jonahx

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by jonahx 8d ago
crop-maxxing
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by jonahx 8d ago
We need a term for the dark pattern of zooming into just that part of the y-axis where the two closely competing benchmarks sit, to make the top one appear maximally better.
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by jonahx 9d ago
I don't think this has any teeth. They don't compensate in the event of loss afaict.
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by jonahx 12d ago
Thanks for clarifying.
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by jonahx 12d ago
> Ultimately, we have made it Spinning the present situation or the history of nuclear arms as a high-five, "go team human!" success story is... quite the take (Vasili Arkhipov, Cuban missile crisis generally, the current dooms
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by jonahx 15d ago
It's funny that seems like a step the human mathematicians would want, and (at least for now) might still outperform the machines on. In the same way that, eg, the notebooks of Galois contained the core breakthroughs in a messy form,
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by jonahx 15d ago
The concerns seem valid. I'm unclear what the ask is, though. What, even in theory, is a practical and realistic fix?
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by jonahx 15d ago
Failure to imagine an incentive doesn't mean there isn't one. You can't rely on this type of thinking to reason about security. The thing you would have never thought of is what gets you. For example, an ad provider itself
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by jonahx 15d ago
I'd guess GP id enraged that you can't selectively choose, or that there is no option to have the tabs restored without auto-loading, so you can keep your list of open work without being forced to reload a freezing tab.
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by jonahx 15d ago
This take feels too cavalier. Since the machine is actually frozen, it enables many plausible social engineering scams ("We have detected a virus that froze your machine. Call this number for help..."), and I bet it has been used
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by jonahx 19d ago
> We know complex when we see it for sure, at least when it is present in quantity Because familiarity is a confound for intuition about complexity, even this is not always true. Maxwell's equations will look complex to the uninitia
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by jonahx 19d ago
Privacy in anonymous posts is a legitimate use. "Productivity" is not. It's only good for fake productivity. The consumers of the product will almost always be better off with you disclosing what the LLM did, and what you
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by jonahx 20d ago
I think this is the cleanest formulation of why it's wrong that I've heard. It's simply plagiarism and misrepresentation.
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by jonahx 20d ago
I don't think it would be fine. Someone's actual writing (or talking) is a rich stream of information about who they are, their motives, their preferences, modes of persuasion, and so much more. Undetectable LLM writing essential
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by jonahx 21d ago
These theories sound vaguely plausible. I would rate them as about 5% true and 95% false, as explanation of the past and prediction of the future. The satisfaction of learning to do something difficult isn't going away, and the social
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by jonahx 21d ago
In practice, the odds overwhelmingly favor abuse. And even if the "proper and lawful" version was somehow achieved, it would require constant maintenance, security, and expensive oversight that would also be at risk of degenerati
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by jonahx 24d ago
If you have a grading rubric, huge points off for adding arms instead of using the wings as arms!
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by jonahx 1mo ago
> Another cause was the unrealistic flight schedules which can subconsciously pressure management into normalizing dangerous deviations. In the case of Challenger, I think it's pretty clear this was the "root cause": &gt
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by jonahx 1mo ago
My experience with non-technical people using AI is not like this at all. Perhaps your friend is an outlier?
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by jonahx 1mo ago
Yes, I'm using "high-performing college students" or "phd students" or whatever as a proxy for "people skilled at learning". It's not perfect but I think it'd be good enough. You could do lots
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by jonahx 1mo ago
> When you ask this question of others, you are asking what am I forgetting? What will I regret? They can’t tell you. In one sense yes, but in another sense... humans are just so much alike. You can a learn a ton from your elders'
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by jonahx 1mo ago
Fair question. In theory you could do an experiment where the subjects were grad students or professors, or top performing college students. Give them some fixed amount of time to understand some new subject on which they'll be teste
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by jonahx 1mo ago
Depends who's using it. Like many tools the force multiplier depends on the operator. I'm confident it's an amplifier for people who know how learning works and already do a lot of it, successfully. However the level of &qu
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by jonahx 1mo ago
GP was addressing the client-side UX, not backend validation, which is an orthogonal concern.
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by jonahx 1mo ago
> There isn’t a single universal standard for sandboxing across all the different platforms that are supported by Rust. I said OS level. It's something I should easily be able to do via the OS capabilities that would work for rust,
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by jonahx 1mo ago
Proper and easy to use support for sandboxes at the OS level, or better yet capabilities, seems like the only long term solution. Many things I run I want to limit to r/w a single dir, and to have to request permission to make network
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by jonahx 1mo ago
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by jonahx 1mo ago
> You might not believe them, but that’s what the words are supposed to mean. It's corporate bullshit not because I don't believe they can grow the pie, but because that's not their motivation. In fact, a nice formula fo
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by jonahx 1mo ago
I think this is exactly the bet they're making. I was totally confused by what connected the two companies until I realized "tokens" are basically a nascent, and rapidly growing, "currency".
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by jonahx 1mo ago
> I like Stripe's long-stated mission ("To increase the GDP of the Internet"). Also corporate speak. Their mission is take their cut of the Internet's GDP. Nothing against them, they provide real value for that cut.

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