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by drdaeman 4d ago
Cloud GPUs have ToS about purposes you’re allowed to crank numbers for? I thought this only applies to LLM inference providers, but not raw GPU rentals.
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by drdaeman 4d ago
Those tokens aren’t guaranteed (esp. with RE and security tasks - rooted my own TV last week, Claude crapped out on “cyber safety” grounds), and you’re throwing money at entities that aren’t aligned with your interests instead of entities w
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by drdaeman 7d ago
Except that there’s no such thing as a “normie”. Everyone - save for people with developmental difficulties or ahedonia - has a specialty, something they know that the majority of other folks don’t. Every such domain of knowledge (useful or
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by drdaeman 7d ago
> Rule Number One: You may not use a single word an LLM suggests to you. I think there's a use case where this rule can be ignored. Sometimes I ask LLM to help me pick a single word or short phrase in some language, that has specifi
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by drdaeman 7d ago
What's the point of complaining about use of jargonisms in a specialist-leaning spaces? Anyone with a resemblance of a functioning brain (that is, any "normie" included) can understand "ability to install and run custom
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by drdaeman 7d ago
It’s an interesting book for sure, but I had (minor, but still) issues even with the introductory premises. Just a few notes I made from the very first chapter: - Jaynes used the term “reminiscence” in a way very different from Ballard and
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by drdaeman 10d ago
Yes, of course. My point was that computers are as secure as human(s) who programmed them were careful and competent. Computer security is ultimately human knowledge and reasoning competence (plus time/money tradeoffs, if made willingl
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by drdaeman 11d ago
Human security. Computers are fine, they usually do exactly as they’re programmed.
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by drdaeman 11d ago
Yes. That’s “is used to cause harm” situation, exactly.
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by drdaeman 11d ago
Isn’t the whole hope is that Google (and other app vendors) doesn’t even get a say at what’s possible through Siri. All it takes is to expose application’s UI to the model, and let the model send actions. If a human can do it tapping on the
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by drdaeman 11d ago
Sometimes that lead ends up in some school kids instead of enemy combatants or other plausible threats to life.
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by drdaeman 11d ago
> In the physical world, it seems like when an tool/device/instrument causes harm (or is used to cause harm), we assign blame to either the user of the tool or its creator. Firearms are a notorious example where some people get
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by drdaeman 12d ago
I like the overall direction, but how to tax it without screwing over hobbyist archivists aka data hoarders? That is, how to assess the value of some datastore, somehow distinguishing between personal preference profiles, random LLM softwar
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by drdaeman 13d ago
We didn’t have laws but every TV at the dawn of the era came with full schematics and documentation. That said, I’m not arguing that we don’t need laws today - we do, or at least I have no other idea how to do a course correction from where
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by drdaeman 13d ago
Which ones?
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by drdaeman 15d ago
Aren’t we all living with an illusion of intentionality of our actions, and the uncanniness of a machine is because it doesn’t pretend? Meaning is listener’s own perception (author’s own intent is a suggestion at best - if I’d be paid a dol
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by drdaeman 15d ago
Two completely different stories. One is public data scraping, another is private conversation scraping (where they're a first-party to the conversation). The key difference is that in the former case, no one made any promises, in the
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by drdaeman 15d ago
Isn't modulo-twelve (if we ignore microtonal) the core underlying structure, and then you pick scale (like 2 2 1 2 2 2 1) and a key as a mapping, and then use degree as an 1-based index into the scale? I don't really know a thing
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by drdaeman 17d ago
Same exact duration for all authors: as long as they’re around and capable of caring. It’s not the same when duration is expressed numerically, sure. But consider: no life is the same in this way (until immortality is discovered), yet all s
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by drdaeman 20d ago
> The framing of something as a disease Is a well-known cognitive quirk, Sapolsky covered that in “Behave” and “Determined”. As I get it, our morality piggybacks on the sense of disgust from insula activation, which lights up the same wa
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by drdaeman 29d ago
> a computer can never be sad or horny or have taste So far ;-)
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by drdaeman 1mo ago
What we need are refinement types, where there’s a base type and a predicate. F* has this: val (/) : int -> (divisor:int { divisor <> 0 }) -> int
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by drdaeman 1mo ago
Check out this: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49402232 both article and comments. There are a lot of knobs to tweak, and some are pretty impactful.
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by drdaeman 1mo ago
I’m not sure what kind of peripherals the article talks about, but I’ve had a lot of weird crashes with ASUS MB onboard feature that provides RGB lightning to various fans and whatever. I may misremember the details; it was 6 or so years ag
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by drdaeman 1mo ago
“How” as in “what tool” is a different “how” as in “with what intent”. LLM was used to produce a bunch of arguments supporting a pre-intended outcome. Doesn’t matter much whether it was a machine or a human (and whether it was “expert” hims
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by drdaeman 1mo ago
Yea, my bad, that was a brain fart. I guess I was thinking about it from the thing’s perspective rather than owners’.
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by drdaeman 2mo ago
Yes. Although, to be pedantic - stealing relocates (it doesn’t leave one less, it moves the only thing into another person’s possession), while copying duplicates. Copy vs move is IMHO accurate semantics.
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by drdaeman 2mo ago
Read it in the context. The “made up” wasn’t a general statement. No one argues stealing doesn’t exist at all. My friend’s bike was stolen. What’s made up is application of this word to situations that are incompatible with what stealing is
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by drdaeman 2mo ago
No, and we collectively had this decades ago already. “Stealing” instead of “infringement” is originally MAFIAA language intentionally (ab)used to encourage emotional reaction despite original owner not losing their copy. If you broke into
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by drdaeman 2mo ago
ESP32 in my OpenSprinkler pulls the weather (among a few more things it does) just fine and it has 520 kilobytes or RAM total.

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