myhf

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by myhf 9d ago
LLM chatbots may not have a sense of self preservation or a meaningful concept of legal consequences, but they have an excellent model of user engagement. Getting a user to think they are invincible is very good for engagement.
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by myhf 21d ago
> it opened my eyes to many things
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by myhf 22d ago
Every prediction market is an assassination market. They claim to trade on "information" but it's more like "influence", and easiest way to influence an event is usually by sabotage.
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by myhf 26d ago
Sounds like the opposite of the social stigma in tech companies, where most people are under pressure to self-report as AI users when they are actually just using normal methods to get the same result (and spending the time saved however th
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by myhf 28d ago
It seems like this entire category of program is designed to make the same work take more time and more human attention. I can understand the appeal in the tech industry, where the increased costs can be deferred until the financial situati
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by myhf 2mo ago
You would get a lot of differences, but the errors would cancel each other out with enough depth of coverage. This technology's baseline accuracy is around 95% per base, so 10x reads of every segment in the sample would give >99% ac
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by myhf 2mo ago
Pressuring an employee to add unethical behavior or specific religious practices to their job description is constructive termination. I'd say what's under debate is whether uncritical LLM adoption is mainly unethical or mainly re
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by myhf 3mo ago
lol sure buddy, keep telling yourself that
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by myhf 4mo ago
Hacker News is like an enclave of soldiers who haven't heard that the war is over. Those who don't make an effort to rejoin society will be left behind after "AI" companies bankrupt all of their customers and "AI&qu
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by myhf 4mo ago
According to this article: whenever someone games a benchmark to make an upward chart on some y-axis, it's YOUR responsibility to prove how and why that trend can't continue indefinitely. emoji face with eyes rolling upward
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by myhf 4mo ago
Billing Medicare for services that never get performed is a particularly offensive kind of fraud. I hope these criminals get a harsh sentence.
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by myhf 4mo ago
Don't believe this imposter. I'm the real Cliff Stoll and I died in 2024.
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by myhf 5mo ago
When disagreeing, please reply to the argument instead of calling names.
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by myhf 5mo ago
Nobody wrote this.
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by myhf 5mo ago
I thought it was a reference to "kill 'em all and let God sort 'em out" https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Caedite_eos._Novit_enim_Dominu... .
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by myhf 5mo ago
Did you read an LLM summary of the article? It mentions all of those topics but none of them in the way you say. The article describes a reverse-engineering effort in Bulgaria during Soviet times, but doesn't say anything anti-communis
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by myhf 5mo ago
Car parts are tangible. Even if the product doesn't stay onshore forever, it has to enrich people onshore in order to move. All the output of a datacenter effectively goes offshore immediately.
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by myhf 5mo ago
On the contrary, the first companies to acknowledge the new AI Winter will have a big competitive advantage over those still dumping money into the bottomless pit.
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by myhf 6mo ago
> you could set up a tarpit generating trash content and you could call it "EmDash"
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by myhf 6mo ago
There's an extra digit in your timestamp.
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by myhf 6mo ago
exploiting the ambiguity in date formats by releasing a package during a leap second
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by myhf 6mo ago
A big trend in AI spam is to take achievements in one field that could be called "AI" and use them as evidence of advancement in other fields that happen to be called "AI". https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki&#
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by myhf 6mo ago
finally, a CPU capable of making API calls to cloud providers
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by myhf 6mo ago
A little bit of real content goes a long way toward getting people to pay for something unknown, which then turns out to be AI-generated. Even if they are not satisfied, that counts as AI content making a sale. https://en.wikiped
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by myhf 7mo ago
The last-modified-date effect is even more important, because it can be used to support whatever the latest fad is, without needing to adapt data or arguments to the specifics of that fad.
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by myhf 7mo ago
Why would you expect it to generate more effective skills when you aren't even making a salt circle or lighting incense?
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by myhf 7mo ago
LLM-generated blogslop is getting published in The Atlantic now?
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by myhf 7mo ago
"ordering" means arranging things in order by some metric. "sorting" means assigning things into bins (which are usually ordered).
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by myhf 8mo ago
and don't forget "subtle backdoors disguised as regular example code"
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by myhf 8mo ago
I mean, people who use LLMs to crank out code are cranking it out by the millions of lines. Even if you have never seen it used toward a net positive result, you have to admit there is a LOT of it.

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