joe_the_user

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by joe_the_user 3mo ago
Sure, in a given public discussion, lots of people saying that show up. But substantial portion of those are shills , not necessarily people to say but who benefit from the scam. And some people who are paid, public relations people acting
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by joe_the_user 3mo ago
One thing people out here periodically is how causation is hard to find. Someone who is dying may be not inclined to do anything 'cause they feel lousy all the time.
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by joe_the_user 3mo ago
Even AI companies talk about the situation as a bubble. But the idea is this is akin to the railroad bubble or the Internet bubble. Basically, you the "frothy" development of a new technology in which you will certainly many loser
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by joe_the_user 3mo ago
One that occurs to me is that Roko's Basilisk makes about as much sense as the "peasant rail gun" of old Dungeons And Dragons [1]. Basically, the idea of "reality as simulation" allows you pick between different law
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by joe_the_user 3mo ago
I suspect that another thing that's expensive, besides analog controls, is creating and testing a new, better interface for driving ICE cars using digital controls. So the only thing old our old-tech car companies do is add ad-hoc exte
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by joe_the_user 4mo ago
The study is two months old (March 13, 2026). Edit: Also, it's about writing not coding and it's point isn't that time isn't saved but even with time saved at the task, you don't get a broad decrease in total worked
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by joe_the_user 4mo ago
Most true small businesses can't exist in markets with a lot of competition. Highly competitive markets have a lot of fluctuation and businesses with little capital fold when there's a downturn. In fact, most markets naturally g
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by joe_the_user 4mo ago
The robot has a two pronged gripper. I wonder what teleoperating that to do complex tasks would be like.
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by joe_the_user 4mo ago
I think the first to use such home robots will have is people who can do the tasks but simply don't want to be bothered. The aged, infirm and disabled are going to need real people for company and to deal with any crises the infirm mig
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by joe_the_user 4mo ago
That's a bit like asking "what did most books do?" The whole point of forums was that it's difficult to make a generalization about them and moreover, what "most" forums did/do doesn't matter. What a
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by joe_the_user 4mo ago
The difference between forum and a subreddit or discord isn't ultimately the features, it's localism. A forum can make it's own rules whereas Reddit ultimately makes the rules for a subreddit.
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by joe_the_user 4mo ago
Yahoo bought Viaweb from Paul Graham and rewrote the Lisp application in C++ and Perl. Reports are the results were strictly inferior but it achieved the goal of not having to rely on Lisp programmers. Part of Yahoo's business is/
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by joe_the_user 4mo ago
Citations? Wikipedia is full of them
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by joe_the_user 4mo ago
I think there are problems with modern longevity science. The OP's "A fundamental challenge that longevity gurus face is that what’s true is often boring, and what’s interesting often isn’t true" is plausible. But it also see
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by joe_the_user 4mo ago
I think the wikipedia page on Jeanne Calment actually does a good job of debunking "revisionist" doubting of the record. After consulting several experts, The Washington Post wrote that "statistically improbable is not the s
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China Resets AI Race(wsj.com)
12 points by joe_the_user 4mo ago|5 comments
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by joe_the_user 4mo ago
I think it correct to refer to the models as LLMs. The references I can find for the techniques used seem to boil down to transformers + optimizations to make transformer-index larger/faster + chains-of-thought-optimization/the ab
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by joe_the_user 4mo ago
Nick Bostrom wondered aloud in Superintelligence (2014) why states would allow individuals and private organizations to develop AGI. If one takes the possibility seriously, AGI would a source of immense power and any state would to take tha
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If the FCC Bans Burner Phones, It Could Be a Privacy Nightmare(cnet.com)
8 points by joe_the_user 4mo ago|8 comments
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by joe_the_user 4mo ago
The topic comparisons are pretty boring and search is disabled. Perhaps I'll remember to return to this. But I can't think of much it gives that plain Google nGram viewer doesn't.
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by joe_the_user 4mo ago
There's never been a reason a sealed water-cooled system ever had to use vast amounts of water. But State Of The Art wound up being using and expelling the water. It seems like data centers operate like other industrial enterprises - l
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by joe_the_user 4mo ago
It's an arms race. My older SUV (Lexus 3XX) is worrisome in it's size and blindspots but it's still dwarfed by current trucks. Moreover, once most SUVs were basically built over a pickup chassis but it seems like pickups have
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by joe_the_user 4mo ago
Suppose "hackers" released extremely embarrassing/incriminating but true information [the remaining Epstein files with documentation or whatever]. Suppose social engineering and communication channel control was used to play
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by joe_the_user 4mo ago
How could some worm imposed patching work? If a piece of software is insecure and you switch the binary to secure, the insecure version would uploaded in the next update - and secure version likely treated like malware itself.
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by joe_the_user 4mo ago
It would be simpler require critical software to focus on security and quickly shift to secure approaches. I mean, there are was article about how small water districts are short on funds and so choose to allow remote access to water treatm
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by joe_the_user 4mo ago
Even your discussion makes it "sanitized input" simply doesn't exist in relation to an LLM. At best it seems like one can prefix and filter input as much as possible, monitor the results but never assume that you are done.
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by joe_the_user 4mo ago
Well, the original HN title (which has been changed as I write) was the second large text "A Theory of Prompt Injection", which should simply be "A Method Of Prompt Injection Using Roles". I would say this method is less
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by joe_the_user 4mo ago
It's frustrating that this supposed theory doesn't start with a theory/description/discussion of what language. This article essentially only describes a single rough "logical frame" that may be common in busin
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by joe_the_user 4mo ago
Well, if all the data people uploaded to these models provided ironclad personal identification, would Anthropic need to have these identity verification processes? They could have directed Claude to disconnect all non-citizens when the ord
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by joe_the_user 4mo ago
My user name here is in the weights. My real name isn't on the Internet. Oddly, I'm listed only as a stack-exchange contributor, which was really brief compared to hn but its adjacent enough the relations might run together.

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