kanzure

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by kanzure 22d ago
These models seem to be bad at writing prose or text. Many of the sentence structures seem to be unvaried.
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by kanzure 26d ago
Yep. Same here. I frequently tell agents things like "answer using only a single sentence" and "write no more than 10 words". They are excellent at writing code, so have them write code (and not English prose). Besides,
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by kanzure 28d ago
Quality control and testing is absolutely essential, yeah. It's hard work and the plan shouldn't be misconstrued as "rewrite the whole genome of an embryo today and go for the first birth immediately" because that would
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by kanzure 1mo ago
It depends on what you consider to be speculative. It's certainly not a product available to the mass consumer market, if that's what you mean. But that's also kind of an uninteresting fact, right? "Synthetic genomes unv
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by kanzure 1mo ago
Well, first, I would have to check and see if the synoynmous codons are important for virus reproduction. Second, this technique requires (AFAIK) lots of cell line viability testing and lots of tweaking. I don't think it's as simp
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by kanzure 1mo ago
> We will cure virus. It is possible to prevent most viruses by recoding the human genome (requires embryo engineering or pre-embryo engineering) to use alternate codons that existing natty viruses don't use. This wouldn't prev
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by kanzure 1mo ago
At this point, I'm basically telling models to not write any English text or prose. Only write code. They are great at writing code. Not so great at writing good English. In software projects, lengthy comments and docs are an anti-patt
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by kanzure 1mo ago
> Review what you just wrote, according to some appropriate list of evaluation criteria that you come up with first I get better results from these models when I ask for the appropriate list of evaluation criteria with a fresh context. I
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by kanzure 3mo ago
There's no reason that ultrasound imaging equipment needs to be expensive. Overall the parts are pretty cheap. I think everyone should have one next to their toothbrush. Whole body ultrasound scans would also be useful, although harder
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by kanzure 3mo ago
> your body forms and kills tumors all the time. The false positive rate is ridiculous. Um, that's still a tumor.
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by kanzure 4mo ago
I haven't found that to be an issue. Just say what revisions you want. Once you're done, paste it into an LLM to clean it up into a usable prompt.
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by kanzure 4mo ago
It's a lot easier to write long messages on a phone with something like Whisper.
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by kanzure 6mo ago
I've always been worried about their backend changing and somehow named tags with a previous commit hash working for an attacker to give something you didn't expect for the commit hash.
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by kanzure 6mo ago
I like the idea of donating money instead of tokens. I think django contributors are likely to know how to spend those tokens better than I might, as I am not a django core contributor. Some projects ( https://news.ycombinator.co
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by kanzure 7mo ago
It would be nice if more businesses embraced email instead of requiring phone calls for basic tasks. Imagine how much more productive we could be if we could just send off a quick email with the information and questions. Instead, what we&#
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by kanzure 7mo ago
Anyone can generate an alternative chain of sha256 hashes. perhaps you should consider timestamping, e.g. https://opentimestamps.org/ As for what the regulation says, I haven't looked but perhaps it doesn't requir
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by kanzure 7mo ago
Having multiple different distribution channels can solve that problem. Advertisers cannot monopolize all distribution channels simultaneously because of the costs involved (it would be like someone trying to buy the whole economy).
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by kanzure 7mo ago
Another option instead of using identity is to use proof of work or hashcash such that anyone who thinks a comment is valuable can use some hash rate to upvote it. It doesn't matter how the content was generated, only that someone thou
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by kanzure 8mo ago
Another project simply paused external contributions entirely: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46642012 Another idea is to simply promote the donation of AI credits instead of output tokens. It would be better to donat
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by kanzure 8mo ago
That's interesting; another project stopped letting users directly open issues: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46460319
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by kanzure 8mo ago
Wait, is abliteration actually just a branding trick? That doesn't sound correct.
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by kanzure 9mo ago
I proposed something similar for bitcoin: https://gnusha.org/pi/bitcoindev/CABaSBax-meEsC2013zKYJnC3ph...
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by kanzure 9mo ago
Oh it's much older than 8 years... here is one such proposal from 2011: https://groups.google.com/g/enzymaticsynthesis/c/6GZT8zFNOfo... I myself was bitten by a radioactive grad student in 2008 that was
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by kanzure 9mo ago
To me this sounds like a computer-generated voice for obvious pro-privacy reasons for this kind of project. If it bothers you, then maybe work on better voice synthesis tech! I assume it sounds not-leading-generation because it was locally
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by kanzure 11mo ago
You can also switch between models with aider https://aider.chat/
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by kanzure 11mo ago
Why stop at software? Open-source software is a good idea in election systems. The principle could be better generalized as an "open" (copyleft licensed) process for the entire system, regardless of whether the election system is
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by kanzure 1y ago
Here are some other anti-lesswrong materials to consider: https://aiascendant.com/p/extropias-children-chapter-1-the-w... https://davidgerard.co.uk/blockchain/2023/02/06/ineffective-
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by kanzure 1y ago
Huh, weird. I don't think I have ever wanted to login to Stripe and take manual actions. Usually I hook up Stripe events to actions in my applications, like "The user subscribed, wire them up to the drip lifecycle" or "T
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by kanzure 1y ago
Hi, your docs say that users don't need state syncing, but when using Stripe you do need state syncing or to ingest the Stripe events. I also don't see any information in the docs about handling e.g. chargebacks or other events an
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by kanzure 1y ago
possibly something like https://github.com/romansky/dom-to-semantic-markdown could also help for this use case.

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