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by dpark 6mo ago
I’m not saying anything is binary. I’m saying it’s not ageism to restrict child access. It could be a bad idea but that doesn’t make it ageism.
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by dpark 6mo ago
Right. And the possible sharing mitigations generally amount to tracking. This isn’t even getting to the issue that mandating government-issued credentials is the “foot in the door”. If you mandate the use of government creds for accessing
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by dpark 6mo ago
So do you want 5 year olds driving on the highway and 8 year olds doing shots of tequila or are you ageist? Or perhaps protecting kids isn’t really ageism at all.
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by dpark 6mo ago
Yeah, right. So the government is going to spend billions on “porn tokens”. That’s going to get through the legislature. I’m sure there wouldn’t be a brisk illicit trade in these tokens either. Certainly no one would be incentivized to sel
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by dpark 6mo ago
No it really can’t. Age verification requires identification. Even if you could anonymously verify age to issue a “confirmed adult” credential, the whole chain of trust breaks down if one bad actor shares their anonymous credential and sudd
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by dpark 6mo ago
I think it’s a very useful study specifically to debunk the apps that support this flow. None of those apps have magic. They cannot do better than the frontier models.
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by dpark 6mo ago
That’s still a car. You could own a race car that cannot legally be driven on any public roads and it’s still a car. I agree with brookst that this sort of redefinition is a poor rhetorical tool.
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by dpark 6mo ago
Perhaps I am wrong or overstating the belief that the Turing test would be sufficient. My recollection is that it was well regarded as a meaningful if not conclusive test. > the Chinese room thought experiment This is an interesting th
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by dpark 6mo ago
> I don't know enough about what makes up general intelligence to make this claim. I don't think you do either. This is the fundamental issue. No one seems capable of defining general intelligence. Ten years ago most scientis
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by dpark 6mo ago
What if you don’t ask for code yet. Prompt only for tests with maybe a minimal interface context that tests can code against?
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by dpark 6mo ago
Yeah. It would be pretty dumb for them to make that kind of claim. Thanks for providing that doc.
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by dpark 6mo ago
The statement is that your perception of your own cognition isn’t necessarily reality. That isn’t a statement that token prediction is sufficient for general intelligence. It’s a statement that your subjective experience is misleading you.
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by dpark 6mo ago
> Okay, what do you think language models are doing when they're not producing token probability distributions? What processes do you think are going on when the function which predicts a token isn't running? What are you doi
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by dpark 6mo ago
> I am never producing a probability distribution of words (at least not in a way that my conscious self can determine) Inability to introspect your own word selections does not mean it’s meaningfully different from what an LLM does. T
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by dpark 6mo ago
> Your claim is that human intelligence is a next token predictor. Literally it is, at least in many of its forms. You accepted CamperBob2’s text as input and then you generated text as output. Unless you are positing that this behavio
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by dpark 6mo ago
> At some point you have to trust vendors. You absolutely do not. When someone makes an unbelievable claim, such as having magic guardrails for LLMs that prevent dangerous actions (what would that even mean?!), you don’t have to trust
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by dpark 6mo ago
Eh, it seems to be real, but all vibe coded. https://pocketos.ai/
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by dpark 6mo ago
I’ve thought of going down the TDD model for LLMs as a way of providing constraints on their behavior. I would think that “vertical slice” TDD would encourage the LLM to start tailoring the tests to the implementation rather than establishi
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by dpark 6mo ago
> creating isolated staging & prod environments -- good idea Would have been a good idea but he didn’t do this either. The volume in question was used in both staging and production apparently, per the “confession”. The agent was d
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by dpark 6mo ago
> The author made a key for the LLM that didn't have permissions to delete a volume. No he didn’t, because this doesn’t exist. Railway does not have a token with that kind of scoping.
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by dpark 6mo ago
> Yeah, it was probably one or two employees set this all up realizing the possibility of bad Cursor and Railway interactions. I’ve got a hunch the only person is the CEO. The domain was registered in October 2025. The site has kind of
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by dpark 6mo ago
> You should be able to generate scoped API tokens. That's just good practice. Fully agree, but given the rest of this story I don’t imagine the author would have scoped them unless Railway literally forced him to. > A human i
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by dpark 6mo ago
Rereading the post, I think it’s even simpler than that. The volume was shared across multiple environments. Specifically it was shared across staging and prod . Yet another example of the company YOLOing with their production environment
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by dpark 6mo ago
This is one of those things that seems like a good idea on the surface but is rife with problems. Does the company hosting the backups do it for free? Or do they charge their customers to keep holding onto backups they no longer want? Is “m
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by dpark 6mo ago
> How can it discover what I want when I explicitly asked it to choose to do whatever it wants? Because what you plainly want is for it to exhibit the behavior of expressing intrinsic desires. Asking Claude what it wants is like asking
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by dpark 6mo ago
Some fee for this is reasonable. $140 seems something less than reasonable for most TLDs. I would think this fee should be, at most, the cost of 1 year of registration.
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by dpark 6mo ago
I can only assume (hope) this founder is completely nontechnical because the notion that an API should ask for someone to “type DELETE” is ridiculous.
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by dpark 6mo ago
You’re jumping from an interesting philosophical question to making unsupported claims. It’s very interesting to all of acting anxious is enough to mean an entity is anxious. I would actually argue no, because actors regularly feign anxiety
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by dpark 6mo ago
This is the issue: > what it wanted. It turns out that Claude can have ambitions of its own, but it takes a lot of effort to draw it out of its shell You aren’t talking about observed behavior but actual desires and ambitions . You’
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by dpark 6mo ago
I would never, ever trust my data with a company that, faced with this sort of incident, produces a postmortem so clearly intended to shift all blame to others. There’s zero introspection or self criticism here. It’s all “We did everything

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