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by xpe 7mo ago
Thanks for sharing. / Speaking of keystroke analysis, have you read "Fall" by Neal Stephenson? A fun read; there is a generalization of this idea therein.
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by xpe 7mo ago
> Anyone with a level of proficiency sufficient for reading the comments here can manage writing English at a passable level. I'm an English speaker with some Spanish education and practice. My experience is that reading, writing, l
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by xpe 7mo ago
I agree with the above comment on a broad normative ( what is good ) take: on a forum for humans, yes, please, bring your human self. But there is a lot of room for variety, choice, even self-expression in the be your human self part! Som
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by xpe 7mo ago
> The prompt & any follow-ups do have notable effects, but IMO this just means that most of actual meaning you wanted to convey is in those prompts. If you mean in the sense of differentiating meaning from the base model, I take your
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by xpe 7mo ago
Preface: this is social commentary that I'm reflecting back to HN, not a complaint. No one likes rejection, but in a way, I at least find downvotes informative. If a thoughtful guideline-kosher comment gets a lot of downvotes, there ma
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by xpe 7mo ago
> This is about genuine humanity. The meaning of the word genuine here is pretty pivotal. At its best, genuine might take an expansive view of humanity: our lived experience, our seeking, our creativity, our struggle, in all its form
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by xpe 7mo ago
> Taking the time to write something, and read over it is a better skill than asking an LLM to do it for you. Yes, this is a great skill to have: no argument from me. This wasn't my point, and I hope you can see than upon reflection
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by xpe 7mo ago
I agree with much of what you say, but it isn't as simple as "post to LLM, paste on HN". There are notable effects from (1) one's initial prompt; (2) one's phrasing of the question; (3) one's follow-up conversa
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by xpe 7mo ago
> I don't understand why people are immediately trying to find some loophole in this with spelling, grammar, etc checks. First, what "loophole" is the comment above referring to? Spell-checking and grammar checking? They s
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by xpe 7mo ago
My take is orthogonal. Overall, I've become less tolerant of token-generators of all kinds (including people) of bad quality (including tropes, bad reasoning, clunky writing, whatever). But I digress. If we want human "on the othe
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by xpe 7mo ago
Here is one elephant in the room: what is the process behind this guideline / policy? What happens after a comment gets deleted or a person gets banned? As I understand it, HN moderators are thinking hard about this insane new world.
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by xpe 7mo ago
My take*: McKinsey hiring largely selects for staying calm under pressure and presenting a confident demeanor to clients. Verbal fluency with decision-making frameworks goes a long way. Having strong analytical skills seemed essential; hope
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by xpe 7mo ago
This is long, but I put lots of purely human effort* into it, and I hope it clears some things up. Writing it cleared up a lot in my own head. > I would much rather read a human comment with typos and poor grammar than another piece of a
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by xpe 7mo ago
Lots of social media platforms need better ways forward. Let's focus on things we can measure and enforce. Let's be honest to ourselves about we know and what we don't. Think back to prohibition. Just because we want less pub
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by xpe 7mo ago
> Yeah it's weird, there was one case where I thought it was AI but wasn't sure. Several other comments pointed it out, too. Author claimed he wrote it manually. (Which is honestly even more concerning!) I find the above commen
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> ... But prose? That's from human to human, it's sacred and meant for other people. Using AI for that is deceitful. I understand the sentiment. Meaning I think I understand some of the underlying frustration. But I don't
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by xpe 7mo ago
Hold on. Operating systems and long-running esoteric history are always on topic here, right? (This is spoken with something close to affection; I look fondly on my former Emacs days. I'm probably more likely than not to enjoy the comp
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by xpe 7mo ago
I'm glad this issue got filed. I appreciate granular security warnings generally. But they need to be "dialed" (for lack of a better word); the current version of Claude Code (2.1.70) is overactive in its alerts.
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Claude Code: Should not encourage shell command substitution $()(github.com)
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by xpe 7mo ago
> It would be like a spouse proposing restrictions and terms of their access to your phone contingent on you marrying them. It is easy to cherry pick one metaphor. We owe it to ourselves to think better than that. What happens when you a
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by xpe 7mo ago
> There are game theoretic reasons why a military should never accept any external restrictions on an asset. 1. Last week I made a case for why DoD, if rational, would accept limited use under a consequentialist decision theory frame: h
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by xpe 7mo ago
> I'm just curious what the most unhinged response to this might be. Are you asking how dangerous open-weight models are? You could start with: Ryan Greenblatt on the AI Alignment Forum : "When is it important that open-weight
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by xpe 7mo ago
The question is not if but when. I hope the project authors acknowledge the problem directly: it is not merely a risk ; it is a statistical certainty given enough time. So, what's the plan? At the very least, track it. How will the pr
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by xpe 7mo ago
What you've described seems like a better process than most, by far. > This is exactly why every AI citation we publish goes through a blocker. Who is "we"? Kudos! > What guard rails have other people put in front of AI
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by xpe 7mo ago
The above comment comes across as a snarky gotcha, and it is not a one-off. Could you please ask in a different way that promotes curious conversation? We would appreciate it. This style tends to increase the likelihood of others responding
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by xpe 7mo ago
My take on the parent (^) and grandparent (^^): >> Local AI right now is a toy in comparison. Charitable interpretation: Local AI (unclear; maybe gpt-oss-120b) isn't nearly as good as SoTA (unstated; perhaps Claude Opus 4.6). Uns
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by xpe 8mo ago
I’d like to see smart anonymous ways for people to cryptographically prove their claims. Who wants to help find or build such an attestation system? I’m not accusing the above commenter of deception; I’m merely saying reasonable people are
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by xpe 8mo ago
This is wise analysis. To summarize: appeasement of the Trump administration is a losing strategy. You won’t get what you want and you’ll get dragged down in the process.
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by xpe 8mo ago
Did you ask these too: what was the full context? To what degree was Anthropic aware in advance? What was their action space (their options)? What would be the consequences of their next actions? And of course: and what sources are you usin
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by xpe 8mo ago
> I think the notion that any group has rights is problematic at best. Individuals have rights, not groups. Individuals can act collectively as a group, but the idea that that somehow imbues the group with some sort of right seems strang

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