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by fwlr 4mo ago
Arguably, someone who has chosen to replace their own human expression with machine words has already dehumanized themselves - although this is perhaps a too-literal reading the word “dehumanized”?
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by fwlr 4mo ago
The genuine answer is that many people who hold a lot of power over me (the executive suite of my industry) intend to do me harm with it (put me out of a job).
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by fwlr 4mo ago
Every second paragraph, it seems very impressed to re-discover that CQT matches human aural perception. Unfortunately, I have a faint recollection that CQT was expressly designed to match human aural perception, which leaves me markedly les
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by fwlr 5mo ago
Calling prompt injection "not malware" … is like saying a phishing email is not [malware] … I would say phishing emails are not malware, I think most people would agree that phishing emails are not malware, and if presse
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by fwlr 5mo ago
Yes it is, which is why I disapprove of it, and have said as such in every comment. I’m suggesting we disapprove of it in a more responsible way.
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by fwlr 5mo ago
In this case, yes (hence my disapproval of this action) - but in the main, “the programming language is natural language” is what I’m worried about. Most uses of natural language are not intended for execution, nor should they need to be cr
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by fwlr 5mo ago
I disapprove of this action by the jqwik owner, but I also disapprove of commentary classifying it as “malware”, “malicious code”, or similar. By running an agent, you are turning plain text into an executable. This has great benefits for
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by fwlr 5mo ago
Nobody who’s this insistent, aggressive and violative with their language of “it’s here and if you don’t adopt it you’re stupid and dead” has ever been right about anything. Nobody this desperate, insistent and forceful has ever had
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by fwlr 5mo ago
Why have they not simply asked the 800lb gorilla to solve this problem for them?
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by fwlr 7mo ago
My apologies if this is a joke I’m not understanding, but as far as I can tell with the wayback machine, this animation predates not just coding/generative AI, but the Attention paper and the founding of OpenAI too. https://
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by fwlr 7mo ago
Wow, you weren’t kidding. I spent some time seeing if I could spot where the transition from page to video was hidden, until I realized.
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by fwlr 8mo ago
It makes sense if you imagine the real motivation is “make sure the AI contracts go to my good friend Sam”, and all the red line stuff is just a way to pick a fight with Anthropic.
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by fwlr 8mo ago
From the post: “Think about what this means … the original SimCity ran on a Commodore 64. An empty Chrome tab takes more memory than that entire machine had. We’re not constrained by hardware anymore. We’re not even constrained by understan
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by fwlr 8mo ago
I don’t think the elision implies that personal devices are safe, more so it implies that personal devices don’t have a security team.
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by fwlr 9mo ago
It’s very healthy to have the “strong anti-disclosure” position expressed with clarity and passion.
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by fwlr 9mo ago
There are costs to doing ads (e.g. it burns social/political capital that could be used to defuse scandals or slow down hostile legislation, it consumes some fraction of your employees’ work hours, it may discourage some new talent fro
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by fwlr 9mo ago
If you had told me in 2011, when I first started discussing artificial intelligence, that in 2026 a trillion dollar company would earnestly publish the statement “Our mission is to ensure AGI benefits all of humanity; our pursuit of adverti
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by fwlr 1y ago
15MB of JavaScript is 15MB of code that your browser is trying to execute. It’s the same principle as “compiling a million lines of code takes a lot longer than compiling a thousand lines”.
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by fwlr 1y ago
Tangentially related: one of my favourite things about JavaScript is that it has so many different ways for the computer to “say no” (in the sense of “computer says no”): false, null, undefined, NaN, boolean coercion of 0/“”, throwing
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by fwlr 1y ago
From quickly messing around in the playground, it seems (in math mode) Typst treats multiple spaces identical to single spaces. A simple, consistent, flexible, and probably-not-majorly-breaking-old-documents rule would be “anything with no
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by fwlr 1y ago
Scrolling up and down the list, just how onerous is this reporting regulation? It seems almost cartoonishly excessive, even for critical safety applications.
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by fwlr 1y ago
I believe this is a case of “developers who went into the wallet business”, actually.
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by fwlr 1y ago
In code the semantic difference is pretty small between “select one at random” and “select two at random and perform a trivial comparison” - roughly about the same difference as to “select three at random and perform two trivial comparisons
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by fwlr 1y ago
JavaScript promises are objects with a resolver function and an internal asynchronous computation. At some point in the future, the asynchronous computation will complete, and at that point the promise will call its resolver function with t
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by fwlr 1y ago
Seems very likely this will lead to “professional repackagers” whose business model is “for a fee you may install our fork of curl and we will promptly reply to emails like this”, unfortunately.
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by fwlr 1y ago
The FTC was warned at the time that they were flouting required procedures and that their rule would therefore not survive legal scrutiny. Lo and behold it did not.
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by fwlr 1y ago
“Tradition”, perhaps, although that word is also weighed down with the kind of baggage that is likely to trigger the same negative responses that “ritual” did here.
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by fwlr 1y ago
Some psychologists finetuned a Llama-family LLM on some psychology data - “a data set called Psych-101, which contained data from 160 previously published psychology experiments, covering more than 60,000 participants who made more than 10
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by fwlr 2y ago
The author takes great care to rebut a common theme among objections to the proposal - “this isn’t necessary if you just write code better”. I am reminded of this fantastic essay: > If we flew planes like we write code, we’d have daily c
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by fwlr 2y ago
My first opponent was “The one thing, the exception that can beat all others, regardless of any conditions defined in the other”.

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