evilfred

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by evilfred 3d ago
lol it is 60 years old
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by evilfred 3d ago
this is way too overblown and deterministic a view. US history was one of many inspirations.
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by evilfred 6d ago
using React Native you end up having to drop into native code to do anything interesting or optimized, so it feels kind of pointless to not just use the platforms directly
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by evilfred 13d ago
by what mechanism do you believe LLMs verify truth? they are amoral token generators
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by evilfred 13d ago
LLMs have no sense of truth, they are just next token generators
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by evilfred 15d ago
good catch!
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by evilfred 20d ago
for the same reason I don't think a pinball machine or ATM is conscious
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by evilfred 21d ago
lol they are Microsoft, and the AI stuff has only multiplied usage like 2x, they haven't had sudden exponential growth
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by evilfred 1mo ago
14x is barely an order of magnitude
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by evilfred 1mo ago
no, stop giving the AI companies free marketing
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by evilfred 1mo ago
the AI model has NOT solved Riemann
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by evilfred 2mo ago
who do you expect to create pharmaceuticals other than pharmaceutical companies? sheesh
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by evilfred 2mo ago
prep is great but i would really rather take a one-time vaccine than be expected to take an expensive pill forever that could mess up my liver
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by evilfred 2mo ago
it's impossible to block injection 100% when the input and outer instructions are unified together.
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by evilfred 2mo ago
SpaceX makes its revenue from renting out GPUs
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by evilfred 3mo ago
I think US states aren't allowed to switch unless the feds decide to allow it
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by evilfred 3mo ago
exactly, thank you
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by evilfred 3mo ago
he has apparently translated one word according to the only documentation we have. "my untrained amateur friend with no experience in the field has solved a hundreds of years old puzzle. no, trust me!" gets old real quick.
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by evilfred 3mo ago
who at Rutgers and Cambridge? did he just email some random linguistics profs? why not classics? and did they respond out of genuine interest or just trying to let an enthusiastic amateur down gently? i am sorry but "crank" is the
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by evilfred 3mo ago
of course we have no way to assess this claim as there is no public software or paper to review
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by evilfred 3mo ago
the info provided is completely unverifiable.
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by evilfred 3mo ago
/r/classics thinks this is bunk btw https://www.reddit.com/r/classics/s/wwiNTytNfA
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by evilfred 3mo ago
i'm gonna write a blog post now about how my buddy discovered cold fusion and will have a paper out real soon now
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by evilfred 3mo ago
this isn't an achievement, it's yet another amateur crank claiming he solved a famous puzzle, without a paper and without any critical review. many people have claimed to decode Linear A before. just because this guy used an LLM d
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by evilfred 4mo ago
Shopify doesnt block selling Nazi merchandise so idk what control you think they exercise
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by evilfred 7mo ago
vibe coding is only "more efficient" if you ignore the massive energy costs involved
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by evilfred 8mo ago
I don't think China is forcing the US president to do crazy stuff every day
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by evilfred 1y ago
Gotta catch em while they're young, naive, and malleable.
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by evilfred 1y ago
All of those would keep on existing if Meta died today, so who cares? Are you saying we have to keep permitting Meta to help governments oppress people and enable teen suicides just in case we get another React? that is silly
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by evilfred 1y ago
If Zuck wasn't Zuck he wouldn't be Zuck

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