simondw

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by simondw 3mo ago
Sounds like a very expensive and time-consuming way to build something that won't work very well for a while. Is that the point?
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by simondw 4mo ago
Maybe I'm misunderstanding, but what is new about the pointer itself? Seems to be functionally the same as selecting + tooltips / context menus.
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by simondw 1y ago
And whether the LED is off is false or true.
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by simondw 1y ago
But... cows do drink cow milk, that's why it exists.
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by simondw 1y ago
Really? If a company advertises a new red version of their widget and I excitedly upgrade because I love red, but when it comes it's gray just like the old widget, don't I have a case? Surely I don't need to demonstrate that
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by simondw 2y ago
That makes sense when tools are as dumb as static notes and TI-84s. But in the (hypothetical) limit where AI tools outperform all humans, what does this updated test look like? Are we even testing the humans at that point?
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by simondw 2y ago
Which app?
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by simondw 2y ago
To be clear, the issue this article is talking about is essentially "during a video call the other party can see your eyes moving." I agree that we should be vigilant when big corps are adding more and more sensors into our lives,
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by simondw 2y ago
The technology to reproduce eye movements has been around since motion pictures were invented. I'm sure even a flat video stream of the user's face would leak similar information. Apple should have been more careful about allowing
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by simondw 2y ago
> ‘user-spacey’ applications from the OS manufacturer shouldn’t be privileged beyond other applications I don't think that's an accurate description, either. The SharePlay "Persona" avatar is a system service just li
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by simondw 2y ago
> if Apple is providing raw eye tracking streams to app developers Apple is not doing that. As the article describes, the issue is that your avatar (during a FaceTime call, for example) accurately reproduces your eye movements.
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by simondw 2y ago
> Exposure to regular levels of background bacteria and virus keeps our immune system tuned > While the mask likely does not protect you from background virus and bacteria If you believe the second statement, why does the first matter
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by simondw 2y ago
> The vast majority just . . . sit there > They're machines which must be used [...] not magic evil talismans I feel like there's a straw man in there. No one is worried about guns sitting around literally unused, and I don&
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by simondw 2y ago
> map, and_then, etc. I think this would be called being "monadic". Strictly speaking, I think providing "map" just makes it functorial. Monadic would need a flatmap. (In addition to the other functor and monad requir
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by simondw 2y ago
Ah yes, with a delicious frackuccino.
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by simondw 2y ago
> Arguing you can't do something because someone will be offended is also not very helpful: you can almost always find some offensive interpretation of anything You mentioned the sorites paradox earlier. Do you think it could be app
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by simondw 2y ago
> less likely to confuse anyone than not using any flag This doesn't seem obvious to me. I don't think the word "English" is likely to confuse any English speaker. > anyone offended by this needs to grow a tougher
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by simondw 3y ago
Sure, but by undershooting you can simply wait until the time is 1:59:26.53589793 to celebrate.
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by simondw 3y ago
I think the idea is to profit off the generation of it, not the output works themselves.
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by simondw 3y ago
But one of the lenses isn't a few steps back from the other.
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by simondw 3y ago
> fictitious nation-state Are you referring to Cascadia? That's a perfectly non-fictional name for the region ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pacific_Northwest ). Or maybe I missed another reference?
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by simondw 3y ago
> You would ask an LLM based assistant what it can do But this has the same problem that it's trying to solve in the first place: the LLM's behavior is unpredictable, and that includes its answers to questions like this. There&
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by simondw 3y ago
It's still not quite what the experiment is designed to test. How many people who opt out when given the ability would stick around when not given the ability?
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by simondw 3y ago
I'm struggling to imagine a mental model of the LLM for which that would make sense. A human who's willing to a lie a little, but comes clean when called out? A robot that mostly doesn't make mistakes, and is more likely to c
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by simondw 3y ago
> women find powerful men attractive You're conflating "is powerful" with "has power over me." The latter can be used for coercion, and it's not always sexy for someone to threaten you.
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by simondw 3y ago
Someone's actual preference is stored in their memory. If you give the LLM access to a database that includes "preferences", I'm sure it will be able to retrieve that.
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by simondw 3y ago
That commonality doesn't seem sufficient (to me, a non-expert) to show that there is no difference in meat nutrition.
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by simondw 4y ago
I have bought from official stores, only for Amazon to say my package is conveniently "Now arriving early" from a totally different seller.
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by simondw 4y ago
> a pattern in your arguments > You ask whether it’s worth > you keep telling people I just want to point out that the account you're replying to isn't the OP.
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by simondw 4y ago
For one thing, total revenue over some longer time period is probably the actual thing to maximize. Short-term revenue may not be the best predictor of that, but we still need short-term metrics to evaluate performance.

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