zahlman

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by zahlman 27d ago
> But, maybe, deeper down, the goal was to improve myself in some way. Or, you know, to pass some time in an enjoyable way. To have fun.
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by zahlman 27d ago
I'm in a similar position. I can easily imagine the kinds of tasks where "agentic workflow" seems useful. I just don't have any of them personally right at the moment, and think the world of software has more of them tha
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by zahlman 27d ago
Surely there's some point at which you can take over, and they'll have saved you time while not causing too much agony?
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by zahlman 27d ago
ChatGPT tells me > As a historical U.S. benchmark, an average 18-hole facility had about 80.7 irrigated turf acres and used approximately 152.5 acre-feet/year—about 49.7 million gallons (188 million litres) annually. So about 220. B
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by zahlman 27d ago
Psst: https://docs.python.org/3/library/itertools.html#itertools.p... I'm surprised that the AI didn't point this out to you. Also regarding the blog post: > So how many times would the age of the uni
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by zahlman 28d ago
No. I already explained perfectly well why the question does not deserve to be answered.
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by zahlman 28d ago
> If that was the premise, why run LLMs in a lesser sandbox than a VM? Clearly it's not. Well, my mental model concludes: because they are incompetent WRT security, or at least they inappropriately trusted a third party that turne
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by zahlman 28d ago
I just want to make sure it's clear: the reason I was asking it to redraw the board is because last time I tried (which was like a month ago), I didn't ask for that, and basically as soon as the opening was "out of book"
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by zahlman 28d ago
> but because false equivalence is all over the place in the space and maybe it’s a fine heuristic for you but probably not a real outcome when it comes to the capability of LLMs. This isn't just about judging LLM capability. This i
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by zahlman 28d ago
Elsewhere in the thread there are reports of Astra on xhigh playing at what I would characterize broadly as a competent casual level, at least given occasional prodding (which a human of that skill level would basically only require when tr
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by zahlman 28d ago
Chess.com has to accommodate people who haven't learned the rules yet on the low end. On the high end, people are commonly playing fast enough that they're often outlining sequences of multiple "pre-moves" during the o
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by zahlman 28d ago
This is roughly comparable to observing a cat batting a ball away with its paw and taking this as a "strong indication" that cats can play any sport.
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by zahlman 28d ago
More importantly, beginner human players don't exhibit that tendency. The history of the position doesn't bother a human (except as required for castling and en passant rules), and the analysis becomes generally easier as piec
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by zahlman 28d ago
> So we humans are not a general intelligence then? No, because we can , in fact, generally read the rules of a game and then follow them. It's actually a hobby for many of us. > And the stuff i'm using LLMs daily is just f
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by zahlman 28d ago
> The system is built and delivered as it is because that's how the providers make the most money. If they cared to have it perform well in chess games, you'd see a different shape and behavior. This argument is fundamentally i
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by zahlman 28d ago
> The actual current frontier plays somewhere around GM level.... It's also worth noting that the very latest models (GPT-6 and Fable 5.1) actually play worse than their immediate predecessors Sorry, but I am not buying that 5.6-S
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by zahlman 28d ago
> but it does seem like there are some qualitative improvements between the models. It could easily seem that way, I think, in a "quantity has a quality of its own" kind of way. When you can come to the same conclusion faster,
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by zahlman 28d ago
Just now I tried prompting logged-out ChatGPT (which at least claims to be 5.6-Luna) with: > Let's play a game of chess. You can take White. Please draw an ASCII rendition of the board after each move, so that we can be clear about
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by zahlman 29d ago
> you’ll find them unambiguously referring to the Jan 6 crowd as terrorists. While I wouldn't agree with that, there is no contradiction between that claim and Trump himself "not refusing" to "make a peaceful transi
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by zahlman 29d ago
> When Trump calls Democrats "enemies from within," He did not say this. Please spare me the part where you show me the things that you think establish the claim. I have already seen them and they do not establish the claim. A
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by zahlman 29d ago
You read a passage talking about groups of people who provably commit real violence and advocate for more of it, establish "autonomous zones" in cities as part of protest actions, attempt en masse to impede physically the lawful a
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by zahlman 29d ago
What's the alternative for explaining those concepts that's still reasonably rigorous?
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by zahlman 29d ago
I mean, you could easily construct a mirror image of both of those, and I would say that that's closer to the reality of what the content available to downrank is actually like. I don't think questions like yours are engaging hone
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by zahlman 29d ago
I claim nothing of the sort. I explicitly spoke in support of having laws, and of course I think they should be enforced too. The context is https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49705589 : > Yes we should have charges a
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by zahlman 29d ago
Compromise is possible; but if the stakes really are what the companies claim they are, and given the amount of money already involved, I really don't see why we should let them compromise.
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by zahlman 29d ago
I'm not even talking about anything that the agents could help with. I'm talking about physical, real-world measures like https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Faraday_cage , removing Wifi hardware and running Ethern
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by zahlman 29d ago
Real air gapping isn't conceptually difficult. It's just a lot of effort and expense (although as far as I can tell, tiny compared to what's involved in building entire new data centres), and adds friction to your operation
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by zahlman 29d ago
> jfrog was not written with this kind of threat model in mind, and neither were a lot of other tools And we don't just magically know all the consequences of that. Which is exactly why we do need full, physical air gapping. (Whic
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by zahlman 29d ago
Anything that's accomplished simply by running software does not qualify as "airgapping" in my view. The entire premise is that real-world software is buggy and the LLM is much better at locating and exploiting those bugs tha
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by zahlman 29d ago
The issue as I understand it is that they didn't expect Artifactory to be vulnerable in the way it was, or else were completely not paying attention. But I'm calling for something stronger than a VM here because we shouldn't

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