MostlyStable

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by MostlyStable 5d ago
I'm pretty wary of mass public surveillance. I'm much less concerned about companies monitoring the inside of their private property
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by MostlyStable 5d ago
As far as I can tell here the ghost portion is basically a non-sequiter. The waymo vehicle called the cops because it detected e passengers had a gun. The vehicle did not know or care about its status as a ghost gun or not. I'm sure th
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by MostlyStable 8d ago
I'm honestly curious about the "market keeps rejecting it" part. Yes, they sold far fewer units than the other models....but did they really not make money? I have made variations on this comment many many times. I completely
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by MostlyStable 8d ago
The problem with mostly-but-not-entirely autonomous is that humans will tend to treat it like entirely autonomous.
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by MostlyStable 10d ago
That's how several major AI advancements have happened. I have seen no evidence that that is the fastest way to make progress right now. I expect that, much like chess engines, it will not take too long before AI is significantly bette
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by MostlyStable 13d ago
The not needing an account is obviously not minor, but honestly, the UI is just better , by a lot . I made a twitter account a while ago using one of those throw away email address sites, so I have an account that I don't care about
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by MostlyStable 13d ago
Even if they don't figure out how to exfiltrate weights, someone will intentionally do this with an open model once open models are capable enough. If you ever think "no one would be so stupid as to...", you are wrong. Yes, s
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by MostlyStable 13d ago
I think this has historically been true and is still approximately true now. But I think in the relatively near future (less than 5 years) there's a really good chance it won't be true anymore. Once open models catch up to the cur
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by MostlyStable 15d ago
I don't think he's complaining about having a lot of apps, or the ability to have a lot of apps. He's complaining about being required to use apps for hundreds of small interactions every day that don't, or shouldn&#x2
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by MostlyStable 16d ago
No, "Marching Morons" [0] from 1951 "predicted all of this". The original short story (which, while I have not been able to find any explicit confirmation, I just can't believe was not a direct inspiration for the m
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by MostlyStable 17d ago
honestly curious question: do you expect this to remain true? If so, for how long? I can think of two potential reasons why it might not stay true. 1. The very best humans remain able to understand/check the proofs, but we go for so lo
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by MostlyStable 17d ago
I do not have a single hobby where I'm very far beyond the median hobby-haver in skill (that is to say: if you took all other humans who share my hobby, I'm likely somewhere near median for all of them). This may put me in top wha
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by MostlyStable 21d ago
Lump of Labor fallacy
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by MostlyStable 23d ago
Still works for me (although I always use it logged in). If they kill old.reddit, I may finally abandon the site. It's been slowly losing value for a long time and being forced to use the hot garbage of the new UI might be my tipping p
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by MostlyStable 23d ago
What? No this is completely incorrect. old.reddit is a way of viewing reddit with the old (in my opinion far superior) UI, but includes new posts and comments. As for whether or not it requires an account, that appears to be something tha
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by MostlyStable 25d ago
He was remarking on how unbelievable it was. He sentence is a little bit hard to parse but he's saying that both 5.5 being better than 5.6 AND Gemini 3.6 scoring better than both are signs that this benchmark is not very useful. The re
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by MostlyStable 25d ago
If streaming through a browser/open source / not the locked down app supported 1080p I would be a lot happier. My understanding from the last time i looked is that it actually only supports 720p
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by MostlyStable 26d ago
I had a whole long response typed out and I realized that it probably wasn't worth it. I think that I just have to admit that I find your view and understanding of the world completely incomprehensible. Thanks for humoring me, and have
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by MostlyStable 26d ago
Who is this audience that thinks unasked-for and un-controllable felonies is a good message, or who wants to fund that?
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by MostlyStable 27d ago
I find the juxtaposition of "can't stop bragging" and "is not a good marketing term" to be fascinating. Have you considered that they know these recent reports aren't a good look for them but that they feel com
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by MostlyStable 28d ago
I actually don't think we should expect artists to be something bigger or more than their art. He is right that the fix needs to be consumer driven, but I think it just needs to be that we care a lot less about celebrities of all kinds
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by MostlyStable 1mo ago
I apparently have a very uncommon viewpoint on this, given the flavor of the comments. I won't try and say that this situation is totally fine, or ideal, or anything close to it, but I think that in order for us to know how to feel, we
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by MostlyStable 1mo ago
That would make sense if we already knew that, for these kinds of tasks it was significantly worse. The tests that I'm aware of for these tasks show it as still performing near the top.
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by MostlyStable 1mo ago
Curious why you didn't try Gemini 3 pro? That is the model I've been using for OCR entry of handwritten datasheets (JPGS of datasheets, structured JSON output). At my scale, the cost of 3 pro is basically not an issue, but if ther
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by MostlyStable 1mo ago
Body fat percentage can't conflict with BMI because BMI is not an estimate of body fat percentage. And I agree that it's never caused me problems, but that's because I and, as you suggest, doctors who look at the number, have
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by MostlyStable 1mo ago
I'm curious what solutions to Future threats you think qualify as a panopticon, and why the following set of words in this context don't make you worried about the same: >monitoring, verification, and other early-stage deterren
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by MostlyStable 1mo ago
At a population level, it's great. For individuals, it can fail in all kinds of ways. For me: it is not very good because my body has very strange proportions. I'm 6'2", but my waist is barely higher than my 5'1&quo
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by MostlyStable 1mo ago
I would not overgeneralize from paper. Firstly: forcing JSON output is, in my opinion, a bigger change than asking it to match the above style guidelines, and secondly, as is always the case with these kinds of papers, what was true for the
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by MostlyStable 1mo ago
Having that be there only backup solution would have been silly and dangerous. Having it be part of their overall backup solution including with something like the provider would have been smarter and better and prevented this entire proble
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by MostlyStable 1mo ago
YouTube Kids in theory solves all my problems, the issue is that it's garbage software where the most important features are broken. For example I recently went on a long trip and grabbed the kids tablet. Only to discover after leavi

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