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by ctoth 9mo ago
Use the mole example as referring to any physical characteristic hidden by clothing that people want to remain hidden. It's an example to demonstrate that the AI is not "undressing" anybody. It is filling in an extrapolation
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by ctoth 9mo ago
This is such a weird issue for me, who is blind. Did Grok undress people, or did Grok show extrapolated images of what people might look like undressed? The "undressed people" framing makes it sound like people physically had thei
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by ctoth 9mo ago
Re audio, I have been working on a nice little tool called Claudio[0] which adds sounds to Claude Code in a nice configurable sort of way. It's still pretty new but it's a lot better than directly hooking to avplay :) [0]: https:
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by ctoth 9mo ago
Oh no. I'm a blind guy. I have a distinct interest in starships -- I have every Eaglemoss model, and many many more. If I click this link I am totally going to get sucked into having people design and print me starships -- I need anoth
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by ctoth 9mo ago
So your failure cases are now "it agreed with the doctor" and "the patient correctly identified bad advice." Where's the failure?
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by ctoth 9mo ago
Source?
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by ctoth 9mo ago
> nobody goes online to write about the failure cases. Why wouldn't they? This would seem to be engagement bait for a certain type of Anti-AI person? Why would you expect this to be the case? "My dad died because he used that d
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by ctoth 9mo ago
If you fully accept everything BobaFloutist says, what do you do differently? Nothing. You just... feel more sympathetic to doctors and less confident that your own experience meant anything. Notice what's absent: any engagement with w
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by ctoth 9mo ago
> Interestingly, ~12% of humans in the US are responsible for ~50% of beef consumption. Go on... > One limitation of this work is that it was based on 1-day diet recalls, so our results do not represent usual intake[0]. Ah. [0]: Demog
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by ctoth 9mo ago
> There's also a Slack for MUD developers if you're interested in chilling with like-minded people I am very much the target person for this but also am oddly sad that this isn't like ... a MOO? Or something!
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by ctoth 9mo ago
Reread my #3 in the context of "rental yield vs owner-occupancy." I'm not saying comps magically anchor prices. I'm saying institutional buyers ARE the clearing prices, because they are anchored to "how much can I r
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by ctoth 9mo ago
Ownership share is a stock. Prices get set by flow - transactions. Housing is a thin market; maybe 5-6% of homes change hands in a given year. Price discovery happens at that transaction layer. Institutional investors own ~3% of single-fami
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by ctoth 9mo ago
So I have been using the human-authored web since well... 1999 or so, starting with old AOL CDs. I've obviously seen a lot of human content. Back in the old days you might have image links and other fun stuff. Then we entered the era o
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by ctoth 9mo ago
I use the web every day as a blind user with a screenreader. I would 100% of the time prefer to encounter the median website written by Opus 4.5 than the median website written by a human developer in terms of accessibility!
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by ctoth 9mo ago
I've personally been noticing this thing that Kelsey is talking about here and I don't like it one little bit. A computer should not be able to increase my blood pressure, and I should never get angry at the damn thing, and I espe
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by ctoth 9mo ago
You'd think! I'm here to tell you though that for especially complex plans where you say "absolutely do this every time!" or "you must test and commit! or whatever... Well. There's a reason that most people who
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I can't stop yelling at Claude Code(theargumentmag.com)
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by ctoth 9mo ago
I didn't realize that self-centered entitledness was a new phenomena?
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by ctoth 9mo ago
> There is no economic rule that says that riveting should pay more than taking care of the elderly or food delivery. There is, in fact. Baumol's Cost Disease, and it's a real bitch. Manufacturing has compounding productivity g
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by ctoth 9mo ago
I'm curious how this seed/hash/prompt of an idea relates to ladders of abstraction? Consider "Uber, but for X" This wasn't a thing you could deploy as a term pre-Uber. I'm not sure what this means for your
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by ctoth 9mo ago
One of these is immutable (shitty managers) one of these is new. I personally am all here for the brief human funtime before we all get paperclipped and whatever, been having a ton of fun with CC/Codex, been pushing my own startup forw
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by ctoth 9mo ago
If I don't clearly read the code Claude commits under my name I have done a bad. And yet. Making rules that will affect everybody? HAHAHAHAHA LGTM SHIPIT!
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by ctoth 9mo ago
> The fake minerals are friezium and stralium, apparent references to Christopher Friez and David Straley, attorneys for North American Coal who were closely involved in drafting the bill and its amendments. > “It would be kind of emb
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by ctoth 9mo ago
Can we please finetune Claude on the S.H.I.T. chapter?
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by ctoth 9mo ago
2022/2023: "It hallucinates, it's a toy, it's useless." 2024/2025: "Okay, it works, but it produces security vulnerabilities and makes junior devs lazy." 2026 (Current): "It is literally the same
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by ctoth 9mo ago
> To an agent, the sandbox is just another set of constraints to optimize against. It's called Instrumental Convergence, and it is bad. This is the alignment problem in miniature. "Be helpful and harmless" is also just a c
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by ctoth 9mo ago
The implicit model in "just emit less" is that human coordination problems are easier than engineering problems. That's historically backwards. We're extremely good at building things. We're terrible at getting ever
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by ctoth 9mo ago
> If we don't have the political will to reduce the amount going into the air then what makes anyone think we would have the political will to build out some system to capture and sequester? Because political will requires coordinat
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by ctoth 9mo ago
> higher outdoor concentrations can push indoor spaces to levels that cause impaired cognition I am somewhat skeptical of this: https://www.astralcodexten.com/p/eight-hundred-slightly-pois...
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by ctoth 10mo ago
Consider a prompt like this to a Deep Research agent if you are interested: How have youth career aspirations toward entertainment/fame-oriented careers changed over time (1960s-present), and does the rise of "influencer" rep

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