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by lich_king 7mo ago
My most straightforward read is that the military simply doesn't want their contractors to have a say in the war doctrine. Raytheon doesn't get to say "you can only bomb the countries we like, and no hitting hospitals or scho
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by lich_king 7mo ago
It has nothing to do with predictive policing. I don't understand this example, it has nothing to do with detecting intent. You're looking for evidence of a past misdeed. False positive and false negative rates are non-zero, as wi
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by lich_king 7mo ago
> You can detect if texts from a year ago used AI based on statistical patterns. I don't understand your argument. The vendors for these detection tools can acquire recent samples from all frontier models just as easily as you can u
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by lich_king 7mo ago
> Eliminating any statistically significant difference between a high-quality human-written text and LLM-written text is exactly what the LLMs are being trained for. I think you're basing this off a fundamental misunderstanding of w
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by lich_king 7mo ago
I'm always startled about how HN approaches these topics. When we have a press release from a university about how researchers can detect thoughts via fMRI, we have no issue with the claim. But if a vendor makes a pretty believable cla
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by lich_king 7mo ago
Eh. In the 1980s and 1990s, the capabilities of the software you could run on your new computer were changing dramatically every two years or so. Completely new types of computer games and productivity software, vastly improved audio and vi
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by lich_king 7mo ago
I mean this with respect, but if this is your sincere worldview, I'd suggest you step outside the tech news bubble a bit more. There are some white collar jobs, possibly including many software engineers, that are at risk from gen AI.
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by lich_king 7mo ago
I think both things can simultaneously be true. There is a certain inevitability to technological progress. Once you reach a critical mass of collective knowledge, the resulting "thing" will get developed. If not by you, then by s
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by lich_king 7mo ago
This is the plot of the first derivative of employment. It shows a comparatively small but lasting dip after a massive, prolonged, and unwarranted boom between late 2020 and early 2024 that coincided with the dying breaths of ZIRP. I have n
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by lich_king 7mo ago
I'm conflicted about this. On one hand, I think LLMs make it easier to discover explanations that, at least superficially, superficially "click" for you. Sure, they were available before, but maybe in textbooks you needed to
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by lich_king 7mo ago
> I disagree. It's worth asking why some people find brand watches beautiful? Where did they get their sense of aesthetic? Were they born with a congenital preference for RM 16-01 Citron? There's plenty of art that's celeb
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by lich_king 7mo ago
I don't understand the metric they're using. Which is maybe to be expected of an article that looks LLM-written. But they started with ~250 URLs; that's a weirdly small sample. I'm sure there are tens of thousands mali
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by lich_king 7mo ago
You're responding out of context. The parent was asking if there are bottlenecks specifically related to scheduling. I explicitly made the point that if there are bottlenecks, they're more likely related to memory.
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by lich_king 7mo ago
> I’m willing to bet they will go after the smooth rocks and it’s about rarity, not crystals. Why? Crystals are pretty, rocks are not. We clearly prefer shiny colorful things to dull beige things, even if shiny things are abundant.
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by lich_king 7mo ago
As someone coming from a family of editors and plugged into the publishing world, I think it would be really weird if that was your job. It's not an adversarial relationship. Your job is to pressure-test the arguments and the language,
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by lich_king 7mo ago
> But more importantly, why can’t both be at fault? They can and are. But the parent literally said it's not the author's fault.
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by lich_king 7mo ago
I don't think there are any fundamental bottlenecks here. There's more scheduling overhead when you have a hundred processes on a single core than if you have a hundred processes on one hundred cores. The bottlenecks are pretty mu
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by lich_king 7mo ago
It is not a job of the editor to assume that the author is lying to you. > This was an institutional error, not an individual reporter's fault. Ah yes, "the system made me use AI".
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by lich_king 7mo ago
I clicked through the author's earlier stories when this first made waves. I obviously had no proof, but I was pretty certain that he's been using LLMs to generate stories for a good while. When Ars released a statement saying thi
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by lich_king 7mo ago
> vanishes in soil in just 13 weeks. Part of the problem with waste management is that we don't really put it in the soil. Your household garbage is mostly biodegradable, but if it ends up buried in a lined pit under tons of other g
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by lich_king 7mo ago
I'm not sure this analogy holds, for two reasons. First, even in the best case, chain-of-thought transcripts don't reliably tell you what the agent is doing and why it's doing it. Second, if you're dealing with a malicio
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by lich_king 7mo ago
I love that you use "fantastic creatures" to describe the world of Jansson, but "warriors" to describe Tolkien. Last time I checked, it had hobbits, dwarves, elves, talking trees... but none of that fantasy nonsense of M
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by lich_king 7mo ago
This looks like a vibe-coded promo for the service the parent is associated with, but what cracks me up is that not all this UI clutter is a part of the joke. For example, there are some incessant "chat with AI" bubbles that pop u
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by lich_king 7mo ago
Almost any online service has plenty of competition, but it doesn't prevent enshittification once one of them proves that you can squeeze more revenue out of users and get away with it. Netflix charges you the same as five years ago, b
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by lich_king 7mo ago
This appears to be an AI article designed to get clicks. I get that it says something we like, but you're literally upvoting someone for typing in a clickbaity prompt.
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by lich_king 7mo ago
I have an opinion about the editorial style of Quanta that I don't think it's popular here (judging by how often they get upvoted), but I think it's a symptom of that. They cover science, but the template they consistently fo
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by lich_king 7mo ago
My lived experience with tech companies is that principles are easy when they're free - i.e., when you're telling others what to do, or taking principled stances when a competitor is not breathing down your neck. So, with all resp
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by lich_king 7mo ago
> I never heard that I did, a lot, maybe fifteen years ago. There was a lot of talk about a "3D printing revolution" and being years away from being able to make whatever you want at home. For a while, the "maker" mon
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by lich_king 7mo ago
It's all this account posts. I don't think the LLM behind it will understand the irony.
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by lich_king 7mo ago
This is an inexplicable, AI-written article and the obvious answer is no. There's no performance or complexity overhead to not removing a couple of dead characters. There is a complexity overhead to forking off the list or adding point

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