scotty79

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by scotty79 4mo ago
Freelance? Find someone who needs or wants a thing done, but doesn't know how to do it, then do it for them. Take half of the money upfront.
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by scotty79 4mo ago
> Your lack of knowledge about something - in this case the detection of LLM generated content - is not on the same footing as actually having knowledge about it. I'm not sure why are you saying that. Do I need to be on equal footin
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by scotty79 4mo ago
> You jest, but this is the human condition. People in comfort suffer all the time. It's the basis for the expression "familiarity breeds contempt". Humans are diverse. There are humans that climb tallest mountain for no o
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by scotty79 4mo ago
> No… No they cannot. Have you tried? Give it your feed. Ask it to pass it through antislop + SLOP_Detector + slop-forensics and whatever else your agent can find for you. Will it filter out every last bit of AI content? No, but I'm
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by scotty79 4mo ago
> But now we're talking about a world where it's super cheap to do that. Yes, so I imagine the value of idea (and being "idea guy") only grows in such world, because now the idea has way higher chance and lower cost o
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by scotty79 4mo ago
Single prompt performance is interesting because best agentic results of yesterday turned out to be best single prompt results of today. If we stopped developing LLMs the the only reasonable way to benchmark them would be to compare yheir p
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by scotty79 4mo ago
Oh no. Comfort. How will we ever suffer it! I don't like lies. So I won't be optimizing for lies. But I also don't like garbage. So I'll be optimizing for filtering it out. Even if the source of garbage are genuine human
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by scotty79 4mo ago
> This seems to have low-to-zero value in the medium- to long-term. On one hand, I don't think so. Because idea guys seemed to be doing well even in a world where it's super expensive to convert the idea into anything of value.
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by scotty79 4mo ago
Let's say author gets 40% of each sale and the publisher gets 60%. If a random dude brings a client through 'illegal' affiliate link that pays 2% of the item price. Then yes, he earns 2% without being blessed by the author. B
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by scotty79 4mo ago
70% of living cells on Earth doesn't even have a nucleus. Bulk of everything is unsophisticated because unsophisticated things are easier to make.w
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by scotty79 4mo ago
> If AI deeply collaborates with you to write something, why am I saying you shouldn’t say you used AI? Because all I have is your word for it that you did any work at all. If the author of this write up actually used AI for writing he w
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by scotty79 4mo ago
I was basically throwing stuff at the wall and seeing what sticks and makes a pretty picture for me. Vector embeddings were just one of the things I threw, in hopes of boosting news items thematically similar to the stuff I already liked. I
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by scotty79 4mo ago
I think the uniformity is real. All users interact with the same initial state of the model when they start each chat. Models are not trained to be wildly creative and try to stick to the point. So when users prompt them in pretty much the
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by scotty79 4mo ago
If I were to guess, internally they have as sloppy security as any other corp/organization. And those were the things Mythos effortlessly poked holes in. Other models would probably as well, but Antropic hyping gave NSA the idea to try
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by scotty79 4mo ago
No. That the power companies have over their employees is delegated by the government that shares its own power by allowing private ownership of buisnesses and private employment. Mandate that government issues through allowing private busi
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by scotty79 4mo ago
I feel like many team games would benefit from full mute by default. I played Valorant like that for a while and my experience was infinitely better.
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by scotty79 4mo ago
> No, not the VoC or the EIC, which were “companies” in the sense of bodies corporate, the old medieval sense of the word: power was delegated to them, and they ruled on behalf of the states that chartered them. How's that differen
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by scotty79 4mo ago
> "... because corporations are evil." Worse, they are heartless machines.
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by scotty79 4mo ago
Yeah. I asked because I had my own heap of problems with caffeine and even with decaf coffee. This thing is a pile of random bioactive substances that are mostly fine for most people until they aren't. What you could get away with in y
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by scotty79 4mo ago
Do you drink coffee?
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by scotty79 4mo ago
Also since those are lazy, you are also asking always in the same manner. How homogeneous were the prompts that generated those covers? People are making cookies with cookie cutter number 5 and other people wonder how come they are all the
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by scotty79 4mo ago
Have you seen Egyptian paintings or Hollywood movies? Everything is slop if you make enough of it and squint hard enough. The point with AI is if and how to steer it to produce something that is interesting and unique for you, not another b
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by scotty79 4mo ago
> We get to do that. We get to discuss anything that doesn't get moderated. > This isn't Reddit and we aren't "the internet". It's a reddit for techno snobs and we are the internet as much as any other pa
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by scotty79 4mo ago
> These two statements sound contradictory to me. How so?
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by scotty79 4mo ago
The prototype runs through ollama on my laptop while I browse. I usually have few hundreds stories ready from the previous session, as new stories come in they get processed in the background while I browse the old ones. It processes storie
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by scotty79 4mo ago
Putting it in a book with legitimate math puzzles was quite devious by the authors.
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by scotty79 4mo ago
Local ones (through ollama, probably will use something more performant when I move fully to it). When I touched it the last time I was a fan of gemma4 https://ollama.com/library/gemma4 Since then I grew really fond of
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by scotty79 4mo ago
You tell me: https://webflow.com/@qontour?msockid=0946eab0f6bf6a55192dfcc... If that doesn't look like a marooned freelancer down on their luck I don't what does. I mean, what's your read on this? Is this a p
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by scotty79 4mo ago
> What is your basis for this belief? My experience inflicted stupidity. > Did you read the part about the obviously intentionally-added affiliate links to the original book? I find it nice that they linked to the original book. For e
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by scotty79 4mo ago
Interesting idea ... doesn't fit my style of content consumption, but it might fit yours. I went for a personal newsfeed, agent pulls news form ~100 feeds related to my interests. Then reads all articles for me and orders them by how i

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