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by maxbond 8mo ago
May I suggest pasting those 8k lines into a file instead of into the prompt?
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by maxbond 8mo ago
Once you learn how to spot these you'll see them everywhere on road trips and such.
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by maxbond 8mo ago
Zed's ACP client is a wrapper around Agents SDK. So that will be a TOS violation.
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by maxbond 8mo ago
Well he certainly wouldn't but the engineers working for Tesla might, with a probability that is very low but greater than 0. It's much higher (but still low) in 1 year, 5 years, 10 years. Tomorrow is a metanym for the future. But
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by maxbond 8mo ago
The market discounts future returns but it is unclear and shifting what proportion of those returns are from the operations of the company in the market it sells products in and what proportion comes from the operations of traders in financ
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by maxbond 8mo ago
On the other hand the code enforcement forced her to take a year to demonstrate her tunnel was safe, so she may be the illustration of the reasons the code exists in that she survives and finds another seam of rock to build her castle with.
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by maxbond 8mo ago
Unless I recall incorrectly, they were undercover researchers in Festinger's employ. Not that many researchers happened to converge on the same very small, obscure cult. But perhaps I misinterpreted you? I took the impression from your
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by maxbond 8mo ago
I don't know about the others referenced in the article or what else you might be referring to, but that wasn't the case with When Prophesy Fails or the Stanford Prison Experiment though. That was more or less fraud. The researc
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by maxbond 8mo ago
It's a science fair project. It's part of the rubric. More broadly it's a scène à faire (an obligatory genre trope) for academic writing.
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by maxbond 8mo ago
Yes, absolutely. I felt obliged to report any contrary indicator I came across. But it's totally plausible, and I have been convinced I had COVID and tested negative multiple times.
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by maxbond 8mo ago
The good news is that there are 3 senior editors (though none tasked with AI specifically), the bad news is that one of them was the coauthor. Their staff page does list two copy editors (variously labeled "copy editor" and "
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by maxbond 8mo ago
Well I appreciate you taking the time to respond and acknowledge the new evidence. I agree with the broad point that dishonesty can't be tolerated in a newsroom. And it's a "Caesar's wife must be beyond reproach" si
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by maxbond 8mo ago
I'm curious if you've read the author's Bluesky statement (which wasn't available when you made your comment) and what you think of it?
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by maxbond 8mo ago
> I think you are again engaging in the most charitable position possible, ... Yeah, that's accurate. I will turn a dime the moment I receive evidence that this was routine for this author or systemic for Ars. But yes, I'm assu
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by maxbond 8mo ago
> I don't believe there is any greater journalistic malpractice than fabrication. Sure, there are worse cases of such malpractice... That's more or less what I mean. It was only a few notches above listicle to begin with. I don
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by maxbond 8mo ago
Have you ever gone through a stop sign without coming to a complete stop? Was that dishonesty? You can absolutely lie through omission, I just don't see evidence that that is a better hypothesis than corner cutting in this particular c
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by maxbond 8mo ago
You don't announce that you're firing people or putting them on a PIP or something. Not only is it gauche but it makes it seem like you're not taking any accountability and putting it all in the employees involved. I assume t
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by maxbond 8mo ago
What is the evidence that lead you to believe there have been no repercussions? In what world do they retract the article without at a minimum giving a stern warning to the people involved? If they had named the people involved, the critici
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by maxbond 8mo ago
No, admitting fault as soon as possible makes a big difference. It's essential to restoring credibility. If they had waited until Monday the thread would be filled with comments criticizing them for waiting that long.
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by maxbond 8mo ago
I think you're reading a lot of intentionality into the situation what may be present, but I have not seen information confirming or really even suggesting that it is. Did someone challenge them, "was AI used in the creation of th
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by maxbond 8mo ago
The article in question appears to me to be written by a human (excluding what's in quotation marks), but of course neither of us has a crystal ball. Are there particular parts of it that you would flag as generated? Honestly I'm
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by maxbond 8mo ago
They're both still on the staff page presently. https://arstechnica.com/staff-directory/ It is definitely not a good look for a "Senior AI Reporter."
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by maxbond 8mo ago
No one said it was defensible. They drew a distinction between incompetence and malice. Let's not misquote each other here in the comments.
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by maxbond 8mo ago
Some of the earlier pyramids did crumble. They made mistakes and learned from them and innovated over time. The pyramids aren't still standing (just) because of the materials, there's real structural engineering at work.
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by maxbond 8mo ago
They're well on their way to becoming the next PDF.
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by maxbond 8mo ago
I'm not saying I think either scenario is inevitable or likely or even worth considering, but it's a paperclip maximizer argument. (Most of these steps are massive leaps of logic that I personally am not willing to take on face va
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by maxbond 8mo ago
Reading MJ Rathbun's blog has freaked me out. I've been in the camp that we haven't yet achieved AGI and that agents aren't people. But reading Rathbun's notes analyzing the situation, determining that it's int
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by maxbond 8mo ago
Interesting to hear you say that, I was thinking (but hadn't said) that using WalEx to dispatch to some workers where the agent lived would be a better solution. The worker would then update the row (or more likely insert a new one in
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by maxbond 8mo ago
I think "claw" isn't appealing enough to be genericized and that "agent" will continue to be the generic term, but we'll see.
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by maxbond 8mo ago
What's the advantage in putting agents in the persistence layer rather than the application layer? This seems to me strictly less flexible, scalable, secure, easy to work with... I am having a hard time imagining why I would want to in

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