mstaoru

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by mstaoru 2mo ago
Maybe we're far from "AI killing us", but LLMs can definitely help people kill or damage other people or infrastructure. For example, we know that Anthropic added "watermarking" to their texts. It is supposed to be
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by mstaoru 2mo ago
I do not panic BUT: - work became horrible - internet content became horrible - even restaurant menus became horrible Where do we go from here?
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by mstaoru 2mo ago
> If coding is a nearly solved problem, if AI is making it so easy to make anything AI is very optimized to producing code, but not there (yet? ever?) in making products. Show me a serious software made entirely with AI. There's no
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by mstaoru 2mo ago
Gotta love my durian skins. If not I'll settle for rambutans.
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by mstaoru 2mo ago
Am I naive to not understand the "delivering the benefits" part? Industrial revolution worked that way because it replaced something very finite and unscalable - manual labor. LLMs just make intellectual work faster, so we can do
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by mstaoru 2mo ago
Reminds me of https://petergpt.github.io/bullshit-benchmark/viewer/index.v...
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by mstaoru 2mo ago
As they say, the less you know, the better LLM output is. :D
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by mstaoru 2mo ago
It kind of does, mathematically. It doesn't label confidence. If 0.0001% of answers is a lie, without knowing which parts are a lie exactly, you cannot trust any of them. If you need to independently verify every fact, why not just gat
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by mstaoru 2mo ago
Well it's not only this, or protection from LLMs training on LLM output. LLMs training on human output is also problematic. I was traveling to an obscure small town, doing some "research" with LLMs beforehand. Every and each
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by mstaoru 2mo ago
You don't play chess just to win. Or you play chess, but now you can insta-win by blinking left eye twice.
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by mstaoru 2mo ago
China, DeepAtlas please!
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by mstaoru 2mo ago
It is very difficult. I consider myself reasonably skilled in AI usage (multiple harnesses, skills, MCP, etc). I use only the latest models: Opus 5, GPT 5.6 Sol. I experiment with different plan-build-evaluate frameworks like GSD, OpenSpec,
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by mstaoru 2mo ago
Right. The problem is, I do not need credit, but in Germany most landlords ask for this SCHUFA report to consider a rental application. They get 100s of applications (there is housing shortage), so not having any report is not working. And
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by mstaoru 2mo ago
I don't quite understand GDPR though as it theoretically let's me remove my personal data from benign websites, but doesn't let me remove my data where I would really want it removed, e.g. (my personal nemesis) SCHUFA, CRIF,
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by mstaoru 3mo ago
For me the hardest part is sleeping. I can cope with heat during the day, but even with good bedding, mattress, windows open, fans, etc. the body traps heat underneath and if it's hot outside it's just impossible to sleep. I was l
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by mstaoru 3mo ago
I'm more curious how cheap "good enough" LLMs will transform sectors which are traditionally limited by human attention or cost. For example, taxes. E.g. in Germany your personal tax return filing has a low but real chance to
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by mstaoru 3mo ago
Those cringey overstuffed presentation slides. Humor, cliffhangers, drama, anything subtle. Anything spatial or mechanical that is novel. (And most non-novel too.) Pushing back against stupid prompts (a colleague had "100% test coverag
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by mstaoru 3mo ago
But you also don't adapt to something that is not necessarily going to be law? Between them passing it and it going into power is less than 1.5 years.
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by mstaoru 3mo ago
The "wild" doesn't make 99% of China. I mean, not demographically. Of course you don't have a toilet 100km deep in Himalayas forest, don't be ridiculous. Otherwise, 70% of Chinese people live in urban areas. Little
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by mstaoru 3mo ago
I dunno, I lived there for 12 years and we still visit often, my extended family is in the "rural" area (which by now also has better infra and roads than half of EU), and they have free public toilet "buildings" every 4
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by mstaoru 3mo ago
Well I lived there for 12 years, so yeah, might've been a "different China".
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by mstaoru 3mo ago
Such a fascinating vector of thought. Where are these homeless campings in Japan?
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by mstaoru 3mo ago
Also to add, Thailand is rather unique in that almost 50% of the country population lives in or around Bangkok - https://reliefweb.int/sites/default/files/styles/large/publi...
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by mstaoru 3mo ago
Sure, it's a psy-op. ONLY POSITIVE EU OPINIONS ARE PERMITTED! :)) I lived 12 years in China and now 1.5 in EU. Traveled both fairly extensively. The above is just my experience. We left China in big part due to authoritarian politics.
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by mstaoru 3mo ago
It doesn't matter, PPWR needs to get money from somebody to finance itself. Consumers end up paying it regardless of where PPWR's cut is taken.
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by mstaoru 3mo ago
...this is not the approach I would take with something like border controls.
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by mstaoru 3mo ago
Where I live in EU, the biggest mall's toilet (single) is paid and not great. Toilet (also single) at the train station (that sees 500k+ volume per day) is 1.5€, and also not great. At least it takes a card.
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by mstaoru 3mo ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Toilet_Revolution_in_China
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by mstaoru 3mo ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Toilet_Revolution_in_China
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by mstaoru 3mo ago
Platform is one choke point, logistics companies (e.g. DHL) is another. In EU logistics would be the easier one. Let them handle all the PPWR circus, charge a little more from the seller.

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