Willish42

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by Willish42 14d ago
> I would be especially curious to see the NPC person/car logic and if they're on rails or what, that's a pretty good NPC density for a demo. Here ya go: - https://github.com/PhiloLabs/fable51-worlds&#
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by Willish42 14d ago
this is really neat. I wonder if people will start building open world games or "AR" games in the vein of Pokemon Go and Ingress based on similar tech. I've had a similar idea for a long time but don't think it was feasi
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by Willish42 14d ago
More than other AI moments in the last few years, this feels to me like an event in tech that will be seen retroactively as an important watershed moment. I really appreciated the negative framing and critical tone of this author's ove
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by Willish42 2mo ago
> Greg Egan's short story "learning to be me" I read it and it is indeed quite good! link for the lazy: https://gwern.net/doc/fiction/science-fiction/1995-egan.pdf
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by Willish42 2mo ago
> The document is dated May 2024 so is out of date, meaning ICE may not have access to every one of these capabilities at the time of writing. ICE has continued to spend hundreds of millions of dollars on peoples’ personal data and new s
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by Willish42 2mo ago
I think another aspect is the deep understanding one gains from building the thing, and the idea of the thing being entirely the creator's and translated into "reality" through some kind of physical or mental labor. An author
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by Willish42 2mo ago
I've been using Fable on and off since the promotion started and have been fairly impressed with it, so I consider this great news! At the same time, I sense a lot of negativity (especially on HN) in comparison to Codex from OpenAI (wh
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by Willish42 2mo ago
I remember the hype around the first OnePlus phone, with the invite system. It was the first time I'd had a device loaded with Cyanogenmod that ran relatively stable without any issues. Eventually the capactive touch home button on my
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by Willish42 3mo ago
I'm thankful I tested Fable via my subscription before the cutoff. To me, it seemed like at least part of the improvements were in how it broke up work for a "one-shot" style prompt, but I was very impressed at how quickly an
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by Willish42 4mo ago
Computers feel like a pretty good analogy for how AI will affect the workforce. I suspect productivity will massively increase, the complexity and cognitive load of our work will similarly multiply, and yet we'll still being doing the
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by Willish42 4mo ago
I've been thinking for some time that it wouldn't be too hard to create a third-party browser extension to crowdsource detection of channels that use primarily AI-generated content (for example, the AI slop music channels that put
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by Willish42 4mo ago
Like a lot of things in tech and pop science, "AI psychosis" had a narrow(-er) definition [1] (psychotic-like symptoms, i.e. believing the AI is in love with you, or being fueled by the AI into some strong delusions or belief in a
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by Willish42 5mo ago
I loved my TI-84+ SE and wish I still had it (had all sorts of custom programs on it but it got lost or stolen before I finished high school). That said, I find it really hard to believe that they can't provide better specs and featu
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by Willish42 5mo ago
The cost of these devices isn't the computation, and if anything more connectivity would probably make these more expensive and harder to use (many "smart" devices in classrooms have networking issues and if even one of them
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by Willish42 5mo ago
I wish the audio quality of youtube videos matched other streaming services. Bandwidth-wise it's pretty minimal, but the audio quality isn't quite as good as competitors like Spotify (and the longer they take to upgrade audio bitr
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by Willish42 6mo ago
> By this logic, the Nazis were the good guys in WWII, and Israel would be the good guys if they'd just turn off all their pesky air defenses. Can you elaborate on this? I thought that the Nazis were pretty obviously the "bad g
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by Willish42 6mo ago
The trust component is so critical here. When I get halfway through reading a design doc and hit a part that's obviously slop, it really hurts my confidence in the project and in any faith in the developer having done their due diligen
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by Willish42 6mo ago
> This was not opportunistic. It was precision. The malicious dependency was staged 18 hours in advance. Another obvious ChatGPT-ism. The fact that people are using AI to write these security posts doesn't surprise me, but the fact
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by Willish42 6mo ago
I think this is a political and economic problem rather than a technological one. I cannot think of a more important skill than surgery to continue training humans to do and to be wary of AI robotics replacing. Sure, some surgeries could li
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by Willish42 6mo ago
This is an angle for people who default to AI-edited written speech that I've tried to be more empathetic to. I think it depends on your audience, but in professional writing that isn't published publicly (i.e. communication with
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by Willish42 7mo ago
I've been meaning to get off Gmail, and Proton Mail does seem like my favorite of the alternatives from a quick glance, but I'm also concerned about privacy focused services like Proton getting blocked or compromised in the US...
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by Willish42 7mo ago
I think many used to feel that Google was the standout ethical player in big tech, much like we currently view Anthropic in the AI space. I also hope Anthropic does a better job, but seeing how quickly Google folded on their ethics after ha
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by Willish42 7mo ago
> I randomly tried Android again for a few months last spring. Using a functioning keyboard was revelatory. But I came crawling back to iOS because I'm weak and the orange iPhone was pretty and the Pixel 10 was boring and I caved to
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by Willish42 7mo ago
I feel like this anecdote represents the differing incentives / philosophies of each group rather well. I've noticed ChatGPT is rather high in its praise regardless of how valuable the input is, Gemini is less placating but still
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by Willish42 8mo ago
> cmd /c "whoami&&tasklist&&systeminfo&&netstat -ano" > a.txt Naive question, but isn't this relatively safe information to expose for this level of attack? I guess the idea is to find syste
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by Willish42 8mo ago
This resonated a lot with me. I am also addicted to being useful and find that off days where my output and usefulness isn't where I'd like it to be really tank my self esteem. I do think it can be a double-edged sword that often
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by Willish42 9mo ago
> Apparently one of the other linked posts shows how you can also gain RCE Yep, here it is: https://kibty.town/blog/mintlify/ Also linked in his guide (which I missed) and [here in a separate HN post]( https:&#
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by Willish42 10mo ago
> Communicating with Voyager 1 is slow. Commands now take about a day to arrive, with another day for confirmation. I found this a bit silly given the headline: "well duh, that's the theoretical limit barring fancy quantum enta
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by Willish42 10mo ago
There's some thoughtful comments here already, but I wonder the same thing constantly as a fairly addicted user of YouTube who wants to avoid short form video altogether. I think Premium users tend to be the most affluent desirable gro
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by Willish42 2y ago
I think you're advocating for better mental health care and rehabilitation of addicts, which I agree with. However, the idea that addicts will destroy their lives regardless of whether they stop using, or are forced to stop using, thei

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