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by johnecheck 10mo ago
> Even if the conclusion is broadly correct, that doesn't mean the reasoning used to get there is consistent. This is the conclusion of a reply that focused entirely on critiquing OP's style/AI use instead of their reasoni
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by johnecheck 11mo ago
I strongly suspect it's the latter, though someone please chime in if I'm wrong. Even so, this is a real advancement. It's impressive to see existing techniques combined to meaningfully improve on SOTA image generation.
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by johnecheck 11mo ago
It's funny, this release comes right after the Gemini 3 release that coincided with day 1 of Microsoft's Ignite conference.
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by johnecheck 11mo ago
Are you religious? If not, you should assume that your cognition is a product of your body, a magnificent machine. I don't think LLMs are sapient, but your argument implies that creativity is something unique to humans and therefore no
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by johnecheck 11mo ago
Time to invent a type of plastic that's poisonous to these bacteria! > Is it harmful to humans? > Not at all! You can definitely trust that my company has studied this in depth. I'm sure it isn't going to make it into e
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Trump Media to Enter Booming Prediction Markets Business(bloomberg.com)
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by johnecheck 1y ago
Dart/Flutter, custom engine. I've been very satisfied with it; does everything I need for a 2d game. Once it can natively use shaders/GPU on web it'll be perfect.
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by johnecheck 1y ago
This seems like the time to mention my unreleased board/video game, Star Gambit! It's a turn-based abstract space fleet battle coming to your browser in 2026. It's already playable over the internet w/ time controls and
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by johnecheck 1y ago
You're right, Bluesky moderation is centralized. Unless content is served p2p, some moderation has to be centralized. At the end of the day, there's a server serving content and that server operator is legally obligated to remov
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by johnecheck 1y ago
It's all about trust. How do we help machines (and humans) know what to trust?
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by johnecheck 1y ago
Imagine if they later update these links to actually phish people. That'd be pretty funny.
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by johnecheck 1y ago
This is Hacker News, none of us are normal :p I think it's really that highly motivated individuals will power through garbage UX that regular users won't. Upsides like decentralization are abstract, UX is concrete. You need to g
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by johnecheck 1y ago
No mention of atproto. Obviously Bluesky is nothing to write home about, but do you see some reason why the atproto couldn't be the foundation for something more interesting?
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by johnecheck 1y ago
I've always felt that the browser vendor + CA model was bad but this is next level embarrassing. How is the very root of trust in the internet so... untrustworthy?
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by johnecheck 1y ago
> There is no way to promote facts or what people think are facts. There is no way with existing platforms and algorithms . We need systems that actually promote the truth. Imagine if claims (posts) you see come with a score* that corre
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by johnecheck 1y ago
It will of they can actually make it think better than we do. Whether they ever will is hard to say, but it feels pretty clear that throwing more money at LLMs isn't going to get us there.
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by johnecheck 1y ago
I read the comment you're responding to as suggesting a way to resolve the conflicts layered atop the CRDT, not as a component of the CRDT itself. You're very right that LLMs are the wrong tool for CRDT implementation, but using t
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by johnecheck 1y ago
1 is true, but this applies to all websites you visit (and their ads, supply chain, etc). Drawing a security boundary here means never executing attacker-controlled Javascript. Good luck! 2 is also true. But also, a zero day like that is a
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by johnecheck 1y ago
It might be nice if our universe conformed to our intuitions about time steadily marching forward at the same rate everywhere. Einstein just had to come along and screw everything up. Causality is the key.
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by johnecheck 1y ago
Conflict-free is right in the name, layering conflicts on top of it would be blasphemy :p
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by johnecheck 1y ago
LLMs could be good at this, but the default should be suggestions rather than automatic resolution. Users can turn on YOLO mode if their domain is non-critical or they trust the LLM to get it right.
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by johnecheck 1y ago
Wow. That's... impressively bad. While pretty egregious, this is sadly common. I'm certain there's a dozen other massive companies making similar mistakes.
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by johnecheck 1y ago
NO! CLEARLY THE ENTIRE CORPUS OF HUMAN LITERATURE AND THE INTERNET DOESN'T CONTAIN ENOUGH INFORMATION TO EDUCATE AN EXPERT!!!! I JUST NEED ANOTHER BILLION DOLLARS PLS PLS PLS I PROMISE THE SCALING LAWS ARE ACTUALLY LAWS THIS TIME
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by johnecheck 1y ago
Actually, yes. In the US, the 'actual malice' standard only applies to 'public figures'. Outside of that, damaging a person's reputation with false statements is defamation regardless of whether it was due to neglig
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by johnecheck 1y ago
From earlier today: Me: How do I change the language settings on YouTube? Claude: Scroll to the bottom of the page and click the language button on the footer. Me: YouTube pages scroll infinitely. Claude: Sorry! Just click on the footer wit
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by johnecheck 1y ago
Indeed. I can't take an epistemology project seriously if it has no humility. Building a perfectly accurate model of the world isn't possible. We need to create tools that make it easier for regular people to build more accurate m
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by johnecheck 1y ago
Looks like the work to create a real standard via the IETF has begun. https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/bofreq-newbold-authenticate...
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by johnecheck 1y ago
Your definition ignores international recognition. Ultimately, whether you get to act like a country (go to the UN, engage in diplomacy, hold territory) is in large part based on whether other countries recognize you as such. I don't
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by johnecheck 1y ago
Yeah. If an authoritarian government controls the network infrastructure, there's no way to use that network infra without risk. To actually bypass this, you need your own network. Does anyone know of any sneakernet protocols that woul
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by johnecheck 1y ago
Indeed. Capacity to do the hard parts of software engineering well may well be our best indicator of AGI. I don't think LLMs alone are going to get there. They might be a key component in a more powerful system, but they might also be

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