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by qlte 10d ago
> Even with the Greenland annexation threats there are Democrats who think it wouldn't be a bad idea, but you should not say it out loud. If you were talking about like, Iraq in 2003 you'd be correct to point out that
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by qlte 10d ago
Well said. When I realize I've been reading LLM filler and leave the page it's the same reaction I would have pre-2021 thinking I found a good source for something and realizing I'm actually reading blogspam. The difference b
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by qlte 10d ago
> You're making the erroneous assumption that the person posting the article was a mouthbreathing spammer Yes, that's the risk of using an LLM to "clean up" your writing. It's human nature to think you&#x
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by qlte 10d ago
> cant't stand how right he is That's.... convenient. No need to interrogate the stated reasons why someone you admire is not universally and uncritically beloved. I'll just ignore the reasons they themselves repea
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by qlte 11d ago
Kinda funny how the "more interesting things" after LLMs example are mostly fiddling with Claude Code itself. Reminds me of when someone says they ship 60k lines of code every day now and when asked for an example, it's a lab
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by qlte 11d ago
Sure it's noise but it does serve a valuable purpose so I don't waste my limited time reading an article on the front page if I see a consensus from dozens of AI complaints in the comments. Dang at one point mentioned HN was plann
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by qlte 12d ago
Which you can also easily do with uBlock Origin Lite in Chrome/Chromium.
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by qlte 13d ago
This is the sort of pseudo-scientific reasoning by analogy that leads Elizier Yudkowsky to argue we should be terrified that an unfriendly ASI could rapidly develop "diamondide" nanobot viruses, because it will be super-intelligen
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by qlte 13d ago
Yes, it's actually based on an economic model seemingly developed with a detailed understanding of modern farming practices and historical effects of timeline disruptions on yields. It may be approximate but isn't just some random
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by qlte 13d ago
According to this firm selling them, this model has <15ft error, usually 3-4 ft. Given the permissible area is entirely up to what the judge orders, it seems eminently plausible that someone confined to their apartment could be placed ou
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by qlte 13d ago
Your heuristic is flawed. The pool of defendants with pending charges who were granted pre-trial home detention are going to be disproportionately non-violent, first-time offenders compared to those denied bail or with prohibitively large a
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by qlte 13d ago
And, any time you mentioned getting a bit better at hitting a ball after practicing over your weekend, a bunch of people carrying printouts of generic exponential graphs jumped out to call you a Luddite who should sell his gear ASAP while i
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by qlte 13d ago
> This feels a lot more like computing in the 90s after taking an odd 25 year detour of an obsession with the tools themselves instead of what the tools can actually do. This sounds more like the opposite of what you're sayi
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by qlte 13d ago
I am pretty sure the average human would not have done this (among other slightly less absurd examples in the article requiring employees to fix it's mistakes): Andon Labs added: “During the first week of operations, Mona purchas
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by qlte 14d ago
Well are you looking for a subscription or pay-as-you-go API usage? Subscription? -> Google One plan (http://one.google.com/) API? -> AI Studio (https://aistudio.google.com/) It's not reall
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by qlte 14d ago
Happened with Dow-Dupont! A three-way split, even (from a two-way merger). Took roughly two years and was the shareholders' plan from the start. By most accounts it went very smoothly. [1] https://www.investors.dupont.com&
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METR Researcher Thomas Kwa Hired by OpenAI(lesswrong.com)
1 points by qlte 14d ago|0 comments
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by qlte 14d ago
The creator of the well known METR time horizon graph was recently poached by OpenAI [1], there exists intellectual/social/financial overlap between the SV AI Labs and METR, and METR needs to maintain good relations with the labs
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by qlte 14d ago
Isn't this basically the phenomenon known as low-end disruption/upmarket migration? [1] Which is often viewed as an unhealthy sign for a company that recognizes it can't keep up with efficiency of a new market entrant but unw
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by qlte 14d ago
Nothing about watermarking would require padding the response length with pseudo-intelligible Claudese. Regular filler would work fine. Also, it would probably provide higher entropy to write normal human-sounding English instead of reusing
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by qlte 14d ago
Okay, finally a plausible explanation for why Anthropic has stubbornly appeared to be self-sabotaging their model with the overly broad yet somehow also overly specific biology filter. The fear of Trump Admin retaliation excuse made superfi
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by qlte 15d ago
It's pretty wild how "reasoning" models now generate like 10 thousand hidden chain of thought tokens in response to a "increase opacity of the logo by 20%" prompt before writing the actual message and yet they stil
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by qlte 15d ago
I've had a Boox Page for about two years now as a Kindle Oasis replacement (current model is Boox Go 7 B&W). I get a bit more than a week of battery life typically which is good enough for me. And most valuable is using the same th
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by qlte 15d ago
If they're jailbroken.
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by qlte 15d ago
Boox Go 7 (B&W version) or Boox Page (discontinued) if you're willing to go Android. Both have the Oasis form factor with two physical buttons. Battery life is more like 1.5 weeks but hasn't been an issue for me at all. For me
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by qlte 16d ago
https://archive.ph/MISxW
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These Generals Fought for Israel. Now They See 'Jewish Terrorism' as the Threat(nytimes.com)
21 points by qlte 16d ago|1 comments
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by qlte 17d ago
That's totally true, I have no issues with a changing opinion over time. The problem is expressing both opinions with 100% certainty and not updating priors to consider that your new position could also be completely wrong.
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by qlte 17d ago
I agree but don't think that's the best example, although not directly alignment related LW loves that kind of ideation of fantastical sci-fi scenarios. Better would be the very evident negatives of non-ASI AI the world is already
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by qlte 17d ago
I mean if doesn't help that Eliezer Yudkowsky spent the first decade of his public life zealously spreading the gospel of the AI singularity as the solution to all mankind's problems. And then later did a 180 degree pivot to AI si

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