ineedasername

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by ineedasername 12d ago
I've had multiple people reach out telling me I buried a significant detail in my post: developing the curriculum on the adversarial use of language, and teaching it for a few years as an adjunct professor. So, here it is, in detail. T
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by ineedasername 15d ago
Location: Remote/Hybrid NYC area Resume/CV/Experience: working demonstrations available below, anything else available on request. Email: jim.jdiv@gmail.com Seeking: applied AI, model behavior, evaluation, interpretability, i
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by ineedasername 27d ago
I may have to apologize, quite a bit, for what might only be a small part or perhaps an outsized influence if weighted highly (I can’t be sure, could have been mv dev/null’ed)… well, it’s this— my own style of not-kept-in-check by the
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by ineedasername 2mo ago
> While in theory building rapport and loyalty sounds nice, what you actually end up doing is spending a lot of time on the people who ask the most of you, but their subscription dollars aren’t worth more, and they’re rarely satisfied.
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by ineedasername 3mo ago
>37 data centers and there are plans to build 17 more, including plans to convert hundreds of acres of _ Civil War battlefields _ into data centers. Those poor battlefields. How rarely it is that anyone thinks of their needs.
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by ineedasername 3mo ago
Is it that all or nothing? Are you sure you're not overthinking it into two extreme choices of total life disruption and just putting it all online or something?
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by ineedasername 3mo ago
How do you keep robustly pro active without data? Of course megabytes of data isn't a direct measure of health. That also isn't what medjourney is proposing be the metric. They didn't say "doctors will review the storage
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by ineedasername 3mo ago
I used the phrasing the article author was objecting to for cars. It anthropomorphized to the same extent as what the author is complaining about. So, I suppose you could collapse the thing either way- bullets are often anthropomorphized ju
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by ineedasername 3mo ago
If everyone continues to agree it's worth what it says then not very much. Of course the whole thing can collapse for a number of reasons, not much different from other mediums of exchange that don't have an intrinsic utility, th
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by ineedasername 3mo ago
The premise is false. Headlines or descriptions of events like *"Three innocent bystanders were hit when a spray of bullets burst through the door, killing 1 and injuring the other 2". So... Bullet anthropomorphizing is also a thi
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by ineedasername 3mo ago
fake stops being an applicable term as soon as people start agreeing to accept it, which the article says happened. Then it's as legitimate as anything like Bitcoin.
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What's it like to be a bat? (1974) [pdf](sas.upenn.edu)
4 points by ineedasername 4mo ago|1 comments
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by ineedasername 4mo ago
>AI guardrails will interfere with you identifying any meaningful anthropological conclusions. In this respect it depends on how AI is used. In this case, I didn't envision it doing this in the "deep research" sense or o
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by ineedasername 4mo ago
Precisely this! Too many confounding variables to look at such a surface level, a few high-level population wide stats. Nothing is that simple, nothing is clean in this sort of thing. Messy, interrelated factors, and you can chip away at th
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by ineedasername 4mo ago
>Violent crime against children has fallen steadily since the early 1990s.... The world didn’t get more dangerous. We got more afraid. This is the step that otherwise smart people fail at. "We were afraid of danger X so we did Y to
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by ineedasername 4mo ago
There is a certain mindset that looks at any series of a problem that didn't get worse as evidence that any reaction to it was unwarranted, without considering if it was the why behind the lack of catastrophe. The opposite failure mo
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by ineedasername 4mo ago
A scan of headlines doesn't show any "scream of apocalypse", not across multiple news aggregators, incognito mode, etc. Out of dozens I noticed maybe one or two that might have seemed a bit much. Other than that, I think it b
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by ineedasername 4mo ago
I'm not sure of your reasoning on "anything can be...". Yes, I suppose, but without elaborating further that doesn't explain why you're taking it to be circular, because I could have given some other description of
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by ineedasername 4mo ago
Algorithms like these typically have some foundation in the same type of vector embedding used elsewhere in AI, eg semantic and other qualities that map to overlapping or nearby latent space will drive suggested content. So, what typically
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by ineedasername 4mo ago
I wonder if we gathered all of the "don't quote the ai" people and all of the lmgtfy people in the same place, would they cancel out? Like matter/anti-matter annihilation?
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by ineedasername 4mo ago
>In this person's communication culture, they are saying Wittgenstein termed precisely this sort of practice a “language game”. With the rest of his work (Philosophical Investigations in particular) it is a hugely useful lens thro
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by ineedasername 4mo ago
This is unfair to those of us who’ve been writing walls of text to simple questions all our lives. I demand AI be the ones who start writing shorter things. Then I can go back to people ignoring my accidental wall building— accident because
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by ineedasername 4mo ago
Good for him, his public work these last ~1-2 years has been influential for me, as I'm sure it has for others. I even share his concern about struggling to keep pace with the rate of change lately, and agree that my working in a front
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by ineedasername 4mo ago
Typo when it was created.
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by ineedasername 4mo ago
>I forget what Stross has to say about it I've seen him comment on it a few times over the years, though I wouldn't take my vague memories on them as canonical: He's mainly pissed off that many avid fans of some of his b
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by ineedasername 4mo ago
Language is leaky, it gets just about everywhere. Some LLM goes and spills a bunch of emdashes and subordinate clauses all over a billion folks’ browsers and a bunch of them— especially those that may come into contact with a lot of languag
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by ineedasername 4mo ago
> rewards health outcomes rather than required activities… earn the full amount only when patients meet measurable health goals, like lower blood pressure or reduced pain They’ll just start cherry picking their patients, finding ways to
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by ineedasername 4mo ago
>"The legitimate maintainer has won €2.3 million in the EuroMillions and is researching goat farming in Portugal..." > "Root Cause: A dog named Kubernets ate a Yubikey Ah, yes, irresponsible to get taken in by one of t
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by ineedasername 4mo ago
The author lightly touches on other ways humans have viewed cognition, “computationalism” as one, but somewhat brushes these aside as though LLMs are somehow a unique expression of this tendency. That seems unlikely to me but we’re pretty e
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by ineedasername 4mo ago
What's the trap? You're either deciding that the concept "god-of" is baked into the concept of being the inventor of something, or you decide that it isn't baked-in. Doing this is just book keeping in the ledgers of

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