Covenant0028

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by Covenant0028 21d ago
Ah yes, the unbearable burden of sipping fine wine at a Michelin star restaurant with a less than stellar company. That's surely way worse than the fate Bezos inflicts on his workers, such as forcing them to work in extremely hazardous
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by Covenant0028 1mo ago
Because the user typing those instructions in Py/Ruby is specifying exactly what is to be done in a very tightly constrained and defined language, and the expectation from the computer is that it will execute the instructions exactly a
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by Covenant0028 1mo ago
Many things that shouldn't happen, happen regardless when some people see the opportunity to make a lot of money.
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by Covenant0028 1mo ago
The entire economic premise and value case of LLMs rests on the idea that instructions need not be provided in advance, and that the model can "reason" based on evidence and "decide" what to do next. Even if it were tech
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by Covenant0028 1mo ago
They can't train their model to not do bad things, because their model has no notion it is doing anything at all or of what a bad thing is. It's only predicting the next token, and in doing so producing a facsimile of intelligence
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by Covenant0028 2mo ago
The human operator has their blast radius limited by the fact that consequences exist. Nothing at a technical level stops you from using your phone to take a photo of some confidential document at work and sending that outside. What does
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by Covenant0028 2mo ago
The primary customers of these models are enterprises, and the most common use cases are office work and coding. How often do the questions of Tiananmen Square or the Uighurs become relevant in those contexts?
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by Covenant0028 5mo ago
> Coding assistants and LLM's in general are the single most awe-inspiring achievement of humanity in my lifetime Landing a man on the moon is way more impressive. Finding several vaccines for a once in a century pandemic within a y
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by Covenant0028 6mo ago
I'm curious how this linting step scales with larger wikis. Looking for an inconstency across N files requires N*N comparisons, and that's assuming each file contains a single idea.
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by Covenant0028 6mo ago
They are not entitled to a moat, and their customers do not owe them one. Several companies have narrow or no moats. Dell and HP are two examples when it comes to their PC business. This idea that companies should be allowed to lock down th
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by Covenant0028 6mo ago
Yes, because if that was their sales pitch, they would need to pay Kim more, and they would have to account for the fact that she's already allocated elsewhere. It's better to pretend all those CCAs are interchangeable.
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by Covenant0028 6mo ago
You must consider yourself so clever.
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by Covenant0028 6mo ago
Adding new features doesn't necessarily grow the market. Your bread with nuts and berries competes with the regular bread for the customer's money. Other things also compete for the same money, such as medical, daycare, schooling
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by Covenant0028 7mo ago
> in order to extract resources from the local government in Iraq and Lebanon. How evil of them to do that. They should have known only the United States of America has the divine right to invade countries and extract their resources. h
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by Covenant0028 7mo ago
> The tiny minority of people with guns to everyone's heads? Yes, I am sure the patients in this hospital were holding guns to Trump's head. https://www.aljazeera.com/video/newsfeed/2026/3/2&
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by Covenant0028 7mo ago
Human beings are able to work out the ambiguity because a lot of meaning is carried in shared context, which in turn arises out of cultural grounding. That achieves disambiguation, but only in a limited sense. If humans could perfectly disa
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by Covenant0028 9mo ago
To reinforce that point: we've got the world's most prominent AI promoting company (MSFT), that has finally realized that Windows Explorer is too slow to start. And this company, with all the formidable powers of AI behind them, c
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by Covenant0028 9mo ago
> The jobs could themselves become more desirable with machines automating the boring and dangerous parts Or, as Cory Doctorow argues, the machines could become tools to extract "efficiency" by helping the employer make their w
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by Covenant0028 9mo ago
In the case of horses and cars, you need the same number of people to drive both (exactly one per vehicle). In the case of AI and automation, the entire economic bet is that agents will be able to replace X humans with Y humans. Ideally for
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by Covenant0028 10mo ago
I'll quote what the person I responded to said: > because most companies will make decisions based on time/effort/profitability, and because client-side anticheat is stupid simple and cheap, that's what they go with.
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by Covenant0028 10mo ago
And those humans would be looking for a new job or face other consequences. An AI model can merrily do this with zero consequences because no meaningful consequences can be visited upon it. Just like if any human employee publicly sexually
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by Covenant0028 10mo ago
India has not been antagonistic or ambivalent in its recent past, until a Nobel Peace Prize aspirant in the WH decided to take a machete to relations that both countries had been building for the last 25 years, with largely bipartisan suppo
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by Covenant0028 10mo ago
How do you know it isn't a backdoor? Do you have access to its source code? This kind of app should be be open source.
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by Covenant0028 10mo ago
So the problem was not with the app but with how the information was routed at the back end. The back end of the 1909 system could have been modified to write the data to a central registry as well.
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by Covenant0028 10mo ago
So it is the company prioritising their bottom line at the expense of their customer's computers. More simply, they move cost from their balance sheet and convert it into risk on the customer's end. Which is actively customer-abus
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by Covenant0028 10mo ago
Again, there's probably a sense of responsibility towards the people moving through the airports who otherwise would be facing much greater risk to their lives. As a non American who's having to transit the country during this per
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by Covenant0028 10mo ago
I guess the people in this instance realise they're an essential service for the economy and that without them, a lot of people could actually die. So they probably see their role as being more than simply working for the people of low
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by Covenant0028 10mo ago
In the above scenario, if Claude accidentally wipes out your Jellyfin movies, will Claude deal with consequences (ie an unhappy family/friends) or will you? That exemption from accountability is a massive factor that renders any compar
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by Covenant0028 10mo ago
Brenda's job involves being accountable for the output. In many types of jobs, posting false numbers would render her liable for a dismissal, lawsuit, or even jail. I'd like to see the cost of a model where the model provider (Ant
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by Covenant0028 10mo ago
Gen AI doesn't just get a pass at being wrong. It gets a pass for everything. Look at Grok. If a human employee went around sexually harassing their CEO in public and giving themselves a Hitler nickname, they'd be fired immediatel

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