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by zarzavat 2mo ago
LLMs don't have enough context to say No. What might be a very stupid idea in one context may be a fantastic idea in another context. It would be annoying if LLMs refused to complete tasks until you gave them enough context to understa
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by zarzavat 2mo ago
The only reason that Google keep Firefox around is because they find it beneficial for antitrust reasons. We should prepare for a future without Firefox, because one day it won't be there anymore.
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by zarzavat 2mo ago
AFAIK they are using the built-in support which Google still maintains even if they don't expose it. My point is that when MV3 was announced there was an assumption that maintaining a Chromium fork to continue supporting MV2 would be t
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by zarzavat 2mo ago
I don't know why with LLMs we can't just add MV2/blocking web request support to Chromium in a fork. The argument against was always that it's "too hard to keep a fork in sync". Now it's easier.
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by zarzavat 2mo ago
You are expecting consistent QoS from a randomly sampled mathematical function.
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by zarzavat 2mo ago
If you have exponentially increasing use of your harness, then it's true that every day you capture exponentially more data, but it's also true that every day exponentially more data will slip through the cracks of your would-be m
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by zarzavat 2mo ago
That makes them at best temporary middlemen. It only justifies their long term valuations if they can leverage that temporary monopoly for technological superiority (they can't) or lasting market share (they can't). Chinese models
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by zarzavat 2mo ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reduplication#Chinese
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by zarzavat 2mo ago
My calculus is very simple these days: If I care about performance, use Rust. If I care about iteration speed, use TypeScript. If I want a script or numerical code, use Python. LLMs are better with Rust because the more expressive type syst
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by zarzavat 2mo ago
I love the word "including" there. Yes it will be used for people suspected of minor crimes but it also includes people accused serious crimes as well!
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by zarzavat 2mo ago
LLMs, both in writing and mathematics seem to only be capable of coming up with texts that are inside the distribution of the training data. With writing it's just more obvious. LLMs don't write with personality. They don't c
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by zarzavat 2mo ago
This result is some evidence that AI will not solve RH soon. If there were any easy solution hiding in plain sight then it probably would have found it. Solving RH likely requires AI that is substantially more creative. But we haven'
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by zarzavat 2mo ago
A distinction is that Alzheimer's is in an uncommon category of mystery diseases. If a study found people who swim regularly are are less likely to get heart disease, that wouldn't be very surprising because know a lot about why p
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by zarzavat 2mo ago
I don't use yolo mode but if you allow your agents to both write code and run/test it, then it's basically equivalent to running in yolo mode anyway. The other day I caught Claude including a rm -rf equivalent (fs.rmdir({ rec
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by zarzavat 2mo ago
Canvas is a last resort if you absolutely cannot build the thing any other way. When you use canvas you're giving up on not just accessibility but also optimizations that the browser does for you transparently when you use the native r
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by zarzavat 2mo ago
The USG getting involved might actually harm US AI efforts. It's not just about money. Who would want to use Claude or ChatGPT if it were run by the US government? Yet these products are essential for gathering training data.
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by zarzavat 2mo ago
Note to the momentarily shocked: this is in Canadian dollars.
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by zarzavat 2mo ago
Clean room implementation is not a concept in copyright law. It's a defensive legal strategy to avoid expensive lawsuits. Copyright law does not require a clean room implementation when copying non-copyrightable elements of a work, s
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by zarzavat 2mo ago
All of that is true, Google should be winning. We underestimated Google's determination to fail.
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by zarzavat 3mo ago
Either teach your children moderation or else be disappointed when they become teenagers with their own money to spend. Helicopter don't fly forever.
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by zarzavat 3mo ago
> But also: apple didn’t make the new list. Neither did fork, soap, umbrella or leaf, for example. It’s not that these things vanished from everyday life, but many hands-on words became less central to the core vocabulary. I do not under
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by zarzavat 3mo ago
Xkcd 538. Hardware attestation is not required because it's not sufficient , you need to plug all the other much easier ways to get around the system. Firstly, you need to comprehensively ban VPNs, probably with some great firewall se
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by zarzavat 3mo ago
You should invest in different things depending on your age. An old person might want to have more of their money in yielding assets. They are withdrawing from the account so the certainty of having predictable value might outweigh the infl
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by zarzavat 3mo ago
> We can't know any more about an apple than an LLM can When I hold and taste an apple I know that the apple exists. Not an issue for apples, you might say, but there's plenty of real information that is not written down and is
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by zarzavat 3mo ago
This is true for music because the labels decided that they would upload their catalogs to every streaming service. It's not true for movies, because the movie industry decided to sign exclusivity deals or make movies only available
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by zarzavat 3mo ago
If I were 18 I'd be sceptical about the value of degrees compared to the value of trades. Yes degrees are a prerequisite for white collar jobs but if there is competition for ever fewer white collar jobs that's a life gamble perha
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by zarzavat 3mo ago
LLMs lack qualia, among other things. If I ask an LLM "what is an apple?" it tells me: > An apple is the edible fruit of the apple tree, scientifically known as Malus domestica. It is one of the world's most widely grown f
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by zarzavat 3mo ago
LLMs are not optimized only for truth they are optimized for a more complicated objective that includes e.g. humans liking their output. It is a universal truth that to get humans to like you, you have to lie to them.
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by zarzavat 3mo ago
There's a difference between: > Something should be done and > Something can be done In this case, nothing can be done to stop bad actors from using open models. As the article points out, the US can only feasibly prevent US bu
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by zarzavat 3mo ago
It's possible that could be destruction of evidence as well. Why should it matter whose meat sticks type in the decoy pin?

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