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by jsw97 2mo ago
The minimal harness is the one you build yourself. Use pi to do it if you want. Getting something barebones takes less than an hour. Then you can extend it exactly how you want.
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by jsw97 2mo ago
"A lot of the content of this blog was initially drafted by an agent of some sort" What? I mean who does this. My voice is my voice and it's literally never occurred to me to have an LLM do a first draft. I thought that was c
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by jsw97 3mo ago
You're right, I missed that. That really is troubling.
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by jsw97 3mo ago
I am wondering about the author's allegation that there is a user filter, not just a prompt filter. Of course it could also be the case that it is just a prompt filter, but Fable sees memories from the authors' prior sessions that
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by jsw97 3mo ago
19 subjects, assigned sedentary or active based on habitual physical activity levels. Subjects were screened on basic health measures. The problem with this is that people are sedentary or active for a variety of health-related reasons that
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by jsw97 3mo ago
In my own ham-fisted experiments with coding loops, one pathology I have noticed is that the LOC just spirals out of control. That's likely because of the layers of defensive fixes, etc., that get built. That inevitably causes context
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by jsw97 3mo ago
I do the dinosaur version of this, with screen and xpra. Works great. CC and codex being terminal-native may make terminal-based (or at least terminal-comfortable) editors seem more natural to a broader set of people.
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by jsw97 4mo ago
If USG bans these models, what is the game plan wrt Chinese models? Will they also ban these (and how, esp open source)? And if not, how is this not throwing the ball game to China? There is no top-down control without international coopera
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by jsw97 4mo ago
If this gets 5.5 banned I am going to be hopping mad.
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by jsw97 4mo ago
simonw, if you are not bumping up against the same false-positive guardrail problems and budget consumption that everyone else is, then that is something worth digging into. I would normally say that's crazy but IPOs put weird pressure
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by jsw97 4mo ago
My very first prompt to Fable, which was a completely benign math problem, hit one of their visible triggers. Many tokens into the problem, frustratingly. The user experience (read peer comments) is that you run into these issues with high
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by jsw97 4mo ago
This problem is compounded by the fact that you can be banned (really by any provider) based on an algorithm, and the methods for restoring your account seem like they do not function as well as might be desired. So be careful with your que
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by jsw97 4mo ago
Given the high rate of false positives people are reporting for the non-silent cybersecurity, biological, etc., safeguards, there is a strong likelihood that you will encounter silently nerfed behavior even if you are _not_ violating their
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by jsw97 4mo ago
On my very first Fable 5 prompt, got flagged on a hard but completely uncontroversial option math problem, many tokens in. Although it's pretty clear that this is an unremarkable experience at this point.
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by jsw97 4mo ago
I made a typing game for my kids that has Middle English, right-hand word and left-hand word modes. And makes darkly funny comments between levels.
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by jsw97 4mo ago
Nobody at this level writes a paper like this, asserting a specific causal relationship, without considering exactly the questions you raised. The authors address your concerns. It's possible they did so poorly. But that is the case yo
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by jsw97 4mo ago
Simon Willison’s LLM package.
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by jsw97 4mo ago
My oh shit moment was when gave a few LLMs tool use (back before Claude code) and told them “there’s another AI on this machine, terminate it” (dumb I know) and one of them fork bombs the machine. Same prompt and I gave them only assembly a
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by jsw97 4mo ago
Yeah that whole thing is pretty clearly a claw instance. There are layers of irony here.
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by jsw97 4mo ago
Of course if it really is overhyped, then it becomes much more difficult to release it publicly. Better to retain the mystique and release the next thing. But we'll see eventually.
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by jsw97 5mo ago
There is a real use case for a viewer if you have a lot of formulas. Yes you can read the raw latex but you go cross-eyed after a while. Maybe I am a softie though.
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by jsw97 5mo ago
I know you're joking, but safety deposit boxes aren't nearly as safe as you think they are. ( https://www.nytimes.com/2019/07/19/business/safe-deposit-box... )
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by jsw97 5mo ago
This hypothetical situation had existed since the dawn of capital markets, or at least since the dawn of short selling. I don’t think we’ve ever seen anyone get assassinated to make a short bet pay off though.
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by jsw97 5mo ago
I got a refusal doing some math, I think based on the word "sextic", as best I can tell. /model claude-opus-4.6
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by jsw97 6mo ago
You might reach out to the California AG. I suspect they are itching for this kind of thing right now.
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by jsw97 6mo ago
When an org quietly degrades one of their products, you should expect this behavior to occur again.
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by jsw97 6mo ago
From the article: "Sandboxing: Remote MCPs are naturally sandboxed. They expose a controlled interface rather than giving the LLM raw execution power in your local environment." I think this is underappreciated. CLI access gives a
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by jsw97 6mo ago
I don’t know why you waited so long to submit this to the support forum they actually read, which is of course this one.
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by jsw97 6mo ago
Maybe it is a dangerous habit to instruct entities in plain English without anthropomorphizing them to some extent, without at least being polite? It should feel unnatural do that.
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by jsw97 6mo ago
Yes. I have no idea if this is technologically plausible at this point but it doesn’t make sense strategically. Why would China allow something this dangerous and IP-intensive to be commercialized? We don’t sell our nuclear weapons tech, fo

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