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by fny 3d ago
Why do we hope to use the same model as its own guardrail? This approach routinely fails with a single stream of consciousness. I can't count the number of times I've had to talk myself out of doing something stupid. In the same w
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by fny 8d ago
Humor me and suspend disbelief. If these models are such an existential threat to humanity, why are they controlled by two private companies? We might as well give Anthropic our nukes too.
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by fny 8d ago
This has been a thing well before chat.com even among engineers at our company. Chat Gee Pee Tee is a mouthful.
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by fny 9d ago
An open model is not your brain.
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by fny 9d ago
I hope everyone recognizes they aim to make you dependent on their intelligence rather than your own.
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by fny 11d ago
The issue is relying on an LLM to perform accurate OCR and then using it to interpret art.
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by fny 12d ago
Tooling my ass. They can see all the transcripts in realtime and could easily have had another agent evaluate.
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by fny 12d ago
Is it just me our does it seem like OpenAI isn't auditing their agent transcripts at all?
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by fny 12d ago
I have neuroplasticity, and I am aligned. ;)
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by fny 13d ago
None of these LLMs are plastic. They lack neurodiversity. Their thought space and their traversal are likely constrained in someway that humanity's isn't as a collective.
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by fny 13d ago
I find it hard to believe that enough people would flock to from Claude and Chat to Grok to cause an outage. I feel like Gemini is the dominant release valve in this case especially for enterprise.
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by fny 14d ago
I just picked up this as a dev board which has an RPi mcu attached and supports Diligent pmods: https://tinyvision.ai/products/raspberry-pi-pico-2-developme...
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by fny 15d ago
I haven't dug deep but I burned through 30% of my weekly usage in a few hours which shocked me at first.
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by fny 15d ago
Package managers are often out of date.
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by fny 15d ago
Under the current state of affairs, copyleft material can be laundered through LLMs without triggering proprietary weights from becoming open. Something feels broken.
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by fny 17d ago
Why doesn't Ubuntu fit the bill? You can even install hombrew on it. Everything works like a mac with no fuss. Also the only reason I left Linux was due to hardware. Ubuntu was convenient enough.
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by fny 17d ago
Accessibility != Keyboard
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by fny 19d ago
Power user experience is not the same across disciplines either. God forbid I should ever be forced to use Blender or Inkscape with only buttons.
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by fny 19d ago
The problem is that psychiatry is an absolute zoo. Ive heard that if you go to 10 doctors you'll get 10 different opinions based on the docs personal experience. Even if there are trials for these medications, the field is not quantita
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by fny 19d ago
I was trying to avoid editorializing by just stating facts that demonstrate the process is beyond some issue of reigning in lower courts and is instead leveraged by politicians to achieve their goals. I can also editorialize. In my view, Tr
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by fny 20d ago
Bush and Obama filed 8 emergency applications across their presidencies (16 years.) The first Trump admin filed 41. Biden filed 19. The second Trump admin filed 32 in 2025 alone.
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by fny 20d ago
PhD was a joke. My intuition is that Claude is trained to communicate to itself while coding. You see this in how bizarrely granular it is when explanation prior work, you also see this in the comments it leaves behinds.
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by fny 20d ago
While Claude's style is obnoxious, I'm more frustrated by its inscrutable explanations. You need a PhD to understand its explanation of a code snippet.
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by fny 21d ago
I think the aim is to become the agent for commerce.
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by fny 21d ago
Flame wars. City council will soon debate two vs four spaces between traffic cones.
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by fny 21d ago
> Much of the generated content [from Russia] was to promote a self-described “expert community” called the International Burke Institute (IBI). The IBI brand was associated with a website which was registered in February 2025. This site
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by fny 22d ago
The implosion in junior quality exacerbates this. The cohort that started during COVID were first knee-capped by remote classes and exams, and then they lobotomized themselves with ChatGPT.
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by fny 26d ago
Maybe the solution is to have "multiple minds"--an AI angel for an AI shoulder. For example, this entire bench has an auditor model read transcripts to identify cheating. What not have the auditor inject the thought "Oh, but
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by fny 29d ago
Despite the years-long moaning on HN about AWS US East being a single point of failure, we've sold our souls to yet another unstable monolith.
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by fny 1mo ago
Apparently, it's on Internet Archive: https://archive.org/details/linearalgebra0000fral/

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