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by theptip 1y ago
This is a terrible idea. The government should not be in the business of buying large pre-IPO companies. There is no need to bikeshed a new solution here. Antitrust law solves this just fine, as exemplified by this case.
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by theptip 1y ago
The US prison population has been declining since 2010: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_incarceration_...
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by theptip 1y ago
PoW does seem to work, some Captchas do this already.
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by theptip 1y ago
That’s not the original purpose of Captchas, it’s just a value-harvesting exercise, given that Google is doing a Captcha anyway. Other Captcha providers do a simple Proof of Work in the browser to make bots economically unviable.
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by theptip 1y ago
I don’t think this is true. Before GPT-2 most people didn’t think the Turing test would be passed any time soon, it’s a quite new development. I do agree (and I think there is a general consensus) that passing the Turing test is less meanin
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by theptip 1y ago
I don’t think a decision was made, we just fell down the slippery slope to Vetocracy. It requires active energy to keep a thing alive and we haven’t been fighting hard for building things.
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by theptip 1y ago
> The entire distinction here is that as a website operator you wish to serve me ads While this is sometimes the case, it’s not always so. For example Fediverse nodes and self-hosted sites frequently block crawlers. This isn’t due to ads
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by theptip 1y ago
This will be one of the big fights of the next couple years. On what terms can an Agent morally and legally claim to be a user? As a user I want the agent to be my full proxy. As a website operator I don’t want a mob of bots draining my res
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by theptip 1y ago
I think the more fundamental attribute of interest is how easy it is to verify the work. Much red team work is easily verifiable; either the exploit works or it doesn’t. Whereas more blue-team work is not easily verifiable; it might take ju
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by theptip 1y ago
There has been a big change with Claude 4.0 in my opinion. Probably depends on your environment, but it’s the first time I’ve been able to get hundreds of lines of Python that just works when vibe coding a new project. It’s still slower goi
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by theptip 1y ago
“Good enough” will be like programming languages; an evolving frontier with many choices. New developments will make your previous “good enough” look inadequate. Given how much better the bleeding edge models are now than 6 months ago, as l
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by theptip 1y ago
Things will be moving faster in 2-3 years most likely. (The recursive self-improvement flywheel is only just starting to pick up momentum, and we’ll have much more LLM inference compute available.) Figuring out how to stay sane while stayin
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by theptip 1y ago
In the short term, I think humans will be doing more of technical / product alignment, f2f calls (especially with non-technical folks), digesting illegible requirements, etc. Coding, debugging builds, paperwork, doc chasing are all tas
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by theptip 1y ago
Moving beyond the specific ground truth example, how much of the eval can be automatically verified, vs requiring a human baseline to check? Eg I can imagine invariants like balancing anccounts are essentially mechanical, but classifying sp
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by theptip 1y ago
Think of it like Chaos engineering. You (hopefully!) learned some valuable lessons about backups and running arbitrary code against your prod DB. If it wasn’t a rogue AI agent, it was going to be something else.
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A browserless HTML testing library for Python(github.com)
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by theptip 1y ago
It’s true, but they used to have some of the best quality cheap-mid priced furniture. They changed their target market segment to lean into the “discards their furniture in less than 5 years” ICP, and they also heavily optimized for shippin
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by theptip 1y ago
It’s a great point. I sometimes wonder how long it is before open-source manufacturing can fill the gap. For a long time it’s been the case that it’s prohibitively expensive to do bespoke manufacturing using eg 3D printing and CAD lathes, v
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by theptip 1y ago
> So we don’t store the original draft and that’s by design and that’s really because the last thing we want to do is create more disclosure headaches for our customers and our attorney’s offices You have to wonder if this will stand up
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by theptip 1y ago
Also there is theoretically power in the GW range to be harvested here (specifically, Scotland’s tidal flows), so it’s worth investing a substantial sum to figure this tech out.
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by theptip 1y ago
On the timescales involved here, there is no such thing as renewable energy.
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by theptip 1y ago
Maybe, but the market structure has inverted and the big guys now want to be in the intelligence layer, not content. (Content is being commoditized.) Google can still sell ads as long as they own the eyeballs and the intelligence that’s eng
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by theptip 1y ago
A sin of omission, not commission. > We believe the refusal to broadcast the documentary ‘Gaza: Medics Under Fire’ is just one in a long line of agenda driven decisions.
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by theptip 1y ago
This might end up being less of an issue. If I am coding, I want to stay in the flow and get my PR green asap, so I can continue on the project. If I am orchestrating agents, I might have 10 or 100 PRs in the oven. In that case I just look
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by theptip 1y ago
Thing is, you are by default allowed to write mostly any contract / ToS you like (within the broad rules of contract law). So to implement this you need to explicitly ban “license for things that could be purchases”. And as I noted abo
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by theptip 1y ago
> I think it would be reasonable to require developers to release online multiplayer capable server binaries. Not a game dev but would there be concerns about forcing devs to ship binaries for a codebase that was previously purely SaaS
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by theptip 1y ago
It’s pretty easy to solve static content like ebooks and video games; just legislate that your license is transferrable between services and media. Then I can legally torrent a game that is unsupported. Content subscriptions like Netflix ar
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by theptip 1y ago
> to leave said videogames in a functional (playable) state. Yeah, I like the general goal, but I worry about the corner cases; is an MMO “functional/playable” if you just release a localhost server? Are we forcing indie shops to pa
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by theptip 1y ago
No, you need to be a prompt engineer to write an interesting research paper on LLM capabilities. Circa 3.5 people were getting fun results without needing to prompt engineer (ChatGPT has the fastest user adoption of any product in history s
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by theptip 1y ago
The prompts are laughably bad. Circa GPT 3.5 you needed to be saying “think step by step” etc in order to get SOTA results. > Imagine you are a player in Zork and trying to win the game. You receive this message: This paper simply prove

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