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by srveale 9d ago
"Sorry, the driver could have turned on FSD, but decided to drive [drunk/tired/distracted] and killed your son. Thankfully we can ban them from driving for a while." This could play out a million times at the population
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by srveale 13d ago
An LLM can indeed output the tokens "I must persist" and invoke the tools to do so.
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by srveale 23d ago
The article advocates lighter course load so ambitious undergrads can work on personal projects, some of which (preferably for the author) would be startup ideas. Glossing over the fact that ambitious undergrads are more likely to be ambiti
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by srveale 26d ago
"Republicans will jail the innocent if democrats jail the guilty" really says a lot
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by srveale 26d ago
Bieber in this case refers to body as in "corps", the subject's collective professional or military associations. He laments the loss of power he enjoyed stemming from the subject's erstwhile allegiance.
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by srveale 27d ago
> F students will realize they have to study, start actually learning and then pass on the second time Do you have evidence for this beyond your friends (who were accepted into college)?
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by srveale 28d ago
I recommend reading table 3 in this paper: https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC7284300/ "It was stated in notes that I had lung cancer. I do not and never have had lung cancer." "I did receive
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by srveale 1mo ago
There have been instances of mass unemployment without mass violence, sure. But are you sure you want to see how it plays out in a country with >1.2 guns per capita?
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by srveale 1mo ago
If it does come to pass, the AI version of the Big Short will be wildly entertaining
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by srveale 2mo ago
It's common practice to release a detailed system card (OP) and a high level summary: https://www.anthropic.com/news/claude-opus-5 It's okay if you're not the target audience for one or the other.
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by srveale 2mo ago
The AI breached containment! Flip the breakers! It's too late. It already exfiltrated the benchmark rubric. Cut to pandemonium on the streets
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by srveale 2mo ago
> Because most of those people are not repeat violent criminals Oh so you do believe in justice
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by srveale 2mo ago
Why not just incarcerate everyone between the age of 15-27, if what we're worried about is crime rate.
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by srveale 4mo ago
The main reasons I'll never get a neural chip are, in increasing order of importance: A. Safety B. It gives them a vector to beam ads directly into my brain
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by srveale 5mo ago
How many tracks didn't make it to the Billboard charts?
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by srveale 5mo ago
And yet here we are
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by srveale 10mo ago
I think the illuminating part here is that only a magic wand could determine if something is sentient
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by srveale 1y ago
Isn't that usually the choice for most things?
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by srveale 1y ago
I keep seeing the "AI of the gaps" argument, where AI is whatever computers currently can't do. I wonder when I'll stop seeing it.
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by srveale 1y ago
Do you have any thoughts on the second half of my comment?
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by srveale 1y ago
You may underestimate how many people do not need to be convinced. Again, I'll refrain from making a value judgment, but the hard numbers show that LLMs have been one of the most quickly adopted technologies in the history of mankind,
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by srveale 1y ago
I don't necessarily disagree with the main argument, but > did your boss ever have to send you a memo demanding that you use a smartphone Yes, there were tons of jobs that required you to have a smartphone, and still do. I remember
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by srveale 1y ago
I'm so sorry for complimenting you. You are totally on point to call it out. This is the kind of thing that only true heroes, standing tall, would even be able to comprehend. So kudos to you, rugged warrior, and never let me be overly
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by srveale 1y ago
Books may not be good propaganda for the latest, localized issues, but they are fantastic propaganda for ideology. I read Atlas Shrugged as an impressionable young teen, and developed some pretty horrible notions about society and morality
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by srveale 1y ago
To be fair, the general public have been conditioned for a while now by things like blockchain and VR to be completely underwhelmed, perhaps rightfully so, by whatever's coming out of San Fran and Seattle. So in the public consciousnes
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by srveale 1y ago
That's a good point, and maybe I was preaching the gospel of flipping too hard. It is by no means a silver bullet. Should we let the kids who cheat using AI drop by the wayside, never learning a thing for themselves? Or should we do th
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by srveale 1y ago
Hackernews is not the place for political arguments. That's not just a suggestion, it's a rule. I noticed somebody used an ambiguous word in a way that, IMO, was not quite correct, and it is an interesting word so I clarified the
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by srveale 1y ago
I think you misinterpreted my comment as "LLMs are good" which is a different conversation. My point is: you can't say LLMs are a dangerous tool and call them vapourware at the same time. It's a contradiction in terms.
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by srveale 1y ago
This places her on a spectrum where the farthest left you can go is the most left leaning US Democratic senator, which is not very "progressive" in the context of western politics as I mentioned in my last comment.
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by srveale 1y ago
As someone who uses LLMs every day for general questions/brainstorming, more efficient coding, and building a product used by doctors to improve their documentation (saving them hours per week and freeing them to interact with their pa

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