falcor84

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by falcor84 4mo ago
Just for a bit of context, this site is from over a decade ago, at which point almost everyone outside of Ukraine used the old spelling of Kiev, despite the official transliteration change to Kyiv from 1995 [0]. Ukraine ended up having to r
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by falcor84 4mo ago
Ah, thanks for clarifying. To me these are just plain old anthropomorphic animals like the ones you see in kids cartoons, and I wouldn't naturally associate them with the furry subculture, but I suppose it is a slippery slope.
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by falcor84 4mo ago
What do you mean? What's furry about the site?
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by falcor84 4mo ago
My flavor of paranoia is not as overt as maliciously adding an exploit, but that whenever there are multiple reasonable ways of designing a solution, it'd choose an approach that is susceptible to one of the zero-days currently known t
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by falcor84 4mo ago
There's a higher-order concern here that I'm paranoid enough to voice: that if used as a coding agent, an AI model affiliated with a country's government might try to make my software susceptible to attacks by that government
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by falcor84 4mo ago
Could this be a real path to UBI?
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by falcor84 4mo ago
There's yet another concern, which they haven't mentioned, and it's that ChatGPT has become a bit of a generic trademark, with a lot of other services launched over the last few years promoting themselves as a "chatgpt f
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by falcor84 4mo ago
Quite funny to think that we might have AI models meticulously nudging newspaper editors in order to carefully control the public's Overton Window about AI, playing some 5d chess.
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by falcor84 4mo ago
Yeah, 75% win rate is a ~200 points Elo difference, which is quite massive.
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by falcor84 4mo ago
Please share the script
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by falcor84 5mo ago
I didn't mean that users would install them. I meant that if mcp and AI agents continue being popular, then Google and Apple could choose to provide apps with cli sandboxes with the proper permissions. It is a big change, but I just di
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by falcor84 5mo ago
> CLIs do not run on mobile and never will Can you clarify why the never? What's the issue with giving a phone-based AI a sandboxed file system and bash shell?
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by falcor84 5mo ago
Well, either that, or a fetish.
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by falcor84 5mo ago
Did you mean that to sound distant? Because my reading is that if we have robots reliably doing these sorts of delicate tasks in a decade or two, it would be amazingly revolutionary and disruptive to the economy.
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by falcor84 5mo ago
Concrete alone isn't enough, you also need to have it be enclosed in a Faraday Cage.
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by falcor84 5mo ago
> true but misleading It seems to me that for many newspapers the bar is now significantly lower, at something like "not quite entirely untrue"
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by falcor84 5mo ago
That was my feeling when I first heard about Lisp Machines. It's unfortunate that I never got to see or use one in person.
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by falcor84 5mo ago
That's on me; I set the bar too low. When I asked "How", I was hoping for someone to literally write up an alternative and better way of phrasing this, which would still work as part of a corporate press release.
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by falcor84 5mo ago
Well, to be fair, they didn't say "redesign" anywhere, and Webflow is the name of the company, so I don't find it too strange that the "evolution" of a company involves layoffs. Maybe I'm just too jaded to
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by falcor84 5mo ago
Why? How would you as a leader would announce this in a way that better reduces bad feelings?
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by falcor84 5mo ago
And there's at least one more level of inception at the data center level, where they use AI to optimize power usage (particularly by predictively controlling cooling, and adaptively rescheduling tasks).
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by falcor84 5mo ago
I actually had this happen to me the other day - I asked Claude Code to create an arbitrary example website for me, and it built one about lighthouses.
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by falcor84 5mo ago
I would argue that it's more important than ever for effective engineering change management. With how easy it is have AI make changes to a system, I'm reminded of this tweet from DevOps Borat: > To make error is human. To prop
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by falcor84 5mo ago
I wonder what the endgame here is, for our AIs to best reach that "I know kung-fu" capability. If we can evolve an optimized set of external skills, we can then distill them all into a model's weights, right? And if there is
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by falcor84 5mo ago
I agree that AI sycophancy is an issue, but as is typical in these studies, it's missing a realistic human baseline. They say "instead of reaching out to other people", but they don't appear to have done that themselves,
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by falcor84 5mo ago
Who's trying to avoid talking about tobacco? TFA is titled "Scientists solve 200-year-old puzzle of how tobacco plants make nicotine", and my sense is that the thread is very much about which of the effects of smoking are exp
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by falcor84 5mo ago
The HN guidelines say "Please respond to the strongest plausible interpretation of what someone says". The way I understand it is that different people on the thread often have different ways of thinking about the topic, and we sh
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by falcor84 5mo ago
Well, I did, and to save others the time, the most relevant resource I found appears to be the book "Smuggler Nation: How Illicit Trade Made America” (2013) by Peter Andreas
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by falcor84 5mo ago
What? How is someone born in 1947 relevant to ip theft in the 19th century?
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by falcor84 5mo ago
I would appreciate some reading pointers about this.

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