CommieBobDole

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by CommieBobDole 6d ago
I have a bin of cables marked "Obsolete". A cable only goes in there if there's absolutely no possibility of it being used for any reason ever again. I use cables from it once every few years.
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by CommieBobDole 8d ago
What do you mean? I assume the "we" and "our" refers to the author and his wife.
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by CommieBobDole 18d ago
It does seem like a lot of the valuations and infrastructure investments for these companies only make sense if each one assumes they will be the first and only one to invent superintelligence and that it will largely replace all knowledge
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by CommieBobDole 1mo ago
The article touches on something that I've been thinking about with regards to Google's AI strategy; the automatically-generated AI search summaries are not great. They very frequently confidently misinterpret what the user is sea
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by CommieBobDole 1mo ago
Relevant XKCD: https://xkcd.com/2501/
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by CommieBobDole 2mo ago
LLMs have solved writing in the same way image generators have solved stock photos - if you need an image that doesn't need to convey any information other than "I have added a somewhat-related image that doesn't look obvious
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by CommieBobDole 2mo ago
Also, the dark pattern where it shows the interface and lets you enter a prompt/set settings, but then pops up the 'create account' dialog when you press submit is pretty annoying.
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by CommieBobDole 2mo ago
There's a blurb in the article: >"Massgrave, the group behind Microsoft Activation Scripts, has noted that Windows setup sends hardware info to Microsoft and receives identifiers back that are later used for Store access and li
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by CommieBobDole 2mo ago
Paywall-free link: https://archive.is/Ipm3J
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by CommieBobDole 2mo ago
For many years, the title of the leadership role over the various precise time products at the USNO was "Director of the Directorate of Time"
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by CommieBobDole 2mo ago
The article is not about "should people be allowed to buy this product because it's potentially dangerous/addictive/etc" but "Should the company be allowed to sell this product because it consists of acetaminop
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by CommieBobDole 2mo ago
This is the Platonic ideal of an LLM-generated blog post; it's pages long, it uses a lot of flowery language, and communicates almost zero actual information. I can't disagree with the premise, because the premise melts away when
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by CommieBobDole 3mo ago
I agree; the situation "young people know all about computers" was maybe a twenty-five year phenomenon; before that, there weren't enough computers for it to be generally true, and at some point you no longer needed to know a
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by CommieBobDole 3mo ago
The issue with this is that we don't know how it works. Generally speaking, we know how the level of abstraction that we were born with works. We might have some understanding of one or two previous levels, but that decreases the farth
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by CommieBobDole 3mo ago
I've experienced the same thing except sed 's/HEB/Publix/g' This is probably just a 'Kroger vs nice supermarket' thing.
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by CommieBobDole 3mo ago
You're right for the link as provided, but the (apparently) correct link provided upthread is https://wizardzines.com/comics/no-feigning-surprise/ , which is pretty similar to the XKCD.
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by CommieBobDole 3mo ago
Isn't most of our economic growth based off inputs of energy (in the form of labor, electricity, etc) that ultimately derive from the sun, though, rather than primarily non-renewable non-recyclable resource extraction? The sun is techn
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by CommieBobDole 3mo ago
This has always been a thing with IT advice, though - the more complex a system and the outcome, the harder it is to clearly define "better" or "worse". Add in the fact that LLMs are intensely and emphatically non-determ
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by CommieBobDole 4mo ago
Right, but that's still external to the LLM, it's just a KV cache that's stored on the provider side for performance reasons, so that the client doesn't have to re-send the whole chat history with every subsequent call i
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by CommieBobDole 4mo ago
The fact that a LLM is essentially immutable would be my biggest argument against consciousness or self-awareness. It's a big file with a bunch of coordinates describing spatial relationships between tokens. When you give it a prompt,
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by CommieBobDole 4mo ago
This article suffers from two things: First and most importantly, it's not really about LLMs, it's about AGI, and the second does not necessarily follow from the first; LLMs in their current state are pretty clearly not AGI, and m
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by CommieBobDole 4mo ago
I've found that the AI overview is usually right but confidently wrong enough of the time that I don't trust it. The interface that you get with the 'AI Mode' button (which I assume is just Gemini with very low compute s
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by CommieBobDole 4mo ago
I think this touches on the core difference between good and bad use of AI; using AI as part of the process vs cutting and pasting LLM output. Use AI as part of the research process, to help understand a concept or problem. Use it to format
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by CommieBobDole 4mo ago
Was it the actual raw chain-of-thought? I know GPT-5 will emit thinking tokens, and while they're an interesting insight into the 'reasoning' process, they're apparently pretty heavily sanitized presumably because the ra
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by CommieBobDole 4mo ago
>lot of issues The detailed stats page notes that the Grok station has played Sandstorm by Darude 228 times in the last 14 days. https://andonlabs.com/radio
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by CommieBobDole 6mo ago
I think the strongest argument against AI consciousness is that there's no persistent internal state, no feedback, and no change; the 'conversation' you're having is a series of one-off API calls where each subsequent ca
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by CommieBobDole 7mo ago
When thinking about verifying your identity with a service, you have to ask yourself "what will be the impact to me if everything this service knows about me, every click I've made, everything I've watched/read/uplo
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by CommieBobDole 7mo ago
Talking down to the LLM is anthropomorphizing it. It's misbehaving software that will not take advice or correction. Reject its bad contributions, delete its comments, ban it from the repo. If it persists, complain to or take legal act
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by CommieBobDole 8mo ago
"This trajectory explains why there is no crater at Köfels. The incoming angle was very low (six degrees) and means the asteroid clipped a mountain called Gamskogel above the town of Längenfeld, 11 kilometers from Köfels, and this caus
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by CommieBobDole 8mo ago
Honestly, a Moka Pot (which the author uses) might well be at the optimum point of effort vs quality for home coffeemaking.

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