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The entire economic premise and value case of LLMs rests on the idea that instructions need not be provided in advance, and that the model can "reason" based on evidence and "decid…

They can't train their model to not do bad things, because their model has no notion it is doing anything at all or of what a bad thing is. It's only predicting the next token, and…

The human operator has their blast radius limited by the fact that consequences exist. Nothing at a technical level stops you from using your phone to take a photo of some confiden…

The primary customers of these models are enterprises, and the most common use cases are office work and coding. How often do the questions of Tiananmen Square or the Uighurs becom…

> Coding assistants and LLM's in general are the single most awe-inspiring achievement of humanity in my lifetime Landing a man on the moon is way more impressive. Finding several …

I'm curious how this linting step scales with larger wikis. Looking for an inconstency across N files requires N*N comparisons, and that's assuming each file contains a single idea…

They are not entitled to a moat, and their customers do not owe them one. Several companies have narrow or no moats. Dell and HP are two examples when it comes to their PC business…

Yes, because if that was their sales pitch, they would need to pay Kim more, and they would have to account for the fact that she's already allocated elsewhere. It's better to pret…

You must consider yourself so clever.

Adding new features doesn't necessarily grow the market. Your bread with nuts and berries competes with the regular bread for the customer's money. Other things also compete for th…

> in order to extract resources from the local government in Iraq and Lebanon. How evil of them to do that. They should have known only the United States of America has the divine …

> The tiny minority of people with guns to everyone's heads? Yes, I am sure the patients in this hospital were holding guns to Trump's head. https://www.aljazeera.com/video/newsfee…

Human beings are able to work out the ambiguity because a lot of meaning is carried in shared context, which in turn arises out of cultural grounding. That achieves disambiguation,…

To reinforce that point: we've got the world's most prominent AI promoting company (MSFT), that has finally realized that Windows Explorer is too slow to start. And this company, w…

> The jobs could themselves become more desirable with machines automating the boring and dangerous parts Or, as Cory Doctorow argues, the machines could become tools to extract "e…

In the case of horses and cars, you need the same number of people to drive both (exactly one per vehicle). In the case of AI and automation, the entire economic bet is that agents…

I'll quote what the person I responded to said: > because most companies will make decisions based on time/effort/profitability, and because client-side anticheat is stupid simple …

And those humans would be looking for a new job or face other consequences. An AI model can merrily do this with zero consequences because no meaningful consequences can be visited…

India has not been antagonistic or ambivalent in its recent past, until a Nobel Peace Prize aspirant in the WH decided to take a machete to relations that both countries had been b…

How do you know it isn't a backdoor? Do you have access to its source code? This kind of app should be be open source.

So the problem was not with the app but with how the information was routed at the back end. The back end of the 1909 system could have been modified to write the data to a central…

So it is the company prioritising their bottom line at the expense of their customer's computers. More simply, they move cost from their balance sheet and convert it into risk on t…

Again, there's probably a sense of responsibility towards the people moving through the airports who otherwise would be facing much greater risk to their lives. As a non American w…

I guess the people in this instance realise they're an essential service for the economy and that without them, a lot of people could actually die. So they probably see their role …

In the above scenario, if Claude accidentally wipes out your Jellyfin movies, will Claude deal with consequences (ie an unhappy family/friends) or will you? That exemption from acc…