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chbint

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About chbint

Professor and researcher of philosophy of (cognitive) science, AI and mind.

Also a FOSS enthusiast who loves contributing to privacy and infosec projects with both code and feedback.

https://cbarth.me

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    Claude Code was used to do the reverse engineering. Not hard to see how an AI agent could achieve something similar even as a step towards some innocently established goal. Poor se…

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    I suspect his diagnostic is pretty accurate, though. The bitter lesson came up when deep learning was already mainstream. The text discusses how that happened, and it can be the ca…

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    I like RSS and I use it, but this sounds like wishful thinking. Even the amount of human produced content is just too big for one to be their own curator. We have those few authors…

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    Their argument is not sound, but it is informative paying attention to what they consider "evidence" for AGI. A nice instance of a problem that seems peculiar to AI: it tries to de…

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    I confess it was disappointing for me. Their main claim seems to be that thinking comprises pattern matching and pattern completion--allowing them to say that LLMs do resemble some…

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    This has interesting implications for representations within AI models.

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    > You're basically arguing that the constitution is on equal footing with or inferior to the other laws. That's just backwards and to insist on this borders on gaslighting. No. I'm…

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    > Qubes is a good approach to an OS, but it's Xen security, not OS security, and I'd rather run a secure OS other than Fedora or Debian on Qubes. Not sure what you mean by "Xen sec…

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    I honestly don't think you'll be able to get very far unless the team is already onboard with the plan to switch towards a more asynchronous culture. If they lack the motivation, t…

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    Your understanding of censorship is fundamentally distinct from that of the Brazilian constitution (BC) because you clearly detach freedom from legal responsibility. In BC, freedom…

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    Like I've said before, Brazil lives under the rule of a democratic constitution built after much fight against real dictatorship and real censorship, not the rule suggested by you …

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    Judges were aware of what the producers themselves claimed the content to be and how the content was being promoted. There were clear references to the elections and to people invo…

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    Because there's an ongoing investigation/legal process and you need to prevent something bad from happening. Typical examples are: the risk of you running away to another country, …