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by wongarsu 2mo ago
1.5% of electricity . That's a significant difference. Only about 1/7th of all our energy usage is electricity 1.5% of global energy use would be a shocking amount. Aviation is at about 3%. 1.5% of global electricity is about 0.2
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by wongarsu 2mo ago
I don't think changing "don't" to "do not" is what the paper authors had in mind I use things like "Your code should be self-documenting, so as to require as few comments as possible. Add comments to expla
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by wongarsu 2mo ago
I'm well aware of how LLMs work. I'd argue "analyze text" alone requires understanding, judgements and opinions. They also seem like prerequisites to "following instructions and behaving as assistants". The wik
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by wongarsu 2mo ago
Windows used to let you set the DPI setting of the monitor, circa Win95-WinXP. Software tended to only expect a value of 96dpi, so it wasn't a very practical setting to change, and eventually windows introduced display scaling (which l
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by wongarsu 2mo ago
I'd be worried about the inverters in large commercial solar plants. On a sunny day you could easily cause a blackout by turning enough solar capacity off at once. Maybe shut down the entire grid when the sudden power imbalances trip t
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by wongarsu 2mo ago
I'd assume that after some number of news stories about AI agents committing crimes, the threshold for criminal negligence should be easy to reach for anyone who doesn't take proper precautions A lot of negligence is of the "
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by wongarsu 2mo ago
Other viable readings: 3. the militia is supposed to be under state control and its purpose is to keep the state free, aka prevent overreach of the federal government 4. The "well regulated militia" is the motivation, not the righ
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by wongarsu 2mo ago
LLMs are very explicitly designed to "understand, and make judgments or have opinions that are based on reason". The learning part is debatable, as is the level of success achieved The mash-up of the entire internet is the mechani
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by wongarsu 2mo ago
AIs can set and work towards goals. Whether that is intent or just tokens and tool calls simulating an agent with intent seems like a distinction with no actionable difference
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by wongarsu 2mo ago
If you infect tens of vehicles that's not that valuable. But if you infect ten thousand vehicles, convinced a trusted member of one of the bigger black hat forums it's real and have him vouch for your marketplace post, there shoul
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by wongarsu 2mo ago
There is very little information that is illegal by itself. At least in the Western World, and especially in the US. The question is how far you get into the territory of aiding and abetting a crime But the reasonable defense is that the in
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by wongarsu 2mo ago
There are plenty of reports that this happens and at least as of a couple years ago wasn't even that uncommon. Including CCC talks. People want to do remote maintenance, and apparently not everyone has a good enough internal IT to put
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by wongarsu 2mo ago
Back around 2008 it didn't give great results either. It's amazing how long the project manages to stay alive though
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by wongarsu 2mo ago
Sensors are a huge challenge for robotics. We have very precise force-feedback on our joints, pressure and heat (temperature gradient) sensors all over our body, and our hands have a sensor density that allows us to count needle heads and d
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by wongarsu 2mo ago
20 years ago is about when SSDs came to consumer PCs. Which is the last time I remember thinking that my computer became faster than the previous one was when it was new (if by computer we mean the hardware combined with a mainstream up-to-
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by wongarsu 2mo ago
We couldn't agree on what intelligence means before ChatGPT happened. Now, agreement on the term seems even further away If performing well on an IQ test or performing at a high level on knowledge work is intelligence to you, these mod
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by wongarsu 2mo ago
I wouldn't be surprised to find out that this outrage is fueled by the same actors as the AI data center water outrage. Whoever they are
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by wongarsu 2mo ago
LLMs are not great at aligning stuff on first try, they are however very good at taking screenshots and fixing their mistakes. Claude Design also does this all the time, as does regular Claude in the web UI if you tell it to make a powerpoi
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by wongarsu 2mo ago
You can use the playground on openrouter. Still needs an account and some money, but it's one of the more useful accounts to have sitting around with a $5 of balance. Great for one-off experiments with various models https:/&#x2F
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by wongarsu 2mo ago
Let the model do the splitting. A 800x800px image should be enough to make those decisions
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by wongarsu 2mo ago
For most use cases you can fix that in the harness. Just give the model a tool to request a crop of specific coordinates of any image it has in its context. Call the tool "zoom" and it should be intuitive for the model Maybe there
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by wongarsu 2mo ago
And while in general that is an incredibly difficult and complex problem, for most benchmark cheating it seems almost trivial: run the benchmark in a vm that has neither network access nor access to the scoring code. For remote models use a
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by wongarsu 2mo ago
Depends on the shipping company, and likely on your location. I get tracking numbers for most but not all shipments
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by wongarsu 2mo ago
I believe the prices are the same. But the app has a number of "games" to collect tokens that get credited as discounts. Seems to be mostly stuff designed to get you to open the app daily and browse their offers. Which might be &q
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by wongarsu 2mo ago
Maybe closer to a character in an ao3 or wattpad story that is delighted than to a real person who is delighted. But usually the difference is small enough to ignore
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And chemical pathways. LLMs don't experience dopamine
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by wongarsu 2mo ago
Depends on whether you define "the LLMs we use" as the collection of weights or if your definition contains the software stack that runs it Technologically the LLMs we use today don't implement this behavior, but you could ta
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by wongarsu 2mo ago
Which is more or less the system the article author was building and benchmarking against (cheating) Sol on Codex. Just that the self-policing with different agents was more about questioning assumptions than about permissions
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by wongarsu 2mo ago
The simplest design Anthropic could come up with: Have a haiku model quickly judge if a command is harmless or potentially interesting, route all the interesting commands to a sonnet agent judging it properly. Running two full llms sounds s
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by wongarsu 2mo ago
What what we write in the handbook what people should do (minus the pushing through ethical boundaries), but that's not what people generally get rewarded for

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