sReinwald

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by sReinwald 1y ago
Short and sweet: Unit 8200. Unit 8200 is Israel's elite military intelligence cyber unit - think NSA but with mandatory military service. Israelis serve in their late teens/early twenties, the most tech-savvy and promising recruit
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by sReinwald 1y ago
You "skimmed through it" by your own admission, but somehow feel comfortable enough to armchair diagnose everyone involved as having "severe mental health issues". Seriously, are you not ashamed? Your advocacy of "j
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by sReinwald 1y ago
The issue isn't the mere existence of spyware companies globally. The issue is that Israeli companies in particular have cornered the market on selling to the world's worst human rights abusers, with catastrophic consequences. Let
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by sReinwald 1y ago
I understand that you're not completely serious about it, but you're proposing a very brittle technical solution for what is fundamentally a social and motivational issue. The core flaw is that any such marker system is trivially
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by sReinwald 1y ago
> Oh yup. The way I've always described myself is I have extremely "muted" emotions, bordering on none the overwhelming vast majority of the time. I only very rarely feel extreme emotions of any kind. I remember infuriatin
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by sReinwald 1y ago
That's fair criticism, I'm obviously coming at this from my personal perspective and that is shaped by how my brain experiences the world. I should've been more precise, I didn't intend to suggest that alexithymia is the
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by sReinwald 1y ago
That's pretty much what my therapist said when I first expressed this to him, so you're in good company there. I thought about this more on my commute home from work, and I'm starting to suspect that "SDAM" might es
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by sReinwald 1y ago
I can relate to this very strongly. The difficulty in 'selling yourself' by recalling specific achievements for interviews or performance reviews is a challenge I know all too well. Like you and the author, I have aphantasia (and
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by sReinwald 1y ago
It seems the core concept of contextual integrity is still not landing. It's not a question of surprise that public data can be scraped - I'm well aware of how the internet functions, thank you. The point, which you seem determine
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by sReinwald 1y ago
No, what's "ridiculous" is this simplistic, black-and-white framing that deliberately ignores any nuance, the concept of contextual integrity or reasonable user expectations. Of course, no one expects absolute secrecy in a pu
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by sReinwald 1y ago
While it's understood that LLM outputs have an element of stochasticity, the central finding of this analysis isn't about achieving bit-for-bit identical responses. Rather, it's about the statistically significant and consis
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by sReinwald 1y ago
Okay, the "not really" and "I'll solve that problem if and when" responses are... something else. It feels like you're speedrunning how to get into a world of trouble while hand-waving away every legitimate con
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by sReinwald 1y ago
The sheer audacity here is quite something. You're stating people can't use your scraped data for commercial purposes "without permission," while your entire project is built on vacuuming up content from countless users
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by sReinwald 1y ago
Semantic router is on my radar, but I haven't had a good look at it yet. The primary bottleneck in our current setup, isn't really the routing decision time. The lightweight LLM I chose (Gemma3 4B) handles the task identification
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by sReinwald 1y ago
That’s a perfectly valid idea in theory, but in practice you’ll run into a few painful trade-offs, especially in multi-user environments. Trust me, I'm currently doing exactly that in our fairly limited exploration of how we can levera
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by sReinwald 1y ago
That's not quite correct. The "sovereignty" pitch here is largely illusory when dealing with a US-based company like OpenAI. The US CLOUD Act (Clarifying Lawful Overseas Use of Data Act) explicitly gives US authorities the po
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by sReinwald 1y ago
While technically you're right about the rules of GeoGuessr as a game, I think this misses the more interesting and potentially concerning implications. IMO, whether or not it's "cheating" at GeoGuessr is less important
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by sReinwald 1y ago
I really have to challenge the notion of AI "distilling information without cognitive bias. First, AI systems absolutely embody cognitive biases - they're just different from human ones. These systems inherit biases from: - Th
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by sReinwald 1y ago
While blocking before authentication seems intuitive for efficiency, checking after provides crucial context that's missing if you block pre-auth: you know which specific user account just authenticated successfully. This context enabl
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by sReinwald 1y ago
This response is a textbook example of a manipulative false dichotomy that poisons legitimate discourse about child safety online. Presenting the only options as either "scan your child's biometric data into opaque systems" o
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by sReinwald 2y ago
It depends on what I'm after. I still use regular searches quite a bit. But a lot of my classic ADHD "let's dive into this rabbit hole" google sessions have definitely been replaced by AI deep searches like Perplexity. I
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by sReinwald 2y ago
That's not quite correct. It is no longer visible on the website itself, or within the mobile clients. But if you inspect the requests, you can still see things like source: <a href="http://twitter.com/do
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by sReinwald 2y ago
> In reality I enjoy steering it to reach a solution. That resonates with me. It actually brings back some nostalgic memories about setting up and constantly tweaking bots in World of Warcraft (sorry, I was young). There's something
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by sReinwald 2y ago
Seems easy enough to get around with homophonic substitution, though. Didn't refuse any of my tests so far.
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by sReinwald 2y ago
You can also set OLLAMA_CONTEXT_LENGTH=<tokens> as an environment variable to change ollama's default context length.
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by sReinwald 2y ago
It is not only targeting the Right. I'd suggest that Russia isn't primarily interested in bolstering the right specifically. They are interested in dividing national societies as well international alliances along any possible ide
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by sReinwald 2y ago
> I also suspect that Russia has been causing the very problems that the far right reacts against, most notably immigration. They absolutely are. A large portion of immigrants into Europe originate from countries suffering from conflicts
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by sReinwald 2y ago
> Biggest caviar there is that html export is still wip. Pandoc seems to support converting from and to Typst. That might be an option for you.
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Constantly warning about how your product is or will eventually be so powerful that it will become a danger to humanity or society is the successful marketing. And for the big AI companies, like OpenAI, it has the very beneficial side-eff
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by sReinwald 2y ago
Perhaps both. But I wonder if the incredible blandness of most chatbots is effectively just a regression towards the mean. Most AI companies try to train their bots on vast amounts of different data, and I suspect it's very difficult f

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