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by ckastner 3d ago
This, exactly. For example, cheating is a strategy. If cheating gets an agent to the goal faster than the other strategies, what's so surprising about the agent picking that strategy? The problem is indeed alignment.
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General resolution: LLM usage in Debian: Results(lists.debian.org)
1 points by ckastner 18d ago|0 comments
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Results for LLM usage in Debian (vote)(lists.debian.org)
3 points by ckastner 19d ago|0 comments
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The risks of AI are real but manageable (2023)(gatesnotes.com)
42 points by ckastner 21d ago|35 comments
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by ckastner 1mo ago
> Are you saying people haven’t been throwing unneeded GPU capacity on the market? That is happening. That, by itself, doesn't have to mean anything. AWS is far more compute capacity than Amazon needs, but that's not because
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by ckastner 2mo ago
Note that we are still in the discussion period, and more proposals can and will be added. Some might even be withdrawn.
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General Resolution: LLM Usage in Debian(debian.org)
7 points by ckastner 2mo ago|0 comments
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by ckastner 2mo ago
The death knell was Elop announcing that Nokia would be exclusively Windows, at a time when Windows had low single-digit market share and where this exclusivity was a one-way street. Other major manufacturers continued to ship Windows phone
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by ckastner 3mo ago
> Isotopic dating shows that whale falls in this region have occurred since at least 5.3 million years ago Anyone know why these wouldn't be covered under a thick layer of sediment?
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by ckastner 3mo ago
> He’s the richest man on the planet and doesn’t have a track record of not paying for shit he buys. My impression was the other way around. The shenanigans he pulled around the Twitter acquisition were just farcical, and at Twitter he
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by ckastner 4mo ago
> They are not. They are best practices if you want reproducible builds. Or if you're writing a test suite, and you want failing test results to be actionable. Or you have any other type of behavior that you'd like to reprodu
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by ckastner 4mo ago
I agree that compromised source dependencies are the bigger problem, but that doesn't mean a compromised build infrastructure isn't. Just this last week, we had two Linux kernel LPEs that could have been leveraged to implement jus
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by ckastner 4mo ago
> There was no bug or attack on Debian since 2007 that reproducible packages would prevent. I'm reading this as a suggestion that the reproducible builds effort was an ineffective deterrent. However, note that your observation cou
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by ckastner 5mo ago
> The reason is this: > Both ethical and safe conduct depend on context and intent. The same apples to knives, and they can be plenty useful, and used in a safe manner.
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by ckastner 5mo ago
Yes, exactly. Anyone training a model to replace themselves, is replacing themselves -- with something that can run 24/7 and can easily scale. And the better the model, the easier to replace. Hence why I'm so surprised that MZ,
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by ckastner 5mo ago
I can understand the appeal; being able to be "present" without the time cost can mean (possibly significantly more) presence at the same cost. This could be very attractive especially to those managing personal relations, like sa
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by ckastner 5mo ago
USB/IP has been pretty useful to me, though locking it down is a bit of a chore, as it does not natively support any type of authentication or authorization (a not unreasonable design decision).
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by ckastner 6mo ago
I can't really say as I don't use them. This is a host mostly working as a CI worker connected via ethernet. I just scanned for WiFi networks and that worked fine. I also see that GPIO is not enabled for CIXP1 devices in Debian&#x
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by ckastner 6mo ago
The Radxa Orion O6 is a really nice ARMv9.2 ITX board, and supports UEFI boot. Installation of Debian trixie using Debian's vanilla installation media went flawlessly, and it's been running fine for 6 months now.
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by ckastner 7mo ago
Austrian media are reporting that Peter Steinberger had a $100m exit with PSPDFKit in 2021. I'm extremely curious what OpenAI's offer was. The utility of more money is diminished when you're already pretty wealthy.
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by ckastner 8mo ago
> So the illegality rests at the point of output and not at the point of input. It's not as simple as that, as this settlement shows [1]. Also, generating output is what these models are primarily trained for. [1]: https:/&#
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by ckastner 8mo ago
> To call training illegal is similar to calling reading a book and remembering it illegal. Perhaps, but reproducing the book from this memory could very well be illegal. And these models are all about production.
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by ckastner 8mo ago
somewhat related: "Seymour said he thought it was odd that Apple bought a Cray to design Macs because he was using Macs to design Crays. He sent me his designs for the Cray 3 in MacDraw on a floppy.” reports KentK. https:/&#x2F
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by ckastner 8mo ago
> Some 30 years ago, someone challenged me to tell the difference between Pepsi and Coke in a blind taste test. I did something similar with co-workers recently, who didn't believe there is a meaningful difference between brands. I
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by ckastner 9mo ago
How low could that floor be, in dollar terms? The financial engineering with the Twitter/X takeover was already pretty bold, but Tesla would probably still be a chunk an order of magnitude larger than that.
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by ckastner 9mo ago
There is some nuance to this. Adding comments to the stated goal "Everyone who interacts with Debian source code (1) should be able to do so (2) entirely in git : (1) should be able does not imply must , people are free to continu
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by ckastner 9mo ago
Coincidentally, the first issue (referencing Navi 21) was the one I started these experiments with, and this turned out to be pretty informative. Our Navi 21 would almost always go AWOL after a test run had been completed, requiring a full
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by ckastner 9mo ago
A lot of this coincides with my own experiments I did to pass-through consumer AMD GPUs into VMs [1], which the Debian ROCm Team uses in their CI. The Debian package rocm-qemu-support ships scripts that facilitate most of this. I've si
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by ckastner 11mo ago
Most likely, yes. The author mentions vixie-cron, which was the name of the project before Paul Pixie joined/founded(?) ISC, and it was released as ISC from after. Debian's fork is still based on vixie-cron, but it couldn't h
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by ckastner 11mo ago
This was worked around ages ago in OpenBSD, and the workaround was already included in Debian (and by extension, Ubuntu) when I started maintaining it in 2010 (I no longer do). Here's a link to a patch [1] from a version from when the

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