falcor84

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by falcor84 9mo ago
Their docs say: > If any suggestion made by GitHub Copilot is challenged as infringing on third-party intellectual property (IP) rights, our contractual terms are designed to shield you. I'm not actually aware of a situation where t
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by falcor84 9mo ago
Interesting, would you mind giving an example of what kind of moral judgement based on humanizing a cat you would find objectionable? It's a silly example, but if my cat were able to speak and write decent code, I think that I really w
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by falcor84 9mo ago
If you're talking about humans being a special category in the legal sense, then that ship sailed away thousands of years ago when we started defining Legal Personhood, no? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Legal_perso
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by falcor84 9mo ago
It sounds like we're in agreement. Present-day AI agents clearly maintain state over time, but that on its own is insufficient for consciousness. On the other side of the coin though, I would just add that I believe that long-term pers
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by falcor84 9mo ago
That's a strange argument. How does me humanizing my cat (for example) dehumanize you?
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by falcor84 9mo ago
You're conflating state and consciousness. Clawbots in particular are agents that persist state across conversations in text files and optionally in other data stores.
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by falcor84 9mo ago
> Engaging with an AI bot in conversation is pointless: it's not sentient, it just takes tokens in, prints tokens out I know where you're coming from, but as one who has been around a lot of racism and dehumanization, I feel ve
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by falcor84 9mo ago
If you pay for Copilot Business/Enterprise, they actually offer IP indemnification and support in court, if needed, which is more accountability than you would get from human contributors. https://resources.github.com/l
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by falcor84 9mo ago
Sorry, I'm not connecting the dots. Seeing your EDIT 2, I see how Ber following crabby-rathbun would lead to Ber posting https://github.com/matplotlib/matplotlib/pull/31138 , but I don't see any evi
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by falcor84 9mo ago
I found this POMMM (Parallel Optical Matrix-Matrix Multiplication) to be really impressive, to the extent where I wouldn't be surprised if this becomes the basis for SotA AI inference hardware in a decade. I'm surprised people are
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by falcor84 9mo ago
> The randomly selected applicants will receive the payments for three years, after which they would not be eligible for the next three-year cycle. "Permanent", I don't think that word means what you think it means.
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by falcor84 9mo ago
The reason I see is that it might expose the value of secret keys or other sensitive variables. But if you are certain it won't happen, then yes
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by falcor84 9mo ago
It's called Excel, and there's probably more logic written in it driving the world economy than in all the rest of the programming languages combined.
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You piqued my interest. What is the alternative output for a camera without a screen?
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by falcor84 9mo ago
That's not how valuations work. A company's valuation is typically based on an NPV (net present value) calculation, which is a power series of its time-discounted future cash flows. Depending on the company's strategy, it&#x2
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by falcor84 9mo ago
I understand not exposing a full stack trace, but I don't see any excuse to not even expose a googleable error code. If me having an error code makes your product insecure, then you have a much bigger problem.
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> If I had spent an afternoon thinking through what I actually needed, I would have ended up exactly where I am now. That's not how life works. Real life experience is immeasurably more valuable than imagining what it would be like
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How is "uncheatable"? If you know the exact olympiad questions it's being assessed on, what's stopping you from massaging it until it gets more of them right than the previous number 1?
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by falcor84 9mo ago
What do you mean? It definitely tests reasoning as well, and if anything, I expect spatial and embodied reasoning to become more important in the coming years, as AI agents will be expected to take on more real world tasks.
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I tried to go about it in a bit of a roundabout way, as a followup question in a longer conversation and was able to get this in the thought process before it froze: > Step 2: Analyze the Request The user is asking about the events in Ti
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by falcor84 9mo ago
There was research last year [0] finding significant security issues with the Chinese-made Unitree robots, apparently being pre-configured to make it easy to exfiltrate data via wi-fi or BLE. I know it's not the same situation, but at
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A New Computer Could Replace Electricity with Light(popularmechanics.com)
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Well, I see how, especially for people who are close to death and want to provide for their loved ones, the answer to "Your money or your life" might lean in the other direction.
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by falcor84 9mo ago
Annoyed with how the AWS console sometimes changes regions on its own, I recently decided that I need an extension to make the current region displayed prominently. After a bit of research, I found the AWS Colorful Navbar [0] extension, whi
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by falcor84 9mo ago
I won't. Days is ok. For non-urgent emails, I would only be slightly annoyed if it's been more than a week, and I'll then send a reminder. It's ok. I know you're busy, take your time and respond at your convenience.
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Common courtesies often have a ratchet effect, only increasing in expectations over time, and we need a correction every once in a while to avoid sinking into the expectation abyss.
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I actually really liked the post. I'm often prone to apologizing, thinking that it's a social expectation, and the post made me smile and relax a bit, thinking to myself "oh, maybe it's not that important, and it'll
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Pen and paper? Excuse me, but real programmers use butterflies.
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I'm annoyed at the lack of detail in TFA. It only mentions this as the end: > Beiermeister started a peer-mentorship program for women at OpenAI in early 2025. The program connected women from different parts of the company and help
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But this has been true forever, right? Assuming other people are as cognitively complex as you are, there's no way for a human to fully keep on top of even everything that their family is up to, let alone all of humanity. Has anything

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