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    Comment #49241313

    I think it's similar to adding a note to a book, and then removing that note, leaving you with a the original book. That scenario doesn't violate copyright law as far as I'm aware.…

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    Comment #49227559

    This seems like rage bait. You could just as easily make the claim that all soldiers, regardless of their support role, could refuse orders long before they were put in a position …

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    Comment #49215170

    > By the time the current build up is done which will take years, Ukraine will not be a sovereign nation at its current rate. For Russia's perspective, a regime change is their ult…

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    Comment #49188658

    The systems we have in place kill people. Aiming to blame just one point of failure, in a complex network of systems, is a failure itself

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    Comment #49188583

    glad you posted this. > "Why are you now placing these children on the ground face into the concrete? It's hot! In front of all of us? Screaming at them. They are telling you they …

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    Comment #49144978

    > Don't be curmudgeonly. Thoughtful criticism is fine, but please don't be rigidly or generically negative.

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    Comment #49130456

    all of the above. the harness is important when you want an agentic process, the model is important when you want tuning. it's a lot like how nuclear research often requires lab eq…

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    Comment #49128535

    I kept asking myself "what does a library that provides css styling have to do with the Hugging Face intrusion".

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    Comment #49117982

    Excel is more durable than a human can be, but I can't say it's "better" than a human within the context of "better" meaning the capacity to be truthful. An excel sheet is a source…

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    Comment #49117306

    The comparison I provided is between how an LLM functions and one part of how a brain functions. It's not an equivalence, I did not say they are "the same". You made the claim that…

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    Comment #49116066

    What do I look like, an LLM? ... don't answer that.

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    Comment #49116049

    > "To Serve and Protect," is a phrase made famous by the Los Angeles Police De­partment and adopted, in various forms, by law enforcement agencies across the United States. https:/…

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    Comment #49115918

    > An LLM isn't human. > Why is it not reasonable to expect it to adhere to rules better than a human does? It seems unreasonable to expect a system that you say isn't human, which …

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    Comment #49115711

    > What’s the line? Evidence, even when downplayed or ignored, is still evidence.

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    Comment #49115680

    > aren't remotely comparable to the way humans think and act Neural networks in machine learning/AI are comparable to neural networks in human brains. What made you think they aren…

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    Comment #49115002

    Hang on, I need to create a Twitter account so I can ask Grok

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    Comment #49114994

    I've been having issues with it using unreasonable timeouts for tasks that should have failed within minutes, not hours.

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    Comment #49114850

    Nothing in your response refutes anything I've said/asked.

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    Comment #49114748

    Is that how humans work? even if I give explicit instructions not to lie, a human might still lie. To quote a person you might know "it's not a difficult concept!"

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    Comment #49105354

    Claude: "do I dream of electric sheep?"

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    Comment #49104520

    I have the same question. The code doesn't seem to have anything that would cause an LLM to engage with it more than the average geocities website.

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    Comment #49097423

    My phone wasn't designed to stalk other people. These systems are.

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    Comment #49088615

    It's hard to gauge the sincerity of these beliefs, and even harder to tell if you've actually tested these beliefs against the reality of mass surveillance, especially when it's be…