roywiggins

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by roywiggins 5mo ago
imho part of the communication problem is that a 6 year reduction actually is large, but it doesn't sound large. Smoking takes about 10 years off your life, and it's deadly in a very mechanical and understood way.
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by roywiggins 5mo ago
No, that appears to be the implication of this study, which frankly seems like such a large effect that I'm pretty skeptical! I'd say "where's the control group" except the claimed effect is so large that you kind
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by roywiggins 5mo ago
“The past is a foreign country; they do things differently there.”
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by roywiggins 5mo ago
Not soon, now. The new reCAPTCHA on desktop shows you a QR code for you to scan with your Google-approved phone to prove you have one.
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by roywiggins 5mo ago
They can just sell to Aquaman.
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by roywiggins 5mo ago
> That is textbook enshittification. Technically, no, not textbook enshittification. Enshittification was originally meant to refer to companies squeezing two-sided markets, not products just getting kinda worse.
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by roywiggins 5mo ago
not nearly as many words as Ed Zitron at least
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by roywiggins 6mo ago
It's all fine until OpenClaw decides to start prompt injecting the judge
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by roywiggins 6mo ago
It could be a stylistic choice, except it's rapidly become an extremely popular one for some reason . It's also the default Claude style. So, take what you will from that. Either someone is writing exactly like Claude on purpos
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by roywiggins 6mo ago
It's the em-dashes from a green account.
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by roywiggins 6mo ago
Meta spent 100 billion dollars on VR, what's a Zuckerbot or two?
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by roywiggins 6mo ago
I said that people who already know don't think about it . That's not something you can solve by educating them more. When I'm sharing a photo, I am going to think about what I can see in the photo as a data risk, not the
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by roywiggins 6mo ago
You don't have to be irrational to not know things.
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by roywiggins 6mo ago
Even people who know it, don't think about it and don't connect it with the potential consequences of uploading a picture to a website. And why would they? It's not visible, there's no warning, it's just not somethi
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by roywiggins 6mo ago
yeah I don't hate LLM docs if they're labeled as such . but if someone wants me to use their code or read their README.md they are going to have to make it sound like a human cared about writing it, and right now Claude can'
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by roywiggins 6mo ago
If they're that hard to prompt maybe it's easier just to write the blog posts yourself.
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by roywiggins 6mo ago
They could write a post demonstrating that you can do that and surface the same bugs in the same codebases. It would be way more informative than this one, which didn't do that.
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by roywiggins 6mo ago
"small models can do this if you scaffold them right" might be true, but it wasn't actually demonstrated in the post.
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by roywiggins 6mo ago
They could have linked their replication in this blog post, which we did all see, if they have one.
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by roywiggins 6mo ago
Right, but they didn't actually test that, did they?
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by roywiggins 6mo ago
Maybe that's true, but they didn't actually show that that's true, since they didn't try scaffolding smaller models in a similar way at all.
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by roywiggins 6mo ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Protection_of_Lawful_Commerce_...
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by roywiggins 6mo ago
I think my favorite part is that, because it only applies to "frontier models", if a smaller model is blamed for such harm, it seemingly doesn't immunize the creators at all. That makes very little sense unless you specifical
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by roywiggins 6mo ago
ye olde camera filter
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by roywiggins 6mo ago
It seems pretty clear when you follow the link? https://juxt.github.io/allium/
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by roywiggins 6mo ago
The only way these sorts of contracts can be enforced is if private parties have recourse to government powers- civil courts- to enforce them. Governments could just not help them do that.
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by roywiggins 6mo ago
right. that's not what people are doing here though, at all
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by roywiggins 6mo ago
It makes you wonder how smart their ancestors- dinosaurs- were.
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by roywiggins 6mo ago
Yes, I've experienced the sense that there's a person on the "other end" even when I have been perfectly aware that it's a bag of matrices. Brains just have people-detectors that operate below conscious awareness. W
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by roywiggins 6mo ago
it's mostly just agreeing with you (that yes, it was guessing). LLMs have very limited ability to even know whether it was guessing . But it can "cheat" and just say yes it was if it seems like that's what you expect to

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