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by edmundsauto 5mo ago
I have always heard that dopers are consistently ahead of testing regimes. I don’t think it is easier to tell than AI, which always seems pretty obvious to me.
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by edmundsauto 5mo ago
It doesn’t always have to have consequences when it’s a curated access club like the Oscars. It’s ok to have cultural norms that aren’t enforced by consequences, at the very least some of the ethical participants will follow them. I know th
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by edmundsauto 5mo ago
4. Or we could acknowledge that everyone is pathfinding.
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by edmundsauto 5mo ago
YMMV. I would still be very happy with Claude if it hard failed on 20% of tasks. You can always come back to it. I say this as someone working for a tech company who does not have to foot the bill (in the >$1k per month bracket) I also e
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by edmundsauto 5mo ago
It’s almost as if a group of 80,000 dynamic humans in a wild uncharted environment might mean decisions are made that have to be re-evaluated in a year!
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by edmundsauto 5mo ago
This is demonstrably false. In the case of removing migrants, the court ordered the practice halt and flights get turned around. The court also found evidence of contempt from the federal government due to noncompliance, although another ap
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by edmundsauto 5mo ago
Ahh but intent to harm doesn’t mean thy aren’t doing harm. “The road to hell is paved with good intentions”
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by edmundsauto 5mo ago
I can see a world where energy costs rise at a rate faster than overall inflation, or are a leading indicator. In that scenario then yes I could see LLM token costs going up.
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by edmundsauto 5mo ago
Law enforcement has also burned its goodwill with the public, making everything harder.
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by edmundsauto 6mo ago
HN sometimes talks about pathological customers who will never be happy. Boris is probably the single best rep in the community, possibly ever. The way your tone and complaints come across reminds me of this. As a paying customer ($5k spend
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by edmundsauto 6mo ago
The only reason he’s not constantly thinking about retribution is because he spends most of the time with his brain idle, or thinking of his next grift.
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by edmundsauto 6mo ago
Isn’t the definition of official duties vague and left to the courts?
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by edmundsauto 6mo ago
You are probably in the top 25%, depending on where in your 40s you are. Median is about 162k for Americans in their 40s.
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by edmundsauto 6mo ago
This is also a feature of distributed economies; it’s just the communication overhead to make a change centrally means that bad decisions are less easily repaired. AI and electronic data feeds seriously could be tried to fix this. There are
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by edmundsauto 6mo ago
Being a police officer is not that dangerous. You are more likely to experience death or dismemberment in like 20 other jobs.
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by edmundsauto 6mo ago
If you look around at the startup scene the past 5-10 years, has it really been any better?
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by edmundsauto 6mo ago
Otoh, someone with a massive checkbook had to fund the hardware and optical research to enable the devices. Small gaming studios weren’t going to be able to do that. A lot of the smaller VR device companies weren’t able to build on top of c
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by edmundsauto 6mo ago
Seems like maybe that mindset is where he won the hands of cards that turned into the money printer… so he just understands portfolio theory?
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by edmundsauto 6mo ago
When you consider the rise in energy prices as well…
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by edmundsauto 7mo ago
I think the point is to look at the US requirements compared to the cost and explore ways that a country could gain strategic advantages by building objectively worse products. (But cheaper/faster, gaining an asymmetric advantage in th
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by edmundsauto 7mo ago
These designs are so neat, I wish modern society would embrace the wisdom in them. Not applicable everywhere, but the modern desire to conquer the landscape instead of working with it seems like a core hubris that our modernity has imposed
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by edmundsauto 7mo ago
For use cases where the increased value ~= 20%, the cost of the distraction with that low of a margin is a hard sell. (Just based on your intro, that was my read) No disputation of the core idea, I think you are on the right track, but the
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by edmundsauto 7mo ago
In this case, the choice is between the two apples, so I’d pick the one less obviously rotten. Sadly that is the current administration that operates in pure lawlessness.
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by edmundsauto 7mo ago
I’m not sure, but I think you’re right. I was thinking about the logical implications of the. If they are a supply chain risk without a contract, how does the existence of a contract suddenly make them not a risk? Especially if the DoD stro
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by edmundsauto 7mo ago
How would this risk be mitigated by signing a contract? Seems like “supply chain poisoning as treason” is probably not going to stopped by a piece of paper. You either trust anthropic or you don’t but the deal has nothing to do with it.
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by edmundsauto 7mo ago
In this case, do you really believe that we should trust an EA less than this administration? EA as bad people is a stereotype; corruption, fraud, and breaking the law is the standard MO for this administration. (Or maybe it’s catchier to r
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by edmundsauto 7mo ago
Given the waning influence of American economic hegemony, this threat looks to be less impactful as time goes on. A stick that is shrinking can still be painful; it will be an interesting decision for the company's directors to make.
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by edmundsauto 7mo ago
The part of Dario's response I found funniest was pointing out the inherent contradiction in the DoW threats. Somehow, they could both be a national security threat as well as a national security necessity. Not by doing something diffe
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by edmundsauto 7mo ago
Context pollution, I think. Just because something is sequential in a context file doesn’t mean it’ll happen sequentially, but if you use subagents there is a separation of concerns. I also feel like one bloated context window feels a littl
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by edmundsauto 7mo ago
We were pretty close to a collapse of the existing financial system. Maybe we’d be better off now if it happened, but the interim devastation would have been costly.

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