Jordan-117

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by Jordan-117 4d ago
I subscribed to ChatGPT for a few years, but over the holidays noticed that it was making frequent errors and hallucinations when dealing with more obscure Linux and Firefox issues. Trying Gemini as a backup produced much better answers, to
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by Jordan-117 4d ago
It's almost like the people at Anthropic and other AI labs are slaves to a misaligned reward function that encourages optimization of a metric (profit) over human values, even at what they claim is the risk of extinction. We built the
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by Jordan-117 8d ago
I feel like the equivalent for the rise of the internet would be an explicitly anti -internet stance -- no website, no downloads, no online customer support, everything routed through snail mail, fax, and telephone (but no VoIP!) as an int
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by Jordan-117 8d ago
Why not just make it opt-in? Seems bad to leave the desires of nearly half your users unaddressed. As long as you're not shoehorning in features or making them unavoidable or the central focus, the only people who'd take issue wou
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by Jordan-117 13d ago
I wonder where the scores come from -- is it AI or a basic image match? Also, somewhat prior art (literally): https://vole.wtf/clone-a-lisa/
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by Jordan-117 14d ago
They don't care if it's illegal. They'll do it anyway and trust in the tainted result being a fait accompli that the courts can't (or won't) resolve.
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by Jordan-117 18d ago
I tried setting this up on Fedora 44 and couldn't get it to connect on WiFi or Bluetooth even after installing the iOS app and running the recommended terminal commands for BT setup. The devices can sometimes see each other, and at poi
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by Jordan-117 20d ago
It doesn't seem like word salad as such. There's normally a coherent point expressed, it's just obscured by circuitous sentence structures, unusual word choices, "verbing weirding nouns", metaphors, etc. Could be a
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by Jordan-117 20d ago
I wonder to what extent this is the result of suboptimal RLHF versus the inherent intelligence of the model making its language more intricate and difficult for humans to easily parse? On the one hand, it's a common trope that highly e
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by Jordan-117 25d ago
Not to mention an electorate that voted for it after the entire plan was spelled out for them.
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by Jordan-117 1mo ago
I think the idea is that rights for women (along with other traditionally disadvantaged groups) are only sustainable in a prosperous society driven by cheap energy, and that as soon as resources become scarce, there will be a powerful revan
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by Jordan-117 1mo ago
I take your point, but for me at least the disgust is more in the way the different situations are used (and characterized) by the author. Freezing all alien life is obviously horrifying, and Caroline says as much. It's not as bad as g
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by Jordan-117 1mo ago
Yes, the final chapter. Aside from it being biologically impossible to repopulate from a single couple, it was not really portrayed ambiguously. I don't care to reread it, but from what I remember, the main protagonist was the driving
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by Jordan-117 1mo ago
Tbh the torture scenes are not nearly as disturbing as the underage incest. It's like "Saw" vs. a pedo flick from the 70s. Especially weird since the latter is portrayed like some kind of innocent ideal. It's frustrating
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by Jordan-117 1mo ago
There's a big psychological difference between the noise level in a transitory space like an office parking lot and the same noise level at a suburban home. Nobody wants their backyard, deck, or bedroom to sound like Eraserhead, even i
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by Jordan-117 2mo ago
Apparently it did, but it was turned off by default since it could have a performance impact on slower machines.
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by Jordan-117 2mo ago
It creeps in when you treat the political compass website as an objective and reliable barometer of political bias.
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by Jordan-117 2mo ago
God, I wish people would stop using that political compass site as the basis for any sort of analysis. It's a useful metaphor, but that specific site and the test on it is complete horseshit designed to make false "both sides are
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by Jordan-117 2mo ago
The article doesn't even mention Skyrim. To add that to the title plus the username itself but not the fact he was innocent is a wild choice.
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by Jordan-117 2mo ago
The first scenario reminds me of the 2023 LessWrong story "A Disneyland without Children": https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/pk9mofif2jWbc6Tv3/fiction-a-... It's a dynamic we already see to an extent
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by Jordan-117 2mo ago
Plus the current admin is extremely hostile towards wind power projects.
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by Jordan-117 2mo ago
Maybe it's semantics, but I feel like local QoL concerns (mainly noise and electric bills, plus an overblown focus on water) are the primary driver for in-community resistance. Shoving AI into everything is annoying, and there's r
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by Jordan-117 2mo ago
I'm not up on the Maverick, but the comparison chart for the Slate EV feels pretty misleading: - the Slate's range is now 205 miles across the board, not 150/240 - both the REO and Slate start as 2-door 2-seaters with pricier
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by Jordan-117 2mo ago
Migicovsky wrote an article on it: https://ericmigi.com/blog/apple-restricts-pebble-from-being-... That said, I'm happy with my Pebble on iPhone (though I'd be happi er if it had fuller access).
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by Jordan-117 2mo ago
On a practical level, politeness, complete sentences, capitalization, etc., seem weakly correlated with higher-quality answers. This is less true than in the early days, but more refined input still requires thinking through your question a
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by Jordan-117 2mo ago
Biden did both, at least at first. Age (and refusal to recognize it) hobbled him in the end, but during his term he was one of the more effective presidents of the last several decades. Arguably more effective than Obama, considering the am
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by Jordan-117 2mo ago
It's kind of what happens when an electorate empowers a pathologically lying corrupt criminal to head of state and gives their craven sycophants legislative majorities.
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by Jordan-117 2mo ago
If only iOS didn't gatekeep some of its most useful functions, that would be great.
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by Jordan-117 2mo ago
Historically speaking, isn't the core of most revolutions the product of "elite overproduction" -- educated young people expecting to secure a high status position who are instead shunted into lower prospects? Seems like trap
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by Jordan-117 2mo ago
I played on desktop and it seemed pretty impossible tbh. They veer around unpredictably when bumped, and explode long before you can plausibly bump them into a pool. Limiting that to slams would definitely help though!

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