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wonnage

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    Comment #49248782

    PUA is short for pick up artist but has expanded to cover anyone using negging to convince you into doing something you didn’t want

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    Comment #49236043

    “asking the right questions” is built on years of experience doing the things now being offloaded to AI “asking the right questions” is also a moving target with each model release…

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    Comment #49151873

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    Comment #49137984

    Software stopped improving in 2016 and now AI is here to accelerate the downfall

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    Comment #49116968

    This is actually completely useless slop and any illusion of usefulness is misguided

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    Comment #49103703

    The package cache proxy is usually used to fetch from the public repository (npm, rubygems, etc.) so I think it could be feasible to craft some package metadata to trick it into GE…

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    Comment #49103647

    https://arstechnica.com/ai/2025/06/anthropic-destroyed-milli... The scanning process destroys the book.

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    Comment #49078909

    Me when I construct my own strawman to avoid the topic Nowhere in GP comment was funding even mentioned

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    Comment #49078812

    But of course they’re excused for this little boo-boo whereas if kimi were caught doing the same thing it’d be an international incident

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    Comment #49075688

    So it’s even better, they’re 10x levering the money! Clearly I wasn’t thinking big enough

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    Comment #49072878

    Looks like you discovered an infinite money glitch! As long as you’re selling things at a profit, all you need to do is take those profits and give them to your customers to buy mo…

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    Comment #49072226

    The CI/CD costs are an interesting take, most of the rebuttals to AI ROI are something like “more code doesn’t mean more value!” but if you are charging per CI run then it actually…

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    Comment #49055185

    It applies to software engineering too in things like autoscaling. I’ve seen many DDOS outages caused not by the attack itself but the wave of autoscaling that takes things down (o…

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    Comment #49050352

    The verbosity itself seems to be a problem with post-4.6 Claude rather than a general issue with all LLMs. and IME the yak shaving is due to an overly generic prompt. We have a gen…

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    Comment #49050247

    Interestingly if you look at the exploitgym repo ( https://github.com/sunblaze-ucb/exploitgym/blob/e5ea7c233a4d... ) the intended run mechanism is orchestrated by some python scrip…

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    Comment #49038749

    Didn’t they explicitly remove alignment guardrails for this test? From the press release: > These deployment safeguards were intentionally not enabled during this evaluation becaus…

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    Comment #49032707

    It’s one thing to predict a crash, it’s another to actually make money off of it. If you’ve watched The Big Short even those who predicted the housing crisis correctly nearly lost …

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    Comment #49025480

    It’s probably not even a good idea to try and defend against the bubble by switching up your stock allocation. After all the whole reason passive investing works is that active inv…

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    Comment #48975666

    Reddit post so take with a grain of salt but this does seem possible. But unclear whether this is actually a viable architecture https://www.reddit.com/r/LocalLLaMA/comments/1t8s83…

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    Comment #48973381

    I mean the questions are on random movie trivia, the alternative is just guessing. I think you're overthinking it.

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    Comment #48973031

    AI cannot tell you why it did something. If you ask it why it didn't do X even though your prompt said so, it can come up with some plausible sounding explanation, which might even…

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    Comment #48972984

    Not sure if this is still up to date (2023), but https://arxiv.org/abs/2307.03172 shows that performance degrades mostly in the middle of the context. Anecdotally I've been stuck i…

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    Comment #48972926

    Agree that the study design is flawed. Going with the possibly-hallucinated AI answer is rational as long as you know the hallucination rate isn't 100% (or whatever % you get after…

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    Comment #48972875

    They provide a sample of hallucinated answers from ChatGPT at the end of the study.

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    Comment #48971558

    This is a useless post-hoc rationalization. "It worked out, so it doesn't matter". You're trying to galaxy brain yourself into ignoring the obvious conclusion. The point is that if…