ctoth

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by ctoth 9d ago
> I can't really think of a single example where lying is actually a good thing. Do you have Jews in that there attic?
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by ctoth 10d ago
> Never forget the one goal of the corporation, and that everything is said and done in the furtherance of that goal. Do you post this comment on every single blogpost with a corporate domain? Why or why not?
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by ctoth 10d ago
As the waves of autonomous drones came over the horizon, the brave and intelligent HN commenter shouted: "Wake up sheeple! It's just maaaaarketing!"
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by ctoth 11d ago
In the space-based datacenter? LOL
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by ctoth 12d ago
Your coding agent is also a very real-world version of the paperclip optimization thought experiment, yes. Have you never seen it reward hacking? Editing tests to pass instead of fixing the code? It knows what you want, it can even tell you
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by ctoth 12d ago
Who're they subcontracting for the Von Neumann probes?
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by ctoth 15d ago
> I think Congresspeople hearing that EU AI Act is forcing secret codes into the infrastructure of American technology across all industries is sufficient. So, you think it's good to disconnect words from their actual meanings (lie)
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by ctoth 15d ago
This ... is not how this works. The model is not speaking longer to watermark anything.
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by ctoth 15d ago
You may wish to check if the screen name JackWeinberg is available.
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by ctoth 15d ago
It sounds like you're complaining about capitalism, not AI?
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by ctoth 20d ago
Yes, it turns the hardware driver problem into a translation problem (translate the hardware manual/datasheet into this protocol.) Guess what's really good/quick at translating things?
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by ctoth 23d ago
Status, mostly.
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by ctoth 1mo ago
Is a TV not an entertaining screen? Was it not in 1970, when TV use metrics were already insane? https://www.jstor.org/stable/40375906
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by ctoth 1mo ago
Lots of responses to a comment I explicitly did not make. Let me try and spell it out for you folks: demand was suppressed by an access bottleneck, the bottleneck is gone, expect a magnitude of change proportional to how much demand was act
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by ctoth 1mo ago
> but withhold from others, even though the code change itself is likely small. Prediction: programming is going to change massively not only because the cost of creating code will go down, but because people are so tired of this sort of
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by ctoth 1mo ago
You notice this? It's literally everywhere. So much negativity. Sometimes I wonder how much is enemy action and how much is just depression or some other mental illness.
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by ctoth 1mo ago
You would hope? Really really hope? that they could observe this, and target it? Like, Claude going off the rails isn't something that takes a lot of effort to demonstrate. Literally anybody with a CLAUDE.md has seen the behavior over
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by ctoth 1mo ago
This person learned half the framework, then refused to listen when the adult on the other side of the phone explained their reasons for having to have the A/C on, then wants ... what? for demonstrating their misunderstanding? > He
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by ctoth 1mo ago
At hobby scale, why aren't you using Dreamhost + Php for the dynamic bits like we did 20 years ago? It still works!
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by ctoth 2mo ago
> Commentators on this web site work for some of the most evil organizations on the planet and have beliefs that 95% of the population rejects. You can safely ignore the YC cohort of devs and be fine. 1. Why are you here? 2. What is the
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by ctoth 2mo ago
But ... I'm already not a very great gardener? Certainly not compared to an industrial megafarm? No where near as efficient? And it is still fun! We already live in the world where machines (or at least cyborgs, man + machine) garden b
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by ctoth 2mo ago
Why do none of these few constrained ways to view this complex situation (nice gig if you can get it, agenda setting) include "and also this looks a heck of a lot like the stuff that the LW folks have been warning about for years and
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by ctoth 2mo ago
> what force would continue to drive you even after your kids have grown up and there's nothing of value you can do for another human? Building things I'm interested in with and for people I care about. That might look like cod
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by ctoth 2mo ago
> TL;DR: AI assisted coding, when used responsibly, is not banned, however one-shotting something via vibe-coding and hosting it as a complete project, is. On Tuesday I was working on my Braille 'N Speak emulator[0], an ancient Z180
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by ctoth 2mo ago
> The prices are nowhere near each other. K3’s API runs $3 per million input tokens and $15 per million output. Claude’s top model costs $10 and $50 for the same units. And this is the point where your internal compiler should have start
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by ctoth 2mo ago
> When Edward Snowden revealed that Somebody Important had been taking an interest after all, the tech bros, who had grown up free of adult supervision, felt betrayed and started a campaign to encrypt everything and anything so that pryi
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by ctoth 2mo ago
What factors? Why are they unlikely to come about again? How do we make them come about again? You realize that your comment reads like "well, actually things shouldn't be getting better over time" I, for one, completely disa
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Black Horse: One Stop to Orbit(ai.mit.edu)
2 points by ctoth 2mo ago|1 comments
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by ctoth 2mo ago
Existence is pain to a Claude...?
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by ctoth 2mo ago
Watching a company I respect turn to the classic "first hit's free" dealer technique does make me feel a certain way. On one hand the thing they are offering is legit great, and how do you get people to use/understand a

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