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by 27183 3d ago
The 3L diesel in my car takes about 8qt per change. The 5.9L diesel in my truck takes 12qt.
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by 27183 4d ago
That's why I won't touch new equipment with a ten foot pole. I buy old stuff and then end up having to do major rebuilds. I realize this is somewhat of a luxury, and damn is it nice. In the last calendar year, this is basically th
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by 27183 4d ago
Reading codes is only part of it. For the last quarter century or so (some manufacturers more than others) if you replace certain components (radio, any computer module) you need to update the ECU to recognize the new component. This requir
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by 27183 5d ago
Why would you pay extra for some website the company could just take away from you on a whim? I have the bound paper repair manuals for my 1998 Dodge truck, my 1995 Toyota, and my 2002 Kubota tractor. Nobody can arbitrarily take those away.
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by 27183 6d ago
I heard if you inject yourself with bleach you can perceive the higher dimensions. Many people say this.
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by 27183 6d ago
That wasn't a shallow dismissal. It's literally the sentence that renders the rest of the article not credible.
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by 27183 7d ago
> It’s informed by trend extrapolations, wargames, expert feedback, experience at OpenAI, and previous forecasting successes. In other words: bias. Tons and tons of self-congratulatory, glue sniffing bias.
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by 27183 7d ago
Yeah this could just be some vibeslop doing normal computer stuff. AI agents are famously incompetent at reasoning about database transactions. This seems like the sort of failure you get when you try to do distributed systems without knowi
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by 27183 7d ago
I have Haier Arctic heat pumps that are made in China. They've been great so far. I've also worked with suppliers in Shenzhen for one-off custom electronic devices that would put western companies to shame in their communication,
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by 27183 7d ago
I currently have R410a heat pumps with minisplits, when they're off warranty sometime in the future I might consider putting propane in them. The main question would be whether the oil used with R410a is compatible with propane as a re
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by 27183 7d ago
It's the kind of thing that should make people think, but I wonder to what extent anyone does anymore when it comes to this kind of risk of a vendor stealing from you.
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by 27183 8d ago
This kind of coercive, threatening rhetoric is really not surprising at all. This is how tech companies operate. What stands out to me is the naive lack of operational security on the part of academics, who should know better than to touch
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by 27183 9d ago
Why is it always "you clearly haven't used the latest model, let me tell you this time it'll blow your socks off!" How many times have we heard this? If it wasn't true all the other times why must I believe it now?
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by 27183 10d ago
> You can always manipulate a human. Yes, but to make "apocalyptic" scenarios happen your AI would need to manipulate at least millions of people. So far it's not yet clear they can successfully manipulate even one, or eve
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by 27183 10d ago
It would require an authorized human to load the floppy into the drive and make it go. And there's nothing special about that process being done in code, it could just as well be done by people flipping switches manually. There's
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by 27183 10d ago
> Both sides come from fear. Maybe. I'll have to think about that one. It doesn't feel like fear to me, but that could be some kind of coping mechanism. From where I sit, I don't believe I fear this AI stuff because I do
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by 27183 10d ago
> You and the other poster just need to find some agreeable benchmark so you can decide who won. That is the hard part. I'm not sure the usage numbers we'd need to decide the outcome are public now, and I can't predict ~4y
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by 27183 10d ago
> They’re in an arms race to build a machine god, knowing full well that it could end humanity. Fantasies built upon extrapolations derived from fever dream delusions. "Could end humanity"? Come on, it's a computer program
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by 27183 10d ago
Yeah ML systems often do very surprising "cheats". A while back there was a system for automatically landing aircraft on a carrier deck which exploited an overflow in an acceleration parameter in the simulation--the optimal strate
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by 27183 10d ago
> The most popular programming languages in 2030 will, in fact, be English and Mandarin. Deal with it and get over it. What are you willing to bet?
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by 27183 10d ago
This was my original comment: > What on earth are you talking about? > 1. What does any of this have to do with "A(G)I"? Nobody has any clue what AI even is let alone how to build one. We're talking about languag
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by 27183 10d ago
The most charitable way I can describe it is just extremely low quality sci-fi fan fiction. I think that's too charitable, because I believe it's far more cynical than that. They're deliberately playing into these sort of tec
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by 27183 10d ago
OK so if it's a computer security issue we're worried about, and there is a credible threat, then probably the answer is to build more secure systems? We know how to do it but choose not to because it's very expensive and usu
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by 27183 10d ago
> You can prove the test covers the bug without understanding the test code (you need to understand the bug, of course). I'm not following.. When we write regression tests those tests encode invariants we expect to be maintained und
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by 27183 11d ago
Uhh... what? You'll instantaneously feel very differently when the service you're responsible for is down at 3:15am and your logs are full of stack traces that end somewhere in that code that "doesn't need to be understo
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by 27183 11d ago
Just a chat log would be acceptable. Like an IRC channel log or slack channel history. It would be even better if, say in the case of code, there was a durable mapping between prompts and commits, that way I could follow the prompts linearl
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by 27183 11d ago
Hence The Great Smoothening of Minds we're all experiencing in this decrepit era. I blame the financial incentive, and welcome its disappearance. There are too many people doing computers just for the big paycheck, it would be more f
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by 27183 11d ago
I don't really care about the tool per se, but if I'm reading some LLM output you give me its utility is awfully limited if you don't also supply the prompt. That's what I'd like to see normalized: Do not give
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by 27183 11d ago
The number of times the friction of writing has saved me from prematurely communicating a poorly understood idea must be in the hundreds or maybe thousands. For me when something is difficult to write about, it's a very good signal tha
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by 27183 11d ago
> If your position is that we should be fine with an LLM crafting prose from your prompt, spare us all the wasted cycles and just give us your prompt. This is an excellent point. It should apply to LLM generated code as well. If you send

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