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by latexr 7mo ago
It’s good they walked it back, but the fact it was implemented in the first place is a signal of their thinking and inexcusable in itself. Trust is easier to lose than to gain, and Microdoft continues to break trust.
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by latexr 7mo ago
> sorry about the tangent I understand why you felt the need to do it, but it’s still sad that you have to apologise for it. It’s not like if using technology for killing is a fringe hypothesis, it’s happening right now and on the news.
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by latexr 7mo ago
> if you pulled in any layperson from the street Then they wouldn’t be able to explain how any part of their computing life works. Not hardware, not software. LLMs are not at all special in that regard, to the layperson they are equall
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by latexr 7mo ago
What the bloody heck are you on about? That first quote is completely fabricated. I’d also like to live in a world where people don’t argue in bad faith, but since I have no pretence that will happen, at least I’m thankful when bad faith ac
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by latexr 7mo ago
> That way Han Solo can make sense in the infamous quote. They explained it in the Solo movie. https://www.reddit.com/r/MovieDetails/comments/ah3ptm/solo_a...
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by latexr 7mo ago
I’m not sure I understand your point. Mind clarifying? It seems you might be trying to contradict what I said but are in fact only adding to it. > just like literacy is also not guaranteed just because you learned the alphabet. I didn’t
937.
by latexr 7mo ago
These are basically AI illustrations on unplayable MTG cards. The addition of purple doesn’t really add as a concept (most of the stated purposes are already covered by other colours) and in fact breaks MTG’s working five combinations. If y
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by latexr 7mo ago
No, they are saying it like the comparison doesn’t hold. Which it doesn’t.
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by latexr 7mo ago
> AI megacorps aren't the only ones gaining, we all are. No, no we are not. > the leverage you have to build and ship today is higher than it was five years ago. I don’t want more “leverage to build and ship”, I want to live in a
940.
by latexr 7mo ago
Without meaning to sound like the “friendship ended” meme, I was a heavy user of macros in vim and neovim. It was probably my favourite feature. After I switched to Helix, I began using multiple cursors and now those are my favourite featur
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by latexr 7mo ago
> To the extent people trust AI to be infallible, it's just laziness and rapport (…) that causes people to assume that because it's useful and helpful for so many things, it'll be right about everything. Why it happens is
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by latexr 7mo ago
Yes, of course someone should have investigated, but the larger point here is that people don’t because they are being sold a false narrative that AI is infallible and can do anything. We could sit here all day arguing “you should always va
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by latexr 7mo ago
> Genuine question: (…) framing myself as a helpless victim If you engage with the argument genuinely and steel man, you’ll see that is not what I said. I even emphasised it: > some of it falls on you You’re not a “helpless victim”
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by latexr 7mo ago
> The fault is on me, to be clear, as LLMs are just a tool. This is like blaming yourself for an addiction to alcohol, junk food, gambling, or something else you have been relentlessly advertised to. Sure, some of it falls on you, but
945.
by latexr 7mo ago
> A pastime I have with papers like this is to look for the part in the paper where they say which models they tested. My pastime (not really) in HN submissions like this is to look for the comment where someone complains about the model
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by latexr 7mo ago
> Now what I'd really want is a jq that's more intuitive and easier to understand Unfortunately I don’t recall the name, but there was something submitted to HN not too long ago (I think it was still 2026) which was like jq but
947.
by latexr 7mo ago
Because the output you get can have hallucinations, which don’t happen with a deterministic tool. Furthermore, by getting the `jq` command you get something which is reusable, fast, offline, local, doesn’t send your data to a third-party, d
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by latexr 7mo ago
This specific post is tagged “nonfiction” and “rant”, though. Writers of fiction often write nonfiction too. Douglas Adams, David Foster Wallace, Harlan Ellison, …, all wrote journalism pieces.
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by latexr 7mo ago
> Best way I've found not to think of a pink elephant is to choose to think of a green rabbit. Seems easy circumventable: “Don’t think of a green rabbit”. Now the past vividness of that image becomes a hindrance.
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by latexr 7mo ago
Yes, in this case . Chances are in the future others will be missed despite being reported, because the maintainers are either inundated or tired of all the other reports and can’t distinguish the real one.
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by latexr 7mo ago
> I'm curious whether the security community thinks more non-specialists finding and reporting vulnerabilities like this is a net positive or a headache? cURL had to stop the bug bounty program because they were inundated by slop re
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by latexr 7mo ago
> It's just a HN thing though. It’s not. People on Reddit, Mastodon, and other websites are also aware (of course not everyone, but not everyone on HN either). > Ask a European who isn't in tech, and they won't know wha
953.
by latexr 7mo ago
It does matter. Even if it eventually passes, the later and more gutted it is, the better. Saying that it doesn’t matter is just defeatist (and unfortunately always parroted on HN) and plainly wrong. Defeatists have been proven wrong time
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by latexr 7mo ago
That’s already (kind of) the name it has. “Chat Control” is a name given by critics. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chat_Control
955.
by latexr 7mo ago
Exactly. Its real name is “Regulation to Prevent and Combat Child Sexual Abuse”. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chat_Control
956.
by latexr 7mo ago
> We Europeans have a pathological habit of blaming Orange Man Bad for all our many problems Speak for yourself. I don’t even think Trump is to blame for all the US’s problems (he’s a symptom of a much larger system), let alone the EU’s.
957.
by latexr 7mo ago
As a EU citizen, it pisses me off that the US is (with others outside the EU) trying this hard to lobby to undermine our democracy and freedom of speech. https://digitalcourage.social/@echo_pbreyer/1162053712243153...
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by latexr 7mo ago
> providing a rebuttal to these points (e.g. that Meta doesn’t actually sell data to anyone) So one of your suggestions of what the OP could mean was something you explicitly don’t think is true and would argue against? That sounds lik
959.
by latexr 7mo ago
> The only thing I can say is: No I cannot figure it out On the contrary, looks like you can: > (…) sell the user's data (…) use this information to train AI models (…) use this information to serve Ads
960.
by latexr 7mo ago
Then mind explaining what you mean when you called the OpenAI logo redesign “a perfect circle with a subtle gradient”, when it’s neither a circle nor does it have a gradient?

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