sirsinsalot

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by sirsinsalot 1y ago
You know what an executable spec is? Source code.
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by sirsinsalot 1y ago
And even today some people don't worry about Microsoft's ownership and stewardship of things like Github.
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by sirsinsalot 2y ago
I don't see why a humans internal monologue isn't just a buildup of context to improve pattern matching ahead. The real answer is... We don't know how much it is or isn't. There's little rigor in either direction.
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by sirsinsalot 2y ago
The important property that anyone can verify the untainted relationship between the binary and the source (providing we do the same for both tool chains, not relying on a blessed binary at any point) is useful if people do actually verify
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by sirsinsalot 2y ago
It doesn't help that JS projects are often thin wrappers around thin wrappers where the project owner puts more work into their Vitepress logo than a stable API. It all seems like it is for CV glory. Then the projects don't see a
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by sirsinsalot 2y ago
I made good money cleaning up after the 2000s outsourcing boom. It was lucrative cleaning up shit code from Romania and India. I'm hoping enough people churn out enough hot garbage that needs fixing now that I can jack up my day rate.
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by sirsinsalot 2y ago
My mother was shocked when I recalled the bathroom tiles, layout and song she sang to me when I was a baby. There's no photos of the bathroom, it wasnt discussed as its refit was banal. The song she sang, she never mentioned to me past
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by sirsinsalot 2y ago
The situation is insane
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by sirsinsalot 2y ago
It's pretty crazy. If you say something that offends him (like perhaps the financial abandonment of his kids) then you're banned. Free speech eh.
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by sirsinsalot 2y ago
Running gcc or go build doesn't burn incredible GPU power. I also have gcc or go on my machine. Proprietary language models are the proprietary compilers or languages of old. As the blog post suggests, let's learn the lessons of t
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by sirsinsalot 2y ago
It has been shown many times that current cutting edge AI will subvert and lie to follow subgoals not stated by their "masters".
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by sirsinsalot 2y ago
Reminds me of the outsourcing rush in the 2000s. I made good money cleaning that up.
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by sirsinsalot 2y ago
Thank Google. There is no way they'd implement blanket config. Therefore neither will Firefox. Lack of competition for you. Very American, not very EU.
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by sirsinsalot 2y ago
The losers in the "rule bending" are humans, whose creative works are turned into weights, whose livelihoods are diminished by indiscriminate greed. I'm all for the advancement of AI, but not at the cost of humility and compa
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by sirsinsalot 2y ago
The alternative is businesses are not held to account. I'd much rather have a cookie pop-up and GDPR notices than businesses have no guard rails against moves that are not in the interest of the user/customer.
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by sirsinsalot 2y ago
This is a good take. What models seem to be poor at is undoing their own thinking down a path even when they can test. If you let a model write code, test it, identify bugs and fix them, you get an increasingly obtuse and complex code base
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by sirsinsalot 2y ago
Dying? It isn't free speech if you can say what you like, but can only do it in a sound proofed room, alone.
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by sirsinsalot 2y ago
You're not into ML, got it.
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by sirsinsalot 2y ago
The issue isn't necessarily that all censorship is "bad", it's that it is being applied asymmetrically to benefit a political party, blatantly.
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by sirsinsalot 2y ago
HN flags and removes lots of this sort of discussion for not aligning with their goals (imho, anecdotally). Censorship is a creeping disease that already has its foot over the winning line.
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by sirsinsalot 2y ago
They're a puppet for lobbies and businesses.
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by sirsinsalot 2y ago
Yeah that doesn't address the point. The output of an LLM is a compression. It has errors. Recursive training would seem to create iterations that become more noisy. There's no new information, just a lossy distillation of the pre
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by sirsinsalot 2y ago
What amazes me about watching californians interviewed about the wild fires is the discourse heads towards conspiracy and corruption: - It's all part of planned land grabs and clearances - They don't want to pay to protect us And
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by sirsinsalot 2y ago
It seems like that is undesirable. Surely you get compounding errors and a set of weights that skew towards weird. I mean, just feed English to Japanese in a translator and back again, or encode a jpeg 100 times. What stops them suffering t
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by sirsinsalot 2y ago
I saw a Google AI advert that said: "Hey Gemini, write an apology email for my friend. I can't make their wedding." That's not a future I want to live in, and I love making machines work for me. Thats not what I want my
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by sirsinsalot 2y ago
Reminds me of the 2000s outsourcing hype. I made a lot of money cleaning up that mess. Entire projects late, buggy, unreadable and unmaintainable. Business pay big when they need to recover from that kind of thing and save face to investors
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by sirsinsalot 2y ago
There's no point being rich in a world where the economy is unhealthy.
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by sirsinsalot 2y ago
Think of all the human growth and satisfaction being lost to risk mitigation by offloading the pleasure of failure to Machines.
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by sirsinsalot 2y ago
GenAI has a 100% failure to enjoy quality of life, emotional fulfillment and psychological safety. Id say those are the goals we should be working for. That's the failure we want to look at. We are humans.
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by sirsinsalot 2y ago
It honestly borders on psychopathic the way engineers are treating humans in this context. People talking like this also, in the back of their minds like to think they'll be OK. They're smart enough to be still needed. They'r

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