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by rectang 7mo ago
I quite enjoyed it. Smith has long been commandeered by libertine laissez-faire cultists who have severed the “invisible hand” from his body of work to worship as a relic.
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by rectang 7mo ago
Exactly. It seems to be a law of HN that any discussion of genetics descends into a debate about the existence of übermensch and untermensch. :(
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by rectang 7mo ago
Dollars to donuts that "libertine" was just as deliberate as the "satanic" that followed it.
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by rectang 7mo ago
In fact, punctuated equilibrium is quite compatible with what you describe as "the dogma that we are all the same". Punctuated equilibrium theory was proposed in the early 1970s by Stephen Jay Gould, who also wrote The Mismeasure
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by rectang 7mo ago
nervous laughter
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by rectang 7mo ago
It's amazing that it only takes centuries. Under natural selection, species traits stay relatively stable for thousands or even millions of years. I suppose that means natural selection tends to have more of a pronounced effect when t
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by rectang 7mo ago
Howitzers are also tools, but we don't let just anyone own and operate them.
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by rectang 7mo ago
My takeaway from the huge discussion thread yesterday was that the big divide among HN commenters is whether or not purveyors of AI tech have any responsibility to account for automation bias in their users. https://en.wikipedia.
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by rectang 7mo ago
Practically, instead of requiring that sites verify age, require that they serve adult content with standardized headers. Devices can then be marketed as "child-safe" which refuse to display content with such headers.
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by rectang 7mo ago
As a work of literature, I applaud your Swiftian “modest proposal”.
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by rectang 7mo ago
Before the misuse, there is opportunity to predict that misuse is certain to occur.
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by rectang 7mo ago
There’s money to be made selling AI plausible deniability machines that allow end users to enact unethical policies while evading accountability, but only if all moral responsibility ostensibly falls on the end user and none on the dealer.
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by rectang 7mo ago
“Tough on crime” -> lenient on police -> innocent grandmas in jail.
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by rectang 7mo ago
> facial recognition showed she was the main suspect in what Fargo police called an organized bank fraud case. > Her bank records showed she was more than 1,200 miles away, at home in Tennessee at the same time police claimed she w
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Innocent woman jailed after being misidentified using AI facial recognition(grandforksherald.com)
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by rectang 7mo ago
Haha I have usually found myself on the conservative side of any engineering team I’ve been on, and it’s refreshing to catch some flak for perceived carelessness. I still make an effort to understand the generated code. If there’s a sectio
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by rectang 7mo ago
Fair point. I have definitely caught myself taking longer to revise a prompt repeatedly after the AI gets things wrong several times than it would have taken to write the code myself. I'd like to think that I have this under control b
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by rectang 7mo ago
I agree that under default settings, LLMs introduce way too many changes and are way too willing to refactor everything. I was only able to get the situation under control by adding this standing instruction: --- applyTo: &#x
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by rectang 7mo ago
You're not telling me anything I don't know already. Only a person who accepts that they're fallible can execute this methodology anyway, because that's the kind of mentality that it takes to think through potential fai
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by rectang 7mo ago
That's not my experience — I'm significantly faster while guiding an LLM using this methodology. The gains are especially notable when working in unfamiliar domains. I can glance over code and know "if this compiles and the
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by rectang 7mo ago
> Expert reviews are just about the only thing that makes AI generated code viable I disagree, in the sense that an engineer who knows how to work with LLMs can produce code which only needs light review. * Work in small increments * E
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by rectang 7mo ago
In addition to singers, adaptive tuning is something which happens naturally for fretless stringed instruments (violin, etc), brass instruments with slides (most prominently the slide trombone but in fact many (most?) others), woodwind inst
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by rectang 7mo ago
Hmm, I would have thought of Oracle first. (EDIT: I just mean as a litigious company, well-known for its legal team.)
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by rectang 7mo ago
This court filing document appears to have been posted on Scribd to serve as a reference for an article by Nicole Carpenter on Aftermath which provides context for Nintendo's case: https://aftermath.site/nintendo-tariff
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by rectang 7mo ago
How depraved, to solve problems without inflicting punishment.
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by rectang 7mo ago
Off the top of my head: Joe Arpeio. George Wallace. Rudy Giuliani. Paul Gosar. Louie Gohmert.
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by rectang 7mo ago
You are right that this happens in practice (e.g. John Yoo torture memo). However, it is not how the system was intended to function, nor how it ought to function. I don’t want to lose sight of that.
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by rectang 7mo ago
> “I have neither the time nor the inclination to explain myself to a man who rises and sleeps under the blanket of the very freedom that I provide, then questions the manner in which I provide it.” — Colonel Jessup
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by rectang 7mo ago
I don't see this as a "conspiracy". Here's an example of how it would be applied: the Venezuelan boat strikes are plainly unlawful but the administration is pursuing them anyway despite the legal risks for military pers
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by rectang 7mo ago
> Concretely if you try to vibe-target your ICBMs Claude is hopefully telling you that that's a bad idea. On the non-nuclear battlefield, I expect that the goverment wants Claude to green-light attacks on targets that may actually

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