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by roywiggins 6mo ago
vaguely related: MENACE https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Matchbox_Educable_Noughts_and_...
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by roywiggins 7mo ago
> How can you seriously think you've created something when you're just using someone else's software? Have you ever given a generative AI model a short input, been really pleased with the output, and felt like you accom
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by roywiggins 7mo ago
It doesn't help that LLMs roleplay to pretend to behave how their users think they do. You think it has "core programming"? Well, it will say it does. You think it abides by the Three Laws of Robotics? Ditto
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by roywiggins 7mo ago
He was hospitalized three times for mania!
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by roywiggins 7mo ago
On its own, yes, of course. But this is coming from a guy who was hospitalized three times for mania, so when someone with that history says "we were discussing the universe" I take it in a very particular way.
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by roywiggins 7mo ago
It seems like he was at the very least close to that. Since we only get his first-person account it's hard to say, but: > They discussed philosophy, psychology, science and the universe... > When they went to their daughter’s bir
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by roywiggins 7mo ago
power law distribution ~1/x I think
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by roywiggins 7mo ago
"The X Trick" or "The Y Dilemma" or similar snowclones in a header is also a big AI thing. Humans use this construction too, but LLMs love it out of all proportion. I call it The Ludlum Delusion (since that's how ev
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by roywiggins 7mo ago
See also: Canada to Shut Down Its VHF Weather Radio Service https://www.radioworld.com/news-and-business/headlines/canad...
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by roywiggins 7mo ago
The COTS solution for some web browsing is Opera Mini, which may still work? It also uses a proxy to prerender and compress websites, and worked ok at 2G speeds last I used it. It used to work well as a java applet and made the wider inte
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by roywiggins 7mo ago
Sort of: https://jarv.is/notes/cloudflare-dns-archive-is-blocked
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by roywiggins 7mo ago
The data being all over the place on benefits, but pretty clear on harms, is about as good a reason you could want for experts not to recommend something as treatment. That's what it often looks like when something doesn't work, o
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by roywiggins 7mo ago
It's a meta-study and came to the conclusion that there isn't reliable evidence that it alleviates symptoms of a bunch of stuff: > There were no significant effects on outcomes associated with anxiety, anorexia nervosa, psychot
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by roywiggins 7mo ago
Right, requiring human intervention to share a run (other than maybe with eg a specific small circle of mutual friends) seems like it solves all those problems, other than perhaps being annoyed that you forgot to manually share a run. But a
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by roywiggins 7mo ago
I'm saying something a bit different: that even letting people opt in to sharing every run they track publicly is just asking for trouble. It's setting people up for their information to be made public when they forget to turn i
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by roywiggins 7mo ago
imho with unusually sensitive things like precise location data it could just not let you opt-in to making it all public, and make it much easier to share with a specific named friends than to share on a public directory
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by roywiggins 7mo ago
It doesn't read particularly like raw LLM output to me, and Pangram agrees with me: https://www.pangram.com/history/8711e385-96a0-4366-9427-f87f...
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by roywiggins 7mo ago
And then ask another question, and the LLM changes its mind again ("are you sure?"). It's not actually realizing anything so much as it's following your lead. Yes, followup questions can help dislodge more information, b
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by roywiggins 7mo ago
I used to be able to reliably BSOD a work computer by doing a largish git pull inside WSL2, with the culprit seemingly being the McAfee realtime scanner. VirtualBox VMs were fine though. Not confidence-inspiring!
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by roywiggins 7mo ago
An unusually large helium deposit in the US made the news recently, not sure if it's being exploited: https://www.minnpost.com/other-nonprofit-media/2024/07/what-...
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by roywiggins 7mo ago
ai; dr > This isn't a single point of failure - it's a systemic crisis. > One in seven breaches isn't a sophisticated external attack - it's someone inside the organisation accessing data they shouldn't. >
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by roywiggins 7mo ago
Even easier is just using an X server, if you have it set up properly you just need to run the remote app and the window pops up on your machine. (I think terminal-based GUIs are neat just for fluidity of use- you can pop one open during a
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by roywiggins 7mo ago
suspect this problem is essentially unsolvable. what possible method wouldn't be vulnerable to this? it's fine if it's just a sort of larp but if people think this could actually work... man
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by roywiggins 7mo ago
Your CED or laserdisc player needs to be smart enough to be able to decode whatever you put on it, which- in the era that they were relevant- pretty severely limited what you could do.
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by roywiggins 7mo ago
(CNN now has a team reporting from Tehran: https://www.cnn.com/2026/03/08/world/video/fred-pleitgen-sha... )
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by roywiggins 7mo ago
It was on the BBC front page by March 2nd, two days after it happened, probably less than 48 hours. https://web.archive.org/web/20260302041747/https://www.bbc.c... The NYT had coverage the day of. https
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by roywiggins 7mo ago
No, it didn't take several days for reporting to show up in major media: https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c1l7rvqq51eo
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by roywiggins 7mo ago
Iran is not welcoming to Western reporters, so Western press aren't pointing their TV cameras out their hotel windows to show the explosions like in 2003. And locals can't report other than in tiny snatches of text as the internet
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by roywiggins 7mo ago
Compared to, say, the coverage from Ukraine during February 2022, actual information getting out from the ground is sparser. Or the opening "shock and awe" campaign in Iraq in 2003, there were Western and international media in Ba
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by roywiggins 7mo ago
Don't forget "The Ludlum Delusion"- every header in an article or readme reads like a Robert Ludlum novel title, ie "The [Noun:0.9|Adjective:0.1] [Noun]".

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