skybrian

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by skybrian 5d ago
From the consumer's point of view, which is easier and gets better results, the arbitration or a regular lawsuit? Seems like that's an empirical question.
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by skybrian 5d ago
The fraud is not disclosing what you did. It's passing off a third-party mod as an original part.
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by skybrian 5d ago
In this case, that doesn't seem to be what happened? The judge ruled against them.
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by skybrian 5d ago
Yes, protection does matter, but it’s not a voluntary arrangement when armed men decide the terms. > The irony of all of this extraction is that while it is often nasty and predatory, it can have some positive long-term effects, because
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by skybrian 5d ago
If you can explain how to reproduce a bug, you can ask the AI to debug the code and it usually works, in my experience. If not, you can ask it to add logging or other tools for better observability.
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by skybrian 5d ago
Anthropic makes a big deal about its Constitution. Maybe the big AI labs should also hire some editors to work on a house style for their AI, like magazines do? It seems they have a house style, but it's an accidental one.
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by skybrian 5d ago
The villager parable is too egalitarian. That's not really how it worked. For most of history, peasants were sustenance farmers, meaning they grew their own food and if the harvest was bad, they could starve. For them, there was no suc
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by skybrian 6d ago
Not an accurate summary. That link actually says: > Google Chrome doesn't block third-party cookies by default, only in Incognito mode, or when users explicitly set it to block third-party cookies via chrome://settings. Lo
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by skybrian 6d ago
And why wouldn’t writing software be a skill issue? Yes, it’s an annoying meme, but we should expect that there are better and worse ways to write software. It would be weird if everyone got the same results regardless of experience. I’m do
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by skybrian 6d ago
Sure, learning changes you. Some of that learning is deliberate and some is unconscious, and you are what you learn. I don't think it means you should be afraid to learn new things, but you might want to pay attention to what you spend
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by skybrian 7d ago
This sounds cool but it looks like it requires a GPU that I don't have. Is there an API to try it out?
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by skybrian 7d ago
What would be the Linux equivalent?
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by skybrian 7d ago
It would be nice to see a similar book devoted to sensors. Anyone have recommendations?
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by skybrian 7d ago
I'm reminded of how Mac apps are supposed to conform to common UI standards rather than going off and reinventing the wheel. Also the Bootstrap template for websites. Similarly, it would be nice if there were common styles for posters
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by skybrian 7d ago
Not really, but point taken :-) I'd be more interested in reading about the techniques that the chatbots were using in this study, to see if they are descending into dark patterns or not.
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by skybrian 8d ago
You can always walk away from an online conversation. There's a form of relentlessness, but it's more that an LLM is patient enough to debate you for as long as you wish to keep going.
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by skybrian 8d ago
But in that case, you do have to sell to get any cash out, so "never selling" is similar to reinvesting dividends.
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by skybrian 8d ago
Nowadays AI chat often will do web searches and include links. It will do that more if you ask.
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by skybrian 8d ago
To guard against lockout, you need to be able to log in from multiple devices. But you don’t need to copy passkeys around to do that! Instead, generate a new one for each device. This is similar to setting up ssh by copying public keys, not
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by skybrian 8d ago
It seems like this is largely a matter of what you’re asking for. If you wanted to do more research into the state of the field, an AI might be pretty good at answering your questions.
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by skybrian 8d ago
It’s kind of weird in that reading more widely is supposed to be broadening (you are more well-read) but in this case it’s supposed to contaminate you somehow. I suppose if you wanted a clean-room implementation of something, you’d want peo
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by skybrian 8d ago
For more see: https://delta.dev/docs/concepts/core-concepts It reminds me a bit of jujutsu in that there is a database with your code changes that is automatically kept in sync with your working directory. The age
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by skybrian 8d ago
We all use the same Internet. I would find it strange for anyone who's seriously interested in AI to have never heard of Yudkowsky or Scott Alexander or the Rationalist movement. I'd expect anyone interested in the field to have a
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by skybrian 9d ago
Imagine how pervasively they'd have to monitor what their users are doing to pick up on that whenever it happens. The people affected that way will have to report on it themselves. (OpenAI does occasionally report on malicious use thou
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by skybrian 9d ago
I’m under the impression that industrial policy has been pretty good for some Asian companies but there have also been notorious failures like the Jones Act. So I think it can be summarized as “it all depends” and “skill issue.”
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by skybrian 9d ago
But you would want one to get competitive performance.
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by skybrian 9d ago
Plus plan. For professional use, $100/month would be ok but it’s rather steep for hobbyist use.
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by skybrian 9d ago
Why would it help? Rust doesn’t do anything to make generated assembly code safer.
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by skybrian 9d ago
For my own usage, Luna is cheap enough that I don't care if other models are cheaper. I'm interested if another model is in some way better and not too expensive.
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by skybrian 9d ago
I wonder if they'll start adding an underground bunker to new data centers so you can put an S3 replica there?

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