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by hliyan 4d ago
Yes. The user of a machine is responsible for due diligence before the decision to use the machine. Unless the operational limitations and fault rate of the machine is withheld from the public.
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by hliyan 6d ago
I feel for you. We didn't know how good we had it. Wooed by multiple companies right out of university, good salary, comfortable, fulfilling work (some nights though), fast path to car and home ownership and long term financial securit
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by hliyan 6d ago
I was about to post this thought on the latest "We're moving from tech/architecture X to Y" post on the HN front page today, but now I feel it belongs here. I was recently chatting with a friend about how we used to do s
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by hliyan 7d ago
Inclined to agree. I think what we call "car brain" is just one manifestation of hardwired circuits in our brain that detect any (even temporary) power differential and leverages it for maximum survival advantage. There is no way
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by hliyan 7d ago
(1) As I understand, the first modern copyright law was in 1700's Britain, which broke a printer monopoly and shifted control of works from publisher to author. It also meant that an author and their family would not starve while their
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by hliyan 8d ago
According to Thomas Wolf: > Leven and Tristan worked over several months on one of the Millenium Prize Problems with various AIs to reach final interesting results. OpenAI apparently heard about it in the last days and prompted their lat
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Is Advertising Morally Justifiable?(abc.net.au)
12 points by hliyan 9d ago|4 comments
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by hliyan 10d ago
I argued this in 2015: > "...why I believe you will not escape ads by paying for your content: people who can afford to pay for content are people with money, or people with buying power, in other words, the exact same people advert
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by hliyan 10d ago
I've now completely stopped engaging with anyone on that platform that I can't reasonably traced back to a real person. If any non-real-name account says anything that remotely feels bad-faith in replies, I block them. Having been
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by hliyan 13d ago
I think the model has an unusual preference for the Korean Peninsula before Christ. A number of commenters, including myself, draw from this area and period.
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by hliyan 13d ago
Strangely, I too, died in the Korean Peninsula at 8 months old, but circa 6000 BCE.
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by hliyan 13d ago
Agreed. Author should not be using this term. A world model, as I understand, is what an LLM is missing that a human brain has: in addition to a linguistically described world, we also posses a sensory model of the world, a physics model so
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by hliyan 13d ago
How did they go from these founding principles to the current state? Astonishing. > An appreciation that the world remains a dangerous place in which our power must be exercised with prudence, and where the primary threats to our securit
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SF's Tech Right Debates the Ideal Dictator(bayareacurrent.com)
11 points by hliyan 14d ago|6 comments
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by hliyan 15d ago
This is nonsense. The human mind cannot visualize more than 3 dimensions. It can perfectly comprehend any number of dimensions as long as they are represented in a vector space. In fact, that's what linear algebra does.
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by hliyan 15d ago
Might not be in the particular case, but what are your thoughts on the following (just to name a few recent examples): Cambridge Analytica, Net Neutrality, DMCA?
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by hliyan 18d ago
A good thing about the "you're the author regardless of the tool you used to produce the code" policy is that if a developer repeatedly submits poor quality AI generated code, one does not blame the model or the agent, one ba
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by hliyan 19d ago
Somewhat of an aside: it's ironic the that some of the clearest, most concise technical documentation I now find on the Internet has come out that way because it was written for a machine: https://raw.githubusercontent.com&#
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by hliyan 21d ago
That is precisely what laws do by definition and have done in practice, from the Code of Hammurabi to this day.
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by hliyan 21d ago
Democracy was also extremely hard to imagine and considered impractical (even in the face of ancient Greek evidence) a few hundred years ago. And then it became the norm.
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by hliyan 21d ago
Agreed. I'm increasingly coming to the conclusion that ad-hoc legal action and regulations are just stop gap measures in a losing battle, and that any remedy needs to be more foundational. For example: mandate that every job descriptio
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by hliyan 24d ago
Is anyone working on running neural networks on CPU architectures that are not limited by synchronous clock signals? Organic neural networks are inherently asynchronous and signals propagate through different parts of the network at their o
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IBM PC XT (Model 5160) emulator in the browser(pcjs.org)
5 points by hliyan 24d ago|3 comments
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by hliyan 24d ago
Are human HN commenters now starting to speak in a dialect of Claudish?
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by hliyan 25d ago
I do love the fact that I can use this interface without touching the mouse or touchpad. Between the /, Enter and Esc keys, I can pretty much get to anywhere within the application. Even within settings, you can just start typing &quot
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by hliyan 25d ago
I understand that this is the common (and perhaps the prevailing) interpretation, but my question has always been: once you subtract action potential and expected ends, what remains of the concept of "good"? We cannot simply end t
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by hliyan 25d ago
A good point, but (a) this merely sounds like a modification of the golden rule: do unto all others, without exception, as you would have done unto you, and (b) the rule isn't an end in itself because the end lies behind the "sh
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by hliyan 25d ago
Hence my qualification at the start. My problem with deontological ethics is that the justification of it abruptly hits an impenetrable wall, i.e. the rule or the duty, unless you appeal to some benefit or prevention of harm to rational b
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by hliyan 25d ago
Not unlike "delay, deny, defend".
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by hliyan 25d ago
Surprised this article didn't explain the categorical imperative before appealing to it. Here's my interpretation of it, although some would say that (4) is a utilitarian interpretation(even though it's globally utilitaria

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