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roywiggins

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    Comment #49247556

    Only if the replacement is global and not, say, only looking and inserting it into the actual (eg) Authorization header. If something is only transparently altering the Authorizati…

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    Comment #49235872

    It has a sort of metronomic quality. It never slows down or speeds up or modulates its tone. It plods forward at a relentless pace and never has a light touch with anything. I thin…

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    Comment #49204314

    I guess ideally you'd want to force it to pipe each step back into the agent/IDE for display (and optionally wait for approval) rather than shoving it into the context. And with so…

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    Comment #49192167

    Claude had some pretty good ideas about how to end the war in Iran when I asked it a while ago (The US should sue for peace, I believe was the conclusion).

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    Comment #49163611

    I'm so tired of opening another link and finding it's just Claude blogging under a pseudonym

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    Comment #49093296

    There is no lack of more elaborate logics: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Non-classical_logic

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    Comment #49091995

    What if "way short of AGI" is still dangerous in ways we can't easily handle?

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    Comment #49078975

    Pi Agent is even leaner feeling, it's worth a try.

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    Comment #49069687

    It's cheaper to destructively scan.

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    Comment #48742250

    Good news, airlines already barely profit: https://www.iata.org/en/pressroom/2025-releases/2025-12-09-0...

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    Comment #48741485

    Even more worrying if it's not deliberate and we are all just naturally writing like that now.

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    Comment #48741469

    Sometimes that's me. I wish more submissions didn't read like AI. I worry that people can't detect tiresomely LLMy output and upvote it to the front page. I'm not mad or anything, …

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    Comment #48741436

    My problem is that my personal AI detector running on wetware just goes ping and it's hard to articulate why. I agree with the person you're replying to on all points but also, whe…

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    Comment #48737752

    A shame that Pangram flags this as AI. https://www.pangram.com/history/c0a9cde2-7a5c-4588-83a3-0269...

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    Comment #48732698

    ai; dr, unfortunately

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    Comment #48704659

    Long sequences of short sentences. Not X, but Y. And Pangram flags it, too. https://www.pangram.com/history/126831e1-562f-4e65-9874-5250...

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    Comment #48680221

    Weirdly not dissimilar from MUMPS systems.

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    Comment #48489128

    Very likely. I'm just saying, people in the CIA seeing where the tech might be going and hedging their bets is not that unlikely.

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    Comment #48489101

    Common side-effect of letting Claude write your landing page. Apparently it's mostly this: // ENCODE — pack(html) → one .hmml (a Uint8Array you store or send) // · lifts every data…

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    Comment #48489052

    Well, define "drone warfare"- the CIA and the Pentagon has been operating Predators and friends for a long while.

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    Comment #48426966

    The idea is to expose it as a tool to your LLM agent so it can run calculations on its own initiative.