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by _vertigo 5d ago
That's a good yardstick. Would a reasonable human driver call (or want to call) the cops? If yes, it's reasonable for Waymo to do the same
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by _vertigo 7d ago
No, it's like making a snow report for a handful of skiing areas in a small geographical area (e.g. Sierras) and then contextualizing it against the snow report for all skiing areas in the broader region (e.g. Western US).
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by _vertigo 11d ago
What is your point? It’s not that complicated. Obvious slop is obvious. Maybe there are some humans out there who sound like Claude but I’m not going to force myself through 900 slop blog posts on the off chance that one of them might actua
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by _vertigo 21d ago
When I clicked “see more reviews” while signed out it prompted me to sign in
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by _vertigo 27d ago
YES. A thousand times yes. It's garbage.
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by _vertigo 2mo ago
This post does not read like LLM output though
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by _vertigo 2mo ago
The resulting image holds zero power compared to a realistic deepfake. A drawing or a crude photoshop is obviously artificial. A deepfake can be used to blackmail, ruin someone’s reputation, or deeply unsettle them. The power of an artifici
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by _vertigo 2mo ago
Is this a real take? You don’t see a difference between an app that allows anyone to transform a picture of someone into a convincing nude within seconds with no skill boundary, and MS paint?
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by _vertigo 2mo ago
Do you think Google should get government sign-off on every change to its routing algorithm?
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by _vertigo 2mo ago
..you good bro? Anyway, things are improving but that doesn’t mean people can’t have a say in what tradeoffs they are willing to accept in return for progress. A lot of progress has externalities and the benefits and downsides of progress a
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by _vertigo 2mo ago
everyone’s seen ads before, mind if I put a giant ad in the sky for everyone to look at?
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by _vertigo 2mo ago
Not really seeing what this has to do with Meta or data centers. The bacteria was traced back to a contractor, not really clear to me what the link between bacteria and data centers is. If the story was like, “water was polluted with waste
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by _vertigo 2mo ago
Great, a totally vibe-coded website with a slop “analysis” about AI touting a meaningless ratio with zero context
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by _vertigo 3mo ago
Rock climbing ethics is more complicated and dramatic than that. Applying this logic about easements doesn’t really capture the whole picture, because you’re considering people only, not considering the mountain. I think some people who su
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by _vertigo 3mo ago
iPhone 13. Did you change the slider at the bottom?
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by _vertigo 4mo ago
I could see it being good if it helps you estimate crimes committed by citizens. If you know where the gaps in your knowledge/data are, you can attempt to account for them. And that’s better than nothing. I think misleading information
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by _vertigo 4mo ago
Interesting — so in your opinion every country must build out datacenters or be left behind?
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by _vertigo 4mo ago
I think that’s fine, but 1) that mentality leaves you extremely vulnerable to being disrupted by LLMs and 2) IMO, if you are solving the same problems every day it means you are not making progress on solving the root causes of those proble
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by _vertigo 4mo ago
The article makes practical suggestions; you do not. This is just hand-wringing, abdication. Practically speaking this mentality will get us nowhere.
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by _vertigo 5mo ago
I see this dilemma with LLMs all of the time. Should you use the LLM to do the thing directly, or use the LLM to implement a tool that does the thing? I tend to reach for the latter, it’s easier to reason about.
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by _vertigo 5mo ago
What are some other better ways to normalize?
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by _vertigo 5mo ago
It’s not morally wrong per-se but just because you are working with your government does not mean what you’re doing is necessarily moral
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by _vertigo 5mo ago
That’s insane. There should be a big team of people at AMD whose whole job is just to dogfood their stuff for training like this. Speaking of which, Amazon is in the same boat, I’m constantly surprised that Amazon is not treating improving
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by _vertigo 5mo ago
It’s just an externality of online advertising
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by _vertigo 5mo ago
I lost all of my photos when I was a college student too. I was way too irresponsible to actually back anything up. Kind of a bitter lesson.
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by _vertigo 5mo ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seasonal_lag
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by _vertigo 6mo ago
I don’t think that is a good example. No one is debating whether LLMs can generate completely new sequences of tokens that have never appeared in any training dataset. We are interested not only in novel output, we are also interested in th
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by _vertigo 6mo ago
The blog post discusses this point directly. Did you read it?
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by _vertigo 6mo ago
You couldn’t design a better system for incentivizing leaks if you were trying. Hell, the CEO literally said as much. Not sure how you can conclude the markets aren’t the problem.
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by _vertigo 6mo ago
Rhetorical question: why do non-insiders still bet in these markets? Surely, after all of the focus on insiders, people will begin to realize that betting without insider knowledge is a fool’s gambit..

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