dweinus

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by dweinus 5d ago
Nice post but they quickly disregard Dask, don't explain why, don't test it, even exclude it from the benchmark they quote. I don't know if is the better answer, but it seems worth testing if you want a balance approachable +
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by dweinus 7d ago
Cool, now show the public transit safety numbers.
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by dweinus 1mo ago
https://theonion.com/sam-altman-if-i-dont-end-the-world-some...
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by dweinus 2mo ago
Pretraining a frontier model is a one-time expense: 6,000 to 25,000 GPUs for one to four months, $5M to $150M depending on chip generation and luck.
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by dweinus 2mo ago
> half of their ad spend was "wasted" That would be a phenomenal ROI. In almost all advertising contexts the hit rate is far, far lower. Resulting in everyone drowning in ads to hit the few targets. To the commenters saying, &q
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by dweinus 2mo ago
Why is this flagged?
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by dweinus 3mo ago
Customer and/or musician rug pull in 3...2...
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by dweinus 3mo ago
All those devs and data scientists and PhDs make a choice though. They could quit and work somewhere else. Even in a tough market their skills are in demand. They choose to work on this every morning.
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by dweinus 3mo ago
I believe it is the other way around: the LLM decides the type of action and the input to the action; the code validates the permission to act and the acceptability of the input. But, yes it is very different than SQL injection in that way.
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by dweinus 3mo ago
> We show prompt injections are driven by a flaw in how LLMs perceive roles. LLMs don't "perceive roles", and that is exactly the problem.
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by dweinus 3mo ago
> "The conversational interview, long considered the ultimate, unhackable test of a candidate’s authenticity" Lol. I'm not sure this person has ever given an interview before
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by dweinus 3mo ago
Human civilization? In this economy?
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by dweinus 3mo ago
They routinely override the user-defined navigation to include whatever new content they are pushing. It was sold as an appliance without ads or subscription. Now it has become an ads platform that the user has less and less control over.
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by dweinus 3mo ago
> unless you're Swiss, your opinion is irrelevant Lol. Dude, sure the Swiss can vote however they want. But we all see you and can pass judgement on this thinly veiled anti-immigrant nonsense all day long. Respect it I will never.
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by dweinus 3mo ago
I'm sure they are very proud of themselves for sneaking racist anti-immigrant policy in under the guise of left wing environmental rhetoric.
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by dweinus 3mo ago
You keep using that word. I don't think it means what you think it means.
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by dweinus 3mo ago
Looking at WHO is pushing for change tells you most of what you need to know. Teachers? No. Students? No. Parents? Usually not. Technologists with something to sell? Bingo.
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by dweinus 4mo ago
Ah yes, Pascal's mugging.
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by dweinus 4mo ago
Ah, so this is The Web I have been hearing so much about!
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by dweinus 4mo ago
> says Duke University ecologist Stuart Pimm, who was not involved in the research. “We could better help millions of birds every year by solving the more immediate threats of disappearing habitats, collisions with building windows, and
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by dweinus 4mo ago
So to make this profitable they need ads revenue from it, right? Imagine for a moment the ways AI can manipulate responses and conversations for marketers, because I guarantee the marketers have already thought about it.
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by dweinus 4mo ago
So much this. I know their point is to show what these models can do, but it just one more example of people shoehorning LLMs in, instead of finding the right tool for the job or caring about performance. They could have even layered AI on
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by dweinus 4mo ago
No fair, we didn't even get the fun anarchy part before skipping right on to tyrrany!
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by dweinus 4mo ago
Global extreme poverty has fallen because we have raised the floor, largely through international collaboration that if anything has happened in spite of the cyberlibertarianism, certainly not because of it. Paradoxically, "developed&q
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by dweinus 4mo ago
"As with other drugs, some people can be casual dabblers; other people, well, can’t." I think this is true. Unfortunately people (this article included) tend to talk about it as purely benign or unmitigated poison. I think the rea
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by dweinus 5mo ago
According to above, it is triggered by the website calling the feature. The user might have no idea. That's not what consent looks like
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by dweinus 5mo ago
The reporter clearly knows the distro fixes have not been shipped, read their report. They chose to disclose anyway.
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by dweinus 5mo ago
No, I will. The distros and the kernel devs should be talking and moving on high sev patches, sure. But real people will have gotten hurt because the reporter didn't want to wait for that to happen. That's on them.
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by dweinus 5mo ago
I think you illustrate that there is a logically consistent viewpoint: that the powerful should not exploit the powerless. IP law doesn't cleanly align for or against that viewpoint. On the other hand the real world enforcement of IP l
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by dweinus 5mo ago
I don't think it needs to be a binary to be effective. Yes, those weapons still exist, but understanding of existential risk and political pressures have slowed them considerably and resulted in a safer, more cautious world.

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