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order-matters
3mo ago
>That’s not true, my bad then, i misunderstood the context
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3mo ago
I think their point is that you lose some battles in a war, chat Control 1.0 is a battle that was already lost. While it is still worthwhile to make an effort to retake lost ground there, that can be done strategically and through habitual
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3mo ago
most people simply dont care to control for higher order effects. they enjoy doing things on principle and then dealing with the effects seperately. the principle of protecting children is strong. the solution of verification, no matter h
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order-matters
3mo ago
the more I think about what intelligence really is and what it is about humans that AIs seem unable to replicate, the closer I come to the conclusion that personality is a huge component of intelligence. Certain problem spaces have a struc
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3mo ago
the more advanced models also utilize a lot more tokens, and a lot of these extra tokens may go towards safeguards at a higher rate than prior models as well. not to say a speed boost isnt there but if they didnt increase tokens / s at
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3mo ago
>automate transcription this also means trusting the LLM to decide what things mean. but there is very likely a great middle ground of having LLMs take their best guesses and then verifying the output on significant finds. the risk is
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3mo ago
I get that its a hobby, but are you able to do anything with it? is it purely a learning sandbox or are there some use-cases that you are able to use your OS for that it is a cleaner or more performant solution than existing OS?
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4mo ago
IT doesnt control the funding so at that point its not an issue of awareness but a management decision to live with this problem and focus funding elsewhere more often than not, many things in the business are on fire and underfunded at the
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4mo ago
itemize the problems you are preventing "Accounted for X situation" "Added gaurdrails to protect against Y" When working as a business analyst i have to do this sort of thing all hte time or else id get no credit for hal
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4mo ago
in a way, for sure - but the incentive exists outside the system so the system would not know what incentives people have for using it. but it usually has rules, input/outputs, delegated authorities for limited scopes, etc. so the sys
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4mo ago
>"the purpose of a system is what it does" thank you, i believe this is closer to, if not exactly, the original wording. >The purpose of a McDonald's ice cream machine is to create billable service calls and ensure supp
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4mo ago
Assigning single purpose to things is not necessary. "Systems are what they do" is a quote for a reason. I think in addition to rules survival and admin self-concern, people genuinely underestimate how much maintenance and effort
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4mo ago
the point is that argument can be made regardless of deed restrictions. the city generally does things it believes to be in the best interest of the city, so making a deed restriction with it is borderline meaningless with respect to autho
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4mo ago
The city usually has the authority to dismiss deed restrictions if it is in the best interest of the city. my wording was too vague though, youre right in that I took for granted we were talking about the city and this doesnt generally appl
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4mo ago
presumably because it's not their land and if A wanted to build a data center on it to begin with then B could do nothing about it. the key issue is C doing things that it's taxpayers dont want done. in this case though taxpayer m
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4mo ago
think of it like this: the goal of LLMs (im saying LLM as shorthand for all of the AI algs) is to replicate human output / work, not so much to capture the human experience. so in order to do things, like communicate concepts, play a
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4mo ago
Enough of this divided binary world, we are all one
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4mo ago
the consequences are that they dont get to be in charge of the time anymore and i stop entertaining the interview game. its not about "showing them" or giving them some sort of punishment, it would be about me relaxing into behav
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4mo ago
translation is an interesting problem in and of itself still. its kind of a miracle we can do it at all, yet in some circumstances it seems obvious for there to be objective answers (cooking ingredients being one of them), but even then yo
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4mo ago
Agreed. Wasting applicants time should have consequences. I can play along for a little bit to appease people who are intentionally testing how I handle a difficult situation but I am not going to allow an extended waste of time to occur
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4mo ago
but isnt sleep an already defined technical term for significantly reducing power consumption while preserving its state until woken up? i feel like its confusing to reuse the word for a process that aims to deliberately change state of the
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5mo ago
well to start, im not sure what the magical new input would be that doesnt involve hands or voice, but for conversation lets assume its magic. the ideal is that i can use magic input to manage cloud compute through my phone, and that leave
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5mo ago
i dont think it is possible. it is not a tool they need but a training session on how to make a basic developer environment and a basic workflow on how to go from sitting at the computer to contributing work to the project back to exiting
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5mo ago
yeah, i understand the frustration of needing to do all the communication through typing and clicking and that it can feel limiting - but i want the computer to be less demanding of my physical reality not more. i want to be able to talk t
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5mo ago
> they'll just have to justify the pricing like by selling it at a loss to build dependencies and then jacking the price up year after year by whatever amount is just below the cost of removing the dependency
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5mo ago
discord is a tool for hosting private chat servers. it's pretty neutral. the UI is not great for building a shared knowledge base, although people do that anyway but yes the publicly accessible servers are going to face similar probl
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5mo ago
i predominantly use it for real time chatting, its a big group text chat and a place to hop in a voice channel and shoot the shit while doing whatever we want on the computer a la ventrilo/mumble/teamspeak but yes i also game and
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5mo ago
i know what you mean, and i think online communities can still be successful. but i think in the early internet you already had some common ground with anyone you met online because spending time on the internet was kind of a irl choice to
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5mo ago
we were made to socialize in person. you can mimic it online and nourish existing connections over it but nothing helps build friendship more than being in the same place at the same time a few different times and talking to each other
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5mo ago
on the public servers yeah. but the ones im in with real people who know each other will be fine. I think the problem is not keeping agents out of private real people spaces, but for people who dont have any pre-existing or 'real worl
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