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by wpietri 2mo ago
The paperclip boogeyman is not the only reason, and probably not the biggest one, that models get safety/content constraints, however useful it is as a PR distraction. I agree Chinese models are different right now, but I think that&#x
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by wpietri 2mo ago
Again, please explain the details of what you're thinking. If I get a card number, type it into my POS system, collect money, and send you a product, who's going to stop me?
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by wpietri 2mo ago
For sure, but I think the deeper problems are how much the industry changed over the decades and the extent to which pinball repair content comes from amateurs opining on forums. Pool technology has been more stable, and there are more peop
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by wpietri 2mo ago
I have schematics as early as 1937, but the odds that the manuals stayed with the machine are pretty low. (Usually these machines were owned by somebody who had a bunch, and I suspect the manuals tended to get collected centrally.) You can
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by wpietri 2mo ago
That's a good one! But no, we're in Chicago: https://www.theflip.museum/
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by wpietri 2mo ago
I'm glad it went well for you. But I run a not-for-profit pinball museum, and I have specifically had to ban volunteer repairpeople from using the chatbots because it will confidently propose idiotically wrong solutions. Which will the
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by wpietri 2mo ago
Walk me through an example here. I'm a telemarketer who calls you up, sells you on something, and charges your card. What changes in that scenario?
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by wpietri 2mo ago
And if they don't declare the name of the company? There are a lot of shady people out there. Plenty of them will happily call and give a fake name, or just something vague that sounds important, like, "This is Rachel from cardhol
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by wpietri 2mo ago
Oh wow, that's amazing. The need to be verbally right and perfect no matter the cost is such a curse, so blinding. I hope they all get free of it someday.
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by wpietri 2mo ago
I'm not commenting on the value of AI. I'm talking about your bad-faith interactions here. But given that convenient misunderstanding and point-missing is something you're good at, I don't expect me spelling it out will
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by wpietri 2mo ago
From what I've seen, your approach to LLMs is exceedingly rare, so I suspect it's one the people who care about watermarking aren't very concerned with. And the reason to let Claude make worse code than a professional would b
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by wpietri 2mo ago
Your theory is that the Chinese government is thoroughly uninterested in safety or prosocial controls?
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by wpietri 2mo ago
I would guess they're not worrying about watermarking a tweak to a human-written program. That's both a tiny fraction of Claude use and of very little concern to the kinds of people who want to check watermarks.
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by wpietri 2mo ago
As anybody who has put together a coding standard knows, there are a lot of options for individual expression, meaning a lot of room for things like watermarking. And of course you can add arbitrary comments; my Claude-generated code is ver
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by wpietri 2mo ago
As does your reply.
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by wpietri 2mo ago
I'm quite skeptical that industrial-age measures of efficiency are the right way to think about education. Feinman's story about teaching in Brazil comes to mind: https://enlightenedidiot.net/random/feynman-on
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by wpietri 2mo ago
As an ADHDer, I think talks and discussion are way better than written exams. The most common treatments for ADHD are stimulants, but human interaction is a natural stimulant, and the real-time feedback of a human audience is more engaging.
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by wpietri 2mo ago
That is a statement of faith. Every bubble has its believers; that's why we have bubbles. There have been so many times somebody very smart has thought we were on the verge of the rapture, the coming utopia, the workers' paradise,
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by wpietri 2mo ago
This sort of faux incomprehension does an excellent job proving Planktonne's point.
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by wpietri 2mo ago
> You can tell someone in native on LessWrong by their ability to use incredibly obtuse language to say simple things. It's just in-crowd signalling. Do you have a sense of what shapes this? There are so many people in that orbit wh
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by wpietri 2mo ago
Even setting that crowd aside, almost every time I see somebody puffed up about how "rational" they are it turns out to involve a vigorous avoidance of the values they're working from. I know somebody who says that doing deba
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by wpietri 5mo ago
The last couple years I've been prototyping a not-for-profit pinball museum in Chicago. In the coming weeks we'll be opening 7 days a week in a 2900 sq ft space in the Loop: https://theflip.museum/ It's my fi
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by wpietri 6mo ago
Your theory is that emergency room workers would think "make sure patient X gets operation Y" so unimportant that they'd just leave it off the board? I have more faith in them than that. There is no job where all work is equa
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by wpietri 6mo ago
It's also a barrier to interested users. I'm one. I am currently using 3 kanban solutions for different needs. I'm always looking for better solutions, but I'm not going to invest much in something with no docs and one s
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by wpietri 6mo ago
This is such an important lesson. To me so many things from the "agile" toolkit appear to fail in ways where people tend to blame the tools, but instead are exposing people/process problems. The intent was that organizations
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by wpietri 6mo ago
Sorry, but I don't think that's correct. One of the big benefits of a physical kanban board is that the limited space means people only write down the stuff they really care to keep track of. For me it has never resulted in people
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by wpietri 6mo ago
I think not having much documentation is fine, but please make the demo something where people can use it without logging in. E.g., they can click a button and just start messing with a demo project. Then you regularly reap the demo project
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by wpietri 6mo ago
It could in theory, but purchasing decisions for tools like these are generally made by managers or executives, so they end up being optimized for what those people want. Or, more accurately, what they think they want.
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by wpietri 6mo ago
It has worked fine for me on a variety of software projects for more than 20 years. Here's a project I documented back in 2004, where we used physical cards: https://williampietri.com/writing/2004/teamroom&#x2
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by wpietri 6mo ago
> Do you seriously blame the death star technicians? The cooks at the death star canteen? I find that extremely hard to understand. You must be working very hard to not understand that, as it's very simple. They signed up for a job

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