skygazer

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by skygazer 8d ago
Well, in fairness, both sides were bad, and still are -- although, now, one side is spectacularly worse. Dems can't ever agree on a candidate or position or message, and intentionally run candidates the otherside would abhore, and Repu
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by skygazer 16d ago
It may be turtles all the way down, but we don't want to need to visit each tier, wading through obvious slop engineered for engagement as we go. The sloppiness reveals the low effort machinery meant to sap our vital attention and time
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by skygazer 26d ago
… but, a power power user would know that it was transparently saved every several keystrokes, even while named Untitled and ostensibly unsaved, ready for immediate transparent recovery on relaunch, after an app or system crash -- so they m
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by skygazer 1mo ago
Like an idiot, I once wrote a simple, internal, in memory chat room via web page at work. Because it let you pick a nickname, co-workers immediately gave themselves names of other employees and started sexually harassing each other and bein
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by skygazer 2mo ago
You’re right. Modern frontier models are now multimodal. I used often as weak a hedge, because I know at least his gpt3.5 turbo and llama3.1 generated pelicans were from text only models without image training. The chinese models are intere
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by skygazer 2mo ago
At that rate you could use an image model, which was designed for the task. Thats the absurdity of this test. It’s often a text only generation model that has never seen a pelican, coerced into creating an xml graphical representation that
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by skygazer 2mo ago
I think the evil part is the [at any cost] part, the incentives are irrelevant. An AI that only wants to make paperclips isn't evil because of the paperclips.
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by skygazer 2mo ago
But, they were wrong ... in assuming what they were saying was at all relevant. And they were so sure they knew what they were talking about and that it applied that they dismissed all the ample evidence to the contrary and also dismissed t
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by skygazer 2mo ago
Wait, so it would have, ironically, been safer to allow microsoft telemetry to bypass the VPN entirely and remain associated only with their home network, because it's the phone home to microsoft tunneled through the VPN that tied toge
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by skygazer 2mo ago
Oh, good. Maybe I can stop myself from mindlessly upgrading yearly which being on the original iPhone upgrade program makes too tempting and easy. I should be keeping phones two years so they can be family hand-me-downs, anyway.
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by skygazer 2mo ago
It’s not clear if you’re commiserating with the comment you’re replying to, or lambasting its author.
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by skygazer 3mo ago
https://archive.ph/UTcTa
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by skygazer 3mo ago
Unrelated to Google Workspace and Firefox, but I just noticed today that Google’s YouTube now says my iPhone’s Safari browser is incapable of playing full screen videos, which it’s not ever claimed before. I’m also getting sick of them push
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by skygazer 4mo ago
I think their intent is actually safety. They employ two touch interaction models: Flexible while not moving and simplified while driving. For instance, keyboard input becomes unavailable while moving and you must rely on Siri. I personally
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by skygazer 4mo ago
People confabulate. The setup further invites it. We mindlessly fill voids and call it opinion, and occassionally even believe ourselves. "Plausibility" is a really low bar. Rigor is tiring and we'd rather not invest as no on
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by skygazer 5mo ago
I'm not sure what's going on, but in Chrome my median point is heavily on the blue side but in Safari it's on the Green side. Also, at least in Safari, reset leads to a series of perceptually unchanging turquois screens -- it
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by skygazer 5mo ago
Not paywalled for me: https://news.bloomberglaw.com/daily-labor-report/apple-store...
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by skygazer 5mo ago
Paraphrasing F. Scott Fitzgerald? "The test of a first-rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposed ideas in the mind at the same time, and still retain the ability to function." Holding contradictory ideas isn't the
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by skygazer 6mo ago
I always sort of speculated that sports existed to channel what would otherwise be human tendencies toward violence; an outlet enablining more stable civilization. Even though I largely ignore sports, I appreciate it over possible alternati
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by skygazer 6mo ago
What I find most interesting is that HN posters seem to overwhelmingly skew liberal, but HN flaggers lean extremist “conservative”. They rarely post, but completely control the discourse of the posters. Thats a crazy dynamic.
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by skygazer 6mo ago
Out of curiosity, if you asked for the same text extraction multiple times, each inside fresh contexts, is it likely to fabricate unique quotes each time? And if so, a) might that be a procedure we train humans to do to better understand LL
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by skygazer 6mo ago
Edit: Oop, I misread! Right, yes, the change up was arguably not entirely boring. Some people were excited at least. Originally: To be the annoying pedant, version numbers did still monotonically increase, even with the gap, because each ve
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by skygazer 6mo ago
The rationale for rejecting the syndrome was the reported scientific consensus of the impossibility of such a device being smaller than a large truck. The revelation that such a device is possible, exists, works and is full of Russian parts
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by skygazer 6mo ago
Probably your DNS -- the archive.today guy is a stickler that dns must pass client subnet to partially deanonymize visitors, and for instance, cloudflare's 1.1.1.1 server doesn't pass it. I think that's still the case.
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by skygazer 6mo ago
I’ve had tinnitus since I was maybe 5 years old, maybe from my frequent ear infections at the time? I remember discovering it during nap time and noting that silence had a high-pitched, discordant set of tones to it. But I thought it recede
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by skygazer 7mo ago
Is it “plagiarism” to misattribute hallucinated quotes? Not that a whole lot of sloppy, unprofessional shortcuts weren’t taken, but plagiarism doesn’t seem like the right word, as quotes are almost definitionally not plagiarism. But maybe t
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by skygazer 7mo ago
I don’t believe that’s true. Private Cloud Compute is restricted to newer phones that already support on device Apple Intelligence. It’s just that the on device model is basically limited to simple stuff. Safari page summarization and the t
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by skygazer 7mo ago
I think people that aren’t objecting to AI mass surveillance of populations: haven’t recognized how thorough and invasive these technologies will become; think the current governments share their values and lists of enemies; naively think
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by skygazer 7mo ago
OAI: “If they stretch, reinterpret or beak the law with our systems, well, that’s on them. Good luck everybody!”
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by skygazer 7mo ago
Perhaps Trump's DOD objects specifically to Anthropic models themselves declining to do immoral and illegal things, and not something just stipulated in an ignorable contract. That would give room for Sam to throw some public CYA into

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