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by howunfortunate 5d ago
It's pretty nice from an app developers perspective. It allows me to save money by calling a model on the users device rather than spending tokens (or forcing the user to spend tokens).
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by howunfortunate 6d ago
> They create hype, they get money, that's not an assumption, that's an observation. Because we can't observe the counterfactual world, this actually is just an assumption. Diving their intention also still requires many a
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by howunfortunate 6d ago
I think part of this comes from the fact that LLMs are surprisingly good at logic but roughly about as good as expected on information accuracy . LLMs are not convincing to me in the domain I did grad school...but neither is Wikipedia, o
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by howunfortunate 6d ago
Saying "I'm terrified of my job" does not normally lead fo getting paid more. Those links are the extra assumptions.
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by howunfortunate 6d ago
> continue being paid What I mean by Occam's Razor: There are many assumptions that need to be true to link "they say they're terrified of AI" to "they get paid more / longer", in both their own minds a
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by howunfortunate 6d ago
People will say it's marketing but I find Occam's Razor highly favors the theory "they are true believers in AGI/ASI" This seems especially true for Anthropic employees.
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by howunfortunate 7d ago
Who is "they"? I care about social media bans.
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by howunfortunate 7d ago
I think personal responsibility does play into these situations to some extent, but even so, that doesn't imply there should be zero regulation. Both for crack addicts and teens using social media, they not only hurt themselves , but
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by howunfortunate 7d ago
I think what 'we' prefer is the bad team's posts being censored, but none of our team's stuff getting censored. But what we prefer and what's good for us are two drastically different things.
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by howunfortunate 7d ago
I get it, but I think you need a new analogy. Because the car case just has too much empirical evidence that safety features are the way to go for cars. We used to have the equivalent of "spikes" and people still drove a lot, and
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by howunfortunate 7d ago
> A publisher making editorial decisions is not censorship. You have no right to compel other people to publish your speech. If you don't like Twitter's editorial policies, you are free to go elsewhere When a social media delet
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by howunfortunate 7d ago
It doesn't add up for me. If the goal is simply authoritarian control, why would they employ less censorship than their predecessors? Surely they could get away with at the very least the same amount?
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by howunfortunate 7d ago
Are there NYPost articles you feel people should be prevented from DMing? Or posting, for that matter?
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by howunfortunate 7d ago
I'm curious what trends you see towards censorship? Elon presumably being an exemplar for current trends: Twitter is unarguably far less censored than it was before (though censorship is still present). And Meta took note and also tu
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by howunfortunate 7d ago
My comment above does not rely on the premise that all moderation is censorship. Only that some Reddit mods engage in censorship.
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by howunfortunate 7d ago
Depends on the platform. On Reddit, definitely yes, as almost all censorship is "deletion style" where the target post or comment is initially visible until the mods suppress it. But your point is well taken, it's definitely
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by howunfortunate 7d ago
Hmm. I'd wager the vast majority of internet censorship is within platform , like that done by Reddit mods. The most egregious example I've seen in my lifetime was when old Twitter decided to censor a NYPost article, down to bloc
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by howunfortunate 8d ago
This one is a great example of how a Republic can avoid the worst excesses of direct Democracy A direct democracy might have just banned all futures.
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by howunfortunate 8d ago
This seems like a good way to get hammered by tons of extra requests because agents can't efficiently figure out your site...
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by howunfortunate 9d ago
This is very helpful! Basically what I take away is that we're inventing a new number system from scratch. So we're not "proving" that 1 is a number between 0 and the empty set. We're defining it as such, and it j
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by howunfortunate 9d ago
This would make a lot more sense to me if "nothing" and "nothing" were instead "-inf" and "+inf" Some other comments clarify that "nothing" is more accurately "the empty set". This
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by howunfortunate 9d ago
Pitch: a mini-series where a Dumb and Dumber duo get access to unlimited tokens via a roommates's account (who is an intern at a frontier lab). In each episode they make a major science-fiction style breakthrough and grapple with the c
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by howunfortunate 9d ago
> On the second day, there are two gaps: “between nothing and zero” and “between zero and nothing”. Two numbers spawn in those two gaps. Call them –1 and 1. Got lost here. I think I'm officially too dumb for math.
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by howunfortunate 10d ago
You're misreading me. Regulation helps boost Apple and Google at the expense of anyone trying to compete with them on app stores.
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by howunfortunate 11d ago
The push to involve the legal system and the government is ironic. It's partly lawsuits that are pushing Google to do this in the first place - because people download shady apps and get scammed or hacked. The more regulation we get, t
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by howunfortunate 11d ago
Yes, if my game made enough money I would definitely consider upgrading to human-produced assets. I'm a very long way from that though.
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by howunfortunate 11d ago
Insurance companies / actuaries are like the original prediction markets. It's amazing how much better info you can get by forcing people to put their money where their mouth is.
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by howunfortunate 13d ago
Do you mean Pascal's wager? Yes, that's a very appropriate and useful comparison here.
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by howunfortunate 13d ago
My sense is that it's context dependent. If you've got VC backing (or could soon) and are making deals in SF, the generosity path makes a lot of sense. Limited downside, infinite upside. You can afford generosity. If you're s
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by howunfortunate 14d ago
Interesting, I did not know this.

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