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LLMs are bad at creative work and I don’t see them improving any time soon. Try asking an agent to write a story about raccoons. It will almost certainly involve either stealing fo…

Awful news for everybody, particularly those in speculative tech jobs. We may well look back at the attack on Iran as the American tipping point that caused the same kind of financ…

Running benchmarks at scale and protecting against reward hacking is non-trivial.

What exactly do you mean by "career politician?" Being a member of the opposition in a dictatorship means giving up material wealth and putting your life & liberty on the line.

This is one cause but another is that agents are mostly trained using the same sets of problems. There are only so many open source projects that can be used for training (ie. benc…

I was a big enough believer in crypto to literally start a company in this space only to leave it completely disenchanted and deeply pessimistic about the direction of the industry…

They used RFT and there's only so many benchmarks out there, so I would be very surprised if they didn't train on the tests.

> Now, imagine the uproar that might ensue from some corners today if a textbook made this sort of direct comparison between two groups, with one group happening to be white and th…

That last point about differences between dev, test and prod should be right at the top. It's rare to find teams that have set themselves up for success (for reasons I do not fully…

I didn't get that impression. Although you're right that there's likely no relationship between wives developing heart conditions and subsequent divorce, there's not enough informa…

In my opinion kubernetes is fundamentally hamstrung by the overly simplistic operator model. I really like the general idea, but it's not really possible to reduce the entire model…

QAnon (often shortened to Q) is the name given to the persona that has been adopted by a few different individuals and is almost certainly currently controlled by Ron (principally)…

If you have a subscription, the HBO documentary I mentioned, Q: Into the Storm is excellent. I think that the struggle mainstream news orgs have in talking about QAnon is that it's…

The contents of the letter are interesting in their own right, but there are 2 aspects that strike me as particularly interesting. First off, he doesn't seem to regret killing his …

Although no lead is insurmountable, the fixed capital investment and mature software ecosystem specific to this sector makes it harder to imagine what a competitor would look like.…

this fits well with my vision: every website will have unskippable land acknowledgement prompts that list the entire history of that nation

There are some really profound misunderstandings of how bankruptcy and credit work in this thread. Creditors are ranked by seniority and get paid out in order by seniority. Equity …

This thread is already a damning indictment of google cloud. Price cuts alone won't attract customers -- google has sustained significant reputational damage with their crappy cust…

The CFO leaving is always a big deal. It can mean nothing but it can also mean a really spectacular blowup is about to take place.

I don't think that the problem is that JavaScript may or may not have this feature, it's not even that the language is large and all-encompassing; it's that mixing and matching fea…

this is standard industry parlance

Is there an accompanying architecture diagram that goes with this? I'm not sure which bits and pieces are included without poking through the code

EDX has been in the works for the better part of a decade at this point. Totally unrelated to binance

Authentication is easy and solutions are more or less fungible, but there’s no obvious and easy way to do authorization. OAuth makes authentication pretty easy but all the complexi…

I think you're getting to the heart of what a smart approach to regulation would look like (for me at least). Try as I might, I can't imagine a situation where someone is able to s…