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App Store Personalized Recommendations and Keylogging(mjtsai.com)
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by latexr 4mo ago
As I was coming back to the thread, I was dreading someone might be making this submission about AI. I miss HN from before it became AIN and other types of intellectual curiosity were drained out. What’s marvellous about this work is the an
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by latexr 4mo ago
> "Who is Mary Lee Pfeiffer's child?" would have several. Might have several. It only has one answer if there is only one child, which appears to be the case here. They are measuring against what they told the model, not
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by latexr 4mo ago
You are stuck on an invented argument, fully in your head, and keep ascribing motivations to people you know nothing about. I’m not “distracting” from anything. I don’t condone racism or dismissing the article (which I enjoyed) as being “th
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Perhaps don’t question people’s education when you know nothing about them and are yourself unable to communicate properly and understand a question. A “racist and a misanthrope” is not the same thing as a “racist misanthrope” (and again, t
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by latexr 4mo ago
Those terms seem incompatible. Either you’re a racist and hate certain slices of humanity or you’re a misanthrope and hate all of it. Doesn’t make much sense to hate all and part of it. What exactly did you mean?
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Liquid Glass proves they do care (otherwise they wouldn’t have gone to the trouble), they’re just bad at it now.
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by latexr 4mo ago
> Their response/justification was: "The code wasn't written by me. It was written by Claude/Chatgpt" It boggles the mind someone could think that is a valid justification, because ultimately what they’re saying
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by latexr 4mo ago
> It's not new advice. It will be new to someone. https://xkcd.com/1053/ But even amongst those for whom it isn’t, sometimes a reminder of things you know is useful and may come at just the right time.
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Yeah, once , possibly under time pressure, and not at all times. Spyware gives you continued access.
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That assumes continued access, which may not be true. Installing spyware gives you information down the line.
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by latexr 4mo ago
Ask any domestic abuser. Most of them seem to be successful at it. https://www.npr.org/sections/alltechconsidered/2014/09/15/34... It’s crazy to me that people are being so skeptical of the idea. A
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It already happens all the time . It even has a name. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stalkerware
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In your second and third paragraphs you’re essentially describing Gell-Mann amnesia. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Crichton#%22Gell-Mann_...
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I think you’re reading too much into it. I think it’s just a common design pattern that was copied and is clearly optimised for mobile, where the distance doesn’t matter that much. Anyway, if they were running metrics on that they just beca
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by latexr 4mo ago
> It seems like the right answer is usually the longest of the choices You are correct. I tested that hypothesis about a dozen times and it seems that if you always pick the longest you’ll get it right somewhere in the high 70s to mid 80
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> it's intentional. What is? > I'm guessing it's testing our susceptibility to machine-generated compliments I fail to see the point. For one, the compliments aren’t particularly good or interesting; for another, I didn
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> Also - too many clicks per word. They’re also too far away. I’m on a laptop and I have to keep moving the cursor up and down just to confirm. Give each option a letter or number and let me press it to choose the answer¹. ¹ There is (wa
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by latexr 4mo ago
> Same with me, apparently three different models think I am a minor football player. I read the parent comment’s blog post right before coming back and reading your comment, and for a moment I thought you meant “models” as in “fashion m
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The Lorem Ipsum Mystery [video](youtube.com)
2 points by latexr 4mo ago|0 comments
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The Wholesale Plagiarism of Obscure Sorrows(waxy.org)
6 points by latexr 4mo ago|1 comments
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Apple's A12 and A13 Chips Facing New Unpatchable Exploit(macrumors.com)
1 points by latexr 4mo ago|1 comments
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by latexr 4mo ago
I’ve now asked you the same simple question twice, with extra emphasis the second time. It’s not a complex question, it’s not a gotcha, it’s not an attack, it’s a clear question to determine the crux of the disagreement and find consensus.
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> (didn’t resonate), although mine is purely based on AI scoring One reason for it not resonating might be that it’s yet another opaque algorithmic feed in a moment in time where people are getting sick and tired of them and wary of thei
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I’m not going to defend the self-help industry, but your dismissal made me think of how Craig Ferguson described bad rehabs VS good rehabs. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7ZVWIELHQQY Yes, of course you need to put in work
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There are entire websites built around that, several have been posted to HN. There was even one (I think real news channel) who experimented with generating fake video of fake anchors to deliver “news”.
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My recommendation is to find a talk by the author online. It’s free and serves the same purpose.
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No, they can’t, because LLMs cannot detect utter nonsensical bullshit. https://theconversation.com/a-weird-phrase-is-plaguing-scien...
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by latexr 4mo ago
> I also suspect that many of these self-help books are effectively a blog post stretched out over hundreds of pages, so maybe a decline in their sales is no bad thing. You suspect right. I usually compare them to a pamphlet, but a blog
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by latexr 4mo ago
> who's the judge? You are. Decide for yourself what it means to be a positive influence in the world and do that. This isn’t that hard, it’s not a gotcha. If you are capable of empathy, you are capable of understanding what it mean

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