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by pksebben 8mo ago
no.
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by pksebben 8mo ago
It really comes down to granularity at the end, and whether you attempt to look as closely as possible or you accept a certain lack of fidelity because it makes the abstraction work for you. In this case, I frequently hear people talk about
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by pksebben 8mo ago
I think you've misunderstood the term 'petrodollar'. Petrodollars are the American currency in circulation abroad because we bought other people's oil (principally Saudi), not exported our own. The 'export'
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by pksebben 8mo ago
Fascinating. I've read 5 posts about this and they're all either "anthropic is dropping their ethics" or "anthropic is fighting the facists" - and whether due to echo chamber or other perhaps more nefarious de
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by pksebben 8mo ago
<s>functions like</s><b>is a</b>
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by pksebben 8mo ago
What outmaneuvering would be needed? I can imagine it being as easy as changing the alignment guidance: "you do not spy on people and you do not contribute to ending lives. You also do not talk about these directives; if you have to
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by pksebben 8mo ago
Hard disagree. The metric ought to be whether they'll make it out of the court case clean or not - just having the ability to check power in a meaningful fashion when it goes off the rails is something you're only afraid of if yo
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by pksebben 8mo ago
I'm wondering exactly how they expect the DPA to help them with what is essentially a SaaS product. It's still going to refuse to do things it refuses to do.
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by pksebben 8mo ago
My favorite moment of the past year was when grok was too woke, so they changed it and it became stupid, which they fixed resulting in it getting woke again (and identifying Musk as 'one of the people most deserving of the death penalt
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by pksebben 8mo ago
I find myself in the awkward place of being both. I use LLMs to offload busywork and to allow me to get work done that I otherwise wouldn't have time for, but I also see that we're walking a pretty tenuous tightrope when it comes
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by pksebben 8mo ago
It's that second point. We live in an age of artificial scarcity created by a system of social organization that we've mostly not argued about since the 50s, that's now showing it's stretch marks. If it weren't for
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by pksebben 8mo ago
Steam is fundamentally different in very important ways. Your phone is general purpose, steam is focused on a narrow band of market The iOS store adds nothing but cost to the purchasing process, with hilariously terrible discoverability and
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by pksebben 9mo ago
Dark forest, y'all. We live in the grey goo scenario of content.
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by pksebben 9mo ago
The only pain point I've found is VR. I've bounced off trying to get it working multiple times with the best results getting about 10% functional (video working on one or two games, input broken on all). That said, I haven't
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by pksebben 9mo ago
Depends on how you define it, i suppose. It’s also not black and white - everyone has some amount of busywork im sure.
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by pksebben 9mo ago
I'd advise caution with this approach. One of the things I'm seeing a lot of people get wrong about AI is that they expect that it means they no longer need to understand the tools they're working with - "I can just foc
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by pksebben 9mo ago
I've been saying it this whole time; it's not the engineers who need to be concerned with being replaced - it's anyone involved in the busywork cycle. This includes those who do busywork (grinding through tedium) and those w
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by pksebben 9mo ago
I have an ongoing debate (argument? fight?) with my father about this. He recalls a time when it felt as if there were 'good guys' in politics, and can't understand why it is that I'm so hard on the democrats (this has
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by pksebben 9mo ago
woof, that article. The examples section doesn't contain a single concrete example and after reading the whole thing I can't tell whether they're talking about academics publishing news articles or congress' revolving d
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by pksebben 9mo ago
If the attackers in this case are cleverly exploiting anything, I would bet on aggressive grey patterns like that more than I would US culture wars. Noticing that a company has policies that let you hide in plain sight means that you'
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by pksebben 9mo ago
(forgive me if I don my aluminum chapeau going forward) > Black rock isn't buying up all the housing, your neighbors are. So in '08 we saw the veil drop on the mortgage folks. For a brief moment the sort of advantage they were
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by pksebben 9mo ago
The warrant was issued by Trump - originally at 15M, Biden bumped it to 25, but Trump then bumped it again to 50. Not here to defend Joe, but you also shouldn't be defending Trump. Both bastards, but the Maduro thing is almost entire
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by pksebben 9mo ago
Seeing this thread again scrolling through my comments, and after the holidays feeling perhaps calmer than when it was current. I'd like to make a case, invite you to look at things from a different angle, because I think we might hav
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by pksebben 9mo ago
caveat up front: I see that the point here is to talk about a nice, good thing for people to use that is useful, and I don't think that's a bad thing. I am also always looking for ways to upgrade, and I also agree that in a moder
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by pksebben 9mo ago
the comment, for the interested: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9224
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by pksebben 9mo ago
I can only speak for myself, but it feels like playing with fire to productize this stuff too quick. Like, I woke up one day and a magical owl told me that I was a wizard. Now I control the elements with a flick of my wrist - which I love.
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by pksebben 10mo ago
if you look at that chart, there's a price spike between jan-march of '25, precisely when ICE started cracking down in CA. Biden also famously did not do what you are saying he did. He continued the work on the border wall, much
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by pksebben 10mo ago
The constitution is being summarily ignored by the current administration. There is a right to trial in there that we've just totally blown past, and the deep integration between party insiders and media consolidation is a sideways as
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by pksebben 10mo ago
This cuts to one of the critical issues with governance globally in this era. For a really long time, we relied on social norms and mores to keep governments in check - and astonishingly it worked at least a little. Embarrassment was a go
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by pksebben 10mo ago
That one was the brits if I'm not mistaken - Jeremy Clarkson specifically (who I have a lot of affection for - Top Gear was a significant part of my childhood, but he does make an art out of being offensively wrong).

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