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fragsworth

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About fragsworth

Thomas Wolfley

co-founder/CEO of Playsaurus founder/CEO of Net Consensus

UpQuest, Clicker Heroes, Poker Quest, Cloudstone, and other stuff

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    Comment #48578414

    Are we sure the prices in these charts are sustainable prices? Is it possible that Grok may be subsidizing a lot more of the costs than the other models, to produce growth metrics,…

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    Comment #46428402

    > For the folks who have more positive outlooks how often do you change your code after it's been generated? Every time, unless my initial request was perfectly outlined in unambig…

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    Comment #45455513

    The party in charge generally decides the content of the bills they choose to vote on. It's the party in charge that wrote a bill they knew that no Democrats could accept.

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    Comment #42372006

    They only care about certain murders.

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    Comment #42132573

    On one hand you have the richest man on earth purchasing one of the largest social platforms, and singlehandedly wielding it to subvert American democracy. On the other hand you ha…

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    Comment #41660298

    It seems like a potential solution would be training the LLM using two separate buckets. It just needs to internalize the two types of things as being separated (data vs. instructi…

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    Comment #41357552

    You could embed your encrypted messages in legitimate looking images, or any other type of file. There's no way to stop it.

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    Comment #40982282

    This is a typical knee-jerk reaction to a perfectly reasonable law that gets taken out of context and twisted to become ragebait. The law applies to all LGBTQ+ identities, the most…

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    Comment #40193922

    > At a glance it looks like it's not going to affect AI projects that are basically consumers of existing models, which is most projects. If it affects the base projects (especiall…

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    Comment #40166474

    If that didn't happen, and the ISPs started profiting off non-net-neutral tactics, it could have been permanently fucked. Once someone depends on a legal source of income, if that …

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    Comment #40127576

    You're way overdramatizing this. Tiktok has already been banned in several countries (like India) for similar reasons and without any of the catastrophe you're suggesting. People c…

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    Comment #39867974

    > Rock is self aware of being a rock But how did you define the rock? Are you saying every set of particles is self aware of being that set of particles?

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    Comment #39519378

    This was all really we needed to do. It's so frustrating what travel has become

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    Comment #38731403

    I didn't read any outrage in the article either. Also I don't think any less of Google after reading it.

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    Comment #38388578

    GPT4. Everyone uses it to do software engineering now and the people who developed it are responsible for that.

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    Comment #38388449

    At least this guy is being honest about the context: > They are smart people. About that I have no doubt. But I’ve seen how they treat rules. I know what they think of ethics. Also…

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    Comment #37525049

    Usually the only good reason is because you already have developed lot of experience with with it. I'm just saying it's not as bad because it's quite a bit easier to switch a datab…

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    Comment #37524776

    > DynamoDB, MongoDB, Elasticsearch, AWS Lambda, Azure, AWS, Azure Devops, SqlServer, Oracle, etc. At least with these individual tools, it's usually not your entire codebase writte…

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    Comment #36730507

    This site is full of people who are in a tech rat race, and the distribution has changed over time. It's now biased largely against crypto, and for reasons that I think are fairly …

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    Comment #36305787

    Are you joking? I can't really tell. Chocolate? Do you think girl scouts are scumbags too?

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    Comment #35994552

    > furthermore there planning abilities are non-existent. Have you even tried to ask it to plan things out? It can plan things out. In fact, just asking it to plan things out has sh…

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    Comment #35993838

    The article was clearly written by someone who hasn't used GPT-4 extensively. "Current methods will not achieve AGI unless fundamental algorithmic innovations are introduced that e…

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    Comment #35980900

    I won't name three but the one everyone's really afraid of is the theoretical fast/hard "take-off" runaway problem. It is plausible that a smart enough AI given any instruction, wi…

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    Comment #35842252

    I think what's more important is the end part of your prompt, which explains what was previously described and includes a request/question.