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by p-e-w 2mo ago
> I have had excellent results from using AI, but it’s only because I understand what it is I’m asking it to look at, and know when it’s wrong. That knowledge will be worthless 12-18 months from now when AI does everything better than yo
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by p-e-w 2mo ago
This is Nature . If they stopped doing editorial work regarding writing style, and use LLMs to generate abstracts, it seems they have outlived their usefulness.
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by p-e-w 2mo ago
You’re presenting this like a mistake born out of incompetence. It isn’t. The institutions involved simply don’t care whether they are destroying the lives of random people. At all. And why should they? They are completely unaccountable in
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by p-e-w 2mo ago
Many official, high-quality language support plugins are only available for VSCode. For some languages, you have a “choice” to use another IDE in the same sense that you have a choice to do programming with a hex editor. Lean being an examp
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by p-e-w 2mo ago
> Uh, it's a representative democracy Stating that doesn’t make it so. The US government doesn’t “represent” its people any more than the Chinese government does. Quite possibly less so.
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by p-e-w 2mo ago
What benefits would the government (not the people) get from shutting down scammers? Scammers still pay taxes, and companies like Amazon that benefit from revenue obtained by scammers are major donors.
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by p-e-w 2mo ago
Or just regular personal biasing, which is just as unfair but doesn’t receive government protection even in theory.
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by p-e-w 2mo ago
What are you talking about? This is one of the most honest offers ever made by a corporation. “We’ll use your data, and we’ll compensate you for it.” Where is the problem?
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by p-e-w 2mo ago
If it’s true that other navigation systems are as safe and capable as GPS, then GPS navigation should be randomly disabled in every aircraft occasionally to ensure that pilots remain fluent in using them. If it isn’t true, then the military
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by p-e-w 2mo ago
> At 2000ms, without output, you wonder if it crashed. (That was the old one.) That must have been a really, really long time ago indeed, because there are very few websites now that take less than 2000ms to load. The linked site didn’t
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by p-e-w 2mo ago
The option to make a transaction not be a transaction? What is it then?
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by p-e-w 2mo ago
I’d be interested to know what you think the “several layers” above a system that solves open mathematical problems in an afternoon, and writes entire operating systems from scratch, are.
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by p-e-w 2mo ago
Doing something about this is the job of the government, not of “you all”. If taking care of such essential matters is somehow the responsibility of society as a whole, we may as well get rid of governments altogether.
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by p-e-w 2mo ago
The whole pension fund concept only works because it declares how much is going to be paid out. Who’s going to pay in if the fund expects a guaranteed commitment but refuses to give such in return?
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by p-e-w 2mo ago
> The problem though is that LLMs write code to represent designs as well, which means you get consistent designs. You end up aligning on a generic mean because of it, which is often why you see these repeated aesthetics. The funny thing
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by p-e-w 2mo ago
The above thread was about quality issues, not ethical issues such as “slave labor” (a term somehow reserved for certain countries, even though most countries use unfree prison labor, including the US and much of the EU).
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by p-e-w 3mo ago
Could the problem be Moby Dick ’s infamously large vocabulary, which contains words used essentially nowhere else?
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by p-e-w 3mo ago
> moby dick didn't align properly, there's a confidence gate it didn't pass. What does this mean?
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by p-e-w 3mo ago
Why would capex need to be covered by income during a time of investment and infrastructure buildup? Did income from the Apollo program cover its expenses?
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by p-e-w 3mo ago
Sure, but it’s easier to slander someone with unfalsifiable accusations of “vibecoding” than to engage with their work on any substantial level.
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by p-e-w 3mo ago
The fact that 99.99% of humans have never used a formal theorem prover?
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by p-e-w 3mo ago
That’s true, they’re not great at it. Just better than 99.99% of humans.
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by p-e-w 3mo ago
An ASI wouldn’t need to produce or invent anything. It can just take over humanity’s digital infrastructure (which, thanks to the efforts of the past 30 years, now controls most of what humans need) and use it to blackmail humanity into giv
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by p-e-w 3mo ago
The implication in the blog post that Google developers somehow “overlooked” or “misunderstood” important use cases here, and if only they were informed about them they would reconsider, is frankly insulting.
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by p-e-w 3mo ago
On the bright side, even a small local LLM can easily improve garbage code like that.
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by p-e-w 3mo ago
Lol. Depending on the country and who the buyer is, 50-80% of energy prices are taxes and levies. Those prices have nothing to do with missing infrastructure.
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by p-e-w 3mo ago
Codeberg is a German e.V. claiming significant benefits from society, including tax-free status. The argument “they can do whatever they want” doesn’t hold water. They are using legal privileges that other institutions don’t have, based on
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by p-e-w 3mo ago
The laws of war apply at all times to all belligerents, and the enemy breaking them does not justify breaking them in turn. If the current global crisis ever ends, how the world deals with human rights violations on both sides of this con
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by p-e-w 3mo ago
In the decade during which you claim China has been preparing for a hot war, the United States invaded multiple countries and waged hot wars on three continents. It’s ridiculous to compare China to the US when it comes to warmongering. Th
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by p-e-w 3mo ago
Imagine regular laws worked that way, where a prior conviction is only relevant if it was for the exact same crime, and you can go around committing dozens of crimes and be treated like a first offender every time because this time you chos

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