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by sfink 7mo ago
There's a very good chance your system also does not have flaky memory. Most don't. You're not contradicting the post.
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by sfink 7mo ago
[I work at Mozilla] Yes, that's a confounding factor, and in fact the starting assumption when looking at a crash. Sometimes you can be pretty sure it's hardware. For example, if it's a crash on an illegal instruction in non-
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by sfink 7mo ago
Users usually don't know what they really want. But neither do developers or product managers. The "understand the underlying problem" part is hard , and easy to convince yourself of incorrectly. There are also shallow wants
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by sfink 8mo ago
In the context of the larger discussion, Anthropic thought of that ahead of time and put the restrictions into the contract that the government agreed to . So "already sold" is a non-sequitur; that's not the situation under
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by sfink 8mo ago
> You're right, but there's a a real question here: should a company have the ability to control or veto the decisions of the democratically-elected government? I don't think "control or veto" is fair. Anthropic
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by sfink 8mo ago
There's a reason it's unpopular. If your company makes an herbicide that happens to be very good at killing off anyone who drinks it at a high concentration in their water supply, you're saying that there should be no way for
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by sfink 8mo ago
Why? Shouldn't polarizing features be done exactly this way? The people on one pole use it, those on the other remove it. Perhaps you meant "unwanted" or "unpopular"? If you never add any features that could be pola
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by sfink 8mo ago
Why is my Edit menu so long? What is this "Customize Context Menu" thing that I never use, or will use at most once a year? Just kidding, but it does illustrate that there's always a tradeoff with these things. (I would like
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by sfink 8mo ago
AI slop is ruining the current internet, including forums, email, blogs, announcements, and much of the remaining content. I say "current internet" because we will adapt as we always have, but many things that were formerly useful
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by sfink 8mo ago
Being able to name especially egregious forums is the point. AI slop isn't worse than preceding slop, but it is more widespread, partly because it's more socially acceptable than racism, sexism, and ignorance, and partly because i
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by sfink 8mo ago
Your post is a good illustration of the type of hostility I'm talking about. "If you don't already know, it's your fault, and if it's not your fault, it's your parent's fault." I don't want the d
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by sfink 8mo ago
Off topic to the off topic, but that logic doesn't look right. It seems like if up is pressed, you might need to reset i to 1 or 2, not 0.
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by sfink 8mo ago
My guess is that they can't object to foreign intelligence, and would lose negotiating ground if they even tried. Optimistically, they can still refuse to do work that would aid in foreign intelligence gathering, by arguing that it wou
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by sfink 8mo ago
This is a public note, but directed at the current administration, so reading it as a description of what is or is not moral is completely missing the point. This note is saying (1) we refuse to be used in this way, and (2) we are going to
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by sfink 8mo ago
>> Buses have a long tradition of user-hostile design. "Exact change only"... > On every pay-in-cabin bus I've ever ridden, this is synonymous with "No change given". The machines are quite happy to accept
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by sfink 8mo ago
Yes. As long as we're looking for relatively easy or cheap improvements, I believe that UX is a huge one. Buses have a long tradition of user-hostile design. "Exact change only", unhelpful and condescending and impatient driv
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by sfink 8mo ago
> I believe the central thesis of this article is unsupported, and other assertions are false. ...but then your "In my experience..." section repeats the article's assertions? As in, everything you list as a drawback of ri
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by sfink 8mo ago
Four exclamation points in a row is at least as clear as /s.
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by sfink 8mo ago
I guess this is Anthropic's DRM moment. (Mozilla resisted allowing Firefox to play DRM- limited media for a long time, until it finally had to give in to stay relevant.) I don't know enough to evaluate this or other decisions. I&#
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by sfink 8mo ago
My guess? Require them to not do the reinforcement learning on a custom model that implements guardrails. I think Anthropic has some of this built in already and couldn't alter it without retraining, but there's tons more layere
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by sfink 8mo ago
> Also, the Government money would be a nice bonus, of course, but basically this is an existential threat for Anthropic. It's also an existential risk to them if they cave in. What is the point of the company's existence if it
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by sfink 8mo ago
> During the conversation, Dario expressed appreciation for the Department’s work and thanked the Secretary for his service Ouch, I wonder how he rationalized that "service" part. Maybe by internally rewriting it to "thank
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by sfink 8mo ago
If I were interviewing people for the position of personal assistant, I would probably find the resume entry "willing to grind up babies for food" to be a negative mark. You? I'm not about to run OpenClaw, but I suspect simil
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by sfink 8mo ago
> > or the left wing, for that matter; > Both sides is uncalled for. Far left and the horse shoe, sure How so? Leftist censorship became quite popular on college campuses. The ACLU supported that, and got cold feet about promotin
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by sfink 8mo ago
With the same spouse or ...? Surely your criteria for a life partner extend beyond the desire to test search engines? (Sorry)
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by sfink 8mo ago
OpenClaw is a massive liability. Regardless of the creator's employment, OpenAI is not dumb enough to officially release a ticking PR bomb like that. I don't know what they'll do with the creator, I guess pump him for ideas a
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by sfink 8mo ago
Excellent advice. I try to follow it in my daily work, with some success. Excellent follow-up advice: now stop fixing your tools, and go fix your actual problem instead. I try to follow it in my daily work, with noticeably less success.
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by sfink 8mo ago
Developer> This is important information and most developers want to see it. PM1> Looks like a PM who is out of touch with what the developers want. Easy mistake to make. PM2> Anthropic knows better than this developer. The develop
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by sfink 8mo ago
> What were they doing when they were killed? One was returning from dropping off her 6 year old child at school. The other was videotaping ICE activity with one hand while holding out the other hand to show he was no was no threat. What
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by sfink 8mo ago
Speaking of politics, I've always thought it would be fun to see the different assumptions made by two "sides". My expectation is that both sides gradually accumulate more and more extreme, and often more and more ridiculous,

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