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This is a nonsensical goal. If I drag a browser window to the right, making it cover the right-hand half of my monitor, it serves no useful purpose for "centered" content to migrat…

No, I think you misunderstood me. We engineer the model-training algorithm and then we USE the model. The model is a mess of random gobbledegook that happens to be the best optimiz…

No, we only need to know how the thing-building thing works. We don't have to understand the resulting product at all. Genetic algorithms are an example - we understand the evoluti…

Imagine for a moment that batteries with decent shelf lives are free. You build a power plant on a geothermal vent in Iceland. The electricity it produces is plentiful and cheap. Y…

1. The LLM is passed a context window 2. The LLM outputs text containing "call tool X" 3. The tool outputs text 4. The LLM is passed another context window, containing the original…

The way the LLM "looks" at a document is it receives a single blob of data containing both instructions and the doc itself. There aren't two different inputs to an LLM, just one. Y…

I think you've entirely missed what I'm trying to say. If your objective is to expend as little energy as possible, it would be irrational to expand into space - that's a waste of …

What is rational about wanting to experience things? How about wanting power? Resources? Beauty? Those are goals, not logic. Rationality is a means by which you set plans to reach …

U2F does not support PINs. You may be thinking of FIDO2, which does.

"The AI" cannot "refuse" any more than a hammer can refuse. If you use a hammer to kill someone, you commit a crime and the hammer is unprosecuted. If you design a hammer to kill p…

The grandparent comment is correctly pointing out the sentence is an LLM tell. "Membership is a question they ask a server" is a bogus sentence. "membership" is not a "question". I…

I think the DOI system provides a stable identifier for a paper that is not specific to arXiv?

> it just requires a few cryptographic primitives and a set of device-bound keys Question: how do you make sure the keys are device-bound if you have no attestation about the hardw…

I was a bit upset to see vitriolic opposition online to systemd adding a field to store, entirely locally to a Linux system, the user's age. I think opponents to these bills frame …

That issue cannot be a bug in the game, because the operating system should not allow a game to (by any means) produce that type of behaviour. So it's a bug in your OS, potentially…

I'm sorry it affects you directly, but the number of people who live in the whole state of Wyoming is around a half-million (even ignoring "rural"). If every single person in the e…

What percentage of people do you think are affected by AI datacenters? That argument applies better to blast furnaces than to data centers, but I don't see people complaining about…

If you want yourself to be the root of trust, you CAN generate and use your own keys for secure boot.

The IPs are Cloudflare, the TLS fingerprint is uTLS Chrome, and the number of connections with xhttp is the same as your normal browsing. If you are willing to block browsing all o…

I will have a stab at legitimately explaining the viewpoint you profess not to understand. "Institutional" or "structural" racism doesn't just mean racism by one or two people in p…

The state of the art, "xray-reality", is not blockable. It's a legit tls connection with data smuggled inside it.

Technically no, because selling a thing is both a risk and a cost (of time and money).

Okay, understood. You are making a variant of the Chinese Room argument in which you allow some types of computer programs (but not others) to have reason/sentience. I'm not entire…

Just to make sure I've understood you... Are you arguing that with a set of identically-behaving black boxes, one could be "reasoning" and one could be "not reasoning", and a perso…

The paper presents a constructive transformation from any finite-input (finite vocab, bounded length) transformer to an equivalent Markov chain. Do you have some concrete example o…