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by einpoklum 5d ago
Yes, you're right. But uBlock Origin doesn't.
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by einpoklum 5d ago
> Not to mention Facebook is free whereas you pay for a GPT subscription Recalling the now-old adage: Facebook is only free if your time and privacy are worthless.
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by einpoklum 5d ago
> Which has nothing to do with the stalking of the adtech industry It has a lot to do with the practices of the adtech industry. If privacy is protected and upheld vis-a-vis the government (or meta-government in case of the EU), it may b
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by einpoklum 5d ago
Is it now? Are Alphabet, Microsoft, Yahoo and Meta's platforms and call-home products illegal for exposure to EU residents? i.e. Google, Bing, Facebook, WhatsApp, MS Office and such? Are these companies' C-suite people wanted, to
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by einpoklum 5d ago
No it doesn't, if you: 1. Never register with OpenAI/ChatGPT, and 2. Strongly block ads, e.g. using uBlock Origin + EFF Privacy Badger. Yes, those don't work on Chrome, Edge and other Chromium-based browsers. Also, even then
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by einpoklum 7d ago
... like they oversell everything about their LLMs. To the tunes of hundreds of Billions of USD.
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by einpoklum 7d ago
Pangram believes this text was authored with an LLM: https://www.salahadawi.com/hacker-news-ai-detector/49765348
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by einpoklum 8d ago
... They quickly realized their mistake and had a flesh-and-blood human write a hallucinated intelligence report instead.
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by einpoklum 8d ago
I've not yet encountered a site which has even suggested I use something like a passkey. Under the assumption that you're doing the Right Thing, and avoid using Apple, Alphabet and Microsoft's services - this is a non-issue.
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by einpoklum 8d ago
> The FUJITSU-MONAKA CPU integrates Fujitsu's extensive expertise in processor ... development Does Fujitsu have extensive expertise in processor development? I don't remember any notable Fujitsu processors. Although, as irus
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by einpoklum 10d ago
> I am not trying to defend Mozilla doing this Well, you kind of are though. > I wish they had just done this with a very clear up front opt in If a local model is not realistic, then this should not have even been an in-your-face opt
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by einpoklum 10d ago
"Mozilla" and "private" are two phrases that don't go well together, these days.
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by einpoklum 10d ago
I like this site of Mathematicians' biographies with some occasional quoted segments for extra flavor. I also like how Serre wrote a book on linear representations of symmetry groups, because his wife needed a good exposition of the su
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by einpoklum 10d ago
But when their system is given the instruction "do not fire, simply dodge" - it doesn't "simply dodge", it actually gets close to the fleshy pink demon rather than keeping its distance. Or am I misunderstanding?
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by einpoklum 12d ago
This the Trump era. Making outrageous false allegations is normalized now. Also, the DoJ staff is cut and head of the FBI is busy with personal shenanigans, so don't worry about it I guess.
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by einpoklum 12d ago
LLM magic-8-ball says: Don't worry about! Shall I spin up an agent which handles business liability for you?
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by einpoklum 12d ago
Perhaps they can have their agent run their LLM lab autonomously and post slop to HN autonomously. Or - maybe they already have?
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by einpoklum 12d ago
Not only do we have to live with endless LLM slop now, it seems we also need to accept an endless sequence of 2-cent philosophical blog posts where people describe the "world with AI" based on two minutes of meandering thought.
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by einpoklum 12d ago
Can I get 32 GB of RAM for a sane price instead?
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by einpoklum 13d ago
> Why is Google still serving dodgy ads? Because you're using an application which presents those ads to you. Avoid Google/Alphabet application as much as is possible, and you'll see a lot less / none of this kind of
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by einpoklum 13d ago
I read your first sentence as: > Everyone who writes enthusiastically about AI already has the benefit of not having worked with AI ... because if you really do, and you actaully a capable developer, you become much less enthusiastic.
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by einpoklum 13d ago
So, more people are excited for the vision of Idiocracy to be fully realized.
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by einpoklum 13d ago
"Write me a blog post about AI make no mistakes!"
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by einpoklum 13d ago
That looks like a very useful way to convert one's obsession with holding on to old computers and tinkering with them to a socially-education experience. But who will keep the keyboards clean from all of the crud that collects over the
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by einpoklum 13d ago
> no special compulsion to be helpful or truthful. I'd phrase that even more strongly: It's not just the lack of compulsion, they do not have a conception of truth. Nor do they gain it, really, after post-training.
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by einpoklum 14d ago
Regardless of NVIDIA and LLM/AI, the claim that inflation is caused directly, or without-fail, by an increase in money supply - is not well founded. A significant money supply increase may very well have a tiny or possibly even negativ
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by einpoklum 14d ago
I have a couple of questions: 1. Wouldn't writing everything from scratch mean a huge waste of effort? And can they really expect to replicate a lot of functionality for C++, Java, Rust, etc. that in other IDEs relies on libraries and
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by einpoklum 16d ago
> Most software, when you strip away the branding and architecture diagrams, is remarkably boring. Lost me right there.
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by einpoklum 17d ago
I thought that title belonged to bombing campaigns and coups by shady guerilla groups.
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by einpoklum 17d ago
> Your personal AI agent that gets things done More like: "Our personal spy on your life that can manipulate you much more deeply than we ever could with just Facebook."

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