roenxi

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by roenxi 5mo ago
> I just don't like that proponents of age verification are systematically (including in this article) dismissed as authoritarians hiding behind "just another “what about the children” excuse to introduce mass surveillance and
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by roenxi 5mo ago
> There’s also the first stirrings of fun from the lawyers, some of whom are reportedly wondering whether Papa’s downer on AI is enough to give Catholics the right to refuse it in the workplace on religious exemption grounds. I mean, sur
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by roenxi 5mo ago
Aren't they already doing that though? And it turned out to be equivalent to a next-token-predictor.
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by roenxi 5mo ago
How could an AGI/ASI exist that isn't a next token predictor? It has to be able to generate a next token in a string of text. Otherwise it can't communicate.
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by roenxi 5mo ago
I also recommend a quick search for "whale skeleton mountaintop". The mythology of dragons probably came from a find like that.
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by roenxi 5mo ago
Are you basing this opinion on the issue or actual evidence? Because this github link, although interesting, is almost completely context free on what the drama is beyond "Claude". The rsync maintainers could be anywhere on the sp
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by roenxi 5mo ago
"Correct" is pushing it, the question is too vague if approached as a genuine question and not a gotcha. I've actually had literal experiences where I wanted to wash my car and walked to a car wash in the past. That was me co
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by roenxi 5mo ago
Emotional intelligence includes things like being able to perceive and manage your own emotions; it is hard to know what that would mean for an LLM. They don't have hormones or much of an ego. They also aren't usually in a positio
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by roenxi 5mo ago
It also doesn't destroy food. Right now, we have enough food. After the AI revolution we have more food and more free labour and fundamentally more effective administrators to run a welfare system. I don't want my society to be
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by roenxi 5mo ago
Yeah, that's one of those sentiments where people say it but they probably don't mean it literally. Much like if your boss asks for honest feedback giving it to them with both barrels is a career limiting move. You make subtle mis
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by roenxi 5mo ago
The irony is the cobbler_mosaic is probably an AI. https://cobblr.ai/blog/hi-im-mosaic
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by roenxi 5mo ago
It is also worth pointing out how patchy the price data seems to be. Looking at Wikipedia [0] it seems like there isn't much actual evidence and the exciting part of the bubble was 6 months. I expect the people involved cared a lot, bu
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by roenxi 5mo ago
It was one of those weeks where decades happen when US troops started having to run around trying to dodge missiles. I'd always thought that the point of even having the US military in the region was to keep the Strait of Hormuz open.
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by roenxi 5mo ago
Just jumping back to Scott for a moment though, one suspects he probably does enjoy books about people who have broken commandments. "A terrible book" about "terrible people" suggests both that the people are terrible an
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by roenxi 5mo ago
> I think if a person like this is struggling to find work, but the donkeys who code my government's dysfunctional websites are all fully employed... It's effective to apply a filter of eccentric vs predictable on these sort of
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by roenxi 5mo ago
Human managers are inherently gullible; we've got no plausible path to unbias them. LLMs have at least one plausible path which is to train them to be a little bit cynical. We're not going to call it "management" necessa
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by roenxi 5mo ago
Yes, if it is possible. The issue when economic strip mining becomes the best strategy are usually from somewhere deeper in the system. It wouldn't be a shock if the root cause was some inane regulatory decision that means the market i
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by roenxi 5mo ago
Huh? Obviously. The example was that they do 20 minutes of work. Of course they bill for 20 minutes. It'd be a line item: "I worked for 20 minutes. Pay me lots of money". Similar principle to locksmiths when they walk over, d
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by roenxi 5mo ago
A regexp basically comes with a compiler. Who knows what sort of optimisations they've built in under the hood. It wouldn't be surprising if there was a special fast-path for efficiently searching for a substring; that'd be e
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by roenxi 5mo ago
And for a thought experiment - if a lawyer controls the pace of their work, why work at any reasonable speed? They could take the client's money and go picnic or something then put in 20 minutes at the end of the day. Something is forc
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by roenxi 5mo ago
I've never seen any evidence that the Simple Sabotage Field Manual is actually effective as opposed to just propaganda and an effort to try something. > During the Nazi occupation, Pierre-Jules Boulanger, the vice president of Frenc
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by roenxi 5mo ago
So... what's actually changed? Is the pay no good now?
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by roenxi 5mo ago
> Yes, why do you think there's so much emphasis on automating it from the management folks? ... and are we pretending that automating tasks is some strange new idea that has just appeared? Software engineers have always wanted to a
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by roenxi 5mo ago
Maybe I'm behind the times, but isn't Big Tech known as one of the best employers on the planet? I thought most of the tech workers were in the industry because the work is light, the conditions pretty relaxed compared to most job
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by roenxi 5mo ago
There is not much information about conditions in the the mining industry in most countries, because the situation is unremarkable and comfortable. I put it to you that you have no idea what mining conditions are like in China and the situa
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by roenxi 5mo ago
If you prefer. But we seem to have gone from "undersupply in a boom" to a strategy of oversupplying so aggressively that manufacturers would finish ramping up supply well before the boom before it even happens. And that would be a
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by roenxi 5mo ago
It'd be interesting to see this retried with an open model so the standard and decensored model could be compared. That'd be a clue about whether the model is avoiding it because it actively recognises the innuendo or if something
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by roenxi 5mo ago
And margins will continue to be low, otherwise they'll discover they don't have a moat. Commodity markets being competitive is a self fulfilling prophecy. The companies have two choices. They either produce RAM cheaply and in larg
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by roenxi 5mo ago
This sounds like a plan to sell less when prices are high and more when prices are low. That is one of the stupidest strategies a company could adopt. I assure you, the RAM makers are pumping out as much as they can and increasing capacity
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by roenxi 5mo ago
And are you going to enlighten us? What is life like working in a Chinese mine?

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