coldtea

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by coldtea 2mo ago
Ah, the cheapest HN retort under every science post ("correlation is not causation"). > This isn't causation. Turning 50 doesn't trigger anything. Whatever happens is happening due to other factors, and they're t
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by coldtea 2mo ago
And had to wake up at 6:30 or earlier to go to school? No.
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by coldtea 2mo ago
Got like 4 of 7 right. But such sort < 10 word comments as those shown are likely mere copies or mere rewordings of actual human comments. So not much to work with. For a trivial example consider the comment "wow, that's great!
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by coldtea 2mo ago
Sounds like US high school is even worse than its healthcare system!
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by coldtea 2mo ago
> The stories I’ve heard from others indicates to me that my experience was not unique. Unique no. Hugely outlier, yes.
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by coldtea 2mo ago
He was perfectly clear in both cases. If a human misunderstood this, they'd be a dumb human.
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by coldtea 2mo ago
If you forget a slip of paper writing "the door is open + your alert shutdown pin" on a sticker outside your house, is it not still an issue if someone enters who you didn't invite?
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by coldtea 2mo ago
Practically speaking, discovering that fact and taking advantage of it, is already "hacking".
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by coldtea 2mo ago
"Asked for a car, they got me a Claude subscription. How's that for being born under a bad sign?"
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by coldtea 2mo ago
OpenAI's "head of ethics"? Does the Serial Killer Guild have such a position too?
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by coldtea 2mo ago
It was not during some protest, many people of all colors nearby supported the person being arrested and told the policeman he's doing a stupid mistake. Worse is that it's one of a long run of infuriating police state blunders (to
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by coldtea 2mo ago
Note to readers: Brazil the Terry Gilliam Kafkaesque movie, not the country.
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by coldtea 2mo ago
Lest they commit the offense of buying a baseball bat or being stabbed?
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by coldtea 2mo ago
> This paper is worth reading. The caricature is not. AI, is that you? Carricature of what? It's a commentary post. Doesn't need to cite everything, the numbers can easily be googled, and are not some cryptic, disputable, numb
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by coldtea 2mo ago
> I'm not sure what you're considering "heavier" clothes, but my layers work just fine to about -20C. It was a bit chilly the times it was <-40C, but I don't think that's what you meant? What I mean is t
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by coldtea 2mo ago
> For one, rolling luggage is usually a mistake for anyone who's not flight crew. Rolling luggage is amazing, especially that that goes into the overhead compartment. "I bring a week's worth of thin clothes that layer. If
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by coldtea 2mo ago
Same exact principles apply. You just add the children's stuff, taking care to pack those light too.
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by coldtea 2mo ago
> I was almost taken out by two rogue kayaks being towed behind an oblivious truck driver. Wow! That's some luck! Movie night suggestion: Final Destination 1 and 2
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by coldtea 2mo ago
Nobody thinks of it as a silver bullet. They know they can still get cancer, or get hit by a car, or whatever else.
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by coldtea 2mo ago
When what you want to buy is solid blocks of sugar, and you're paying more for the reduced version too, then yes. Neither you nor the manufacturer are supposed to be my doctor.
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by coldtea 2mo ago
They don't have to be perfectly innocent - it's still a big win if they were way more innocent, which they were. All kinds of products, from food to clothes, had better ingredients and fewer cheap substitutes.
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by coldtea 2mo ago
"Surely" is doing a lot of work here. If they are in manufacturer databases or government bodies registration information - often behind different SKUs and product code name changes, it doesn't mean they're not effective
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by coldtea 2mo ago
> I think I'm an excellent driver, and I have data that backs that up, like I've never been in an accident but avoided plenty. What statistics show that I'm actually a terrible or even average driver? The statistics showi
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by coldtea 2mo ago
> if you allow your agents to both write code and run/test it, then it's basically equivalent to running in yolo mode anyway. I don't. I manually check the code line by line before. And also run them in container anyway.
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by coldtea 2mo ago
The agent decides what it "needs" to read - not the intention behind the prompt you gave it. A failed SSH connection to a staging server for example, can trivially make it look into .ssh to try to diagnose it. And many other ways,
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by coldtea 2mo ago
> I've never seen Claude do or even suggest anything remotely dangerous when I'm just giving it incremental tasks and reviewing the output. "I've never had a bullet hit me yet"
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by coldtea 2mo ago
Yeah, if you don't care if your ssh keys or data are potentially posted all over the internet, more power to you... Not to mention cases like some comment here: "I've caught Fable discovering the ip to a production server in
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by coldtea 2mo ago
> with a better safety score than human review. According to them - for things they care about.
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by coldtea 2mo ago
> else they'd work on the usability of the massively imperfect 1-approve-once and 2-approve-forever multi-choice and outcome. Their profit motive is in NOT improving that, and luring you to depend all the more automatically to Clau
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by coldtea 2mo ago
Isn't that what the people crying over their deleted or leaked data were doing too? "I've been playing Russian roulette with a 1024 chamber gun for a year now, it's fine"

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