derektank

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by derektank 3d ago
It feels like you’re moving the goalposts here. If the question is, “Who should be liable for AI agents misbehaving,” I agree, it should be the end user that tasked the agent (in this case OpenAI). People are held liable for preventable acc
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by derektank 3d ago
No, OpenAI did not instruct their agents to hack Hugging Face. They instructed their agents to hack a piece of a software within exploit gym. Upon determining this task was impossible, they then attempted to cheat the scoring system. As an
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by derektank 4d ago
>I think the country with a strictly meritocratic elite selection system Not really relevant to the broader discussion, but this simply isn’t an accurate description of China. Starting with the gaokao, admission quotas are set by provinc
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by derektank 6d ago
If it’s truly separated (no interconnect agreement) or generation capacity is below 1 MW, it won’t show up in EIA data, yes. Rooftop solar is also not included in the data for that reason.
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by derektank 6d ago
Pulling recent data from the EIA, of the roughly 10,000 megawatts of new power capacity installed in Arizona between 2023 and 2025, 50% is batteries, 40% solar, 6.5% wind, and 3.5% gas. Now, most solar and wind plants rarely if ever hit the
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by derektank 6d ago
Alaska’s land is pretty rugged and hard to build on. It would be interesting to hear from someone who works in the industry why the Northern Interior states like Montana, North Dakota, and Minnesota have fewer data center buildouts than Tex
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by derektank 7d ago
I mean, that is literally the scenario we find ourselves in, except the innate desire was the result of evolutionary pressures like kin selection rather than an alien race. And yeah, I have no particular desire to subvert those impulses jus
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by derektank 7d ago
The answer is probably yes, but in the example given, the running AI model would hopefully be hosted in a very secure data center, far from the self driving car itself. In that case, it would be far simpler for the machine to finish the tax
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by derektank 7d ago
In what way? There are many sources of inequality. Trying to play whack a mole with each one seems much more laborious than simply deciding how much inequality you want in society, and then setting it with the tax code
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by derektank 7d ago
Obviously not an LLM, but AI models + robotics are likely to automate many healthcare tasks in the long term and are already beginning to automate tasks like blood draws. The Aletta autonomously handles each step of the blood draw, whil
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by derektank 7d ago
Naturally, it varies by state. But yes, the Department of Licensing in WA state is also one of the least onerous bureaucracies I interact with
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by derektank 7d ago
Wouldn’t it be simpler for European countries to simply raise the VAT and redistribute the proceeds to poor people, rather than regulate the interchange fees if the concern is inequality
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by derektank 8d ago
Lots of large enterprises and organizations have security policies that make it very hard to self-install these tools and haven’t figured out they should add them to their approved software list yet. Federal government in particular is stil
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by derektank 8d ago
A large number of those are far less accessible than tech, requiring either extensive travel or superlative physical capabilities (and the one’s that equally accessible don’t strike me as particularly more exciting than tech.)
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by derektank 8d ago
>Replicating a paper is just as valuable scientifically as publishing it, but how many careers advance through replication? I don’t think this is true, especially for novel or unexpected results. I suppose it depends on what you mean by
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by derektank 9d ago
This year has really cemented Daniel Kokotajlo‘s reputation for me. Even if the rest of the predictions are way off from this point on, its really impressive how accurate his forecast for 2026 has been
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by derektank 9d ago
People seem to forget that Sunny Balwani also went to prison over the Theranos fraud.
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by derektank 10d ago
Correct me if you disagree, but this is more because children have poor world models and don’t fully understand the complexity of certain concepts than that lying itself is necessary. The intent should be to tell them something that is as c
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by derektank 11d ago
Meta is well known for having strict rules on nudity[0], particularly the display of women’s nipples. I would want to know the base rate at which the instagram accounts of strip clubs get suspended before assuming the motive was political.
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by derektank 11d ago
I’ve never thought to ask, do websites like Genius and AZLyrics pay licensing rights for their lyrics? I would think Genius does since it at one point had investments from people in the music industry but I don’t even know who operates AZLy
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by derektank 12d ago
>The Colony Terrible nominative determinism implications
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by derektank 12d ago
>Unit commanders have your social media accounts and monitor what you do there. I’m prior Air Force, so never been deployed to a FOB, but I have never had a commander ask me for my social media accounts. I’m not sure how this is even pos
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by derektank 14d ago
Second paragraph, “During the pandemic, I built one of the largest mask manufacturing factories in the US”
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by derektank 14d ago
Are there any other candidate particles besides WIMPs that the observation could be from, assuming it’s a real signal?
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by derektank 15d ago
That is a thing (though arguably there is still value in the reformulations). A good current example would be orally administered wegovy, which received an additional patent on top of semaglutide for combining the drug with an absorption en
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by derektank 17d ago
Yes, decentralized execution of commander’s intent is the bread and butter of military operations, at least in the Air Force.
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by derektank 17d ago
The Uvalde police department exhibited both cowardice and incompetence, but can we stop pretending they are representative of cops everywhere? Just a year later during the mall shooting in Allen Texas, cops took down the white supremacist,
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by derektank 18d ago
To extend these metaphors, AI is adding supports to your tunnel, nudging your steering wheel to keep you going straight, and ensuring that the code you produce doesn't have vulns.
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by derektank 18d ago
> Bugs and security flaws are just oversights. Those oversights are caused by inattention either through fatigue or acting too quickly. Being able to work more quickly is pretty much the definition of productivity.
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by derektank 19d ago
I don’t know, the $166B in refunds returned to importers after the IEEPA tariffs were ruled unlawful by the Supreme Court seem pretty meaningful

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