tbrownaw

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by tbrownaw 8mo ago
> don’t understand doxing No, it's that people keep misusing that word for a broader and broader class of things. Pushing back on dilution of meaning isn't a lack of understanding.
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by tbrownaw 8mo ago
It's certainly entertaining to read about ancient industry history, with people on DARPA grants objecting to military interest in the stuff the military was paying them to do.
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by tbrownaw 8mo ago
> It doesn't tell anything the service those people are members of, and it doesn't tell what kind of work they do. I'm pretty sure that term could even work for the Pods in some of my Deployments.
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by tbrownaw 8mo ago
> why this is so huge is fascinating. i suspect it is not really about the age gap, but rather Alternate theory: it's a genre tag that implies a whole pile of arbitrary features. Kind of along similar lines as how calling a movie
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by tbrownaw 8mo ago
> In this case, it feels natural to me that the line for images should be aligned with the line for the act itself. Why? Things are made illegal because someone involved is (presumed to be) harmed. That assumption doesn't hold if
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by tbrownaw 8mo ago
We don't use standard time because it works best, we use it because it's "correct" relative to the position of the sun. Now, standard business hours (9-5 or whatever) were probably chosen for working well in the circum
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by tbrownaw 8mo ago
Sure it uses a few GB just like everything else these days, but some of the comments also mention it being slow?
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by tbrownaw 8mo ago
Hard /intractable is on an axis orthogonal to philosophical stuff like meaning.
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by tbrownaw 8mo ago
> is solid and well-defined, but may feel unintuitive I'm thinking that the nature of intuition is about training your neurons to approximate stuff without needing to detour through conscious calculation. And QM is in too high o
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by tbrownaw 8mo ago
> but given the situation, How does that prevent the situation from happening again You don't. Instead, you make sure your failover or DR setup is regularly tested and works.
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by tbrownaw 8mo ago
> Seems like it should be somewhat easier to nuke 50 datacenters than it would be to hack and disrupt 1000s of different services. Previous outage news makes it sound like the cloud providers still have quite a few logical single point
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by tbrownaw 8mo ago
The claim isn't that the LLMs are democratized. The claim is that LLMs are causing software development to be democratized. As in, people who want software are more able to make it themselves rather than having to go ask the elites f
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by tbrownaw 8mo ago
> human-level to run on a single 16GB GPU before the end of the decade. That's apparently about 6k books' worth of data.
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by tbrownaw 8mo ago
Most road damage here appears after events of the form "it rained and then the temperature crossed freezing twice a day for a week".
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by tbrownaw 8mo ago
> committed to never train an AI system unless it could guarantee in advance that the company’s safety measures were adequate That doesn't even make sense. What stops one model from spouting wrongthink and suicide HOWTOs might not
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by tbrownaw 8mo ago
This is something they've been working on "in recent months". The Pentagon thing was today . This cannot have been caused by that, unless they've also invented time travel.
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by tbrownaw 8mo ago
Prediction is hard, especially of the future. This isn't the first time they new technology has reshaped society, or even just the economy. How well were the results of prior things predicted ahead of time?
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by tbrownaw 8mo ago
No. But giving someone who isn't the government the power to tell the military what it can and can't do seems like something they should object to categorically rather than case-by-case.
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by tbrownaw 8mo ago
> A source familiar with the Tuesday meeting says the Pentagon said it would terminate Anthropic’s contract by Friday if the company does not agree to its terms. Pentagon officials also warned they would either use the Defense Productio
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by tbrownaw 8mo ago
Because then your linter won't be able to tell you when you're done migrating the calls that can be migrated.
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by tbrownaw 8mo ago
Grokipedia is a tool for converting money into improvements in AI (by iterating on it). Any outward resemblance to an encyclopedia is incidental, despite apparently being the intended purpose.
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by tbrownaw 8mo ago
> I don't have an application that requires ten thousand years of storage but I'm sure someone out there does! A) record (a representative cross-section of) "everything" and leave multiple copies where future archeo
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by tbrownaw 8mo ago
I read that as questioning whether better evidence would actually help. Which I assume is a reference to some prosecutors ignoring certain crimes as a matter of policy, for example there was news a bit ago about CA choosing to ignore shopli
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by tbrownaw 8mo ago
I think "balanced" here is about how it works rather than about the end result.
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by tbrownaw 8mo ago
> but it's funny that anyone thinks blocks like this are relevant. Most people I know use VPNs these days to make their traffic appear to come from whatever country they need. The search AIs tell me it's around a third of peo
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by tbrownaw 8mo ago
> how can they even enforce this? I would think that different tools would probably have different templates for their prompts?
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by tbrownaw 8mo ago
I thought it was always a tech company focused around trying to import things from the future. Since before they ever had enough sales that sales could go down.
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by tbrownaw 8mo ago
It's decentralized but still has central servers that can be overwhelmed?
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by tbrownaw 8mo ago
> rests on the shoulders of a single company that has all of their important factories on a single island Isn't this just taking the oft-proposed explore vs exploit dichotomy to the logical conclusion of the "exploit" si
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by tbrownaw 8mo ago
> is that it’s always the people who claim to be most afraid of ai who are the quickest to absolve humans of responsibility and assign it to AI. But that seems entirely consistent? A tool isn't nearly as scary as an alien lifeform

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