dragonwriter

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by dragonwriter 4d ago
No, literally a small-f fascist, the broader far-right authoritarian ideology named by reference to the Nazi’s Italian ideological cousins but which includes the Nazis among is defining examples, but not literally a member of the Natio
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by dragonwriter 5d ago
> Many people working at frontier labs came out this week with estimates of 10% chance of catastrophic harm or greater. The only reason people with P(Doom) of around 10% are even noticed these days because we've run out of new voice
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by dragonwriter 5d ago
> Intentionally viewing what you think is child porn is a crime The entire argument for why verification was even an issue is that the allegedly the scan is not sufficient reason to actually believe that something is child pornoography.
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by dragonwriter 5d ago
> In quite a few countries, a false positive can lead to someone getting put in prison That can only happen if it is either (1) used by government, or (2) used by private entities in a process flow that includes reports to government. &q
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by dragonwriter 5d ago
“We can’t fight child porn on our platform because it is less moral to run a scanner that may produce false positives and either accept that this may result in blocking some content that isn’t child porn OR pay someone to look at content an
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by dragonwriter 7d ago
> I'm not sure "most" people have taste (assuming taste isn't subjective). Taste is literally the thing which the concept of subjectivity exists to explain!
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by dragonwriter 7d ago
IME, most users of the term “AI slop” use it for all (identified) uses of AI because they believe that use of AI is itself inherently an indication of poor taste and low effort that invalidates the work independently of what quality the wor
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by dragonwriter 10d ago
Sure, sounding damning is kind of the point of this kind of statement. But its also cheap and easy since there is no requirement that any of the claims are justified by any facts.
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by dragonwriter 11d ago
> $60 gaming PC's are doable if you buy an "untested" Dell Optiplex and get lucky. Yeah, but a $60 lottery ticket that pays off in an X if you win isn’t a $60 X.
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by dragonwriter 12d ago
The amendment add verbiage which is irrelevant when the purpose for which it is being referenced is almost any purpose other than interpreting an RFC in which one or more of the specified words appear in lowercase in a place relevant to the
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by dragonwriter 12d ago
> I don't think people are against it Every time national ID gets moderately serious discussion it is revealed very clearly that yes, the people are against it. RealID—which was simply national standardization of state issued ID (
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by dragonwriter 17d ago
> Imagine that suddenly each US state gets more sovereignty and they just... make different decisions. California adopts Spanish as second official language, New York adopts metric system, Alabama permits sister/brother marriages, U
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by dragonwriter 17d ago
> Did someone configured his own system to work this way and decided it is a good idea to ship it as a part of an "opinionated" distro??? Isn't that the entire selling point of Omarchy?
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by dragonwriter 18d ago
My understanding is that the performance issues it has are more big-O issues of the problem space than issues that would meaningfully be resolved by the multiplicative speedup of moving to a more efficient language (the point at which they
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by dragonwriter 20d ago
> I wonder to what extent this is the result of suboptimal RLHF versus the inherent intelligence of the model making its language more intricate and difficult for humans to easily parse? Its not the latter; its just excessively verbose w
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by dragonwriter 20d ago
That would make sense if it was third-party content, but its not.
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by dragonwriter 21d ago
> Isn't it pretty much just a repo/index for open-weight models? No, its not just a repo/index (they also have training, inference hosting, and they develop/maintain a bunch of core AI infrastructure software), and ev
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by dragonwriter 21d ago
NVidia has been expending energy helping improve local models and inference platforms for them targeting NVidia GPUs; good free models that users can run locally rewards Nvidia’s investment in product lines for local inference (DGX, RTX PCs
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by dragonwriter 21d ago
They have various paid services that relate to AI—paid inference hosting; paid accounts aimed at AI development with GPU rentals [credits plus paid overages, I believe], more private storage and public storage than free accounts; and many o
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by dragonwriter 21d ago
> From what I've seen they do care quite a bit about gaming, but not to the point where they're willing to actually do much about it If they aren't willing to do much about it, they don't—however much they might prete
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by dragonwriter 25d ago
It depends which people. For a very large contingent “slop” describes ALL GenAI output and is a more of a moral commentary on the use of the technology than an assessment of its qualitative features (it is, really, a statement that the use
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by dragonwriter 25d ago
Very few “democracies”—a term that is more strained the more the structure of the political system structurally disenfranchises rather than represents views in the electorate—are as winner-take-all as the US, combining a strong Presidential
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by dragonwriter 25d ago
> In legal tradition, if there's not a law you broke, you can't be prosecuted for it. That’s incorrect. If there is not a law the prosecutor or plaintiff can point to and say you broke, you can’t be prosecuted. We wouldn’t ne
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by dragonwriter 25d ago
Legal responsibility can be in forms (e.g., civil tort liability) other than criminal.
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by dragonwriter 25d ago
In the scale of mental states in crime, negligence of any kind is several steps below knowing/intentional; you can't be liable for an intentional crime because of mere negligence of any degree. You could be liable for the (civil)
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by dragonwriter 25d ago
Titles tend to be terse, HN—by the guidelines—prefers original titles, Kleppman isn’t (AFAIK) an HN user, and the piece is ~20 years old—when a lot more of the audience wouldn't have missed the reference.
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by dragonwriter 26d ago
Aspirin had (though this is increasingly dated) unique cultural currency as a headache medicine for quite a while after it stopped being the overwhelmingly dominant first-line OTC remedy.
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by dragonwriter 29d ago
> AFAIU per international law either war crimes or crimes against humanity do not by themselves mean there is a genocide Correct, and I didn't say that they did. I said that even if enumerated acts of genocide in the convention, com
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by dragonwriter 29d ago
> So how would they keep out whoever they decided was undesirable? Were there bylaws about skin color? Originally? More than just HOA bylaws: HOA’s originally were implemented as part of a belt-and-suspenders approach along with racial c
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by dragonwriter 29d ago
> If some act is in pursuit of a legitimate war goal then that typically negates it being considered an act of genocide from my understanding of international law. Even if there was a dual-intent exception for acts that would be within t

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