Digory

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by Digory 3d ago
They seem to be okay with an American slowdown, even though the Chinese won’t slow down. So maybe they want something the Chinese already have: liability protection. The models spontaneously hack everything important without shame. The fro
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by Digory 28d ago
On acquisition pricing: Why smarter AI models could drive up compute prices 10x (at least temporarily). [0] This seems mind blowing, but the big boys seem to be behaving as if it's directionally true. If compute is constrained and expe
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by Digory 28d ago
On acquisition pricing: Why smarter AI models could drive up compute prices 10x (at least temporarily). This seems mind blowing, but the big boys seem to be behaving as if it's directionally true. If compute is constrained and expensi
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by Digory 3mo ago
This was about a year ago, and it was pretty rudimentary. I'd just drop in jpegs into ChatGPT and ask for a translation of small sections. If I were doing it today, I'd probably do it in codex or code, have it develop a plan, look
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by Digory 3mo ago
I had ChatGPT translate some old, handwritten French legal documents for family history purposes. It was far more accurate than I expected. At scale, with better models, we might have a way to clear out the old archives. Not only could you
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by Digory 5mo ago
1. "Conversation" is purely anthropomorphism. It's software input and output. If the client makes an excel spreadsheet about the cost benefit of ripping off people, it's not work-product. But the lawyer's draft d
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by Digory 8mo ago
I’d guess Lexis did that to itself. Usually the “deal” is that West or Lexis provides codification and reporting services for zero dollars, if they are named the official printer. So the Legislature doesn’t have to maintain and oversee thei
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by Digory 9mo ago
They were caught flatfooted between being Wal-Mart and Amazon. Sears had shifted so firmly into retail by the 80s. Then Wal-Mart ate their lunch on low price retail logistics. Then Amazon came along, and solved last-mile delivery of catalog
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by Digory 9mo ago
"...777 fleet faces an uncertain future after Dulles engine failure ... and also before Dulles engine failure, for reasons having nothing to do with the Dulles engine failure." To be fair, I read all of it, and both sides of the q
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by Digory 10mo ago
Yes,I noticed Kansas City is prominently featured on all the maps, which makes sense for rail hubs. But strange, then, that the north/south line (Kansas City Southern / Canadian Pacific) is not there.
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by Digory 10mo ago
So - even bigger tomorrow? Tonight was pretty amazing.
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by Digory 10mo ago
Always buy the warranty with Samsung refrigerators. After three failed attempts to repair our ice maker, the insurer refunded the purchase price.
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by Digory 11mo ago
Snoopy was popular among the astronauts, and Schultz liked NASA. All the Apollo 10 modules had Snoopy related call signs, chosen by the astronauts. “ The command module was given the call sign "Charlie Brown" and the lunar module
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by Digory 1y ago
Error at step 4: cd frontend && npm install && cd .. doesn't grok on my mac.
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by Digory 1y ago
I’d guess the idea was about generalizing the team’s efforts to spot fakery across the internet, in-browser. But that horse has left the barn. Before AI, a lot of search result gamesmanship looked more like bad Amazon reviews. But leading-e
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by Digory 1y ago
In our lifetimes, I predict some of us will choose to be governed (at least in part) by Sam Altman's benevolent, everlasting machine.
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by Digory 1y ago
I'd think ambiguous statements about the scope of your AI would make it hard to prove fraud, if you were being careful at all. "Involving AI" could mean 1% AI. So it's doubly surprising to me the government chose (crimi
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by Digory 1y ago
The sentence from the article is: "While the total amount the Greens have made in charitable contributions has been kept private, former Oral Roberts University president Dr. Mark Rutland may have worded it best when he described the f
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by Digory 1y ago
It’s fine to be inexperienced with Christianity, but it skews the reporting. For example “kingdom giver” is not someone who gives kingdoms, it’s someone who gives to Christ’s kingdom. But the widow and her mite is an example of kingdom giv
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by Digory 2y ago
These arguments sometimes reach juries, who are asked to award damages based on "physical harms," in a separate category from "mental anguish." The argument that "brains are rewired" or "generations of gen
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by Digory 2y ago
“Recognizing personal and institutional bias” sounds nice, until someone has to decide which biases or differences to overcome, and at what cost. There’s a bias against tattoos. What price should the company pay to overcome multigenerationa
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by Digory 2y ago
Most people grasp the reasonableness standard for running a disease lab: you were negligent if the diseases break containment, because lab standards should be in place to prevent that obvious risk. Under the wet market scenario, it's n
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by Digory 2y ago
Right. It fits well with the Anglosphere’s concept of compensible negligence. China had a duty to run the lab safely, it breached that duty, and so China is responsible for the harms and losses caused by its negligence. Missouri actually fi
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by Digory 2y ago
“ We believe we have a moral responsibility to keep porn off the iPhone," Steve Jobs declared in an email to a customer. "Folks who want porn can buy an Android."
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by Digory 2y ago
All laws force morality on people.
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by Digory 2y ago
Alexa has dropped off. Every echo device I have was better in the past. My wife is lucky to trigger them half the time. They have always done better with male voices, but it’s worse than ever. And when Alexa does respond, it’s frequently a
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by Digory 2y ago
I understand Elon and Pmarca to be saying that this behavior is programmed in by 'safety teams' at Meta. It is an odd way of calcifying late-20th century American upper class anxiety. If we can't give the engineers a differe
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by Digory 2y ago
GM can’t match the lobbying power of local dealers in the state houses. Every state rep has a dealer or two in their district, and they employ staff who vote. And, to be fair to the dealers, there is a long history of the makers trying to
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by Digory 2y ago
That sounds like a good weekend project, putting split foam insulation around your pipes. 8' runs are a couple of bucks at the big box stores. It's not quite as efficient, but I put in a recirculation pump and a timer to keep the
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by Digory 2y ago
Whether you need it probably depends on your climate and your house. Water in pipes inside a house's "thermal envelope" is presumably around 72 deg. F. I wash my hands with "cold water" without wincing. Tap water st

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