marcta

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by marcta 5d ago
I think the point is that once it becomes a crypto key, stock price, weather observation, whatever, the datum ceases to be random and becomes arbitrary.
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by marcta 9d ago
Which business will hire a consultant who doesn't fully endorse the AI-everything religion?
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by marcta 1mo ago
Here's a thought experiment: consider the person that you disagree with the most (politically, religiously, socially, whatever). Would you want _that_ person to have an AI chatbot aligned to them and their views?
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by marcta 1mo ago
In fairness, a false positive is better than a false negative.
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by marcta 1mo ago
Presumably the big scary sysadmins have access to the *.cloudflare.com DNS records, and marketing just needs to push this thing right now and can't wait, so it's easier for them to buy a new domain with a shiny new TLD than wait f
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by marcta 2mo ago
A similar thing happened in the Falkland's War: https://www.warhistoryonline.com/history/bbcs-treason-battle...
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by marcta 2mo ago
May I interest you in Jevon's paradox: if a thing becomes cheaper or more efficient, usage tends to go up. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jevons_paradox
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by marcta 2mo ago
That is literally what Excel is for. Why didn't you use that first of all?
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by marcta 2mo ago
Schrödinger's basilisk?
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by marcta 3mo ago
50% of the population are below average intelligence.
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by marcta 3mo ago
Why would you look for sawdust? That's a waste product. You would motivate everyone to stop producing actual furniture, and just buy the biggest bits of wood to turn entirely into sawdust. Which is textbook Godhart's law. This
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by marcta 3mo ago
Why should a radiologist have to debunk AI slop? They have enough to do already. That's the same mentality that is frustrating open-source repositories with sloppy pull requests, and saying "here, sort this out for me".
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by marcta 3mo ago
I was going to say the same. Also, if you go to shops like Screwfix or Toolstation (in the UK), you have to give your postcode and name to them before they sell to you. I tried opting out once and they refused to sell to me. I give them
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by marcta 3mo ago
Maybe it's like Formula 1: it's a purposefully-extreme goal, which drives new development and makes "lesser" goals feel more achievable.
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by marcta 3mo ago
The G in AI GPU stands for "grift"
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by marcta 4mo ago
There is a reason that luggage has to be weighed. If you watch Mentour Pilot, there's a not insignificant number of plane accidents (and outright disasters) that occur due to the plane weight being calculated incorrectly, and thereby
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by marcta 4mo ago
Some "ai is bad" arguments come from the threat of losing one's livelihood, which is a monetary concern.
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by marcta 4mo ago
Yes Minister has something about this, I seem to remember. Because the government isn't profit motivated, they are instead motivated by the size of their budget and the number of employees.
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by marcta 4mo ago
The CP-SAT primer by Dr. Dominik Krupke is excellent for working with OR-Tools: https://d-krupke.github.io/cpsat-primer
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by marcta 4mo ago
LLMs are costing Google a ton of money in compute and storage right now. If they can farm any of that off to the users, it makes economical sense. But yes, there is a 100% chance that logs will get sent back to Google too.
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by marcta 5mo ago
It's not really, because you now have the cost of maintaining that fork, even if it's just for yourself.
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by marcta 5mo ago
This is Mr Meeseeks.
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by marcta 6mo ago
Maybe their point is that the brands themselves have a lot of time embedded in them. Generally, status symbols (whatever they are) aren't things that are recently established.
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by marcta 6mo ago
If people have to go through OS auth flow each time they open a website, that will drive everyone mad. One of the key motivators for politicians is not making everyone mad, so the polls don't drop. Also, I reckon most children know th
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by marcta 6mo ago
I came across ProxyCommand earlier this week, funnily enough. I have Cloudflare Zero Trust set up with an SSH service[0], and have the server firewall drop all incoming traffic. That helps reduce my attack surface, since I don't have
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by marcta 6mo ago
Goodhart's Law strikes again... "When a measure becomes a target, it ceases to be a good measure."