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by shadowgovt 7mo ago
To be fair, "it's just a fucking hobby" no longer being an excuse has been a long time coming, much in the same way that driving cars or flying airplanes started as just a hobby but became no longer one when practicing it had
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by shadowgovt 7mo ago
> liqour stores and porno shops, for example, who already seem to do an acceptable job of checking ID without destroying people's privacy The difference being, of course, that as an adult one can simply refrain from frequenting a li
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by shadowgovt 7mo ago
This seems in-line with modern US military doctrine. The US generally only wages wars of aggression against a nation as well-organized and well-armed as Iran when it can do them at arm's length with remote weapons and air superiority.
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by shadowgovt 7mo ago
Is there a similar solution to doing this in Rust? I suppose inside `unsafe` you can do basically anything.
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by shadowgovt 7mo ago
My layer of cleanup is AI assisted. It's the spellchecker integrated into my web browser. That was definitely "AI" technology when it originally came out. But I think you and I are on the same page: we both know this isn&#x27
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by shadowgovt 7mo ago
If it becomes one, then that will be the end of sites like Hacker News. This site, at its core, is fundamentally too low-bandwidth, too text-only, and too hands-off-moderated to be able to shoulder the burden of distinguishing real human-so
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by shadowgovt 7mo ago
This comment makes two interesting assumptions: 1) That the entering of LLMs onto the scene of communication implies that real human beings need to change their style as a result. 2) That nobody can make an LLM talk like Cleetus McFarland.
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by shadowgovt 7mo ago
My personal interpretation of the rule is that if it's human-originated but passed through a layer of cleanup, it's human-originated. For the same reason I'm not refraining from running the spellchecker or using speech-to-tex
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by shadowgovt 7mo ago
Trust me, it won't last because I've seen the cycle a couple of times. People pay lip-service to being accepting of variant grammar, but then the downvotes show up.
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by shadowgovt 7mo ago
This is probably a good time to mention that they court-martialed Chelsea Manning for exfiltrating Army documents. I have a sinking suspicion this engineer won't see the inside of a jail cell.
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by shadowgovt 7mo ago
In this case in particular it looks like an acquihire. Meta just saw two engineers actually execute on the joke about "building Facebook in a weekend" except that it then really took off in its target niche and generated a ton of
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by shadowgovt 7mo ago
The language specification is already larger than several classical tomes of fiction. A reader could choose to tuck in with the C++ spec, or with War and Peace. And given how much of the language's spec is "The behavior is undef
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by shadowgovt 7mo ago
How close are we to good enough and who's working on that? I would be interested in supporting that work; to my mind, many of the real objections to LLMs are diminished if we can make them small and cheap enough to run in the home (and
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by shadowgovt 7mo ago
Or stop measuring ourselves by our reflection in their eyes. Society can interpret sociopathy as damage and route around it, if we do the work to make it happen. It will not happen by itself without effort.
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by shadowgovt 7mo ago
I'm optimistic about people being able to build the things they always wanted to build but either didn't have the skills or resources to hire somebody who did. If we truly value human creativity, then things that decrease the rote
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by shadowgovt 7mo ago
From my point of view, having the llm as co-pilot is like having the junior engineer that the team would never justify the budget to hire. I get quite a bit more done when I can assign the tool a task to work on, work on something else in t
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by shadowgovt 7mo ago
Correct; they are currently a major polluter. They are also cognizant of that issue and taking concrete steps to transition their power dependency off of fossil fuel. I don't think the same can be said for the United States, sadly. Chi
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by shadowgovt 7mo ago
At this point, one possible 50-years projection of outcomes here is that China eventually declares the US an existential threat to humanity's continued existence and deploys economic or military power to stop it unless the US gets its
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by shadowgovt 7mo ago
If she's a practicing artist, she almost certainly cut her teeth doing tracing at some point. And if a digital artist, she almost certainly used a cracked copy of a tool. The big eye-opener for me in college was taking a class that put
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by shadowgovt 7mo ago
Not just the metrics, the actual utility. For the things the LLMs are good at, the context matters a lot; it's one of the things that makes them more than glorified ELIZA chatbots or simple Markov chains. To give a concrete example: LL
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by shadowgovt 7mo ago
My understanding of LLMs with attention heads is that they function as a bit of a mirror. The context will shift from the initial conditions to the topic of conversation, and the topic is fed by the human in the loop. So someone who likes t
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by shadowgovt 7mo ago
It's adorable. One small criticism: instead of being stored as initial conditions with no internal forces, if the tooling allows for it it should be stored as the "relaxed" state with internal forces. As it stands, the first
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by shadowgovt 7mo ago
One of my favorite bits of astrophysics trivia is that the neutrino detection experiments serve as an early-warning system for supernovae, to allow astronomers to prioritize telescope time and swing the scopes around to see the first visibl
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by shadowgovt 7mo ago
That information comes from the GitHub commit history, not the existence / nonexistence / relative popularity of a website. If that's the goal, the imitating website is only helping the career prospects so long as it doesn&#x
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by shadowgovt 7mo ago
There is significant first-mover advantage in the index, especially when the public is finding the initial result to be good enough to satisfy their questions. Google doesn't care more about authoritative answers than the public does
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by shadowgovt 7mo ago
Comparing the two sites side-by-side (nanoclaw.net, the fake, and nanoclaw.dev, the correct one), there's also the issue that nanoclaw.net is doing a better job of looking like a correct website. The fake site: - includes a copyright s
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by shadowgovt 7mo ago
It's been done for about a generation or two, and that's what people don't seem to realize. In the early aughts I was sitting in on privacy discussions that reluctantly acknowledged that regardless of what we do online, surve
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by shadowgovt 7mo ago
The most relevant question to answer for your jurisdiction is "What is the penalty for lying?" If none, you were born on March 5, 1957. (Note on evaluating this: there are some circumstances where the penalty changes later. I know
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by shadowgovt 7mo ago
That was wise. It was an honest mistake, but a direct hit to is credibility that made not just him, but the paper, look sloppy. And in an era where people are deeply concerned about journalism pedigree.
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by shadowgovt 7mo ago
They believe they are the good guys. But then, history shows this sort always do.

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