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by fidotron 3mo ago
The main need is strong authentication, certainly for enabling P2P microblogging type apps. The privacy stuff is covered by Signal etc. anyway, and you could layer that on top if you wanted to, but in a P2P setup privacy is always going to
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by fidotron 3mo ago
No, that's other people being concerned, it's not the people in the relationships that are concerned. The position was "a machine pretending to be a human can’t engender the same emotional response as another human" and
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by fidotron 3mo ago
The problem isn't "Is this human or AI?" it's "Do we trust the entity with this identity or not?" meaning it's entirely possible to be anonymous but use a web-of-trust style system to promote/demote s
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by fidotron 3mo ago
> a machine pretending to be a human can’t engender the same emotional response as another human. If this were so obviously true there wouldn't be nearly so much concern about people having relationships with AIs.
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by fidotron 3mo ago
> Most people likely have a natural aversion against having "team members" without agency or consciousness. Giving them artificial, acted personalities would be even more horrible. The problem isn't the team member being a
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by fidotron 3mo ago
Demonstration of personal responsibility and accountability? Or is that too much?
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by fidotron 3mo ago
This is an interesting step in a fairly obvious direction. I wonder how they plan to make mobile work, and it's amusing going with an xyz domain given their reputation.
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by fidotron 3mo ago
Technical staff are easiest to pin the blame on in any given situation. All those other fields require enormously more people skills and political inclination. If you are in an org like that and there is an effort to pin something on techni
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by fidotron 3mo ago
> AI has forced a dramatic shift in my view on intellectual property. The laws as they exist only protect corporations now. Even this isn't quite right. Publishers unambiguously have been screwed. What has happened is if you can giv
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by fidotron 3mo ago
Yeah. People should absolutely be _trying_ the Chinese models, and experimenting with running things locally, but the noise in development is genuinely all Claude and Codex. I put my foot in the mobile comparison the other day, and will aga
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by fidotron 3mo ago
The big decelerationist threat is a sudden reduction in competition. If either OpenAI or Anthropic drop out or the open weights stuff is banned/becomes uncompetitive then the motivation and tolerance for taking risks with the larger tr
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by fidotron 3mo ago
That link was fascinating, thanks! (Arguably worth a separate submission imo).
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by fidotron 3mo ago
> If you ask an LLM, "what known example did you use to solve this?" it is very likely to cite something plausible-sounding. That absolutely doesn't mean it is what it actually did. It is trying to give the "right ans
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by fidotron 3mo ago
Aha, thanks! Do you have any insight into what algorithm it uses? Like a ghost runner of the record pace or something?
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by fidotron 3mo ago
> "Lack" isn't the right word. "Lacking" is more like it. Yeah, that's fair. > My takeaway is that text is a far richer modality than anyone has expected - and that high end LLMs are often sharp and flexi
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by fidotron 3mo ago
The mention of pacemakers made me wonder if you could have some light marker on the track to show the ideal pace you should be keeping as well. If you can find the human equivalent of the rabbit for greyhounds then maybe even more could be
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by fidotron 3mo ago
I will be posting something to that effect later this week. (Hopefully). Basically current gen LLMs apparently do spatial reasoning the way they seemingly do everything else: by reference to previous example. I didn't see them work out
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by fidotron 3mo ago
And that's why you aren't qualified for a customer service role but might be for something that current AI is competitive with.
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by fidotron 3mo ago
What a silly and obtuse comment.
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by fidotron 3mo ago
You mean the answer betrays the point: customer service is surprisingly hard, we just have a large number of people that are capable of doing it. This is what the whole https://people.csail.mit.edu/brooks/papers/el
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by fidotron 3mo ago
Do we employ mathematicians in customer service roles?
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by fidotron 3mo ago
It's still clear that LLMs lack spatial reasoning, either in the concrete or abstract, and while that sort of reasoning has been downplayed by academia for at least a century it is fundamental to technology and industry. (And many woul
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by fidotron 3mo ago
Yeah when things like this have happened on fridays before they've reset everyone's limits etc. Would not be surprising if this is the pretext for something of this sort.
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by fidotron 3mo ago
> If not AGI, at least greatly disturb their old cushy SaaS jobs. I mean, this is happening right now. I doubt there are few people talking to customers and potential customers that haven't run into the "look what I rolled last
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by fidotron 3mo ago
Neither of those are beacons of either efficiency or performing to standard. In fact both are chronically mismanaged. You'd actually struggle to pick worse examples.
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by fidotron 3mo ago
Tangent: disturbing to see the BBC thinking they're going to get far by paywalling quasi-randomly in North America. At least right now it's trivial to ignore.
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by fidotron 3mo ago
False dichotomies, such as your original reply, hardly count as good faith. And now that original has even been flagged . . . this place really has tanked.
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by fidotron 3mo ago
> The reality is people don't always care if a human poured their heart and soul into something. Sometimes they do, but not always. Generally speaking the ones that do care are those that also hope their own creations are/will
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by fidotron 4mo ago
Casey is right, but the whole point for the Rivian position is they see themselves as the car software platform of the future. The idea we want primarily phone UIs in our cars is antithetical to their very existence, or why VW invested in t
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by fidotron 4mo ago
Because it converts all normal DBA tasks into development tasks. If this fits your org (and at huge scale it is more likely) then that's fine, but for small/mid/growth places that can be a PITA. There does seem to be more eff

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