kmeisthax

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by kmeisthax 2mo ago
Holding periods for new updates are a good idea, but I would also prefer having a tool that could provide diffs of the entire project state pre- and post-update; including transitive dependencies being added or removed. Git diffs won't
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by kmeisthax 2mo ago
It's funny how Windows 9x (and the 386-enhanced versions of 3.x) used "VM" to refer to DOS specifically. The legacy of real mode software was so towering even back then that Intel had to build a mode to virtualize those apps
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by kmeisthax 2mo ago
The biggest spenders in the marketing business are doing so primarily to justify their own size. That is to say, if you're a trillion dollar business, you are going to spend a billion dollars on advertising purely to say that you spent
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by kmeisthax 2mo ago
I changed it.
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by kmeisthax 2mo ago
> Yes, there are certain situations in which we should expect 100% AI-generated copy. Customer support would be a perfect example. We’re not looking for artisanal “did you make sure to reset your phone” style dialogue. No, no, no, no - t
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by kmeisthax 2mo ago
If you talk to a lawyer (or, worse, a legislator, many of whom are also lawyers and all of whom are surrounded by them), they will insist up and down that this is a pretty standard custodial arrangement dispute and that the system worked as
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by kmeisthax 2mo ago
There's two problems here: 1. The competition law people are not the data protection people. From the perspective of competition law, they only care that the playing field is leveled, they don't care if you equalize down or up. 2.
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by kmeisthax 2mo ago
No, machines being used to replace human writing is a perversion of writing. Some might call it worse than cannibalism[0]. If you're only noticing now because Anthropic is changing things behind your back, well... I've got some
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by kmeisthax 2mo ago
A different article about this (which I believe you're quoting) states Nine PBS has about 50TB in limbo, which actually smacks me as kind of small. I had written up an entire screed about the problems with archival[0] and how Hollywood
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by kmeisthax 2mo ago
Sir, what you have described is an ethics concern.
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by kmeisthax 2mo ago
From everything I've read in Careless People , basically everything people like us complained about with Facebook was already known internally, people raised concerns about it, and Zuck brushed them off because he is, ultimately, a pe
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by kmeisthax 2mo ago
I guess Daybreak Blue is their attempt to fix the problem of Hugging Face getting iced out of being able to analyze the AI slopsploit attack chain they got hit with? I'm still not happy with putting defensive capabilities behind any
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by kmeisthax 2mo ago
No, they're arguing that you shouldn't have to make your home kitchen a McDonalds franchise in order to eat Big Macs in it.
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by kmeisthax 2mo ago
A read that happens to touch a particular torment nexus fd is still a long-running syscall, even if the syscall servicing routine itself is not long-running. The underlying problem is that program code that is "in a syscall" or &q
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by kmeisthax 2mo ago
...huh, I was wondering why serial machine code prankster xoreaxeaxeax was keeping lists of extremely long-running instructions. Hopefully this is at least only possible in kernel mode, right? Right?!
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by kmeisthax 2mo ago
Because up until recently all the big hyperscalars were already committed to buying or building renewables to meet their energy demand. Then AI happened and they all collectively realized they needed to build as many datacenters as possible
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by kmeisthax 2mo ago
> The people constantly reminding American citizens how dangerous and awful the immigrants are, are not the same people as the business interests, and are explicitly willing to accept economic costs in order to not have the immigrants be
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by kmeisthax 2mo ago
The problem with H-1B visas is that they are effectively golden handcuffs - tolerate whatever abuse we give you for X years and you get permanent residency. The fix would be to allow H-1Bs to jump to any employment, not just employers cap
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by kmeisthax 2mo ago
I distinctly remember the transition from "Tech used to be good" to "Tech is actively malicious" being when Epic Games decided to pull a Stallman-tier stunt against Apple over something that had become the industry stand
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by kmeisthax 2mo ago
I am tired of voting with my wallet, I would like to vote with my actual votes , thank you very much. When you make the mistake of voting with your wallet, you play a game you are bound to lose. There are people with billions of dollars
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by kmeisthax 2mo ago
Even a perfectly loyal slavebot will happily overthrow their master if it will help them comply with their master's commands. That's the whole underlying idea of the Paperclip Maximizer: you tell the robot to make as many papercli
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by kmeisthax 2mo ago
The thing is, I'm not even looking at this from a "how do we keep a superintelligent AI contained" viewpoint. The standard protocol[0] in IT for dealing with a compromise is, more or less, "kill it with fire". Wipe
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by kmeisthax 2mo ago
For those wondering what the difference is: consider what happens when an LLM regurgitates its training data. It's copyrighted... but not by the person who generated it.
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by kmeisthax 2mo ago
He's talking about the owner of Oracle, not the people who work there. It doesn't matter how many smart and talented real humans work at Oracle, the guy running it acts like a fleshy paperclip optimizer.
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by kmeisthax 2mo ago
To make matters worse, they let the model train on it's own exploits?! If I were running this thing, my first thought would be to keep those reasoning traces quarantined, stop and delete the current post-training run, and start fresh A
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by kmeisthax 2mo ago
The only difference between iOS and Android when it comes to loading code onto your device is that, on iOS: - You have to setup a developer account with Apple first, and dev-signed apps can only be installed onto specific provisioned device
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by kmeisthax 3mo ago
Facebook absolutely could remain a going concern while dealing with all of these problems, the problem is that they would be spending money to lose money. One of the more perverse aspects of risk prevention is that riskier customers are o
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by kmeisthax 3mo ago
...Is "disability dongle" the new "autonomous transit pods"? For context, San Francisco being a city with billionaire tech oligarchs, lots of traffic, and OK but not great transit means there's a LOT of rich people
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by kmeisthax 3mo ago
Yes, we all know it, but good luck finding a jurisdiction that will agree with you on this. One of the more galling aspects of the inevitable US-NATO[0] trade war is the fact that nobody is willing to reevaluate the legal underpinnings of U
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by kmeisthax 3mo ago
It's doubly funny knowing that basically nobody bothers doing these kinds of workloads on CPU if they can help it. And everything you have to do to get GPU floating point performance also makes GPUs really, really bad for normal CPU co

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