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by edot 5d ago
I feel as though it’s inherent in the models, as part of “alignment” or whatever. I’ve noticed whenever having an LLM help with data analysis, especially Claude, it just can’t help itself from putting caveats and guides and documentation in
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by edot 7d ago
But it's hallucination-free, isn't it?
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by edot 7d ago
I don’t understand Jev or this. I used this since it’s open source (good job btw!) with the following. State: “a 6 sided die rolled a 3”, question (noul): “Is the number odd?” Answer: 9% chance, with 91% confidence. Heh??? Ok, even worse. 7
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by edot 10d ago
Continuing the quote gives more context, which I agree with: "The obviously AI-generated flyers that come home from school with my kid or that get circulated around neighborhood groups strike me as benign but deeply tacky; the kinds of
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by edot 10d ago
Thanks. I do concede it’s very general but that is a double-edged sword. I don’t need a general fraud identification algorithm. I need an accurate one. If I have another classification task I’ll train another model for that task.
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by edot 11d ago
Very cool! Can you explain when I would use this vs. training a standard ML model on my data? Suppose I had a fraud dataset with features like customer ID, amount, merchant, online or in-person, etc. - I can't imagine that a general mo
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by edot 11d ago
Why have any laws then? If laws can't prevent something, only punish it after the fact (which I agree is true)? Yet we have laws. People generally follow them because they expect to be caught and punished. If we passed a law that said
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by edot 13d ago
This is our generation's "Saddam has WMDs". It's something the big labs thought up when they were trying to figure out how to make their product sound scary enough to deserve regulation. Literally no one is doing this or
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by edot 13d ago
Sum up the number of kids harmed or murdered by the state (pick the top n dictators in the last 100 years for example). Sum up the number of kids harmed or murdered by random people (remember that, for example, non-family abductions are 1%
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by edot 15d ago
What’s the purpose of publishing these? Why now? Why redacted still? Interesting to read but … why bother?
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by edot 15d ago
This link makes it look like it's some event-specific website. It's not. It's an easy way to navigate the confusing mail routing system to military service members, especially those in bootcamp where they can't have phon
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by edot 16d ago
I'm not worried about a future LLM being better, or even inventing some true AGI or ASI. I am worried about current, even last-year, models being applied by evil actors. Let's go through some things that already-existing models ca
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by edot 17d ago
If you don't trust the labs directly, you can always use AWS Bedrock or Azure Foundry which should have a much stronger incentive to not train. They make money from asset rental, not selling models. I'd be shocked if they were tra
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by edot 17d ago
Let's think about the first two letters of CCTV and what that entails.
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by edot 18d ago
Yes, exactly. Researchers will not like the fact that I refer to the literature as merely a manual, but “RTFM” applies here. Someone has likely already investigated what you’re looking at, or at least found a way to not do it. And sure it’s
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by edot 19d ago
Ok, so they gave it access to a real Stripe account, real money, and gave it no guardrails or prompting or direction at all other than “make me money”, and you gave it no actual direction as to the type of business you wanted? I mean, I gue
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by edot 21d ago
Right? I’m shocked no one has done it yet, if for nothing else the lolz.
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by edot 22d ago
“Its Ministry of Defense announced in January that it would make millions of data points gathered during tens of thousands of drone flights available to both military contractors and commercial companies, and since then more than 100 compan
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by edot 27d ago
Yeah, this is fantastic. Should be top of the page. I’m honestly shocked, I’ve fully internalized that everything is corrupt and beholden to big corporations. Somehow, a victory! Looks like the Linux Foundation and EFF pushed back, but they
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by edot 28d ago
I get what you're saying, but "the company reviews each request for data it gets to ensure it is legal" just sounds like something a judge should do, no?
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by edot 28d ago
No that’s the whole point of this article. In this case, the private companies being summonsed are acting as both judges and data holders being summonsed. This doesn’t go to a judge to approve. So in this case, the point they’re making is m
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by edot 28d ago
I like 2D, that one's nice. So in total it reads (ellipses for brevity): "In any investigation or inquiry conducted for the purpose of ascertaining the correctness of any entry, for determining the liability of any person for duty
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by edot 29d ago
Yeah but it can just install it. It writes arbitrary code. It can do whatever you want it to do.
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by edot 29d ago
Yes, but an LLM will just call stockfish if it needs to play chess … sure if you arbitrarily constrain an LLM to use no tools it’ll suck at chess. But no one is using LLMs in isolation. Even consumer-grade, bone-stock ChatGPT has tools.
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by edot 1mo ago
Correct. Beyond that, doesn't matter. Go to where the fuel is the freshest (hasn't collected water, sat in a rusty tank for a long time, etc.). So, also probably Costco.
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by edot 1mo ago
This is mostly wrong, sorry. Big chains absolutely do sign national or huge regional supply agreements for gasoline, e.g. Pilot/Flying J, Buc-ee’s, Sheetz, Costco, Sam’s Club, Speedway, etc. You have two main errors: 1) conflating refi
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by edot 1mo ago
Wow, that's an insane pairing. For those who don't click, Toka is a software company that specializes in hacking and altering security camera footage.
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by edot 1mo ago
I mean, for 0.15-0.20% and a top end salary of $200k living in SF that sounds like a great opportunity!
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by edot 1mo ago
It’s not risk aversion, it’s lack of money and access. Half of Americans can’t afford a $1k surprise bill. How do you expect them to invest? With what money?
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by edot 1mo ago
Meh, started off good, then went transparently into the “we should have a duopoly with Anthropic” pitch.

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