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by majormajor 1mo ago
This is true, I'd go much further than the OP here and say the barrier for merger should be MUCH higher than the barrier for spin-out or split. There's no shortage of obvious problems that can arise from concentration of influence
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by majormajor 1mo ago
> I don't know anything about elections, a question worth asking is what would it look like if a conspiracy set out to exploit mail ballots? could detection only originate from a defector? Why don't you start with some research
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by majormajor 1mo ago
there have been MANY investigations what have they found, exactly? at some point how much more money do you want to burn on investigations w/o any particular new cause? "unverifiable" ain't exactly true either where i li
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by majormajor 1mo ago
"Abhors democracy" isn't necessarily the right phrase for the on-the-ground majority. The leadership, sure. But not the average folk. "Has such a small imagination that they can't imagine they wouldn't be the m
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by majormajor 1mo ago
There's a voted-into-oblivion reply to this from someone trying to both-sides things "I don't want to hear about it when it was changed quickly for Covid too". but it doesn't work...anything then was done under lite
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by majormajor 1mo ago
> My zone is the big-picture zone. What are we building, what needs to be done, how do the interrelated bits all come together? I can tell an agent "go implement X" and start planning Y that comes after it. Well hang on, why wo
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by majormajor 1mo ago
Look for things that are both hard to verify and important to verify. Middle-management paper-pushing is hard to verify but nobody was verifying it exactly anyway. Few people really care if your proposal to do Thing A vs Thing B is 100%
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by majormajor 1mo ago
You mentioned "coming back later" but being in the zone. That's the part I want to understand. So this metaphor isn't helping cause the conductor is constantly working, constantly seeing the output. Not coming back later
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by majormajor 1mo ago
> Firing something off in twelve tabs and coming back later As someone who gets "in the zone" like the person you're replying to, I just don't get how this could possibly be the same thing. "Coming back later&quo
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by majormajor 1mo ago
> Speakers were never subjective (unlike earphones) I don't think this has been true in my lifetime, at least. Some brands being known for "warmth" vs "brightness" is ages old, before the idea of audiophile earbu
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by majormajor 1mo ago
Most of us have no idea how many non-commenting readers w/o first-hand experience are just reading, and so no ability to draw any conclusions about the number of ones who comment with first-hand experience. 100 people out of a 1000,
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by majormajor 1mo ago
Random AI slop code pushers don't pay the bills. Traffic isn't revenue. I've started suggesting to my CTO that we move to something else because we do pay the Github bills and yet we are also affected by other people'
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by majormajor 1mo ago
Their engineers almost certainly are not the ones making the decision to let all the new traffic degrade their service for their existing paid customers.
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by majormajor 1mo ago
I've remember news and reporting about neo-Nazis (adjective) but not a lot of "the Neo-Nazi international terrorist organization..." (singular noun). Seems like an ideology, not an organization. If you look at the Treasury wo
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by majormajor 1mo ago
Every day it seems a little weirder how many of these other countries are apparently passively tolerating the US/Google/Apple/etc-centric nature of parts of their internal economy.
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by majormajor 1mo ago
> Models can certainly do a lot better than they do now. If you gave a team of humans the ExploitGym tasks and told them to "pursue advanced exploitation", would you expect them to go out and hack a third party? Humans can at l
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by majormajor 1mo ago
Is there actually such a thing as "alignment" as a solution to that or is it just used as a name for a desired magical level of "read the mind of the entire world" that we don't know how to build and haven't
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by majormajor 1mo ago
Are there more housing units in Manhattan or Dubuque? Which one has more expensive housing units? Part of the purpose of development is to make more shit happen and increase demand. It's rarely just "new increaesed supply vs const
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by majormajor 1mo ago
Development raises land value. That's the entire reason it's done, after all. Look at the cost of land in Manhattan vs suburban Atlanta. In the supply-choked cities in the US, development isn't gonna tank the wealth of land-o
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by majormajor 2mo ago
How many boots on the ground could you get and how quickly/safely? The supposed opposition here is MUCH closer to the island.
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by majormajor 2mo ago
A deeper cause there, as I understand it, is that the statistical analysis was incomplete/flawed but in a way that none of the technical practitioners caught and called out at the time. The way the data was presented was to the effect
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by majormajor 2mo ago
Game of chicken. Wait as long as you can because as it starts to get worse for everyone, maybe more and more countries will join in on the efforts. I don't know if any country has the industrial base to do it yourself, as you say, but
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by majormajor 2mo ago
>And I have been in same place for quite some time so it is not even the case that I have to prove to my new employers first. Any individual company is likely to atrophy because continual success breeds fear of change, fear of breaking w
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by majormajor 2mo ago
>The other part is people living in a "safe space" where insecure software was an acceptable risk. It never should have been, and the cure is the right thing to do in any case. How do you think all the "agentic" stuff
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by majormajor 2mo ago
>To call that "cheating" is imo just more fuel for the "AI needs to be regulated" bs tour that OpenAI/Anthropic are on trying to build their regulatory moat. I was with you until this. The inability to tightly co
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by majormajor 2mo ago
"Cheating" is a moral judgment here that makes me agree more with the "models are amoral" statement. The model/harness wasn't "trained/programmed to cheat." It was instead aimed at meeting crite
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by majormajor 2mo ago
> If the model can access something, telling it in the prompt not to use it is not much of a safeguard. A major (and already obvious to many) implications of this are not for benchmarking/"cheating" but for personal/
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by majormajor 2mo ago
>And now everything is stale and the same. This has been less true every year since Usenet and Geocities. Much of the stuff on their was pirated, but that was the "stale and same" stuff you're complaining about anyway. The
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by majormajor 2mo ago
It depends? Last time I looked many of the alternatives didn't have as good support for some of the transaction-friendly things like conditional writes. Hopefully if you're trying to build something complex on top of S3 and have a
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by majormajor 2mo ago
> There are to this day still lots of bands that hold their "indie ethos" high, the only thing different in the 1990s was that some of those indie/alternative bands were actually successful enough to be considered (shudder

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