timmytokyo

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Who Aligns the Aligners?(alignmentalignment.ai)
2 points by timmytokyo 1y ago|0 comments
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by timmytokyo 1y ago
Just get used to the extortionate prices on things like memory and storage. Who wouldn't want to pay $200 to go from a 16GB to a 24GB configuration? Who wouldn't want to pay $600 more for the 2TB storage option? And forget about u
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by timmytokyo 1y ago
Did you see his YT videos where he slobbered all over Eric Weinstein? That's disqualifying.
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by timmytokyo 1y ago
In my opinion, the section on data ownership contained the most egregious and unforgivable example of go's flaws. The behavior of append in that example is the kind of bug-causing or esoteric behavior that should never make it into any
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by timmytokyo 1y ago
Sorry, it's one thing to interview cranks like Chris Langan and Eric Weinstein, bad enough as that is. It's quite another to promote them as brave champions of suppressed truths.
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by timmytokyo 1y ago
If I ask an LLM to write me a skip list and it instead writes me a linked list and confidently but erroneously claims it's a skip list, then the LLM hallucinated. It doesn't matter that the code compiled successfully.
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by timmytokyo 1y ago
Speaking of rhetorical tactics, that's an awfully narrow definition of LLM hallucination designed to evade the argument that they hallucinate. If, according to you, LLMs are so good at avoiding hallucinations these days, then maybe we
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by timmytokyo 1y ago
As if a compiler or linter is the sole arbiter of correctness.
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by timmytokyo 1y ago
Ah, so it's good enough to write code on its own without time-consuming, excessive hand-holding. But it's not good enough to write comments on its own.
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by timmytokyo 1y ago
You're right about C++. A fairer comparison would be to a simpler garbage-collected language like Go.
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by timmytokyo 1y ago
The author explained why he used contrived examples. It's because the pain arises most acutely only after your project has become large and mature but demands a small ownership-impacting change. The toy examples demonstrate the problem
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by timmytokyo 1y ago
If using indices is going to be your answer, then it seems to me you should at least contend with the OP's argument that this approach violates the very reason the borrowchecker was introduced in the first place. From the post: "T
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by timmytokyo 1y ago
Amen. The most dangerous people are those who don't know how much they don't know, yet plow ahead with complete certainty.
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by timmytokyo 1y ago
I might be more inclined to believe you if Elon-related posts were being flagged across the board, but they're not. Just yesterday, the Grok 4 launch video was on the front page, and the associated comments were full of flamewar conten
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by timmytokyo 1y ago
Occam's razor would seem to apply here.
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by timmytokyo 1y ago
You should read Baldur Bjarnasson's recent essay, "Trusting your own judgment on AI is a huge risk". https://www.baldurbjarnason.com/2025/trusting-your-own-judge... Excerpt: "Don’t self-experiment w
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by timmytokyo 1y ago
I also don't for one second believe her that she works from 5:30am to midnight every day.
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by timmytokyo 1y ago
Thanks for reminding me that I left out their unjustified sense of significance and self-importance, thinking that their sophomoric ramblings are somehow comparable to Sartre's or Heidegger's writings.
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by timmytokyo 1y ago
Rationalists are constantly falling into ditches that actual philosophers crawled out of centuries ago. But what's even more exasperating is that they do it in tendentious disquisitions that take thousands of wasted words to get.. to..
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by timmytokyo 1y ago
Below is a list of cult markers I posted here the last time this came up. It recaps some of the bullet points above. 1. Apocalyptic world view. 2. Charismatic and/or exploitative leader. 3. Insularity. 4. Esoteric jargon. 5. Lack of tr
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by timmytokyo 1y ago
It's helpful to understand where this paper is coming from. The authors are part of the Bay Area rationalist community and are members of "MATS", the "ML & Alignment Theory Scholars", a new astroturfed organizat
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by timmytokyo 1y ago
Hot take: they're both baddies, and they always will be.
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by timmytokyo 1y ago
Yeah, I guess it's true that people who (1) like eugenics and "human biodiversity" (i.e., race science), and (2) think neoreactionism is "edgy and cool" are not egalitarian or leftist.
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by timmytokyo 1y ago
https://miniver.blogspot.com/2024/01/scott-alexander-siskind...
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by timmytokyo 1y ago
Not saying you're wrong about "OpenAI practices", but that's kind of a strange thing to complain about right after praising an LLM that was only recently inserting claims of "white genocide" into every other re
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by timmytokyo 1y ago
I'm sorry to hear you're suffering from tinnitus, but what science is there to support the claim that the COVID vaccines cause it? Anecdotes are not science.
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by timmytokyo 1y ago
HN has a sizable number of Musk fan-boys who are ready to flag to death any posts critical of him.
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by timmytokyo 1y ago
If you want to remove public funding for public broadcasting, do it through the US Congress. The president does not have this authority.
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by timmytokyo 1y ago
I'm sure his replacement will be so much better. /s
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by timmytokyo 1y ago
I think this is an important point. It's easy to lose track of just how bad search has gotten over the years because the enshittification has been so gradual. The replacement of search by AI is capturing so many people's imaginati

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