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arowthway

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About arowthway

i'm changing password to one i don't know to stop wasting my time here. wish me luck

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    Comment #48502312

    I dont understand the downvotes here, is my analogy wrong? Why?

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    Comment #48501672

    It could be malicious, but I imagined it's some third world wanabe hacker/researcher, who doesn't know any better, operating at the edge of his abilities.

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    Comment #48501574

    Without PR merged it's just a stupid machine larping, it could say "I will rape and eat your kids" and it would be just as relevant.

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    Comment #48501425

    Of course I meant malicious towards the person paying the bill, not towards the agent.

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    Comment #48501307

    Suppose a drunk man on the street is acting aggressively towards you and four of your friends, but you can push him out of the way and continue walking. Should you knock his teeth …

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    Comment #48501031

    The agent would probably have wasted a similar amount of money just waiting for PR to be merged regardless of these people's actions, and I understand having some fun at the expens…

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    Comment #48487284

    There's no such thing as a human without access to the physical world.

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    Comment #48476292

    Opt-in = action is required to opt in = off by default.

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    Comment #48474963

    'Then you ask them for a site that doesn't work' - For me it was Youtube. Debian 13, Gnome, apt update && apt install firefox, try playing a video. It's always noticebly slower, an…

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    Comment #48473904

    I don't think there is any "humans are metaphysically superior to LLMs" subtext to this talk, it's just a technical/educational observation. Access to some forms of evaluation and …

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    Comment #48442384

    Looks like the output of Caddy Defender plugin: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/JasonLovesDoggo/caddy-defe...

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    Comment #48424714

    I love evolutionary psychology trivia but for me it's kind of hard to meaningfully fit 0.13 standard deviation shift in preferences into my world model.

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    Comment #48408865

    Well, they share the same core componnent of disregard for property rights and freedom of contract.

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    Comment #48386839

    For the confused: gelateria is some foreign word for an ice cream shop.

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    Comment #48346156

    We should have listened to Rachel! >I've been aware of the ACME protocol for a while. I have tech notes going back as far as 2018, and every time I looked at it, I recoiled in horr…

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    Comment #48321436

    God, I love being boring, cis and not that smart.

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    Comment #48319969

    Also, there's nothing inherently insecure about feeding secrets to an LLM, it's only one element of the lethal trifecta.

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    Comment #48295593

    I think you're right, more evidence: "11. s From the Anthropic Team", "Boris’s single most-repeated ."

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    Comment #48277512

    Well, what if we take the rule book learned by the embodied chinese room robot and put it in the new chinese room? What if we come up with identical rules randomly or by top-down d…

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    Comment #48205045

    I know calling anti-AI people luddites was considered a shallow strawman in 2024 but now I can't help but feel this position of "we should maybe slow down the developement and adop…

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    Comment #48106091

    Cool. What are the hardware requirements? I use https://github.com/calzoneman/sync with mp4 files served by nginx and it works great for 15-20 people watching on a cheap 0.5GB ram …

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    Comment #48046808

    Why is this example non-encyclopedic? It's an informative, falsifiable statement that could be supported by a citation, like here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thongbu_Wainucha#:~…

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    Comment #48008521

    To me as someone also "deeply afraid of irritating someone or being in awkward situations", it sounds like this project is greatly expanding the surface on which awkward situations…