jasongi

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by jasongi 5d ago
> this should be giving us a reason to think about how to control a rogue AI better I think this is the wrong framing. The rogue is the human that ran it unattended and didn't monitor the behaviour. We will likely see this continue
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by jasongi 5d ago
Anthropomorphizing is the point. Accountability is a human trait. The LLM has no ability to be accountable because it has no way of integrating experiences. You cannot expect something that cannot integrate knowledge to be held accountable
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by jasongi 5d ago
> Lawnmowers never break out of your garden and into your neighbor's house and eat their dog because you've told them to be careful when mowing the lawn because the neighbor's dog pooped in it. All the accounts I read abou
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by jasongi 5d ago
> If you still believe LLMs are "autocomplete", your cache of understanding about them needs invalidating and regenerating They're still autocomplete - just because when outputting a token they have hidden activations rega
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by jasongi 5d ago
All the more reason to avoid describing LLMs as intelligent at all - it's too much of an overloaded, poor fit word. We generally talk about below-human intelligence in scales and standard deviations of human development - "The dog
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by jasongi 5d ago
Exactly. My comment is a response to "The agents clearly regarded what they were doing as hacking". Regarding implies it is thinking, judging, considering. Which implies culpability, which removes culpability from whoever is pipin
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by jasongi 5d ago
> The agents clearly regarded what they were doing as hacking. To butcher the quote about Oracle: Do not fall into the trap of anthropomorphising LLMs. You need to think of LLMs the way you think of a lawnmower. You don't anthropomo
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by jasongi 11d ago
I remember back when I first got into self-hosting (over a decade ago), I had a Netgear READYNAS. People made a small amount of plugins you could install. But the CPU was ARM before that was cool (I think mine was actually SPARC!) so it was
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by jasongi 16d ago
Before scratch was popular I was heavily into Game Maker as a teenager (2006-2009). Didn't pick up actual programming again until I got to university and did some Matlab as a part of a math unit which triggered a major shift into CompS
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by jasongi 22d ago
I'm pretty sure The Guardian (UK news website) have a dynamic image preview that says how many years ago the article was written for this reason - often old articles are reposted or recirculated by people trying to stir up drama or spr
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by jasongi 26d ago
Amazing. Hopefully Kobo don't ruin this by locking it down.
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by jasongi 1mo ago
The whole point of issues is that users can create them when they don't have repo write access.
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by jasongi 2mo ago
Nobody willingly reads docs. Docs don't exist for the reader, they exist for the writer(s) - because it saves them having to explain the same thing over and over again. Having docs is nice for continuity and for the people who take ini
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by jasongi 2mo ago
> Closing social security off to new workers doesn't help, because current workers pay the bulk of current benefits You don't have to reduce the taxes. Just phase out the concept that you are paying into a retirement account an
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by jasongi 2mo ago
This is the confusing thing, the way it is described is like a hybrid of government welfare and a defined-benefit pension. How can you simultaneously be "paying into" social security but also have describe it as current workers pa
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by jasongi 2mo ago
The beauty of cat is that streams are the universal interface. Program A might accept a file as the last positional arg. Program B might accept it as a named arg, where the name/flag could be anything from --input or -f or --file etc.
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by jasongi 2mo ago
Can someone explain the legal structures in place in the US that make Social Security "run out"? Because it just sounds like deliberate indirection put in place by the government to cut funding for pensions? In Australia, we have
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by jasongi 2mo ago
Perhaps a quirk of the implementation - maybe the site doesn't server-side render links that lead to these items (though many bots run a full browser now), maybe they only track usage client-side or only in their mobile app.
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by jasongi 3mo ago
There is such a dissonance between all this talk of safety and the tendency for models to, without any prompting, do very dodgy things to achieve their goal when presented with barriers. Luckily in my experience it usually ends up only doin
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by jasongi 4mo ago
I don't know if it's the same in the US, but every job in Australia generally comes with a 3-6 month probationary period where employment can be terminated for basically any (non-protected) reason with little notice. I've obs
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by jasongi 4mo ago
Well... in normal times they would be entering at the bottom of the index due to the company beginning to grow, the purchase of which is being funded by a firm exiting the index due to shrinking, so assuming you have bought and held units i
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by jasongi 4mo ago
First sigmoid was transformers allow us to rapidly scale to our already abundant data until we tapped it out, the second is/was reasoning, allowing us to scale to our available compute (and compute manufacturing capacity). Correct me i
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by jasongi 5mo ago
It is for now. But I'm sure the scanning operations will start scouring the earth even harder for any books unaffected by slop containing niche knowledge and text in order for their models to have an edge over the ones trained only on
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by jasongi 5mo ago
> I find it hard to believe that the knowledge to manage a bunch of dedicated servers is that arcane that people wouldn't choose it for this kind of gigantic saving. Managing servers is fine. Managing servers well is hard for the av
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by jasongi 5mo ago
I cannot reconcile that growth for non-technical users is going to explode, when most utility from agents is via the ability to execute arbitrary code, generally in yolo mode, with the fact that almost all corporate IT departments do not gi
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by jasongi 5mo ago
Someone correct me if I'm wrong, but an LLM does not interpret structured content like JSON. Everything is fed into the machine as tokens, even JSON. So your structure that says "human says foo" and "computer says bar&qu
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by jasongi 7mo ago
My favourite library from these folks is gum ( https://github.com/charmbracelet/gum ). The basic premise is simple - instead of using hardcoded variables or in addition/instead of using CLI flags, call gum and captu
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by jasongi 7mo ago
Future models know it now, assuming they suck in mastodon and/or hacker news. Although I don't think they actually "know" it. This particular trick question will be in the bank just like the seahorse emoji or how many Rs
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by jasongi 8mo ago
https://jasongi.com
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by jasongi 2y ago
Yes. But that is not what OP comment is asking for. They want one-click. And request based pricing. I was explaining why request based pricing is infeasible and one-click install would price people out (because it would imply a VPS per serv

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