habinero

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by habinero 1y ago
How would you secure someone else's devices?
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by habinero 1y ago
Because I don't rely on a glorified text generator for what's true lol
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by habinero 1y ago
How could you know?
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by habinero 1y ago
> We clearly are replicating at least some significant aspects of human intelligence via LLMs That's a very load-bearing "clearly". I don't think it's clear at all lol. Again, you are vastly underestimating the s
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by habinero 1y ago
I wasn't being entirely serious. Also, we managed to require drivers licenses without also walking licenses.
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by habinero 1y ago
1. You think that because of a whole lot of propaganda. I don't think you can look at Biden's behavior objectively and come to the same conclusion. Old? Yes. Slowing down? Sure. Is that good? No. Was he the loopy basket case peopl
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by habinero 1y ago
I honestly don't hate the idea. On a more serious note, of course there's ways to put in guard rails. LLMs behave like they do because of intentional design choices. Nothing about it is innate.
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by habinero 1y ago
They contain training data and a statistical model that might generate something true or it might generate garbage, both with equal confidence. You need to already know the answer to determine which is which.
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by habinero 1y ago
Triage exists because in a mass casualty event, medical resources need to go to the most urgent cases first. Triage is not a punch card that says if you drag 9 people out of a burning building, you can shoot someone on the street for free.
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by habinero 1y ago
Are you really blaming a child in crisis for not having the ability to get a psychiatrist? We regulate plenty of things for safety in highly effective and practical ways. Seatbelts in cars. Railings on stairs. No lead in paint.
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by habinero 1y ago
You're trying to "both sides" here, but the problem is your talking points are fabricated and were never real. They're propaganda. 1. Biden was old and everyone knew it. He still got shit done. The idea that everyone tho
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by habinero 1y ago
Yeah, I've made friends with a bunch of (mostly ex- at this point) Republicans because we can agree (1) that other people matter and (2) structural inequalities exist and should not. If we have that in common, then I find the differenc
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by habinero 1y ago
That's not a good way to think about it. Plenty of things could theoretically exist that aren't possible and likely will never be possible. Like, sure, a Dyson sphere would solve our energy needs. We can't build one now and
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by habinero 1y ago
They don't reason. They can generate an illusion of it through a statistical model. You don't gotta work hard to break the illusion, either. People really really really want to believe this thing and I do not understand why. I wis
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by habinero 1y ago
And Clever Hans could pass a math exam "Some tests can be cheesed by a statistical model" is much less sexy and clickable than "my computer is sentient", but it's what's actually going on lol
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by habinero 1y ago
No, they're not. It's critically important if you're part of an engineering team. If everyone does their own thing, the codebase rapidly turns to mush and is unreadable. And you need humans to be able to read it the moment th
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by habinero 1y ago
I'm not sure you can call yourself a solo founder if you haven't actually founded a business. You kinda just put up a broken website.
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by habinero 1y ago
You don't need to like something to understand it. And no, credit cards protect you from the merchant. I can call up Capitol One and get them to do a chargeback if I order something online and the merchant never sends it. It highly inc
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by habinero 1y ago
They're kind of famous for having bad mental health care and high suicide rates. I can survive without ADHD meds, but life is a whole lot easier and a lot more enjoyable with them.
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by habinero 1y ago
You're solving for the completely wrong problem. Several wrong problems, actually. Your scheme is just debit cards with more work, less privacy and a lot more risk. Consumers use credit cards because of chargebacks and fraud protecti
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by habinero 1y ago
Money laundering, for one. You release some dumb asset flip and then "buy" it with your dirty crypto and Valve turns it into nice clean fiat money. And yes, that is on Valve to prevent.
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by habinero 1y ago
Yes, that can absolutely happen if you don't have the right controls in place. If you get too many chargebacks, the card networks will kick you from the system. Card testing won't (usually) do it, because that doesn't (usuall
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by habinero 1y ago
Yeah, that's not a good argument. That might be true for the very poor, sure, but not for the majority of the lower-to-middle of the middle class. There's fundamentally no difference between your average blue collar worker and a b
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by habinero 1y ago
Anyone who believes this hasn't spent enough time around rich people. Rich people are almost always rich because they come from other rich people. They're exactly as smart as poor people, except the rich folk have a much, much cus
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by habinero 1y ago
Me too. Some of them are frauds, but most of the weird AI-as-messiah people really believe it as far as I can tell. The tech is neat and it can do some neat things but...it's a bullshit machine fueled by a bullshit machine hype bubble.
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by habinero 1y ago
Even that is insanely difficult. There's a great book by Michael Levi called On Nuclear Terrorism, which never got any PR because it is the anti-doomer book. He methodically goes through all the problems that an ISIS or a Bin Laden wou
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by habinero 1y ago
That guy is so convinced he's a staggering genius and I have never understood why anyone else thinks it's true.
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by habinero 1y ago
That's a lot of doom around a potato.
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by habinero 1y ago
I think you misread my comment. I wasn't saying they did.
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by habinero 1y ago
If you've never seen it and I see it all the time, I don't think it's me.

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