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I think this is related to the concept of “aligned incentives” in a way. The chain breaks when incentives aren’t aligned and there’s a cascade of crap that roles downhill that seem…

It’s the other way round many times. Companies get fat tax breaks to move into a particular town or city. Those tax breaks are explicitly contingent on butts being physically in se…

I think this is a big part of his legacy. I’m sure his contributions to the Indian economy are staggering in total. That’ll conjure different emotions depending on where you sit in…

I think common decency should have been considered here regardless of what a lawyer would say to do or not to do. Yuck.

This is the money grab part of the show. As LLM capabilities start to plateau, everyone with any sort of name recognition is scrambling to ride the hype to a big pay day before rea…

Here now, you just need a few more ice cold glasses of the kool-aide. Drink up! LLMs are not on the path to AGI. They’re a really cool parlor trick and will be powerful tools for l…

You should _always_ be skeptical of what’s said by anyone who is trying to sell something. Like everything else being sold, the marketing is 95% BS. LLMs are amazing and wonderful …

No doubt it’s bipartisan! Politician’s careers live and die in the fickle Court of Public Opinion. They’re probably the most susceptible cohort to AI fakes. One of the rare times, …

What country is immune to this? As far as I can tell the collective conscious of every country is swayed by propaganda. A written headline is enough to incite rage in any country m…

Our admin used to just prop the door open with a fan and blow the “something’s burning” smell out into the hall.

Regulation should allow students to forgo their tuition payments if they can’t land a good job in their field of study. That’d help align incentives. Schools would compete on place…

I’m starting to think this is an unsolvable problem with LLMs. The very act of “reasoning” requires one to know that they don’t know something. LLMs are giant word Plinko machines.…

This is a great argument as to why we need stronger regulations to make these practices illegal.

And as has been demonstrated, popular revolts tend to leave a power vacuum that gets filled by just another abusive regime.

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I think this is the same behavior in Finder on MacOS. Sometimes right clicking requires some pixel-perfect sniping to hit just the right spot.

Ah! Thanks, I misread that as “grift” and thought it was another jab at De Beers.

This is brilliant! I always leave stuff for future remodelers or archeologists when I do remodeling or building. Mostly coins, I throw a few in the concrete mix or inside walls for…

Sounds like the burning of the library at Alexandria, but worse.

I burned a couple hours debugging some generated code only to finally realize copilot was referencing a variable as ‘variableO1’. Artificial Incompetence indeed!

They certainly have DR infrastructure primed and ready to go… with Crowdstrike pre-installed on every DR server.

So is this data fair game to be used by lawyers and cops in the US? I guess maybe a cop would still need a warrant to use the data, but what about civil court cases?

Yep. It’s a really nice architecture for lots of use cases where it fits. Every new idea goes through the same cycle of overuse until it finds its niches.

We’re in the middle of “The Dark Ages II” and we don’t even know it. I’ve been thinking for a while about how historians will view our chunk of history and it ain’t too good. There…

That’s not the four letter s-word I would have gone with.