williamcotton

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by williamcotton 6d ago
Why is LLM code always harder to audit? So LLMs might decide to add backdoors without prompting?
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by williamcotton 6d ago
How sure are you that any printer driver didn’t include a backdoor? What’s the difference between the LLM code with the backdoor and the human code with the backdoor?
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by williamcotton 6d ago
There’s some level of irony around the fact that McDonalds spends quite a lot on branding and design.
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by williamcotton 8d ago
Is there truly anything new under the sun? Hasn't all of existence alway been here? All math, all physics? We could have merely discovered it. Intuition might be nothing more than combinations of what already exists rather than some so
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by williamcotton 8d ago
Ok, so, “gibberish” in this case? Honestly, this word has lost all meaning, outside of perhaps “any use of AI”. Well at least I know where team “lawslop” is coming from. Thanks, I guess?
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by williamcotton 8d ago
I’m honestly looking for an actual example of something other than hallucinations! There are no examples in this entire thread! It’s just cynicism.
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by williamcotton 8d ago
Why be so unkind?
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by williamcotton 8d ago
So is there other “lawslop” or is it just hallucinations in this context?
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by williamcotton 8d ago
Aren’t hallucinations different than slop? So no, I don’t know what they mean.
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by williamcotton 8d ago
What do you mean by “lawslop”?
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by williamcotton 10d ago
Additional tip: In the macOS terminal you can... Ctrl + Option + - ...and it'll undo your typing. Dunno about other OS keys!
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by williamcotton 1mo ago
Here's an in-depth explanation with an interactive demo that I made many moons ago: https://web.archive.org/web/20130728183938/williamcotton.com...
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by williamcotton 1mo ago
What an utterly unconvincing call to action. You’re not offering a rebuttal, just making another metaphysical claim about “intelligence.” You don’t even attempt to explain what practical distinction your use of the word is supposed to captu
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by williamcotton 1mo ago
Most of these arguments are over some metaphysical definition of the word “intelligence”. As per later era Wittgenstein, I prefer to ignore these engagements and focus more on the meaning-as-use approach. What is the use of intelligence? Wh
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by williamcotton 1mo ago
Pick up a copy of Crime and Punishment ASAP.
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by williamcotton 1mo ago
Vivian, the commercial baker, learned a different set of skills. She might have deskilled with regards to hand-rolling dough but she gained new skills related to industrial production. I've made a half-dozen or so DSLs with LLM tools o
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by williamcotton 1mo ago
Makes sense, thanks for the clarification.
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by williamcotton 1mo ago
I settled on starting with a CST using rowan, doing semantic analysis, having an agnostic editor services, exposing both an LSP interface with tower, and a WASM interface (for Monaco in the browser [non-LSP!!]) and having the runtime binary
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by williamcotton 1mo ago
Ah, so does the LSP just call out to the Buf binary?
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by williamcotton 1mo ago
I looked at the dependencies and noticed that it wasn’t using an existing Protobuf parser which means they reimplemented the parser from scratch. Perhaps due to a lack of error recovery in the existing implementations? I don’t have the ener
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by williamcotton 1mo ago
At least later-era Wittgenstein would disagree with you.
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by williamcotton 1mo ago
It is still in their interest to not report "false or misleading statements that you or others on your behalf make regarding your company." https://www.sec.gov/resources-small-businesses/exempt-offeri...
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by williamcotton 1mo ago
Sure. So does this diminish the role of Rembrandt? Or is this some semantic black hole you’re drawing us into?
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by williamcotton 1mo ago
There have been plenty of workshops where artists hire assistant painters while maintaining authorship over the works themselves, from Rembrandt to Warhol to Hirst.
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by williamcotton 1mo ago
I generally agree and expect this to be the case from a legal perspective. Legal questions of authorship are going to have to be established in terms of doctrines like SSO [0] and AFC [1]. Currently the incredibly sparse caselaw around this
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by williamcotton 1mo ago
It’s pretty boring at this point.
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by williamcotton 1mo ago
Seems like there is some caselaw that supports your theory based on US Supreme Court rulings in Kyllo v. United States (2001) (thermal imaging), United States v. Jones (2012) (GPS tracking) and Carpenter v. United States (2018) (tracking vi
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by williamcotton 2mo ago
I've been to one EA meetup and it wasn't my thing but this seems nothing like the discussions I had. It's where I found out about GiveDirectly. The biggest issue for me was the AGI/ASI doomerism. But then again, fast-for
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by williamcotton 2mo ago
This is markedly better than the USPTO website, FWIW.
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by williamcotton 2mo ago
> but if it gets past the patent officer that debate happens via lawsuit Or an Inter Partes Review!

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