jmward01

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by jmward01 8mo ago
You will never get the internet to agree on how incident x should have been handled. I think the world right now is running to figure out AI and its place. Just when you think you understand, the ground shifts. It is clear that in the futur
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I might be good with legal guarantees, meaning jail time for those involved, that the only place images on these devices went was local to the municipality collecting them and that they were only accessed for very well defined reasons by ve
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The purpose of the exercise was to see what OpenAI thinks of itself to a large degree. I hope nobody takes the answers at face value considering they clearly have a conflict of interest at their very core. It has turned into an interesting
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by jmward01 8mo ago
I have never used AI to generate an answer for HN but just this once I thought it would be good to hit ChatGPT specifically and ask it for 'a list of times Sam Altman has gone against his word.' Here was its response: Shift from N
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Your account, while 10 years old, only has comments from the past year. It is becoming very hard to tell what accounts are real and which are fake. Social proof of account activity pre-llm (usable) could be a very important thing in the fut
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It takes more than stockpiles of shells to be able to use it and maintain offensive positions capable of causing harm. From the reports I have seen NK military in Ukraine has been mostly cannon fodder and they are very untrained. That being
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All probably close to correct. I wasn't arguing that unification would, or should, happen (especially by force). I was arguing that the strategic value to China, SK, the west, etc have flipped as well as the actual capabilities of NK a
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North Korea is in such poor shape that they probably can't maintain much of the equipment much less keep the personnel trained and ready to use it effectively. Not a reason to go to war, but the threat to Soul and SK in general is like
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Ok. So we have just taken out all of Israel's foes with force. They are safe now right? We can stop supporting them militarily in every way now right? They no longer need any weapons, intelligence support, defense support, etc, right?
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" It applies to operating systems that work with associated app stores on general purpose computers or mobile phones or game consoles. That’s it" Everything is a general purpose computer. Just look at how many things have been mad
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Defense contracting makes you rich and lazy. In the long run it is rare to see companies get sucked into defense contracting and stay relevant/on the cutting edge. We look at fighters and warships and think WOW! But the reality is that
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'yet'. Their reason for not allowing autonomous weapons usage was it isn't ready, not that they wouldn't do it on principle. Only the surveillance objection was on principle.
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I think the top (tech) stories of the decade are likely: Privacy, AI and the energy transition. I hope that as a society we are starting to learn, and protect, the value of, and right to, privacy.
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"Until this week, however, Anthropic’s Claude product was the only model permitted for use in the military’s classified systems." I hadn't realized. This does make me consider using alternatives more.
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The US is no longer a reliable partner. Once the current administration is gone the likelihood of US support is less than guaranteed. Even with this administration in place support is less than guaranteed. All it takes is the right moment t
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This is why gifts to government are problematic. They are never gifts, they are end-runs around accountability and should have exceptionally high scrutiny. It is hard to say they should be outright illegal since participating in government
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I'm a dreamer, and a bit of a sucker for the underdog story. This checks all the boxes for me so I am rooting for them for many reasons. If this is real then the world just jumped 10 years ahead in battery development overnight. If not
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I think the key here is engagement is based a lot on content quantity, not quality. If your feed doesn't have a lot of natural quantity associated with it then FB will find something to stuff in there. The reality is that most people d
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by jmward01 8mo ago
My argument is that we are getting closer, not that we know exactly what AGI will be. That is clearly part of it right? If we had some boolean definition I suspect we would already be there. Figuring it out is a big part of getting there. I
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Gravity Doesn't Behave Normally in Antarctica(dailygalaxy.com)
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You will never agree 100% with someone else when it comes to decisions like this, but clearly there is a lot of history behind these decisions and they are a great starting point for conversations internally I think.
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The more intelligent something is, the harder it is to control. Are we at AGI yet? No. Are we getting closer? Yes. Every inch closer means we have less control. We need to start thinking about these things less like function calls that have
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by jmward01 8mo ago
I fled SF and I know a bunch of similar people. Startups are still founded there for the address, not the local talent pool. The address is there because of inertia, not because of inherent advantage. If I were to create a startup I wouldn&
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A good wind-breaker and glasses/face covering are pretty nice to haves. Even a little wind accelerates as it hits the mountain and picks up the tephra and turns it into a sand blaster. I just took water and yen personally since the num
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by jmward01 8mo ago
Once a wise man twice a fool....I'm a fool :) My most humbling experience was making it to the top, exhausted but happy only to see a jogger reach the top, look at his smart watch briefly and start back down again. Jerk.
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I was pointing out humans and LLMs have this failure mode so in a lot of ways it is no big deal/not some smoking gun that LLMs are useless and dangerous, or at least no more useless and dangerous than humans. I personally would stay aw
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Did We See a Black Hole Explode in 2025? [video](youtube.com)
1 points by jmward01 8mo ago|0 comments
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This reminds me of the old brain-teaser/joke that goes something like 'An airplane crashes on the boarder of x/y, where do they bury the survivors?' The point being that this exact style of question has real examples whe
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by jmward01 8mo ago
I believe 'heavy duty' foil is sold. I don't have any to check but my guess is both sides are shiny. In fact, I think I remember both sides being shiny the last time I used it...
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Good journalists take risks. Sometimes they are risks to their persons, sometimes they are risks to their wardrobe. This is likely a case of both.

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