coldtea

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by coldtea 2mo ago
And someone would install random apps to save $5 on $100 purchases?
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by coldtea 2mo ago
> Sorry to say, but this is a skill issue That's the same slop response as "it's a skill issue" applied to C codebases being inherently insecure due to the language's footguns/design.
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by coldtea 2mo ago
> Surely you don't actually believe, or even desire, for everyone to fully understand everything that they say... No room for questions, uncertainty, bewilderment, etc? Nothing they said implies that. What they said is they want th
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by coldtea 2mo ago
Write yourself and tell the AI: "Fix the spelling and grammar. Do not change the structure or meaning" then.
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by coldtea 2mo ago
> I made some ninja edits, so perhaps you didn't see them. But it is entirely possible that both a person and an Ai could produce writing that is both good or bad, useful or misleading. Theoritically yes. In practice: - AI response
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by coldtea 2mo ago
> But isn't that "burden" on others always going to be there, whether you or AI wrote it? That's what communicating is... Not the same burden. The value of the person is digesting and giving the materially important
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by coldtea 2mo ago
> Someone asked you a real question. You popped it into a chatbot, copied the answer, and sent it back. It felt fast. It felt helpful. And it usually isn't. OMFG! Even the "don't send AI answers" page text is fucking
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by coldtea 2mo ago
Not just Japan, they're widely popular globally as daily drivers, but also as "fashion" watches, with Gen Z too.
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by coldtea 2mo ago
You make it sound like their exports are subpar. They're excellent.
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by coldtea 2mo ago
"So much better" means "with added smartwatch crap"? The whole value of them is they are simple, minimally changed over time (you can depend on getting the same model in a decade), functional, with no/bare minimum s
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by coldtea 2mo ago
> Korg did it right - budget off-the-shelf processor, most of the money spent on the UI, wildly optimistic prices, no nostalgic ties. Korg does put out "nostalgic" remakes of analog synths just as well: MS-20 (complete with pa
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by coldtea 2mo ago
> In a market with healthy competition (no collusion), this generally can't happen. We're talking about the memory market here. The "healthy competition (no collusion). Every single vendor is incentivized to lower their p
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by coldtea 2mo ago
And yet, memory manufacturers have been caught (in legal cases and fined) many times to collide and keep prices high artificially in the past.
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by coldtea 2mo ago
> I don't understand the distinction you are making. If you have a massive excess of demand ready to pay any price, and a limited supply, of course the sellers will take advantage, that's how any market works. They can do that
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by coldtea 2mo ago
> and how much is this just manufacturers taking advantage of it "Manufacturers taking advantage of it" wouldn't take it to 500% without AI, because it's way beyond the price elasticity points where they make up lost
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by coldtea 2mo ago
> I’m guessing there’s a bit of breathing room at the lower end of the system - there will be people who become drug addicts or have major mental health breaks and lose everything So? Why can't a 21st century country provide them w
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by coldtea 2mo ago
> Does that mean it's intelligent? To me it just means they can brilliantly fake human conversation That's exactly the criteria we used to assume for over half a century for it finally being intelligent: the Turing Test. And w
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by coldtea 2mo ago
"Feel" is doing a lot of work here. You can recognize 70% of those (true positive rate) and still have a false negative rate of 30%, while thinking you got 100% of the AI ones! The problem is that you'd be oblivious to those
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by coldtea 2mo ago
> I keep hearing this claim, and yet I keep seeing LLM output which is trivially distinguished from human writing. That's mostly true for longer LLM output with all the sycophancy / LinkedIn bias thrown in. Make it casual conv
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by coldtea 2mo ago
> I know that there’s a sort of Silicon Valley shorthand where regulation = regulatory capture = concentration of power, but I’ve always found this to be an overly simplified picture of the world. To paraphrase Sinclair "It's d
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by coldtea 2mo ago
Maybe because "apologies for linking to X" is needless gaudy virtue signalling. Make it "Apologies for linking to Amodei" and we're talking.
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by coldtea 2mo ago
Not if an LLM over chat can fool most people they're talking to a human (which it can), where the TI-99 speech synthesizer voice absolutely can not.
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by coldtea 2mo ago
For most it's quite easy with all the crappy AI style marks. Read a few people complain are AI to get a feel, then you can recognize it in less subtle ones. In short comments / casual threads, it's not so easy. It can 100% lo
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by coldtea 2mo ago
> 2. I can implement it without lawyers sending me a love letter. What's stopping them? They can trivially claim it infringes any number of patents...
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by coldtea 2mo ago
How about not creating/forcing ANY exploits?
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by coldtea 2mo ago
> Same as usual: add tests. Over time the test suite becomes the spec that describes how the software should function. That covers functionality - it doesn't catch the kind of bugs talked about in TFA.
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by coldtea 2mo ago
This guy is worried that we might stop having exploits, and that's somehow ...a bad thing? I thought I've read the worst takes about most things, but this still deserves some kind of prize.
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by coldtea 2mo ago
A, yes "Why our memory slips after age 50" - so much causation implying that it's merely the age. That the post implies it - when it goes through several mechanisms - is even more ludicrous.
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by coldtea 2mo ago
More like it is a well established concern, that moderates on both sides of the political spectrum agree that it was overdone in a way that didn't exactly promote meritocracy.
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by coldtea 2mo ago
They are true, and not just plagiarism but blatant fabulist lies about his past accomplishments and life story.

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