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alansaber

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    Comment #49222547

    Trained on short form gratification loops? Just the opposite. They're the path of least resistance. It was thermodynamically inevitable that short form content would dominate.

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    Comment #49221254

    Fake it til you make it

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    Comment #49221251

    Given the amount of raw compute going into models it would be more surprising if we couldn't get events like this

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    Comment #49221235

    They'll set up guardrails but I believe the point is better code uae / better long running tasks > inevitable that cyberattacks will be easier

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    Comment #49212105

    Live by the scraper, die by the scraper

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    Comment #49211133

    I get the market need for AI detection, but the fundamentals of it are so woo-woo that I despair

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    Comment #49210440

    Fair enough.

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    Comment #49201649

    The ragebait > AI pipeline remains strong

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    Comment #49197895

    Concern for celestial events is a bit like one of your gut bacterium being concerned with your work schedule

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    Comment #49197856

    Sounds logical to me. It's already remarkable that we haven't done this with fission weapons. It's not unreasonable to assume that within a century we'll have antimatter weapons. D…

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    Comment #49197481

    SLM language filters might actually be a good application of AI? As well as very sparing regex for bad words.

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    Comment #49190001

    TBF gaming benchmarks is not something new to AI

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    Comment #49189995

    it is definitely more verbose.

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    Comment #49184160

    So AI is mostly a thin glue between deterministic processes. Doesn't change the fact that that is enough to achieve an extremely large amount of tasks.

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    Comment #49184151

    What each of these is doing, fundamentally, is solving context management in an opinionated way (that and guardrails).

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    Comment #49184125

    Sounds like you want something similar to /goal mode in Codex.

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    Comment #49183542

    I don't find the argument that advanced AI will leave 20% of society permanently unemployed particularly compelling

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    Comment #49183400

    Yep, a pre-wrapped Codex for enterprise. Seems like the logical evolution from setting up an MCP.

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    Comment #49183326

    So, a security-oriented cloud agent framework? Better call it an OS.

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    Comment #49182325

    We probably want to discourage frontier labs from security testing in prod