lelanthran

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by lelanthran 6d ago
It was unintentionally funny then :-) If I'd accidentally written a comment asking whether the intellectual skills I am losing are worth keeping, and make 2x spelling errors in a single short sentence, I'd find the unintended iron
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by lelanthran 6d ago
> I struggled a little bit reading this. but I think your point is valid. if we are actually advancing the field then we should just be unconditionally happy. If advancement comes at the expense of having fewer (or no) humans left in the
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by lelanthran 6d ago
> Try, but what skills are work keeping? We need something cogntive, but not everything. Are you trying to be funny?
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by lelanthran 6d ago
I do. For compare-and-swap I have even got a lock less queue that I implemented with it.
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by lelanthran 7d ago
> The most likely scenario at this point it: > - autonomous cars cause fewer accidents > - so either insurance will be cheaper for them > - AND/OR human driving car insurance goes up If they were going to do that, they woul
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by lelanthran 7d ago
Agreed. I didn't even take the insurance monitor they offered because the difference in cost turned out to be something stupidly low (like a saving of $1/month, or similar). I don't want my car monitored, I don't want my
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by lelanthran 7d ago
> If autonomous cars result in less damage than humans, their insurance price will be cheaper than human drivers, but there's no reason to raise the human rate at the same time, their accident rate should stay the same. Wouldn'
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by lelanthran 7d ago
> The absolute danger of a space shuttle is much greater than a bike. But the absolute danger of C++ versus C is… equivalent. Okay, let's pretend, for the sake of this conversation, that the absolute danger in the event of failure f
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by lelanthran 7d ago
> That's just your claim about how LLMs "should" work, based on ... your subjective preference? Nothing subjective at all. Given 2 unknown races with no data on either, the result of hiring should be equally split between
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by lelanthran 7d ago
> The results show 51% mimblewort / 49% bafflewick. Fable based it on nothing! I've demonstrated Fable has bias and is unsuited for use in software engineering. Actually... if that happened (with a delta outside the margin for
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by lelanthran 7d ago
> It seems much more interesting to look for biases that appear robustly across different realistic scenarios that would actually be influenced by the training data Difficult to do when you're following a scientific process: you wan
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by lelanthran 7d ago
> Rather than solve the problem of "why does LLM output slightly stratify between Tufa and Weki like this", I would just not conduct my hiring using this paper's methodology. You might be missing the point of the paper. It
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by lelanthran 7d ago
> This seems to be one of the core alignment problems to me. See also: Gastown, the agent management project that could only end up working on Gastown, unceremoniously and quietly set aside. I did not know this! Any link to an announcem
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by lelanthran 8d ago
> What’s the most dangerous thing that’s happened with an LLM so far? It's basically 4 years in now, so that's the wrong question. I mean, if you're raising an apex predator that has a lifetime measured in centuries, at 4
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by lelanthran 8d ago
> The analogy I use is to physical tools. A screwdriver is simple, but building a house with only a screwdriver is complex. A suite of power tools is complex, but building a house with them is simple. The analogy I prefer is that it&#x27
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by lelanthran 8d ago
> You're correct in principle, but in reality... ... It's never been tried. Look, I was actually joking when I initially replied, but now that I think about it, it's never been tried! So now I am left wondering exactly w
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by lelanthran 8d ago
You really should have read the rest of that extremely short comment.
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by lelanthran 8d ago
> If I train my 1000 billion parameter blank AI on this text and only this text over and over again, we may get 99% there. You'll get 100% of the way there, because, lacking any other training, it will only ever be able to reproduce
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by lelanthran 8d ago
> All people want is affordable housing, jobs that let you plan for the future, and healthcare that won't bankrupt you. Right. I want to see the Democrats campaigning on those things. Midterm is near, they should be getting their
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by lelanthran 8d ago
> I wonder why C and C++ are usually regarded as equally insecure. They aren't, usually. C++ has all the C problems, and multiples more on top of those. It's a broad attack surface - literally no one is going to claim to be pro
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by lelanthran 8d ago
I don't think netbsd uses github.
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by lelanthran 9d ago
> I'd hesitate to jump to the conclusion that Holmes had editorial control over the way journalists portrayed her. We're going to find out anyway in the movie how she markets herself (and maybe how she marketed herself in the p
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by lelanthran 9d ago
> Try steering a fast horse with blinders. Most people here hit a fucking wall at mach 7 when you try to show them reality. We're all going to find out when we see the movie anyway, right? We're going to see how she markets her
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by lelanthran 9d ago
It wouldn't have worked if people weren't biased in favour of women.
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by lelanthran 9d ago
> She was sold as a successful Stanford dropout Is, uh, "sexism" in the room with us now?
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by lelanthran 9d ago
Didn't she fail out of science/engineering. Can I claim to have an medical background if I failed the first semester?
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by lelanthran 9d ago
> Anything that turns your brain off, whether it's tugging your heartstrings, endorsing your ideology, whatever, scammers are ready to take advantage. TheLastPsychiatrist used a good phrase to describe this: cognitive kill-switch.
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by lelanthran 9d ago
> Plenty of male-led businesses also turned out to be scams, and yet no one goes 'that guy looks sharp, but he is male so seems suspicious'. The scam was sold on her gender ("successful female entrepreneur"), so unfor
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by lelanthran 9d ago
> The overall point is that claiming that "human writing = human thinking" is too broad a general statement to make seriously. Do you have any non-contrived example of writing that was done with zero thought?
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by lelanthran 10d ago
The problem is "This user submits in 60 minutes enough PRs to keep us busy for a week". You don't know that they are low effort PRs until you expend time and energy, while in the meantime more important PRs might be in the qu

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