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by pksebben 11mo ago
I have become an aggressive counter-flasher. This has yielded in some cases new knowledge - that the low beams of a lot of cars these days look like high beams (indicated when they flash back, and it's the brightness of a thousand sun
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by pksebben 11mo ago
my metric for now is "do they have human-sounding posts from more than a year ago"
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by pksebben 11mo ago
It is the objective, it's always been the objective. The worst part is that I bet these people don't even think of themselves as authoritarian so much as they stumble into it through a combination of selfishness, ignorance, and c
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by pksebben 11mo ago
TIL what the green names mean on HN (new account). I once worked in an Information Operations group. It has left me deeply suspicious of the verisimilitude of online personae. One of the things I appreciate about HN is the ability to chec
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by pksebben 11mo ago
This is really splitting hairs, but i think it's: 48% of bombing victims/people who died from blast injury are children of those children 40% were under 10 years of age so .48 * .4 = 0.192 meaning roughly 20% of bomb deaths were
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by pksebben 11mo ago
Wait, Congress is bound by the first amendment? Someone should tell Congress.
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by pksebben 11mo ago
I don't think it's about public opinion so much as pushing the goalposts. The whole erosion of privacy since the 60s (maybe further but at least since then) has been a 'boiled frogs' situation. What I think the endgame
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by pksebben 11mo ago
Alternative take: OP meant that we ought not to trust any justification for the expansion of surveillance like posted.
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by pksebben 11mo ago
There's enough similarity there for an analogy, like the above posted. Both are abstractions that use symbolic representation Both are designed for human understanding Both have quirks that make them better or worse at certain kinds of
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by pksebben 11mo ago
Yeah, I see both those points and really I agree with both. Actually, I think problem 1 is exacerbating problem 2 by a lot - I get just as mad at the postmillenial dudebro with the get-rich-quick-on-AI scam video as I do with the AI-MBAs o
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by pksebben 11mo ago
I probably do, and this is what I think happened. Mind you, it's not magic, but to hold that information with enough fidelity to pattern-match the structure of the underlying function was something I would find remarkable. It's
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by pksebben 11mo ago
was my own project, so i don't see how it could have been. Private repo, unfinished, i gave it the name.
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by pksebben 11mo ago
I don't know if I'd call it an 'amazing feat', but claude had me pause for a moment recently. Some time ago, I'd been working on a framework that involved a series of servers (not the only one I've talked to cl
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by pksebben 11mo ago
AI hype is real, but we ought to start also examining anti-AI-hype-hype. It's become fashionable to rage against AI as a whole with about the same amount of understanding that the MBA hype edgelords have when they push AI as a cure-al
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by pksebben 11mo ago
You're right, of course. These models have deficiencies in their understanding related to the sophistication of the text encoder and it's relationship to the underlying tokenizer. Which is exactly why the current discourse is abo
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by pksebben 11mo ago
at least then, we had hard overrides that were actually hard. "This got searched verbatim, every time" W*ldcards were handy and so on... Now, you get a 'system prompt' which is a vague promise that no really this bit of
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by pksebben 11mo ago
Most designers can't, either. Defining a spec is a skill. It's actually fairly difficult to put to words any specific enough vision such that it becomes understandable outside of your own head. This goes for pretty much anything
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by pksebben 11mo ago
> victims of the drugs Think about that statement. How are you defining 'victim' in this case? From what I can see, 'victim' here roughly equates to 'willing purchaser of goods'. I believe in Freedom as a
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by pksebben 11mo ago
edit: Is LeCun wearing those godawful meta-camera-raybans? Am I tripping?
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by pksebben 11mo ago
From a certain angle, this is the market correcting towards the abstraction. Between inflation, fiscal capture, and the inane plethora of ridiculous financial vehicles that are used to move capital around these days, the argument could be m
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by pksebben 11mo ago
from claude sonnet 4.5: If I were to express a similar sentiment in my own voice, it might sound something like: "I notice you're working quite hard on this problem. I should mention that as an AI, I don't experience fatigue
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by pksebben 11mo ago
I think to tease out the core of the problem with large businesses, capital, and society (esp. as regards the dissolution of small businesses), you need to autopsy the concepts of value and liquidity. Money is meant to be a store of value,
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by pksebben 11mo ago
You're right that I'm taking a bit of a shortcut - my assessment is based on what I know to be true in both directions, the things they've done right versus the things they've done wrong. The CARD program, stopping the
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by pksebben 11mo ago
You know, I had a think about that the other day - I believe that the volume of bad information might remain stable, while the shape changes. There are some things that LLMs are actually better at than the random mix of human-created data,
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by pksebben 11mo ago
You know what? Fair point. I can't necessarily talk for anyone else, but I will say that I have a tendency to be extra critical where state power is being abused. I served, and in my Army, we knew to our bones that our mandate was
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by pksebben 11mo ago
It's a fair question. I was only able to rabbithole on this for so long before realizing I had to get back to work, but if anyone wants to continue the search here's the most relevant document I was able to find. It's dense
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by pksebben 11mo ago
Couple of points; What you think is going on in other people's brains, partial or not, is inaccurate. This is generally true for pretty much everyone, but especially in a case like yours where you seem utterly convinced that you know.
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by pksebben 11mo ago
> worthy of execution without due process Quite the fascist take you got there, buddy. edit: My bad. On closer reading I believe you might have said that tongue-in-cheek. Reading intent in text is hard.
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by pksebben 11mo ago
> Footage of the boats to date show they aren't trying to spoof legitimate fishing vessels. This is a great moment to share a link or some other source of verisimilitude. Also no one uses "dope" anymore - don't forget
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by pksebben 11mo ago
Define "allowed", esp. whom it is doing the allowing. Any and all current international treaties are visibly toothless these days. Russia invades Ukraine and the UN shrugs while they say "hey, cut it out!". Israel colo

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