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by lukeschlather 1mo ago
The old expense of installing new tools means that seeing how tools actually work in practice is simply impossible. You pretty much install a tool and you accept that it is the tool. You have to know how to ask the right questions, but I th
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by lukeschlather 2mo ago
The "commoditize his closed rivals" line of reasoning doesn't make sense to me. That doesn't sound like a business decision, it sounds potentially spiteful? But that's ascribing malice to what could just as easily b
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by lukeschlather 2mo ago
Companies are going pretty quiet about costs, but I see no reason to believe the cost to train a model exceeds $5B. Moonshot AI's entire funding is like $5B, their $300M revenue is negligible but not nothing. Renting the compute to tra
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by lukeschlather 2mo ago
You said that Meta doesn't want to be responsible for age verification - they absolutely do, because that gives them every single user's identity. Forcing it at the OS level is not an attempt to put the responsibility on the OS, i
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by lukeschlather 2mo ago
Opus refused to help me try to develop an exploit to export data from an old Android device where I can't upgrade to latest android and I couldn't use the app's backups (because I couldn't update the app.) Not sure where
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by lukeschlather 2mo ago
The things you're calling irrelevant actually flout a number of regulations in various jurisdictions, if your read news about xAI you should be familiar with the examples.
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by lukeschlather 2mo ago
How correct is the documentation? You seem to be coming from the same standpoint as a lot of people in this thread which is "don't make me read AI output, I can prompt the model myself" but what this person is doing sounds mu
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by lukeschlather 2mo ago
> We now have nearly-perfect AI image generation Not even close. Current AIs have very poor spatial awareness, they can generate some kind of scene but they can't tell you where objects are in the scene, nor can they move objects in
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by lukeschlather 2mo ago
It's accurate. The constitution of the United States explicitly describes it as a union in the preamble.
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by lukeschlather 2mo ago
The Wikimedia board consists of 7 seat selected by the board, 8 seat from the broader wikimedia community, and 1 founder seat. As part of the broader wikimedia community I think there should be at least one board seat selected by the employ
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by lukeschlather 2mo ago
Wikimedia requires a board. IMO that board should include at least one representative selected by the employees (i.e. a union rep.) It has one seat reserved for the founder. This governance question doesn't go away if another Wikimedia
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by lukeschlather 2mo ago
Stross complains about people from China hammering his blog and stealing his work, but I feel like China releasing all these free models is a lot more defensible. Yeah, they're pirating a bunch of stuff and stuffing it into a blender b
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by lukeschlather 2mo ago
> they also show that someone at huggingface made a very stupid thing by writing a reusable auth key in an env file I don't see where it says that. The Tailscale key specifically it says was stored in the kubernetes secret manager,
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by lukeschlather 2mo ago
> Don't shoot drugs in the first place like insulin? should a diabetic skip the insulin? In poor countries I wouldn't be surprised if the majority of HIV infections are not as preventable as you're imagining. You can moral
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by lukeschlather 2mo ago
OpenAI and Anthropic also claim they don't retain data. I'm not sure what it would take for me to trust any of these inference companies, and why I should trust them more than the big ones.
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by lukeschlather 2mo ago
There was no oversight. The EU told Apple the CTC did not comply with the law. Apple's new scheme still seems bad but I don't think this is the end of it. https://ec.europa.eu/commission/presscorner/detai
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by lukeschlather 2mo ago
All of these cookie forms have the same set of toggles. At a high level all anyone is saying is that we should just declare any kind of tracking cookies unconscionable terms for this kind of dialog box. Caching, shopping carts, explicit log
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by lukeschlather 2mo ago
Yeah I think it probably does mean you should be banned from asking in most cases. If you have a legitimate interest you don't need to ask. If you need to ask your interest is not actually legitimate and you know it.
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by lukeschlather 2mo ago
I actually find the converse, that I try to scope things down into chunks small enough for the model to work on, but it will start trying to hack off pieces that don't belong because it thinks the restricted scope is the whole world an
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by lukeschlather 2mo ago
On a small, easily digestible task, I compared Fable to Opus and the cost of Fable was easily 2x despite being fewer tokens, and the output was not really better. Obviously, there are tasks where using Fable matters but honestly they'r
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by lukeschlather 2mo ago
My read of the situation is not only did they say that, they had countermeasures (a watchdog agent) which stopped the agent and said "what are you doing, stop that" if it tried to download the solutions from Github. But the agent
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by lukeschlather 2mo ago
I use profiles for this, I wonder what the tradeoffs are between the two approaches. I've actually been thinking about building some tools to make it easier to create and manage profiles on the fly. For me I really think profiles are b
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by lukeschlather 2mo ago
Did they ask any substantive questions? It sounds like they asked movie trivia questions, in a way that the LLM was almost guaranteed to be wrong. So extremely low-stakes where there is no conceivable downside to being wrong.
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by lukeschlather 2mo ago
This sounds like something Claude Code could do very easily. If you need to actually look at the videos that's harder but still possible, but if it's just aligning GPS times and timestamps with reasonably accurate clocks, Claude C
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by lukeschlather 2mo ago
I think Lockheed Martin is less leveraged than either SpaceX or Tesla. Also SpaceX just folded in several of Musk's companies that seemed questionably solvent. I really have zero clue how to value the resulting mess of liabilities and
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by lukeschlather 2mo ago
The article mentions uses of AI but doesn't really give any examples of harm from AI. It does give specific examples where it sounds like Kaiser is optimizing calls to minimize cost rather than improve quality of care. It's also p
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by lukeschlather 2mo ago
SpaceX's annual revenue is estimated at $40B for 2026. A comparison might be Lockheed Martin, with annual revenue of $75B in 2025, and a market cap of $120B. So I wouldn't say $200B sounds low at all, even if their revenue doubles
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by lukeschlather 2mo ago
It seems very plausible Signal deliberately curses itself somehow, given its extreme privacy focus.
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by lukeschlather 2mo ago
That doesn't help you if you're the only person with the apk on their phone.
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by lukeschlather 3mo ago
He didn't say he bets everything against ASI, he said he bets everything against ASI being a flash of light in the sky which destroys our chance of getting access to the wealth it creates.

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