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by observationist 2mo ago
He was petarded quite hoistily.
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by observationist 2mo ago
Pelicans, maybe, but the point is to measure how good the "internal visualization" abilities are. Throw curveballs, like a unicorn with a duck bill serving coffee at a basketball court. An elephant playing a piano while its trunk
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by observationist 2mo ago
The anti-Musk stuff would qualify as brigading in nearly any other community. It shocks me that people have such a visceral, irrational engagement with anything in Musk's orbit. I probably shouldn't have, but I expected better fro
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by observationist 2mo ago
The potential conversational dynamics of people telling each other "quiet!" after they pick up the habit from talking with AI will be interesting. It could lead to people being more assertive and thoughtful, or it could be content
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by observationist 2mo ago
The thing they have zero tolerance for is the embarrassment, not the corruption, pollution, crime, or other abuse. You can do whatever you can get away with so long as you don't cause embarrassment or shame.
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by observationist 3mo ago
In principle - if you're able to scale appropriately, using technology to augment capacity, then in principle, there's no abstraction for which we lack the capacity to comprehend, because calculation is calculation. Turing Compute
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by observationist 3mo ago
This is a serious misconception of human cognitive abilities. We have the ability to abstract generally - there is no abstraction for which we lack the capacity to comprehend. We regularly visualize, contextualize, and satisfactorily explai
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by observationist 3mo ago
They have other, arguably more important, yaks to shave.
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by observationist 3mo ago
I mean, if they're dumb enough to try to game the system blatantly - and there are plenty of execs that are - they're dumb enough to write down their super secret criminal collusion plans in a group text, or a lengthy email chain.
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by observationist 3mo ago
Why wouldn't they? There are probbaly significant downsides if they fail an audit requirement, and they're probably mandated to retain records for some period, with no consequences to extended retention. Set up a system so that it
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by observationist 3mo ago
We're in the Model A and Model T era of AI; everything's going to be clunky and have obvious defects when we look back 20 years from now, with our sleek sports cars and mustangs and limousines. Right now, humans can out-write, out
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by observationist 3mo ago
At one of the top tier 1 ISPs in the world, there was a bastion host that allowed 2 teams of network engineers unfettered access to everything; once your permissions allowed you access to the bastion, you had everything. 50 some people with
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by observationist 3mo ago
As of now, you can tell the difference for most AI generated music. There's some where you cannot. There is no Turing Test for taste, and the specific constellation of features that represent your particular interpretation of what th
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by observationist 3mo ago
That deserves some pushback. It's commonly, and more frequently, the case that information is available online; people streaming on the ground right where you want video. It's possible to cultivate online relationships with people
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by observationist 3mo ago
It's like some random lottery winner criticizing Apple - there's no special insight or perspective there. He is a fundamentally uninteresting, and pridefully smug person.
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by observationist 3mo ago
In the sense that you can get similarity scores for individual characters referenced against a known database of characters written by various individuals. You can get stylometry scores out of small LLMs that do demographic segmentation bas
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by observationist 3mo ago
I don't think you're honestly accounting for the engineering behind the progress models are making. If it was just a matter of compute on hand and iterating, Meta would be neck and neck with Ant, OAI, and Google, but clearly you&#
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by observationist 3mo ago
Sometimes you might sit and stare at the same text, grappling with it in silence. For technical problems, I find the act of writing out a request for help, even just into a text editor, is often sufficient for me to solve the problem at han
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by observationist 3mo ago
All money is meme driven. Money is fundamentally a meme itself. Seeing lots of people who seem to be making some sort of implicit distinction between bitcoin and USD and so on, but they are no different. They serve the function they serve b
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by observationist 3mo ago
There are all sorts of tell-tales, but the last paragraph is the most overt. I'd grant that it could be a mix, but at the very least it's heavily AI rewritten. The whole thing has an AI tempo and vibe, though.
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by observationist 3mo ago
I've heard of people around my parts sneaking around at night with black masks, taking baseball bats to specific headlights on trucks late at night. Apocryphal or no, stories like that are being cheered by regular people. The federal g
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by observationist 3mo ago
They plan pretty deeply - if you think about things like plastic lid snowboarding, or cup sorting games (fit the smaller cups inside the larger) and those types of puzzles, there's usually an abstract reward, whether it's fun, pla
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by observationist 3mo ago
>> Of all tyrannies, a tyranny sincerely exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive. It would be better to live under robber barons than under omnipotent moral busybodies. The robber baron’s cruelty may sometimes
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by observationist 3mo ago
Very Kaczyynski like - the unabomber manifesto, in isolation, seems to be insightful and have a coherent grasp of reality and the implications of a deeply technological society, but in context of the author, is very dark and twisted; it pic
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by observationist 3mo ago
This silly game where the EU invents its own rules and tries to impose them globally must stop. Their business is not needed, and the collateral damage with regards to censorship, manipulation, and erosion of fundamental liberties far outpa
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by observationist 3mo ago
https://www.cypherpunkbooks.com/book/definition-of-democrati... The book in question. What was the intent or purpose of coming at this sideways?
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by observationist 3mo ago
So is it bad that governments don't allow the processes and manufacturing to take place in their own countries, allowing independence and market dynamics and economies of scale to result in yet another order of magnitude cost reduction
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by observationist 4mo ago
Every Windows computer has a small rwkv model on it. Wouldn't be hard at all to get decent cpu performance from a tiny malicious harness, especially one that used the self-evolving skills features and open source models. Malware is goi
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by observationist 4mo ago
Hopefully we hit that mythical "hollywood level audio/video" AI before too much longer and really creative people can run pirate series.
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by observationist 4mo ago
They use, unwittingly, proxies for "AI" stylometry, with no specific or explicable features they can point to and say "Look! That is evidence that the text is written by AI", as if there were such features in the first

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