dns_snek

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by dns_snek 4d ago
> like social psychology, have a replication rate in the 20% range. [1] Elaborate. Your "in the 20% range" claim seems to be incorrect, according to your own source, and missing context: research in other fields like medicine f
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by dns_snek 4d ago
Desktop OS also don't support Dolby Vision or fancy spatial audio formats. Trifecta: Piracy + Local media server + Streaming device, either Apple TV/Android TV (without internet access). No loss of quality, devices that could spy
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by dns_snek 4d ago
Yeah, and you don't even have to go that far, I've seen regular ChatGPT/Claude chat agents poison themselves in 1-2 turns by just reading information from the internet. Me: How do I do xyz? Bot: Reads website titled "Do
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by dns_snek 4d ago
Yes that's the snowballing part of this emergent behavior. The existence of that improvised message board just becomes part of the context, the same one where all the other instructions live.
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by dns_snek 4d ago
You're anthropomorphizing emergent behavior from endlessly generating billions of tokens on a task that's impossible to solve. Agents stop following instructions as the context grows even at the best of times. Eventually something
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by dns_snek 4d ago
Two concerns: - I think competitive open models are just an artifact of the AI race we're witnessing right now. What's the incentive for a company to spend billions researching, developing, and training a model, only to release it
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by dns_snek 5d ago
They said "We're looking at a future". And if that future ends up developing the way these companies want it to then we're looking at extremely dystopian future where AI is essential to all work and people have to buy th
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by dns_snek 5d ago
Yeah, if we could document our actual thought process then we wouldn't struggle to train LLMs what good code actually looks like and we wouldn't have slop anymore. Any process that can be documented can be automated and yet we don
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by dns_snek 5d ago
Is anyone tracking every prediction ever made in a spreadsheet that you could use to verify that the rate is literally >50%? No, not that I'm aware of. The only anecdata I can give is "look around you", how all major (and
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by dns_snek 5d ago
Yes, except these kinds of fears related to big tech/surveillance end up being true more often than not. Unsurprising given the profit incentives and the total lack of ethics in the industry. 10+ years ago you were considered a lunatic
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by dns_snek 6d ago
Heatshrink is great if you're making cables but you would need a really high shrinkage ratio to fit over the connector and then shrink enough, the common cheap stuff is usually 2:1, maybe 3:1. You could cut the heatshrink tube, wrap it
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by dns_snek 6d ago
I suggest finding something else, electrical tape starts coming off after a few years, leaving behind sticky residue that's impossible to remove without some kind of solvent. Same goes for masking tape.
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by dns_snek 6d ago
> and you literally heat each other so actually-fair costs are fuzzier What you're describing is closest to "actually fair" I think we can get. A neighbour of someone I know leaves their apartment empty for long periods of
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by dns_snek 7d ago
VAT is a regressive consumption tax. Raising VAT, hurting poor people the most, skimming a bit off the top and then "redistributing" it back to them would make no sense. Do you mean a higher corporate tax paid by companies like VI
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by dns_snek 7d ago
As if hardware companies don't quite famously include spyware in their products. Everything from phones, cars, fridges, TVs, monitors, speakers, light bulbs, laptops and everything else that supports inclusion of spyware.
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by dns_snek 7d ago
This style of argument is nonsense because deciding between Android and Apple has about a hundred unrelated but equally important consequences. There is no choice that aligns with all of your wishes (and rights). Privacy? Just buy Apple (la
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by dns_snek 8d ago
> We have not wiped out apes, ants, and most other species. Of course not all of them, just the ones that inconvenienced us in any way in pursuit of our goals.
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by dns_snek 8d ago
Suicide attempt PPV = .16. This means, and correct me if I'm wrong, 84% of positive results would be wrong if the test was applied to the general population (population of psychiatric patients?). > The most accurate prediction was a
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by dns_snek 8d ago
You want to tip the balance even more in favour of the richest corporations? Really? We're there already, considering the cost of actually enforcing your rights, but it would be bizarre to codify that into law.
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by dns_snek 8d ago
Not having regulation is also "not free" because it imposes external costs on the rest of society. The goal of regulation is to reduce these external costs and instead impose them on the people (broadly) responsible.
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by dns_snek 9d ago
> (48) The extent of the adverse impact caused by the AI system on the fundamental rights protected by the Charter is of particular relevance when classifying an AI system as high risk. Those rights include the right to human dignity, re
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by dns_snek 9d ago
That's not true. EU regulations like the AI Act and Digital Services Act have different obligations and requirements for large and small businesses and that amount can't be zero because being a small business doesn't give you
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by dns_snek 9d ago
Which provisions of which regulation are you complaining about, related to AI?
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by dns_snek 9d ago
Mikrotik doesn't have a bug bounty program and their handling of vulnerability reports has always been substandard.
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by dns_snek 10d ago
Couldn't you still get a reliable GPS fix by observing over longer time periods? But it requires a relatively expensive hardware component so geolocating via nearby wifi APs would definitely be cheaper. Google offers a convenient API f
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by dns_snek 10d ago
fyi disabling network permission doesn't protect against deliberate and coordinated data exfiltration. Apps can still communicate with other apps, for example with Google Play Services or any other app.
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by dns_snek 20d ago
> I don’t dispute capitalism But we should. This is a taboo topic but pretending that these consequences are either disconnected from capitalism or that capitalism is some natural law of the universe that should never be challenged is, f
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by dns_snek 20d ago
> autistic people tend to be way too mature for their age Appear to be , which isn't the same as "tend to be" because many go from being perceived as "overly mature children" to being perceived as immature adult
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by dns_snek 26d ago
I don't really expect anyone to casually admit that they regret having children to anyone but their closest confidants, perhaps not even themselves, the social stigma and shame would be unbearable. I don't know how much research t
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by dns_snek 27d ago
Many people, including myself, just know that we don't want to have children. Our outcomes won't have the same distribution as those of people who always wanted to have children, no matter how "smart" we are about it. An

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