archagon

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by archagon 3d ago
I feel like using LLMs as a sort of deep search to find bugs and security issues is going to end up relatively uncontroversial all around, if the externalities of LLM use are ever taken care of.
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by archagon 3d ago
Fundamentally, the question is this: what is a large language model, what is it capable of, how does it differ from human cognition, and what can humans do that it cannot do? A lot of people seem to believe that with more time and trainin
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by archagon 3d ago
Whatever his technical chops may be, Carmack has slid fully and comfortably into the role of “influencer” over the last decade.
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by archagon 3d ago
AI is not an abstraction and is not like moving up from assembly at all.
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by archagon 5d ago
“Tech stories” = Nth OpenAI/Anthropic press release or LLM-generated thought piece. Such enrichment, much learning.
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by archagon 5d ago
You don’t have to participate in the discussion, but it will take place regardless of your preferences.
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by archagon 5d ago
AI is not an abstraction and it cannot be the foundation for the next layer up, like assembly can. I think you are categorically wrong.
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by archagon 7d ago
So why are you commenting on it?
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by archagon 7d ago
I think the vast majority of voters will have something to say about that.
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by archagon 7d ago
That seems like folly, since some courts somewhere will surely, at some point, find these LLMs to be in (IMO, fairly obvious) violation of copyright and/or license terms. Especially when it’s geopolitically expedient. Especially as t
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by archagon 7d ago
The job is to make widgets, not to use specific tools to make widgets. When has that ever been the case before? None of my bosses ever gave a shit what editors I used, for example. Certainly not the CEOs. You sound weirdly angry and aggress
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by archagon 7d ago
Not OP, but… “When you're in Hollywood and you're a comedian, everybody wants you to do other things. All right, you're a stand-up comedian, can you write us a script? That's not fair. That's like if I worked hard t
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by archagon 7d ago
That’s not how that works. I don’t usually have an inner monologue either, but I do have an abstract stream of thought. It’s not as if I am always acting on instinct.
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by archagon 8d ago
Seconded. I guess it makes sense with tech leaders like Musk and DHH making white supremacy fun and cool again. But the internet always remembers, and will continue to remember when these things are not fun and cool anymore.
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by archagon 9d ago
Meanwhile, a thread with more votes and comments: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49602582
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by archagon 9d ago
Why on earth did the mods decide to remove flags on this?
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by archagon 9d ago
Aid could have been tapered; advance warning could have been given. But Musk very publicly delighted in feeding USAID into the woodchipper, causing people to die as a direct result of his hasty actions. He simply did not give a fuck about t
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by archagon 9d ago
My point is that the most prominent tech CEO definitely killed people through reckless action, without apology or remorse. The actual number is unquestionably more than ten; almost certainly in the thousands; and, based (again) on research
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by archagon 9d ago
“Musk gleefully fed USAID into the woodchipper which directly caused X deaths that could have been avoided through gradual tapering of aid.” Simple question: how small does X have to be for you to not care? Or do you genuinely believe that
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by archagon 9d ago
IIRC, I personally read three different articles where journalists on the ground described specific deaths (with names) from the sudden and unexpected cutoff of aid. And there were studies from top-ranked universities numbering deaths in th
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by archagon 9d ago
That every Musk-adjacent article and PR summary isn’t prefaced with this basic, indisputable fact is repulsive.
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by archagon 12d ago
Actually, the moat is regulatory. Expect these companies to behave themselves in progressively more grotesque and sycophantic ways to get the federal government to make open/foreign models (and their output) illegal. After all, their v
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by archagon 12d ago
Here is the comment I deleted: “Same to you. You’re all over this thread with smug comments and cheap snipes. Why are you even here? Are you gaining anything at all from this discussion? There are loads and loads of people on this site with
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by archagon 12d ago
Everyone has a plan until they get sued into oblivion.
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by archagon 12d ago
“the thing you haven't come to terms with…” Why the fuck do so many people write like this nowadays? Quit acting like you have access to some sort of universal knowledge or unique insight into other people’s state of mind; it’s extreme
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by archagon 12d ago
So… similar levels of garbage code, but with no eyes looking at it.
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by archagon 12d ago
Speaking for myself, I would not touch any professional practice sporting a slopcoded website with a ten-foot pole.
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by archagon 12d ago
Unless this is the endpoint of software engineering (React for the next thousand years?) someone’s gonna have to do the work of understanding and pushing things forward. It won’t be an agent.
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Elon Musk Unmasked in Alex Gibney Documentary(hollywoodreporter.com)
33 points by archagon 13d ago|2 comments
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by archagon 15d ago
Recently Silksong, Celeste, Rhythm Doctor, Star of Providence, Spelunky 2, then classics like Fez, Cave Story, La Mulana, and many more...

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