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by xpe 6mo ago
I know some people use the word "gaslighting" in connection with Anthropic. I've read some of those threads here, and some on Reddit, but I don't put much stock in them. To step back, hopefully reasonable people can star
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by xpe 6mo ago
To my eye, gaslighting is a serious accusation. Wikipedia's first line matches how I think of it: "Gaslighting is the manipulation of someone into questioning their perception of reality." Did I miss something? I'm only
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by xpe 6mo ago
> All of this points to their priorities not being aligned with their users’. Framing this as "aligned" or "not aligned" ignores the interesting reality in the middle. It is banal to say an organization isn't per
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by xpe 6mo ago
> You can confirm that the people who say things are in a position to know. What is the above commenter's sense of how well one can 'confirm' such a thing? Looking at an HN account and its comment history provides some sig
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by xpe 6mo ago
Relevant I think: https://www.anthropic.com/engineering/april-23-postmortem
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by xpe 6mo ago
I ask everyone to be a bit more careful about the "assume LLM/bot" thing. That hair-trigger is often counterproductive. Anyhow, the Claude research took 36 minutes to run, so I put it to the side and didn't link it origi
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by xpe 6mo ago
I appreciate the "please", but this comes across as presumptive. First, you don't know the effort level I put in. Second, you haven't seen the end result. Third, why do you think I would "blindly paste" from an
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by xpe 6mo ago
This was also my first impression. But it seems to me the changes are mostly about swapping what panels dock where (left or right) and maybe some additions/tweaks around the AI panels. On macOS these are still the same: ⌘B : togg
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by xpe 6mo ago
I'll bet if you point out the issues where this is described and measured, you'll get some eyeballs.
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by xpe 6mo ago
Being a good regulator is about solving a nearly impossible satisficing problem. You have to follow the law and achieve achieve results with a limited budget and political constraints. Given the priorities of say the FTC or state AGs or the
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by xpe 6mo ago
Thinking out loud: what are the best practices to vet a tools' telemetry details? The devil is in the details. A quick summary of my Claude-assisted research at the Gist below. Top of mind is some kind of trusted intermediary service w
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by xpe 6mo ago
/facepalm If we're going to debate norms and ethics, sending one liners into cyberspace won't get far. There are better ways. Invest in your conversational skills and listening skills, please. Otherwise you are a moth and HN
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by xpe 6mo ago
In general, this can feel like reading tea leaves. We might have some guesses, but it is tricky to get much confidence in them. Bottom line: it can be really hard to extract coherent signal from downvotes. A relatively low number given the
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by xpe 6mo ago
If you are serious, I'm not quite sure how to infer what your definition of cringe is. I have no shame... I even checked urban dictionary. Re: LW: yeah, you nailed the stereotype. I've probably said something similar myself (this
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by xpe 6mo ago
> If we're going to have AI overlords, it'd be great if they spoke with proper grammar. People like blurring the lines and lots of people want AIs to bang out keystrokes in an order that is roughly human-like, so here we are. (
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by xpe 6mo ago
I get that metaphor. Let's try on another metaphor too, since the goal is insight, not judgment*... This reminds me of economic development policies of China and the USA ... both often pitch a developing country who needs something. Wh
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by xpe 6mo ago
> You're just picking random problems with tech and blaming them on AI. This comment is uncharitable, uncurious, and dismissive. Reality is multifaceted. It is worth trying to synthesize and reconcile different views first. To do th
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by xpe 6mo ago
Does the above commenter find the expression of anger itself cringe-worthy? I hope not. Categorically dismissing anger as "cringe" seems like a path to disconnecting from reality and morality.
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by xpe 6mo ago
> they just hear that this guy, whatever his intentions, is threatening their ability to survive in this economy. Yep, Dario is straddling this sort of impossible line: he's the least-scary harbinger who is try to be one of the more
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by xpe 6mo ago
> The easiest way to grow AI resistance is to get Dario Amodei and Sam Altman on TV and let them talk. Tell me more? I'm guessing you might say: neither connects with everyday people, they have misaligned incentives*, they (like mos
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by xpe 6mo ago
I strive to be decently Bayesian and embrace uncertainty. I'm sharing my probability estimates because it helps me to stop and think ("is this roughly what I think?" and "let spend a minute making sure before I say so&qu
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by xpe 6mo ago
Hi. I read your message, and I considered it. I've also read some of your previous HN comments. Briefly, I'll just say I've argued at length against many of the claims you make (you certainly aren't alone in making them)
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by xpe 6mo ago
This is just "classic" (but avoidable) miscommunication. I don't even disagree with you on your point! I'm only saying you are not reading my point in the context it was offered. For more background, please read Rapopo
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by xpe 6mo ago
Words hint at concept space, which is messy and interconnected. I think a charitable reading can understand the difference between "powerful search, kind of like Google as of 2020, or Lexus-Nexus" and LLM-AI chatbot interfaces...
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by xpe 6mo ago
I was attempting to give an example to say that AI-LLM technology is more than "fancy search" which to me sounds like "search engine". / I realize now that ChatGPT was released in late 2022, more than 3 years ago. T
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by xpe 6mo ago
I don't claim using AI is the same as doing it yourself. My point is that AI capabilities are much more extensive than "fancy search". By giving a metric and an example I hoped to make that point without getting into hair-spl
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by xpe 6mo ago
I don't mean writing a literature review. I mean reviewing the literature to find what I need. My point is that this was not practical with "fancy search" three years ago by which I mean Google-like search engines. My examp
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by xpe 6mo ago
> Those tools seem mostly useful for a Google alternative, scaffolding tedious things, code reviewing, and acting as a fancy search. Just to get a sense for the rate of change, imagine if you took a survey. Compare what people said about
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by xpe 6mo ago
>>> ... but it seems like Anthropic is going for the Tinder/casino intermittent reinforcement strategy: optimized to keep you spending tokens instead of achieving results. >> This part of the above comment strikes me as
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by xpe 6mo ago
> ... but it seems like Anthropic is going for the Tinder/casino intermittent reinforcement strategy: optimized to keep you spending tokens instead of achieving results. This part of the above comment strikes me as uncharitable and

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