ashleyn

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by ashleyn 5d ago
How do we stop china and russia from developing it? How come nobody seems to be talking about the obvious international treaty that would be necessary to actually ban superintelligence from being developed? At least we can deliberate some
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by ashleyn 13d ago
One of the reasons SA was discontinued was that if you knew the coordinates of a base station, you could correct for the error. Are airports not doing this already?
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by ashleyn 13d ago
Somehow, Selective Availability returned.
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by ashleyn 13d ago
I largely agree with the concern, but "pausing AI" is an international effort requiring signature of treaties. Even then, enforcement mechanisms are lacking compared to, say, the number of nuclear bombers in a boneyard or the comp
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by ashleyn 16d ago
I remember for a while that Firefox had a single process architecture for all tabs. This often frustrated me as one bad tab could just crash the whole browser while Chrome used separate processes for each tab, prompting me to switch to Chro
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by ashleyn 16d ago
I kinda feel like many might be biased to view the era of their own youth as the peak of humanity.
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by ashleyn 19d ago
Am I off base to view this as a strong hint AGI won't arrive through mere LLMs?
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by ashleyn 19d ago
Seems like important context behind the push for things like Web Environment Integrity (similar in concept to "trusted computing" if you were around for that controversy in the early 2000s): https://en.wikipedia.org&#x2
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by ashleyn 27d ago
The logical endpoint of this is that nations campaign on "internet sovereignty" and begin whitelisting the internet with strict restrictions and licensure of who can open up new sites. This is reportedly occurring to a limited ext
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by ashleyn 28d ago
I wonder if we're headed for a future where it is almost completely impossible to make money off human-made "authentic" art because it simply can't compete with the effort-to-dollar ratio of slop. The trends weren't
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by ashleyn 29d ago
120 hours of leetcode prep to get a job centering divs with claude
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by ashleyn 1mo ago
I can't be the only one to see that location and think "Holy climate change risk, Batman!" Despite the appearance, is it uniquely prone to flooding or storm surges?
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by ashleyn 1mo ago
Wow, what a great comparison. LLMs are great at reasoning but absolute dogshit at simple arithmetic. If there's a raw calculation involved I always tell it to use python to add it all up.
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by ashleyn 1mo ago
As a woman my first thought was Body Dysmorphic Disorder.
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by ashleyn 1mo ago
Incarceration is a tragedy for everyone, and this could be fantastic for low-risk inmates, but the first thing I thought of is what an immediate security gap this can be. "I'm really pissed at^H^H^H.... I'm writing a story ab
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by ashleyn 1mo ago
All-time classic stack overflow thread where someone is asking why everyone seems to ignore a large banner on top of his page that strongly resembles an ad: https://ux.stackexchange.com/questions/120541/why-do-peop
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by ashleyn 1mo ago
A lot of these applications run in Electron or similar libraries where a whole new browser instance, with all its overhead, is stood up for each application. The simplest answer is we need to stop trying to use web technologies as a one-siz
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by ashleyn 1mo ago
It could eventually be the case that providing the full speedpaint for a given digital artwork significantly bolsters credibility in the minds of audiences who universally reject AI-generated content as cheap, spiritually enfeebling, and pr
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by ashleyn 1mo ago
This is nearly a month now and the problem continuing to worsen does not inspire confidence that the current administration's FDA is doing its job properly or has the problem under control. In early July, Taco Bell pulled lettuce at al
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by ashleyn 1mo ago
The reputation of datacenters precludes them due to some high-profile abuses of locals, as well as cities overcommitting brittle and unprepared infrastructure to them. Consumer energy prices in 13+ states hiked because the grid was unable t
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by ashleyn 1mo ago
A great deal of changes proposed to make disabled peoples' lives easier end up having many fringe benefits for the non-disabled. The classic example is strollers or hand trucks going up the little dip on the sidewalk rather than having
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by ashleyn 1mo ago
The US has been institutionally dysfunctional for quite some time, so that puts us in an interesting position where it's easier to imagine inventing our way out of social problems with $30,000 servo-filled boxes than it is to imagine e
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by ashleyn 2mo ago
They could've done a lot more interesting things with AI in Google Earth though. Think planning a travel itinerary, or plaintext search of a POI. I was just using Earth to plan an irrigation setup in my backyard, would've been dam
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by ashleyn 2mo ago
Isn't this the core idea behind atproto?
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by ashleyn 2mo ago
They might be low-hanging fruit but two things immediately come to mind: * As more of the small stuff is just proven for free, the more they can be used as a basis for other proofs. If you know something is true or false for certain, that c
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by ashleyn 2mo ago
These look like other users' prompts. Is this not concerning to anyone?
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by ashleyn 2mo ago
Gotta admit google is pretty ballsy for directly attacking Moravec's Paradox: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moravec%27s_paradox
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by ashleyn 2mo ago
It didn't really factor into the break here but, it's amazing people still use ECB even though the famous penguin image is well over a decade old now.
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by ashleyn 2mo ago
>Muse Spark is closed weight We're all trying to find the guy who did this
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by ashleyn 2mo ago
Only slightly unrelated, but I've been thinking a lot lately about prion disease and whether or not you can still trust the meat you eat. Easily a food safety concern that is ten times worse than getting a little diarrhea from your sal

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