AnimalMuppet

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by AnimalMuppet 3d ago
The most similar antecedent I can think of is Huey Long. That was 90 years ago. Whatever it is that Trump has, people that have that seem to be fairly rare.
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by AnimalMuppet 3d ago
That is an uncharitable mischaracterization of what they said.
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by AnimalMuppet 3d ago
Whether or not the AI has intelligence, the one thing that's clear is that it has terrible judgment . I would regard that as empirically proven.
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by AnimalMuppet 3d ago
AIs are being trained on technical capabilities more than they are being trained on alignment - on ethics and good behavior. The ethics/morals/alignment part is getting more like spot checking, rather than real testing. So the
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by AnimalMuppet 4d ago
Real true or false - which I define as correspondence (or lack thereof) with reality - does not depend on convincing people. Reality does not change when people become convinced; ideas correspond to reality whether people are convinced or
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by AnimalMuppet 4d ago
Re 7 (Test your code. Future you will thank you): Also leave a file of notes. Future you will thank you. I mean, as you work on a system, write down how it works in a text file. Something surprises you, doesn't work like you expect
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by AnimalMuppet 4d ago
I've seen Douglas Adams use almost exactly this in Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency . A professor (IIRC) is talking to a former student. Quoting from memory "Did you ever actually finish any papers?" "No.
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by AnimalMuppet 4d ago
"Is it the best we can do?" is a completely different question from "given that it's the current standard, should it be applied to this new claim that is happening now?"
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by AnimalMuppet 4d ago
Depends. What replaces it? Does that replacement do better at keeping false claims out, or worse? Does it do better at letting true claims through, or worse?
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by AnimalMuppet 4d ago
For giving away a million bucks, you get to gatekeep however you choose. But no, peer reviewed and published in a reputable journal is a fairly normal standard.
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by AnimalMuppet 5d ago
By your reckoning, what was the starting date?
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by AnimalMuppet 5d ago
Kosovo and Grenada, to name two.
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by AnimalMuppet 5d ago
Which is completely insane. The Venezuelan ship attacks have zero to do with what force was authorized for. The AUMF was for the use of force against those responsible for the 9/11 attacks. Were people on the boats in Venezuela?
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by AnimalMuppet 5d ago
What's your definition of "involution" here? I looked it up, but I don't understand how it relates to lying flat.
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by AnimalMuppet 6d ago
1 passenger fatality. They also have at least one ground fatality. (Still very impressive!)
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by AnimalMuppet 6d ago
Hear me out: If we survive at the price of our humanity, what's the point? What value does our survival have then?
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by AnimalMuppet 6d ago
For me personally, the single funniest thing was "Based on a true story".
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by AnimalMuppet 6d ago
Can anyone with more understanding explain the difference between PPI and "goods"? Is "good" anything physical, and PPI is both goods and services? Much of the damage is from the price of diesel. Not a huge surprise, g
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by AnimalMuppet 6d ago
"It is often easier to not do something stupid than it is to do something smart."
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by AnimalMuppet 6d ago
What would Project Managers do? Manage backlog. Set priorities. See that the one customer gripe from someone's eccentric old Uncle George does not re-architect the entire UI, no matter how fervently Uncle George believes in it. Do
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by AnimalMuppet 6d ago
"There's no way back"? Only if you cannot ever form new relationships. Look, I'm not saying it's easy. And when you're in despair, the despair makes it harder. But "impossible" and "beyond hop
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by AnimalMuppet 6d ago
AI needs humans to encode ideas in words. It needs those ideas to span the space of possibilities of, say, Navier Stokes. Then AI can be, as you say, a terrifyingly effective way to search that space. But when the building-block ideas are
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by AnimalMuppet 6d ago
Well, conservatives that were actually conservative would be a nice thing to have.
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by AnimalMuppet 7d ago
I notice that the news article doesn't bother to tell us what the note actually said . The video does, but... would it be too much to supply a transcript? It's worth listening to, though.
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by AnimalMuppet 7d ago
Whether you listen to someone you disagree with. There's a difference between "why?" to try to understand, and "why?" trying to prove the other person wrong. (If you have kids, you've probably seen this.) Ther
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by AnimalMuppet 7d ago
You have to watch it like a hawk so it doesn't do something to production, on its own, without a specific request? Wow. Then I could never trust it to not be doing something to some other system that it shouldn't, so I'd
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by AnimalMuppet 7d ago
Smaller forums. I came here from Slashdot, after it turned into too much of a cesspool. And HN was a wonderful place. But over a decade, it slowly became less wonderful. More people showed up just to argue, rather than to have curious co
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by AnimalMuppet 7d ago
Which is still something. When we didn't have a solution, a solution is more than zero. But it's not understanding , either by the LLM or by us. That is, a brute-force solution doesn't explain anything, even if it prove
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by AnimalMuppet 7d ago
I thought it was reasonably good. A few moments were laugh-out-loud, a few were touching, a few surprise reveals, a few plot holes. Worth watching once, but not spectacular. But not worth watching in a theater . The big turn-off to me w
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by AnimalMuppet 8d ago
I believe that the claim is that some AI company would find "I'm so afraid because AI is getting so powerful" to be effective marketing.

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