyDSnyder/status/1849951974944313590?lang...
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by causal 1y ago
I still need to try them, but I'm having a hard time envisioning async agents being nearly as useful to me as something local like Claude Code because of how often I need to intervene and ensure it is working correctly. Won't the
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by causal 1y ago
Solutions that include mass die-off of human populations are generally considered incomplete
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by causal 1y ago
Can you explain what this does?
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by causal 1y ago
Yeah title implies a why, but this is really just about how
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by causal 1y ago
3. APIs. If you already have a client facing API for your iOS and Android apps, and maybe one for developers, a SPA is just another app to plug into that backend.
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by causal 1y ago
Okay, please don't post ChatGPT output as fact without verification or at least stating where you got it.
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by causal 1y ago
Where did you get this? Don't see it on the 2025 problem set and now I wanna see if I have the right answer
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by causal 1y ago
What does max⁡1≤i<j≤n mean? Wouldn't M always be j?
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by causal 1y ago
These numbers feel kind of meaningless without any work showing how he got to 16%
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by causal 1y ago
Doubting LLMs because Segway was also trendy yet failed is so funny
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by causal 1y ago
Heh. Gonna leave it then

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