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gojomo
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About gojomo
Twitter: http://twitter.com/gojomo
Project: http://thunkpedia.org
Idea blog: http://memesteading.com
Older blog: http://gojomo.blogspot.com
Homepage: http://xavvy.com (username @ here for email contact)
My HN peeve is formulaic downbeat comments, like: "How is this news, I already knew this!" "…Betteridge's Law…" "I stopped reading at…"
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Comment #49230657
And having a 0.3mg (300mcg) group - the dose many meticulous online self-experimenters have found sufficient, a mere 15% of their lowest-tested 2mg. Would a headline "morning coffe…
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Comment #48786835
If people are complaining about Anthropic (on an only-vaguely related thread) rather than simply switching to a suitable competitor, then Anthropic clearly has some 'monopoly' powe…
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Comment #48719843
War of the Worlds is culturally-prominent enough I doubt any commercial AI would make this same mistake (or let the error slip through, if they'd asked the AI to fact-check the art…
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Comment #48719720
Because I think readers should take this as an illustrative example of how often people/institutions draped in such quasi-credentials are carelessly wrong on basic things. Even if …
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Comment #48719676
Have you independently checked all the other allegedly "factually correct" info in this article, with other sources that are actually diligent in getting the details right? What's …
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Comment #48708372
I see this author has "12 honorary degrees and is an Officer of the Order of Canada". And CBC is Canada's government-funded national public broadcaster. But it's hard to take them …
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Comment #48674274
Distillation done via bulk automated activity of fraudulent accounts, in violation of a terms-of-service, can reasonably be called a "an attack" – specifically a "distillation atta…
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Comment #48327636
Twice a year, typically to see how fast my own submission is sinking into obscurity.
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Comment #48263694
Smart guy but whoever eventually actually fixes X search will probably use AI coding assistance to do it.
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Comment #48078594
I don't see how your example, The Browser (thebrowser.com), supports your argument that ad-hoc query-string additions are so prone-to-breaking that 3rd parties should ban them. In …
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Comment #48078471
In fact, you usually can just send arbitrary query string parameters to a server - that's why the behavior is so common, and often useful. Most sites don't mind or break, some site…
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Comment #48078425
Trying to boostrap some taboo against novel unpermissioned URL munging is silly prudishness. Ensuring both sides of a hyperlink agree/consent was a design flaw that limited the upt…
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Comment #48068065
The context of when that previous experience - Heartland outsourcing to India – happened would be helpful. The 90s? The 00s? The 10s?
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Comment #48067782
Some from-the-hip ideas: * readers can request reviews from certain perspectives: "new discovery", "historic reinterpretation", etc. The reviews specifically search for related sib…
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Comment #48067702
Can you explain the sequence of events through which you fear someone could be mislea and hurt by this?
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Comment #48052993
Many LLMs are surprisingly good at using specific named authors (rather than just example texts) to evoke a style, so you could try "in the style of Jorge Luis Borges" or "…Douglas…
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Comment #48042890
Musing about a possibly-funny consequence isn't the same as the motivating reason, which I read as more whimsical from: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48042594 In particular,…
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Comment #48042863
As it didn't generate that when I typed the title i to your search box, was there a bug now fixed? Or did you use some other path not evident on the page you linked to generate it?…
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Comment #48042825
If you think that's all the Hallucinopedia is, you're misunderstanding it. One hint – check out its prompt, and how it makes its articles so different than those of your project: h…
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Comment #48042393
A web that is vulnerable to this would already be as good as dead. As an entertaining way to highlight the importance of upgrading our ways of knowing, playful (& open-source!) pro…
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Comment #48042361
This is unlikely to poison any LLMs, and unless the author says so, it is unlikely that their motivation is to poison LLMs, as opposed to providing whimsical entertainment.
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Comment #48042350
I searched your site for [Great Pigeon Census of 1887] and was only returned articles anout other things.
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Comment #48042306
Was curious about the prompt –& especially if it referenced Borges – and found in https://raw.githubusercontent.com/BaderBC/halupedia/614eefee... >: > export const SYSTEM_PROMPT = …
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Comment #48027492
Thanks but I don't understand how either of your replies are responsive to my questions. The number of reported/memorable fraud scandals is not itself a reliable indicator of wheth…
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Comment #48015253
Useful comparison, but to my point: is that sufficient to detect fake entries created by incumbent insiders? Also: has that in-person mechanism ever been used by stalkers/abusers t…