sebastiennight

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by sebastiennight 11d ago
"zero value" would be neutral. Eg, if you tell someone, "Try DuskDozerIM, let's message on there! I like this thing where doubletapping the emojis plays a fun random little animation". Then maybe this is "zero
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by sebastiennight 12d ago
> We're still not even sure if humans have thoughts. Sorry, what? You don't think you have thoughts? Descartes will want a chat about that.
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by sebastiennight 14d ago
I'll give you the strategy that works for me. Do NOT talk about privacy, E2EE, or any of that. To regular people, "privacy" has negative value, so even if they wanted something, your talk of private communication and not
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by sebastiennight 26d ago
That... is a great idea. Does the audio call go through your app? Or the regular network?
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by sebastiennight 26d ago
I love how your idea of the failed murder dinner party seems to still include an actual murder ; the problem is only the absence of an arrest.
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by sebastiennight 26d ago
I absolutely love this. I thought Tailscale was necessary to establish that kind of wireguard tunnel. Would you have a link to a tutorial or write-up on how you got this set up?
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by sebastiennight 27d ago
In this setup you're explaining, the phone is doing all the work though right? Filtering DNS and sending traffic to a wireguard VPN, is all done on the phone. But it's not tunnelling traffic to a desktop station which then proce
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by sebastiennight 29d ago
> My phone is always VPNed into my home network which has DNS-level ad and tracker blocking. I've been looking to do this setup. Would you share a few details of which tools you've used?
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by sebastiennight 1mo ago
A "prompt" is what goes into the LLM, so I'm not sure what you mean by "a final prompt HTML".
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by sebastiennight 1mo ago
Monet's often been classified as A Genius Impressionist, so arguably one step above A.I.
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by sebastiennight 1mo ago
If there were suddenly thousands of websites advertising "taking chemicals" as cure-all solutions, and a two-year fad where thousands of accounts advertised "chemicals" on social media, and vernacular use of "taking
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by sebastiennight 1mo ago
ESL as well ; I was assuming that this sign-off was referring to the kind of tourniquet you'll see drug users strap on before an injection.
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by sebastiennight 1mo ago
This comment looks so much like today's YouTube comment spam that I fully expecting you to mention that you finally found this miraculous ebook/website, and then a stream of comment replies saying "me too!" with their ow
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by sebastiennight 1mo ago
Sure, let me help. Let P = batteries; If (P == NP) then both are the answer.
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by sebastiennight 1mo ago
> I am also not in the position to build a frontier model company these days. Well if you're not even going to put in the effort... Wait. Let me do this for you. /config model=boredumb effort=xhigh /ultraplan
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by sebastiennight 1mo ago
Hear me out... What would it feel like, if the lab didn't even have a new model to offer, and therefore just renamed every model one tier down? "Opus 5" is actually Opus 4.8 in a trenchcoat, with new guardrails "Opus 4.8
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by sebastiennight 1mo ago
I appreciate you articulating this viewpoint in more detail, and I understand it better now. Thanks.
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by sebastiennight 1mo ago
My understanding of this study is that it disproves your assumption: "The negative learning effects are larger for students with higher initial achievement." It seems that the students who had the most skill and motivation from th
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by sebastiennight 1mo ago
This experimental setup would only tell you whether this demographic (grad students or professors, or top performing college students) benefits from access to LLMs for acquiring a new knowledge or skill. It would not prove that "the re
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by sebastiennight 1mo ago
> I'd love to get good at piano without putting any homework in on it I'm pretty sure there is a way to fine-tune this [0] to auto-complete away any of your hesitations or mistakes :) [0] https://news.ycombinator.com
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by sebastiennight 1mo ago
> Depends who's using it. Like many tools the force multiplier depends on the operator. How would you prove/disprove this assumption without falling into a True Scotsman fallacy?
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by sebastiennight 1mo ago
Alright then. Your granpa once wrote an obscure book about this amazing way he'd found to cure diabetes. Corporation A buys one of the rare few remaining copies of the book, scans it, destroys the original, and sets up a commercial bus
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by sebastiennight 1mo ago
> simply asking for confirmation via an official email address There are some smart new scammers who now create a lookalike domain which either redirects to the original or shows a fake corporate portal. How could a random interviewee kn
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by sebastiennight 1mo ago
My counterpoint is that "the internet" is quite recent, and has had many iterations - we've basically abandoned gopher, mostly irc, etc. Even "the web" as we know it is arguably entering a winter we can't yet f
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by sebastiennight 1mo ago
IMHO it's an analogy because it's analogous , otherwise it would be reporting . This is why I would be just as stumped if you asked me for the specific real-world name of the granpa in the analogy. However, the recent headlines
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by sebastiennight 1mo ago
> plan for a world where it's always summer The difficulty in adopting this belief lies in the fact we have multiple points of reference in the past, of visionaries claiming that "this time is different" and we reached the
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by sebastiennight 1mo ago
> The implication is that taking from the public domain is theft if you then make it unavailable by destructive processes which render the public unable to access that which was previously available. That is also my understanding of the
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by sebastiennight 1mo ago
> there is no "evil bit" There's always been one, but it's been defaulting to 1 ever since the Web 2.0 upgrade, and the API to set it back to 0 has been deprecated.
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by sebastiennight 1mo ago
I imagine the argument could go like this. Your granpa once wrote an obscure book about this amazing way he'd found to cure diabetes. Corporation A buys all existing copies of the book, scans them, destroys the originals, and sets up a
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by sebastiennight 1mo ago
What about art?

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