notpachet

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by notpachet 10d ago
> Let's be better please. That rhetorical horse left the allegorical barn a long time ago.
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by notpachet 12d ago
> if you can do the worst “bad” thing possible, you can also do the best “good” thing possible You say this like it's a truism, but I don't think it is. The bad things may be categorically easier than the good things. It's
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by notpachet 12d ago
I did bother to read it, and that isn't what I meant. I wasn't referring to one-off errors that you can fix after successfully decoding a cipher into something that produces a majority-correct answer. I meant something more akin
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by notpachet 12d ago
That's pretty good.
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by notpachet 13d ago
> It spun for 52 seconds so maybe some Python was involved. Come for the AI doom, stay for the programming languages (remember those?) catching strays
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by notpachet 13d ago
Cipher noob question: is there any check that can be done to ensure a cipher is actually decodable? What if the author made a flaw when encoding it, so that it's not actually solvable?
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by notpachet 15d ago
"My dosimeter only reads 3.6 roentgen / hour!"
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by notpachet 15d ago
Not the parent, but pointing out a couple of problems in your analysis: First, arctic temperatures: this is a widely misunderstood point. Notice that in the graph, the non-summer months are noticeably warmer. The summer months are going to
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by notpachet 15d ago
There's a mythological story about the hubris of flying; I'm sure Claude can pull it up for you.
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by notpachet 15d ago
Moreover who’s actually getting exterminated? The species whose value was questionable. The good ones remain.
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by notpachet 15d ago
There's a larger existential crisis still in store for you. Our global civilization is collapsing. We are choking to death on the unchecked negative externalities of our own progress. It is our species' Achilles heel. Whether or n
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by notpachet 15d ago
Instead we just get good, hard slop
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by notpachet 16d ago
Because they're addicted to online content consumption. See also: sports betting, cigarettes, fast food.
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by notpachet 17d ago
> the way they'd go after a very inconvenient activist FTFY
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by notpachet 23d ago
Related reading: The Waluigi Effect: After you train an LLM to satisfy a desirable property, then it's easier to elicit the chatbot into satisfying the exact opposite property. https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/D7Pum
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by notpachet 24d ago
You've hit on something important, and it's real, not cosmetic.
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by notpachet 1mo ago
GNU Screen has supported multiuser editing since 1993. "You newer models are happy scraping the shit... because you've never seen a miracle"
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by notpachet 2mo ago
We seem to have come around to a new magical age.
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by notpachet 2mo ago
> the guy > he Your gender biases are showing!
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by notpachet 2mo ago
And that, furthermore, the new labs and the old labs still both remain incentivized by the regulatory environment to chase the wrong targets. The new lab might just iterate towards the wrong targets faster.
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The Light Flip Is the Stylish Dumb Flip Phone of Your Dreams(wired.com)
2 points by notpachet 2mo ago|0 comments
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by notpachet 2mo ago
"Testing shows the presence, not the absence of bugs" - Dijkstra
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by notpachet 3mo ago
I think about this a lot. From the POV of a medieval peasant, we likely reached the singularity a long time ago.
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by notpachet 3mo ago
`command_a | vim - -c "file /dev/stdout" | command_b` or, assuming vim is your $EDITOR, you can use vipe: `command_a | vipe | command_b`
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by notpachet 3mo ago
Languages are always evolving, because the needs they serve are always evolving. Stasis is death. > I have been using ruby since 2005 or so. Static types were never relevant or needed in the slightest here. We are like Liebniz monads, wi
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by notpachet 3mo ago
No, it's just a tool someone posted that's written in Ruby, with a strong signal that the authors are LLM proponents. It could have been a todo list and I'd still have the same question.
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by notpachet 3mo ago
I didn't misunderstand what this library is about. I assume the authors are using LLM's to help author their code in general, even meta-frameworks like this.
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by notpachet 3mo ago
Why would anyone still build in dynamically typed languages in 2026? Why relinquish the crystal clear signals that static typing is able to provide to the LLM?
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by notpachet 3mo ago
That's my favorite algorithm of all time
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Untrusted Impersonation of the Project at Simplescreenrecorder.com(github.com)
1 points by notpachet 4mo ago|0 comments

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