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by krupan 5d ago
That is such a long reply telling me about the show I watched and you didn't watch, lol!
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by krupan 5d ago
You should certainly try to do the least amount of harm possible. We don't really understand what harm is in all cases. We don't fully understand the lived experience of a chicken or the lettuce plant we cut up or the rabbit tha
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by krupan 5d ago
I'm not even sure what your point is anymore. If Google decides they don't want you to log in anymore, you can't log in anymore. It doesn't matter if you try to log in with a passkey, a password, your fingerprint, or s
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by krupan 5d ago
Do you understand that this is a classic manipulation tactic? Say the false/provocative/attention grabbing thing loudly then retract/explain/apologize later for it quietly.
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by krupan 6d ago
Thankfully they will be greatly outnumbered among general society. Most humans are good people.
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by krupan 6d ago
https://www.healthline.com/nutrition/7-nutrients-you-cant-ge... B12 is generally the biggest concern. Vegans need to take vitamin supplements to get it. The B12 in those supplements is produced in factories doing bac
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by krupan 6d ago
No it's not. Google flips a bit in their database and no matter what kind of authentication you set up with them, you get denied
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by krupan 6d ago
How have you missed the many times that Sam Altman and Dario Amodei have said exactly that??
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by krupan 6d ago
I won't because it's all so opaque and proprietary and driven by an insane need for OpenAI and Anthropic to provide a return on MASSIVE investment. There is absolutely some smoke and mirrors involved. How much? We don't kn
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by krupan 6d ago
The original article already attempted to do that but I'll take another stab. Humans tend to believe what they want to believe. They gain confidence when a confident person (or LLM) they work with exudes confidence. Where they might
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by krupan 6d ago
It's not even clear that the actual LLMs have improved. It could be all the non-LLM software (harnesses), the system prompts, the sheer amount of compute hardware, etc. that makes them better. We could be quickly running up against a
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by krupan 6d ago
It does, and maybe I'm apologizing for the author a little too much by ignoring that needless tangent because I feel like the con artist point, and/or the point about the human tendency to believe what we want to believe are the m
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by krupan 6d ago
You have just word smithed their claims into something palatable. Good job. Why do you feel the need to do that for them?
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by krupan 6d ago
Absolutely true and the comments here are mostly in one of those two categories, sadly
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by krupan 6d ago
I agree that "don't use it for anything" might be too extreme a position to take, but I worry greatly that these proprietary opaque tools that are being provided by at best people with extreme conflicts of interest and at wor
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by krupan 6d ago
The show Pluribus explores this idea. I can't wait for more episodes
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by krupan 6d ago
Do androids dream of electric sheep?
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by krupan 6d ago
No, only when use in conjunction with not-LLM software
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by krupan 6d ago
There is no survival for us without hurting some other living organism. Even a purely vegan diet (which does not provide the complete nutrition we need) hurts plants and other critters that also want to eat those same plants or use them fo
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by krupan 6d ago
That's basically the premise of the show Severence, in case you didn't know. Give it a watch, it's very eye opening
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by krupan 6d ago
Right. And what this article is pointing out is, we probably have created an automated Richard Feynman. But maybe worse because LLMs (and their creators?) don't care if they are conning people or creating faithful followers. In fact
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by krupan 6d ago
This is the real issue here. Those guys probably didn't become con men because they are humans with cares and concerns for their fellow humans. LLMs probably don't have those concerns. It is likely that some of the people in ch
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by krupan 6d ago
The point of this article we are all commenting on is that we are all irrational and we all would do well to keep that in mind and be more skeptical
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by krupan 6d ago
You mean the OpenAI employees? Yeah, I don't see any conflicts of interest there
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by krupan 6d ago
All that plus the fact that we all get fooled from time to time, even by things we ourselves create!
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by krupan 6d ago
The con is in how all those accomplishments have been presented to you. "Our LLM (not the one we let you use, a different one) did this amazing thing. No, we won't show you what training data we used, what prompts we used, what
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by krupan 6d ago
Now we aren't talking about a security problem, we're talking about who really owns what. Google can lock you out of your account no matter what kind of authentication they use for that account
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by krupan 6d ago
Sorry, but you are completely missing the point. Psychics and other types of con artists are intelligent and have minds. LLMs behave like Psychics and Con Artists. That's the whole point of this article
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by krupan 6d ago
Sorry, but you are completely missing the point. Psychics and other types of con artists are intelligent and have minds. LLMs behave like Psychics and Con Artists. That's the whole point of this article
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by krupan 6d ago
People are missing the point. We should all be much more skeptical, much more careful about how we evaluate the claims made by the people selling these products because we as humans are super vulnerable to the types of scams the author of

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