zahlman

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by zahlman 3mo ago
The industry may be cooked, but the economic effect you predict is entirely illogical. Things don't get more expensive simply because other things get cheaper.
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by zahlman 4mo ago
> try to argue so much against the reality that LLMs are having a tremendous negative impact on society, environment and economy, and being on the side of corporations. This is not the actual argument being made, or the side being taken.
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by zahlman 4mo ago
But the thinkers aren't speaking out against scalpels, protein-folding simulation software, chemical synthesis techniques etc. because they might be used wrongly.
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by zahlman 4mo ago
> Not to mention that RAM companies may have purposely raised prices and blamed it on AI... The root cause of not being able to afford PCs might just be RAM companies themselves, along with some real demand from AI companies. I mean, it
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by zahlman 4mo ago
I don't care what "the proponents" say. If AI is "just a tool", then I wish to believe exactly that ( https://www.lesswrong.com/w/litany-of-tarski ). And right now, the evidence is strongly leadi
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by zahlman 4mo ago
> We should judge it for its actual use, not its ideal use. We should judge the companies for their actual behaviour. We should judge technologies for their ideal application. Because they don't, in and of themselves, do anythin
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by zahlman 4mo ago
To the extent that these claims actually pan out, responsibility should be assigned to the companies developing these systems, not to their product.
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by zahlman 4mo ago
> The asterisks denote potentially faulty usage. Short scripts are great to have roughly automated, but as ever the risk with these things has been that they might grow into programs, and that's a poor foundation to build on. They c
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by zahlman 4mo ago
>You want a program that takes in A and returns B within X milliseconds No, I actually want a lot more than that . I just didn't communicate all of it, because I'm accustomed to you understanding what good software is. (Or I d
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by zahlman 4mo ago
I agree that this is bad content (heavy handed satire being used to push an obnoxious, uncharitable, politicized viewpoint) either way, and so was the other submission. But there are clearly people around who like this sort of thing. And
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by zahlman 4mo ago
Torvalds is talking about the use of AI to develop the kernel; not about any kind of AI features included in Linux. (Which would be a user-space thing anyway, and therefore up to the individual distributions.)
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by zahlman 4mo ago
20 points and 8 comments is poorly received?
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by zahlman 4mo ago
> “What has surprised me is how bad it’s gotten over such a short period of time,” said Jonathan Graff, Liferaft’s CEO. The number of threats declined somewhat in June. I think they just haven't been paying attention. The opposition
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by zahlman 4mo ago
(I don't understand why people apparently object to this comment, but are also apparently unwilling to engage with it. I don't think I'm saying anything unreasonable and I think it's well within the envelope of other tak
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by zahlman 4mo ago
> If I had to guess where most of this traffic is coming from, it's from compromised smart appliances contributing traffic to proxy networks. ... Is the data earlier in the article supposed to support this hypothesis? I'm not s
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by zahlman 4mo ago
Indeed. More than enough reason to flag the submission, in my view. (It's remarkable how many of the top-level comments are pointing out this sort of problem with the article content.)
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by zahlman 4mo ago
Yes, of course it does. It's strange to me that this can be asked.
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by zahlman 4mo ago
Having slop tests instead of no tests is definitely not the same thing as actually caring about avoiding bugs.
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by zahlman 4mo ago
Because you can't actually do "good writing" by repeatedly applying the supposed idioms thereof. The tiny subsegment of humanity responsible for the RLHF don't necessarily have any good taste for writing; but even if the
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by zahlman 4mo ago
I've dealt with many people by now who would copy and paste from an LLM for that exact reason, typically entirely unaware of how obvious it was that the result came from an LLM with no style guidance, and of course completely lacking
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by zahlman 4mo ago
Calling it "obedience" still seems to me like anthropomorphizing. It's really difficult to avoid, hmm?
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by zahlman 4mo ago
> And honestly? They were pretty good.
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by zahlman 4mo ago
It's not just "certain phrases". It's the entire structure of the writing — the idioms, the small-scale grammatical patterns, and the strangely inapt similes that, despite making semantic sense, nevertheless manage to bl
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by zahlman 4mo ago
> We don't code by hand anymore /usr/bin/vim on my machine begs to differ.
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by zahlman 4mo ago
Glad to hear. I could say I'm in a similar position actually, but my setbacks have been more psychological.
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by zahlman 4mo ago
I've been prototyping a bunch of old ideas with the free tier of ChatGPT, bouncing off design ideas and treating it like a pair programmer. Planning a blog post writeup of the general experience (along with saved chats in nicely cleane
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by zahlman 4mo ago
> No written rules for this game survived antiquity… a comprehensive digital platform… that can model and simulate thousands of historic board games. Model and simulate based on what ? > Nine game configurations matched the wear crit
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by zahlman 4mo ago
> Editing Go templates that generate YAML is absolutely miserable, it is my least favorite task. Claude gets it right without fuss every time. As I understood it, the article's thesis is that your system shouldn't require &quot
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by zahlman 4mo ago
... And why shouldn't we? The system still responded to a single prompt, and we still took its first submitted candidate.
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by zahlman 4mo ago
It seems that you do lose a life when hit by an enemy or falling in a pit, but the latter freezes until you click the toggle sound button, and running out of lives resets the counter to 3 and halves your "valuation".

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