electric_toucan

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by electric_toucan 26d ago
It doesn’t matter how exactly GCC works, as long as the behavior is deterministic and consistent (GCC is likely maintaining backwards compatibility between versions, so the behavior of your code likely hasn’t changed). In that case, you can
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by electric_toucan 27d ago
Compilers like GCC are deterministic and the source code already fully defines the behavior. LLMs are non-deterministic and will accept ambiguity, filling in details where you haven’t. These sorts of comparisons aren’t really fair. In the c
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by electric_toucan 2mo ago
I think a lot of the discourse around AI is imprecise, but you’ve done a good job of clarifying. AI is also changing the definition of some terms, so debates are happening where people use the same words, but mean very different things. Som
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by electric_toucan 2mo ago
Sandboxing is useful but usually not a replacement for permission prompts. If you give it network access, it could still run destructive commands against allowed domains, for example
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by electric_toucan 2mo ago
When I want advice, I’ve found it useful to tell the model that someone else came up with the ideas we’re discussing, not me. That pushes the model away from sycophancy, and better calls out the risks. Sometimes it goes too far in shutting
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by electric_toucan 2mo ago
I think disliking cyclists is the core position for these people. They don’t want cyclists in the road and they don’t want to pay for infrastructure for cyclists, like bike lanes.