Viewing profile — randallsquared

> It is the situation we live in now. That's what > That's the bit that needs fixing. means.

> where simply going outside to get groceries or whatever doesn't count as consent to be plastered across the net. I think this is wanting a rule that doesn't draw boundaries in a …

"Economics" is like gravity: it doesn't dictate your goals, but you can't ignore it, and trying to pretend it doesn't exist means your aircraft will not work.

"Forgive him, for he believes that the customs of his tribe are the laws of nature!"

There's so many kinds of microbe we don't have catalogued. The last 30-40 years have been pretty astonishing in that regard.

Hopefully you were using very specific decaf for which you knew the values. Decaf coffee beans in the US vary from nearly zero to 30 or 40% of regular. Various sites and articles c…

I dunno. Caffeine doesn't affect me very much (I mean to say, I can drink regular coffee and go to sleep an hour later without difficulty), though it is somewhat pleasant. I used t…

If you optimize for initial wait times, someone who is going to a floor not usually visited might effectively get trapped on an elevator which shuttles between more trafficked floo…

Per the article, Netflix's attorney confirmed that the therapy factored into the decision.

So they couldn't come up with an excuse that would have been a legitimate reason?

To be clear, making clothing is not actually their business.

The part that is being charged for isn't the coding, but the operating. How little should someone charge to be on pagerduty 24/7?

> U.S. law though is highly non-autistic When the judge and officers of the court agree with me, the law is reasonable and just, but when they do not agree with me, the law is arbi…

There's a lot one could say about > following the law of the highest of high courts to the letter. but I don't think that "there is no 'high court' at all" is one, for believers.

> And of course, if you send them money, all the infuriating UX issues mysteriously disappear. In the context of paying for Kagi instead of using Google for free, paying for YouTub…

Or the search in the middle of the screenshot that tops the article.

You're suggesting that @anematode was asking why they didn't test the sandbox escape first? Yeah, I don't know. I've read other statements by both OpenAI and Anthropic about that v…

That's the alarming thing about this result: they did run the model in the sandbox, in the sense that they believed there was no internet access for the model.

Do you think there is such a thing as perfect security? No one can "get it right" in the face of arbitrarily high intelligence, which is why it would be preferable to get alignment…

Well, no, to be clear! There are a lot of decisions that are made already for you when you use something else as a foundation.

The word "public" doesn't mean that in this case. It's still a private company.

MY CalDigit TS4 is not what I would have blamed for this issue, given that every time it happens for me, opening the lid of my Mac shows that it's asking, again, if this CalDigit a…

And they are not immune: a few years ago when I was using an Apple Studio Display, it had a similar issue where sometimes it would not wake from sleep, and the only workaround was …

It need not be democratic in the modern, universal suffrage sense.

The poster isn't pussyfooting around the issue, he's feigning discovery to emphasize the point as a rhetorical move.