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by hn_throwaway_99 2mo ago
> A lot of people seem to have written off the LessWrong / rationalist / MIRI / AI Safety crowd as doomers / people who have consumed too much sci-fi and gone off the deep end. I'm willing to raise my hand and sa
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by hn_throwaway_99 2mo ago
> You cannot look at an air catastrophe and retrospectively say "failures X, Y, and Z were observed, therefore if we correct failures X, Y, and Z, we would have been okay." That's literally exactly what air safety research
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by hn_throwaway_99 2mo ago
I'll be blunt: what you wrote is not a serious analysis of what actually happened. Frankly, I don't believe you even read the planned-obsolescence link that I posted. First, I'm not anthropomorphizing anything. "Agents&q
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by hn_throwaway_99 2mo ago
I disagree. To use an analogy, air travel in the US is relatively extremely safe - not 100%, but we've built up a culture around air safety that is very robust. Conversely, when I order packages online, sometimes they never show up, or
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by hn_throwaway_99 2mo ago
Hard disagree. I've always discounted the "AI will kill us all" scenarios as a combination of marketing hype (look how powerful our AI is!), clickbait/ragebait engagement attempts, and folks who just read too much SciFi
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by hn_throwaway_99 2mo ago
> The LW / rationalist / MIRI / safety crowd are in fact doomers who went off the deep end. I honestly don't understand how folks could think that if they truly read and understand the analysis of the attack. Here is
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by hn_throwaway_99 2mo ago
I will say that the OpenAI board members who were lambasted when they tried to oust Altman (and I'd have to check my post history but I'd totally admit to a mea culpa on this one, as at the time I thought the communication about h
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by hn_throwaway_99 2mo ago
I mean this genuinely, did you read this post? I think it goes to great lengths highlighting, in quite specific detail, the human failures in all this, specifically this list that starts with "While we are here, it’s worth listing the
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by hn_throwaway_99 2mo ago
Thanks for the response, and I was overly harsh, I apologize. I did appreciate the detail and thoroughness you went to explain your experiences. Yet I still think your study was a microcosm of the greatest dangers I think about AI. That is
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by hn_throwaway_99 2mo ago
> In conclusion, I’m pretty negative about AI in general, but this experience made me cautiously optimistic about the role the technology could play in protecting consumers from counterfeit products. Whaaaattt? How could the author go th
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by hn_throwaway_99 2mo ago
"Cartoon villainy" is the best possible way to describe this administration. I'm more than willing to accept lots of policy differences, but so many decisions just seem tailor made to fuck over 95%+ of the public. Like how co
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by hn_throwaway_99 2mo ago
I think you are reading way too much into that "you" in that sentence. I read it simply as a list and total of all the retaliatory tariffs that Canada is imposing, and the site emphasizes that this is obviously bad for American
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by hn_throwaway_99 2mo ago
It would be beyond stupid for a healthy "diet focused" person to want to use this. They're not at risk for ketoacidosis, and there is zero evidence that continually measuring ketones would be useful in any sense. That's
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by hn_throwaway_99 2mo ago
There are and have been continuous glucose monitors available for some time, and you can even get one if you don't have diabetes - I'm wearing the Lingo one right now. All this device adds is a simultaneous ketone check, which is
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by hn_throwaway_99 2mo ago
I don't understand. All of the diabetics I know personally (one type 1 and two type 2 diabetics) use continuous glucose monitors and have for some time, so they rarely need to prick their fingers anymore. Ketone levels can be checked w
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by hn_throwaway_99 2mo ago
A per-token model roughly aligns with the providers' costs, and it is an objective measure, so it seems a reasonable way to charge. I see posts all the time on HN about which models from which providers offer the most bang-for-the-bu
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by hn_throwaway_99 2mo ago
> The DOJ's clever hook won them the case. Or, rather, the fact that Microsoft was blatantly illegally abusing their monopoly position to kill competitors.
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by hn_throwaway_99 2mo ago
I read the article but didn't watch the videos yet, but I'm curious as to what would be needed to make this a 3D map. That is, I'm assuming this 2D map records the position of all of these objects in the sky, but not the dist
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by hn_throwaway_99 2mo ago
Really great take. Can't emphasize enough how much I agree with your "I don’t think anyone can predict how things will play out at this point" and "We have been blessed and cursed to live in interesting times if nothing
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by hn_throwaway_99 2mo ago
> As China rises to become the new gravitational center I don't think you can just state something like that as some sort of axiom without providing any rationale. Obviously China has become much more powerful and important over the
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by hn_throwaway_99 2mo ago
I appreciated the interesting info on the originator of this quote, though this sentence made no sense to me: > This is who republicans are quoting whenever they repeat the phrase that “you can indict a ham sandwich”. Frankly, I've
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by hn_throwaway_99 2mo ago
100% I know that "Idiocracy" gets thrown around all the time, but the reason I think it does is that they do have advanced tech but at the same time everyone is a blathering idiot. That's what gets me about our present real
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by hn_throwaway_99 2mo ago
It's a good question. This site, https://copyrightalliance.org/education/copyright-law-explai... , states "It is important to note that this exception for backup copies only applies to computer programs and no
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by hn_throwaway_99 2mo ago
The entire ironic thing here is that a huge part of those 81 terabytes of ebooks that Meta torrented were directly pirated books from Anna's Archive .
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by hn_throwaway_99 2mo ago
There is a whole legal saga here that is often misunderstood. Googling "Project Panama" should give more information. The legal ruling from Judge William Alsup declared that if AI companies purchased the books legally and then cop
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by hn_throwaway_99 2mo ago
When I first was reading this I thought that the author was deliberately using a shitty font to make the point that obfuscated fonts are hard to read.
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by hn_throwaway_99 2mo ago
Thanks for providing an update, but none of those people were the "architect" in any sense, political or otherwise. The main person responsible for getting the dam built was Floyd Dominy, and he still supported the dam up to his d
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by hn_throwaway_99 2mo ago
> You can set your phone to filter these out, but then you'll also miss the notification about North Korea commencing artillery bombardment. Do you know why there aren't more granular controls? On my phone in the US the togglea
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by hn_throwaway_99 2mo ago
Nothing is "idealized" in the real world forever. The only thing that surprised me about this article is that more people didn't see real wages decline. 2021-2024 was a period of peak inflation that the US hadn't seen
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by hn_throwaway_99 2mo ago
I agree with most of what you wrote - the energy transition has been happening for a long time now. Indeed, my argument that Trump's malfeasance is causing countries to accelerate plans for energy independence wouldn't even be pos

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