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Aren't you guilty of the same thing by generalising that "technical people simple laws and rules"? Also, calling people arrogant and simple-minded is a great example of behaviour t…

The time sink thing is a trade off. You spend more time up front configuring some aspect of your system. But then you generally don't have to ever think about it again, until your …

I think they meant old school style rather than literally a Nokia from 20+ years ago. For example: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nokia_2660_Flip

This thread is about taking action to send messages to corporations, and whether said messages make any difference. We would measure growth in dollars, because that's what sharehol…

Relevant xkcd: https://xkcd.com/989/

Really? In August 2021 Reddit had a funding valuation at ~$10bn. It announced the API changes in April 2023. The blackout started in June 2023. It launched its IPO at $34 per share…

What message are you trying to send? "Oh look, a bunch of people who have already given us money aren't using the thing they paid for for a week, and we can maybe even save a bit o…

You know there's something wrong with the system when the version you obtain for free is a superior product to the one you pay for.

> And each of these houses costs more than 1 MM EUR. That's the other big problem with restrictive zoning laws (other than ugliness). It leads to unaffordable housing. By saying th…

> Reading AI output is extra effort. It's verbose, frequently contains all too plausible nonsense, and is increasingly jargon dense. I recently got this sentence from Claude: "NATS…

It's true that the Nix language is quite difficult to learn. However, part of that is the poor documentation, and the weird situation where flakes are the de facto modern way of do…

Yes, I agree. I think you misunderstood me though. I wasn't saying refrigerators aren't an attack vector. I was using them as a comparison to make the point that a policy of blocki…

Removing an internet connection doesn't really solve much when you're talking about autonomous AI-driven robots with vision and hearing. It's a whole different category to toys, re…

You've convinced me enough to give it a try. I think I'd still maintain a conceptual difference between sites that are source material (e.g. documentation) or apps (e.g. Google Tra…

Do you really need hundreds of open tabs though? To me this suggests a workflow issue rather than a tab management problem. I only keep tabs open that I'm actively working on right…

I'd never heard of Math Academy. It seems interesting, but quite expensive ($49/month for software which is in beta). Would you say it's significantly superior to something like Kh…

So you're fine with your code having unintended behaviour, as long as that unintended behaviour passes a test that the agent wrote? My preferred approach is to read and understand …

It halts and refuses to carry on after finding a security risk, which is exactly what it's supposed to do? What's the point of it then?

Large profitable corporations with very poor customer support have existed long before AI, so why should it be different? Using AI to provide poor customer service is just an imple…

Yes. It's often hard to hear the dialogue.

It's hard to imagine a frontier model being proficient at finding vulnerabilities, but not so proficient at exploiting them. Surely finding is the hard part, and any LLM should be …

If it amounts to fraud, then it's also criminal. For example, if you take out a loan and you sign terms and conditions which say you agree to pay it back and then later your circum…

Could you elaborate with examples and numbers?

That's a more risky strategy. What if you added new files since the last time you updated the deletion profile? It's also technically more challenging. You have to think about what…