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by pona-a 5mo ago
A vibe-coded EFF Cover Your Tracks. The fact this made it to front-page is spookier than its contents
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by pona-a 6mo ago
Believe me or not, that's good news for me. I actually really enjoyed your writing, and I'm glad that feeling wasn't misplaced. I'm sorry if my remarks came across as mean-spirited...
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by pona-a 6mo ago
Pangram agrees with you. About 25% of the text trips the detection threshold, mostly towards the later half. I don't want to make any accusations, just give some evidence to the above comment.
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by pona-a 6mo ago
26% of the sentences tripped the detection threshold for their classifier. That isn't a detection probability on the entire text.
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by pona-a 6mo ago
26% isn't high and it's concentrated towards the end, so it could be the author just used it to revise some later paragraphs.
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by pona-a 6mo ago
This essay returns 50% on Pangram, which matches my impression of it. The human-written bits do have real insight, but it's being buried in vacuous slop that makes it. I understand from personal experience how addictive writing with AI
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by pona-a 6mo ago
Projects like this are generational achievements, and we should demand public funding be given to them. It is a great loss its writer had to step down for 5 years, being too busy with an industry job, when they could have been so meaningful
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by pona-a 6mo ago
Loosing their #2 market instead of absorbing a modest compliance cost?
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by pona-a 6mo ago
Which is a the power of not relying on obscurity. The server not sending you its complete source code is not any more obscure than a secret key. Security through obscurity is about obfuscating easy-to-recover trivia thinking it buys you any
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by pona-a 6mo ago
Also: * fish shaped volatile organic compounds * sediment shaped sediment * a 20-foot thick impermeable clay layer
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by pona-a 6mo ago
It feels like an addiction. Normal coding requires sustained attention, you can sense how deep you are in the progress and when you're too tired to continue, but with LLMs the next feature always feels like another prompt away, having
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by pona-a 6mo ago
> When Palantir helps USG spy on the planet the primary purpose is defeat enemies + protect assets. I think it takes about the same amount of suspended disbelief to say that, as it takes a Facebook employee to believe the primary purpose
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by pona-a 6mo ago
There's a video by Siliconversations [0] about it. Medicine is first and foremost limited by high-quality data, not intelligence. If OpenAI built a superhuman AGI tomorrow, it would not change a thing about the state of cancer treatmen
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by pona-a 6mo ago
See RFC 5322: From: "John Doe" <support@domain.com>
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by pona-a 6mo ago
I partially agree, but my problem is it's visibly vacuous. It's not hard to design a web page like this, and with a proper workflow, design system/components, and staff it's trivial for an organization to assemble as is
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by pona-a 6mo ago
I think the word you're looking for is contractors. But yes, you still have to treat those with _some_ human decency.
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by pona-a 6mo ago
If you want to me to care about what you have to say, I'd prefer if you cared enough to write it yourself. Especially on on taxpayer money. If I can spot it as slop, you have a problem.
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by pona-a 6mo ago
I don't know if this idea is generally useful. Most of what makes writing a medium worth engaging with is how its presentation is causally insulated from its creation. Well, that is true of other media: film has a whole history of prod
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by pona-a 6mo ago
As someone interested in cryptography, I'd also recommend a VDF. A Wesolowski VDF isn't that hard to hand-roll [0] [1] and will make parallel attacks much harder while penalizing low-power devices less. [0] https://read
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by pona-a 6mo ago
I feel like normalization would be a nightmare. Consider all the mistranscriptions, OCR errors, and different names in the libraries (case, parentheticals, etc). If we assume there's no reliable way to define a book, maybe locally sens
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by pona-a 7mo ago
If your app needs to be protected from harm, it cannot protect the user from said harm. I hoped software engineering culture was lucky to not have the same precepts that make lockpicking a crime in the real world, that we successfully make
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by pona-a 7mo ago
Then do you think this new data entry position is going to be smas well paying as your current one?
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by pona-a 7mo ago
The problems are not visual but epistemic. If the author didn't specify enough to produce a useful chart, then it's going to be the diagram equivalent of stock images thrown on a finished presentation by a lazy intern. You can&#x2
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by pona-a 7mo ago
I agree. I do admire the concept as a framing device to engage with your family history, but the "AI" part strikes me in a wrong way. There's a comment by bonoboTP in a sibling thread about the emotional complexity of a proje
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by pona-a 7mo ago
I don't know if FIPS standards have improved, but combining my priors about products boasting FIPS and manufacturer code quality in general, I would actively not trust it with any data, full expecting it either leaks them, corrupts the
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by pona-a 7mo ago
This is a continuation of the previous post, "We mourn our craft" [0] many including me dismissed as critihype. Your reaction to the previous article will predict your response to this one. I believe holding funerals for a still l
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by pona-a 7mo ago
That's iMacs.
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by pona-a 7mo ago
Many universities used to have basic skills without the rigorous academic culture of top universities. They're being completely decimated by AI: professors downskilling themselves by openly using it in the course, often even responding
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by pona-a 7mo ago
When one side of the discussion makes their ignorance a point of pride, defining themselves entirely based on what they now need not know, I believe you've inadvertently insulted yourself.
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by pona-a 7mo ago
And yet it's on the front-page... HN is rabidly descending into actual SEO spam, on par with bought-out game journalism outlets firing everyone to put up a thousand casino ads from non-existent people with fake degrees. Is it the AI br

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