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by le-mark 4d ago
Perhaps the pathway to alignment involves requiring frontier-next to be capable, willing, and eager to explain the work of frontier-current to us. To do this frontier-next must at least have some thought for us at all. Even if it is only pl
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by le-mark 4d ago
> America doesn't want to pay the price of handling Iran. And Iran has wisely not provoked the US public by launching terrorist attacks against the “homeland”.
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by le-mark 4d ago
In a world where AI advancement depended only on human ingenuity this would make sense. In that world each political power block would be in an existential race for AI supremacy. In our world compute is the limiting resource. Since the US c
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by le-mark 5d ago
This; search is dead google is a walking corpse.
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by le-mark 6d ago
This should have “May 2026” in the title. I don’t recall discussion at the time but surely there was a lot?
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by le-mark 7d ago
The writing of Charles Dickens support this thesis strongly!
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by le-mark 8d ago
Interesting to read it originated as part of PLATO. I used notes at a company in the early oughts. This company was a big user of ibm mainframes. It was bizarre and although it was purported to have all this capability I couldn’t figure out
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by le-mark 9d ago
Now do this on all the altcoins code bases out there. Everyone and their dog was either rolling their own or forking and not syncing with upstream. I just assume most altcoins are pwned at this point.
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by le-mark 11d ago
The television series “Person of Interest” featured an ai that had its memory wiped everyday as a safeguard. It created a company that employed people to save its memory every day and reload it (visually it was pages of print outs). Thus it
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by le-mark 11d ago
> Oscilloscope (mini beginner with display Cost around 30 bucks) Any recommendations for this?
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by le-mark 12d ago
They want to see how much of it is gold plated tungsten, good for them!
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by le-mark 15d ago
> We could consider them clueless for falling for that, or an alternate viewpoint is that they are victims of widespread fraud. This is what they depend on actually. Scape goats for their failures. This quarter takes a hit then number go
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by le-mark 15d ago
> Since going nearly full agentic at work, I'm actually finding I've got the urge brewing in the back of my mind to go right back to the beginning and do hobby programming on a small system again I have as well; to conquer that
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by le-mark 15d ago
I may be alone in this but I really grew to despise the C64. It represented frustration and failure to me. The basic was so limited, it did not provide access to the otherwise excellent video and sound hardware. Information pre internet was
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by le-mark 15d ago
I was jealous of the speccy basic. The ms basic the c64 shipped was anemic, you had to have deep, hard to obtain hardware knowledge to do anything with it. Custom characters and character gfx were the most accessible for kids. I pieced toge
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by le-mark 15d ago
> The company is building tools to help organizations manage the exponentially increasing needs Oh no! Looks like the ram shortage wasn’t enough, SSDs are next! /s
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by le-mark 15d ago
> They're packing lots of signal into fewer words I think opus is more noise and less signal actually.
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by le-mark 18d ago
I don’t know anything about burning man except the actor who originally played Dr. Weir on Stargate SG1 was fired (essentially) because she misled the producers about attending it. Tory Higgens did a fine job as her replacement though. htt
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by le-mark 21d ago
There are a lot of hyperbolic comments of this sort in this thread. Has this topic selected for people who hold these views or is ai fear growing?
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by le-mark 22d ago
Just curious, what is the motivation for this conversion?
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by le-mark 24d ago
This is great, thank you!
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by le-mark 24d ago
They can also be more effective reviewing than generating.
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by le-mark 26d ago
Trumps DOJ has destroyed credibility with federal judges all ove the country. They’ve had more than one case come back not guilty so far (subway sandwich guy). I’m optimistic they fail to get a guilty verdict here too.
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by le-mark 27d ago
> The real value I learned from my pivot from pivoting away from tech and pivoting into Biology is ironically how to gamble Lol that took a turn, I was expecting a link to a how to course at the end; or some nfl week one picks!
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by le-mark 29d ago
> it is a very concrete reason to live, at least until they move out Even after that, I think being there for major life events is important too; college graduations, weddings, birth of grand babies.
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by le-mark 29d ago
Is this the teen novel or something else? Curios how a teen novel could address these issues?
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by le-mark 1mo ago
> In practice the customer experience was horrendous and companies CTRL-Zed these decisions and rapidly brought customer service back onshore again. No they didn’t, I can’t remember the last time I talked to an on shore rep.
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by le-mark 1mo ago
I felt this. I had a feeling for a long time that spider solitaire was somehow related to knot theory (legal moves being Reidemeister move equivalents and untangling). Llm shot this idea down very quickly! It was freeing actually.
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by le-mark 1mo ago
Can you say what topics you’re using this method to learn? I think it would be more effective for some than others.
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by le-mark 1mo ago
> You don't really get to sneak a glimpse of operations and write a book like the SEALs seem get to (jk!) My understanding is their books are reviewed by the pentagon and don’t reveal the real secret operational details and that’s h

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