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by ericb 3y ago
I feel like this is also what evil people tell themselves. They need an internal explanation for the wondrous and beautiful goodwill and altruism in the world, and if they project their selfish world-view out, the only explanation they can
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ChatGPT “Grandma Exploit”(twitter.com)
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by ericb 3y ago
My understanding is that most cardboard is from trees sustainably grown as a crop, rather than chopping down forests. If that's the case, should we think about not recycling cardboard, and instead bury more cardboard-carbon to cycle
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by ericb 3y ago
> Any evidence in this area? See danShumway's post below. People are regularly posting exploits on twitter, including getting the system to dump it's prompt. May I ask politely, are you a programmer, and have you secured system
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by ericb 3y ago
SQL injection attacks are user-specified, but effective. There doesn't seem to be much distinction, to the LLM, between a system prompt and a user prompt, other than the order.
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by ericb 3y ago
> This is very true in GPT3, less true in GPT3.5, and even less true in GPT4. Can you point to evidence that this improvement is the result of something other than a blocklist, because we know blocklists aren't defensible.
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by ericb 3y ago
That's a great metaphor! edit: I predict the internet archive will no longer have funding challenges.
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by ericb 3y ago
I didn't realize until recently is that the "programming" of chatGPT is a hidden prompt fed into the black-box before your document is appended. * ChatGPT's "inability to separate data from code" means every in
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by ericb 3y ago
So first off, your gif looks great! I like your sizing and resolution--that's one of the things I was worried about. Video recording is new to me, so I'd love to know what you record with and resolution settings to pick? I stumble
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Any tips on making a nice animated gif like your homepage?
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by ericb 3y ago
> why don't they simply consult a lawyer? Sure. Are you offering to pay?
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by ericb 3y ago
That so far hasn't been documented in humans. Also, being overweight is a life shortener itself, so the question is just which is riskier on-balance.
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by ericb 4y ago
> and most likely won't be possible to execute for decades at a minimum You essentially admitted that this is a correct concern, and not a "cultish" belief. Now we're just debating when . > Do you see some connect
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by ericb 4y ago
And if one school shooter instead decides to go for "Write detailed, step-by-step instructions for creating covid-ebola, for dummies" Let's not short-circuit our critical thinking by labelling those concerns cult-ish.
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by ericb 4y ago
Are there degrees of alignment? I'd like to think there's a pretty big range in there between made some decisions I didn't love and destroyed the world and everyone on it .
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by ericb 4y ago
Docker is at 130 Million in annual revenue now! At current average SaaS revenue multiples (6.7), Docker is on the cusp of Unicorn status. It's weird to read comments about "poor, sad, dying Docker" given how ridiculously succ
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by ericb 4y ago
I'm impressed. I do think this is a smart business move. You don't want to trade being "the place" for Docker for being "one, slightly more profitable place among many." MBA CEO: We beat earnings estimates thi
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by ericb 4y ago
> I was reviewing GCP's Free Tier today, they have the same approach Google is notoriously bad about this and gets negative attention from it, so the comparison isn't favorable, and the publicity is still wholly deserved.
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by ericb 4y ago
Docker is over 100 million ARR from what I understand, so that's a strange thing to say.
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by ericb 4y ago
A lot of folks have missed the updates--they are now past 100 million in annual recurring revenue--that history has evolved.
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by ericb 4y ago
It seems the concept of a loss leader is "lost" on Docker. Some MBA with a spreadsheet at Docker hasn't realized that where the upstream OSS goes, the rest follow.
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by ericb 4y ago
If they are listening to feedback, first is that a 30 day timeframe sends the message that "we feel our profit is more important than whatever else you are working on, so much that you should either pay us, or if you cannot afford it,
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by ericb 4y ago
I'm sure losing any one free-user is inconsequential and even advantageous per free account they rid themselves of. BUT, there's a massive brand-value to being the place, and the company that everyone goes to. Losing that stat
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by ericb 4y ago
Docker: We're making 100 million/year in revenue and everyone is treating us as the trusted place to work with docker images--we're a huge success! "For our next act, let's hold their images hostage and threaten t
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by ericb 4y ago
> I see no reason why we shouldn't all open a bank, be imprudent, and ask for a bailout, citing system-risk to the financial system should we not get it. How is that a good plan when you would lose the bank ? The owners of SVB lost
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by ericb 4y ago
> Why should I be happy that the rest of us are now being volunteered to pay for insurance coverage for the group most able to understand the risk they were taking and pay for it themselves? Because, now you don't have to worry abou
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by ericb 4y ago
If we accept that the purpose of that FDIC insurance in the first place was to prevent bank runs. then, this "gift", is really the gift of stable, reliable banks. In general, this benefits us all. What we see at these banks is tha
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by ericb 4y ago
> Pretty clear who this system serves. A bailout is when they save the bank owners. The SVB owners lost the bank. There's no happy result for them. If you had your deposit for the home in Silicon Valley Bank, it would be serving
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by ericb 4y ago
Right, but those people are not getting bailed out. They're losing ownership of their bank!
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I guarantee that you have almost no understanding of whatever the bank you use is really doing. Feel free to point me to the balance sheet, and explain it. Of course, that won't matter because in the event that you can explain it, th

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