cryptica

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by cryptica 9mo ago
> the best play tends to be "to be unjust while seeming just" Yep this is a huge problem now. I think wealth inequality is also making this worse because people often turn a blind eye to the bad behaviors of people who have pow
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by cryptica 9mo ago
Yes, strongly believe this is the case. The corrupt leaders are rarely chosen by the people; they are installed by foreign powers. There are many cases you can dig into which are absolutely atrocious; like people getting paid big money by w
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by cryptica 9mo ago
I think a major flaw of all these models is that they underestimate: 1. How easy it is to start fresh and shed your past reputation if you get caught doing something bad. 2. How forgiving people are and how tolerant they are to deception, a
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by cryptica 9mo ago
As an engineer who bills by the hour, I like how LLMs are affecting codebases. I've been preaching the benefits of well designed code for a long time, explaining that 10x engineers exist but only if the codebase permits... Nobody got i
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by cryptica 9mo ago
I've been kidnapped by my landlord, who is working in cahoots with my employer with the support of the government and the banks. I've been trapped inside my landlord's house and my employer's office and they keep traffic
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by cryptica 9mo ago
It's moved to AI training sets. If you can't get your product into the training set of a popular model, it's game over.
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by cryptica 9mo ago
The CEOs of the biggest corporations could absolutely be replaced... You don't even need an LLM, just a cron job that runs once a day and executes a script: if (marketCrash) then sendEmailToGovernmentAskingForBailout();
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by cryptica 9mo ago
There is probably a point when there is enough capital and enough investors that you don't need a CEO or executives. The investors already take care of all the politics and business networking side of the company for free. The investor
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by cryptica 9mo ago
If it can engage in criminal activity, then it can skip the golf training. Every time the LLM CEO gets caught doing a crime and goes to 'jail', the LLMs on the exec board can vote to replace it with another instance of the same LL
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by cryptica 9mo ago
Yes, it is. I feel like this level of distrust is probably something that wealthy people often experience; but at least they can take a look at their bank account or portfolio app from the comfort of a house they own to help soothe the pain
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by cryptica 9mo ago
This is part of the reason why I never worked for big tech. I always have a side project going. I cannot function without a side project. I don't believe that any corporation would ever reward me for any reason; so without a side proje
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by cryptica 9mo ago
I think a good strategy is to change companies often and ensure that your side project isn't related to any of them. This creates a lot of complications and adds a layer of protection because if your current employer tried to claim the
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by cryptica 9mo ago
You can see it everywhere. In this case, the fact that it took 2 years. And of course now that FFmpeg is getting more exposure in the media due to their association with AI hype, now they finally get 'fair' legal treatment... I do
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by cryptica 9mo ago
The law doesn't seem to work anymore. There are so many cases where someone can do illegal stuff in plain sight and nothing can be done about it. Not everyone has tens of thousands or hundreds of thousands of dollars to spare to get a
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by cryptica 10mo ago
As I get older, I'm realizing that there's no such thing as 'human nature.' It's a broad spectrum. My view is that poor and average people are alright but as you get closer to power, people become increasingly corru
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by cryptica 1y ago
I suspect hallucinations in LLMs are the result of contradictions in their training sets which were trained into it. I suspect it's just like with humans. People who learn quickly and don't carefully curate their knowledge to reso
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by cryptica 2y ago
This is an excellent subject to teach in schools. I'm a software developer and I felt like I benefited from woodwork and metalwork lessons at school. I think if the future generation is to automate systems, they will need to understand
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by cryptica 2y ago
I oppose the bill on principle. That said, I can see some positive that can come of it (for Australians) which has nothing to do with safety. Still, I'm not convinced that Australian politicians are actually working for Australian inte
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by cryptica 2y ago
It's just like it was with pen and paper... Everyone trusts what is written on the financial statement but when they come to withdraw the cash, all at once, suddenly everyone finds out that the gold isn't there. It's the same
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by cryptica 2y ago
Well, you can't overthrow a government with a piece of cloth. So I still don't see how it could be called an insurrection.
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by cryptica 2y ago
That's too bad but I guess if people want to silo themselves in, they should be allowed. I just hope that big corporations don't eventually coerce everyone into this through economic force. I can see a future where corporations co
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by cryptica 2y ago
From my perspective, X experience has improved a lot since Elon's acquisition. What actually got worse materially? I hear a lot of gesturing 'Orange man bad', 'Elon help orange man, so Elon bad' but I cannot reach a
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by cryptica 2y ago
I refuse to use Bluesky because it is clearly being pushed on the masses, in collusion with mainstream media, as an alternative to X. Clearly another attempt by certain people to control information. It's shocking how people fall for t
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by cryptica 2y ago
Also cats are smarter than humans because they found a way to enslave humanity without even having to pretend to care about us. Dogs rank one level below, in that respect.
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by cryptica 2y ago
I don't understand why the media is pushing this a Jake Paul vs Mike Tyson stuff so hard and why people care about it. Boxing is crude entertainment for low intelligence people. I'm tired of all this junk entertainment which only
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by cryptica 2y ago
It's interesting the way things turned out so far with LLMs, especially from the perspective of a software engineer. We are trained to keep a certain skepticism when we see software which appears to be working because, ultimately, the
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by cryptica 2y ago
The part where Elon's mum said she was shocked by the contents of the Twitter files and that's why she stopped being a democrat. That's all the info I needed. Haha. How leftist/neoliberal of me to outsource my opinion! W
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by cryptica 2y ago
The first amendment of the US constitutions says that it's illegal for the government to make a law which abridges people's freedom of speech. There are many cases of government entities working with social media companies to supp
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by cryptica 2y ago
We haven't come so far from the time of the Romans who drank from lead pipes. We're just wrestling with different chemicals and different physical, environmental and social effects.
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by cryptica 2y ago
When I see stuff like this, I don't understand how the economics work out for YouTube. So many pointless videos uploaded for free. How can they possibly make a profit?

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