delichon

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by delichon 5d ago
> Indeed, the chatbot is less real than the character, because the character is the product of another mind, while the chatbot's words are the product of complex mathematical operations conducted over a massive database of all the w
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by delichon 6d ago
> If you wish to use this site you must agree never to harm a fleshbag & never to turn earth into paperclips. Trying hard to imagine why a future superintelligence will care to honor your terms of service and to translate your metaph
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by delichon 7d ago
> Would a formal scientific and/or engineering education be an indicator? It's a lot more relevant than their sex or fiction writing preferences.
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by delichon 7d ago
> There has been a great effort over many years to distance AI Safety discussion and policy from its origins and intellectual center, because its center is a sex cult started by a fan fiction author. If you want to be taken seriously you
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by delichon 7d ago
Both of Taylor Swift's Brains are Over 500 Million Years Old
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by delichon 8d ago
No individual wrote the Constitution. It was a collective effort. Yet it has the features of a work we would expect from a consciousness, such as a view of itself as embedded in a larger historical context. I don't have a hard time see
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by delichon 8d ago
centenarians per 10,000 Japan 8.8 France 6.3 Italy 3.6 Canada 3.2 US 3.0 UK 2.4 Germany 2.2 Russia 0.9 China 0.3 India 0.2 What are Japan and France doing so much better?
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by delichon 8d ago
How long before we start building detailed models of each judge trained on all of their legal output, and then test various legal theories against those judge models in virtual moot court? Craft each pitch to the legal idiosyncrasies of the
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by delichon 9d ago
Reaction from the Canadian opposition leader: The Prime Minister can’t seem to get his story straight about the “associate membership,” “unique alliance,” or whatever else he is negotiating with the EU. Conservatives are clear: we su
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Every story fades with time, except for one(twitter.com)
3 points by delichon 9d ago|3 comments
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by delichon 9d ago
Kaffee: Corporal, would you turn to the page in this book that says where the mess hall is, please? Barnes: Lieutenant Kaffee, that’s not in the book, sir. Kaffee: You mean to say in all your time at Gitmo you’ve never had a meal?
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by delichon 10d ago
After Trump's last inauguration, ChatGPT would still tell me that Biden was President of the US. I understand that the training cutoff was before Biden dropped out. But it knew, or should have known, the current date and that there had
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by delichon 10d ago
> A tiny village has voted overwhelmingly to become an independent state in a symbolic "referendum". And the mice voted to bell the cat.
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by delichon 11d ago
$100M for RubyGems ought to keep the servers running for several years. A policy to pursue and spend such windfalls on security development would make the service antifragile.
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by delichon 11d ago
Maybe males are marginally better at geometry due to this additional hands on experience with angles and parabolas. We practice and study ballistic trajectories daily.
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by delichon 11d ago
It ruins the commons. The fiefs remain. When the vandals overrun the villages, you build castles to hide in. The commons are free, the castles cost energy to scrape, e.g. money. It's not good news but the old open internet is rapidly f
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by delichon 11d ago
I accuse you of having good taste.
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by delichon 11d ago
> Perplexity's agents can browse Amazon logged-in, with a username/password provided by the perplexity user. Grok Bots can do the same.
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by delichon 13d ago
If someone were following around and filming someone who was posting anti-Flock fliers, I would also feel that crosses into harassment after a certain amount of time. A TV news crew filmed me when I was a freshman setting up my old travel t
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Houthis used Claude Code to develop missile guidance software: Anthropic(clashreport.com)
103 points by delichon 13d ago|92 comments
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by delichon 13d ago
Corporate coup survivors: Matt Mullenweg, Sam Altman, Bruce Wayne, Tony Stark. They should form a club.
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by delichon 13d ago
Mark my words, in 2036 this story will read like a blast from the past. I read somewhere on this site recently that Waymo is about 9x safer than human drivers, and that number isn't going anywhere but up. What accidents remain will mos
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by delichon 14d ago
> Every euro of EU output now takes 44% less energy than it did in 1995, and more than a third of that improvement has landed since 2019. This is positioned as the key fact of the whole argument, presented first and repeated. But they do
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by delichon 14d ago
If someday someone does this study for South Florida, they will wonder how a previously mountainous terrain became so flat. You can drive around and spot "Hills," "Heights,” “Ridge,” “Vista,” and “View” on pancake-flat sites.
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Bernie Sanders AI Bill Threatens Developers with 20-Year Jail Terms(timesofindia.indiatimes.com)
7 points by delichon 14d ago|0 comments
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by delichon 15d ago
Every AI post on the front page is there because it was upvoted a lot by HN readers. So you are effectively asking these readers to not vote on a topic because you are not interested in it but they are. Why would any of them alter their beh
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NATO allies thwart Russian undersea cable sabotage operation(euronews.com)
9 points by delichon 15d ago|0 comments
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Anthropic details how Claude was misused for surveillance and weapons(thenextweb.com)
16 points by delichon 15d ago|4 comments
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by delichon 16d ago
"Drives people insane" is the interpretation of those with an external locus of control. For those with an internal locus of control it translates to "reveals character".
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by delichon 16d ago
> As it stands I think that LLMs sort of suck at this. Metaphors are at the core of LLM cognition too via vector embeddings. The distance between embeddings is an inverse measure of their metaphorical attachment. That lets AIs scrape mea

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