TIL that GenX never watched Star Trek or listened to Ozzy...
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Any given individual, though, is going to find themselves a certain amount off center from the aggregate number.
And how come criticizing left-wing protests is fine, but bringing up right-wing botting/trolling operations on this website isn't?
"Curious..."
I aggressively block/hide anything right-wing, and yet somehow "the algorithm" thought I'd be really into that...
People were just losing their minds on here over bugs in the 27.2 beta release that hasn't even shipped yet, with wild conspiracy theories about what Apple was doing.
So you wind up with a typical megacorp release process where nothing can happen if it isn't signed off in triplicate and two operators crack open the books with the missile codes and turn the keys at the same time to launch the update.
The result is that shipping a single file for a critical security update takes way too long.
Browsers came along and they wanted to maintain their own cert store because operating system flat files were often out of date.
Operating systems grew their own stores because they wanted some kind of registry that was more integrated with the rest of their ecosystem.
Nobody coordinated. CLI tools and unix libraries don't care about browsers or O/S registries, operating systems have requirements so that they can't use the flat files, everyone screams about stuff like systemd turning unix into windows.
And it will continue to proliferate. System management tools often ship their own certs since the O/S certs can be out of date and untrustworthy and may not be able to talk to AWS before you bootstrap the management tool and update the system certs because people still run ancient shit like RHEL5. This is more or less the same reason browsers ship their own as well. I've made the decision to ship an embedded cert store in a product before, and nothing has fundamentally changed that would cause me to rethink that decision (even though for people who have an up-to-date O/S it is strictly additional cost that they now have to track a cert store in another product--but you have to build for the lowest common denominator).
I suspect what is happening here, though, is that Anthropic is going to take a bunch of Dunning-Kruger AI researchers who throw prompts at Claude and publish 1,000 papers worth of drug-discovery slop that will only waste the time of actual experts...
they do at least enough sentiment analysis so that "fuck off" behaves like "stop" and they respond that they're removing you from their list and won't contact you again.
No, it doesn't. "Passed by Clinton" and "Passed by Obama" are the statements that oversimplify politics.
> The position in the United States to make sure people vote aligned is called Whip.
That is also a gross oversimplification of our politics.
It isn't exactly a desert? It is more like a full buffet, but nothing but cheap, mass-produced sugar literally everywhere. All the 2-star donuts and chocolate cupcakes you can eat, and nothing but that.
(We really should require pardons to pass a bipartisan Senate committee where there is no odd-numbered tiebreaker vote and require one defection across the aisle to approve--or something like that)
that almost never happens.
stop hoping corporations grow a soul and a conscience.
I find intrusive advertising toxic and want it all reduced or banned.
Not just tobacco and gambling ads, but everything else as well.
(No, I don't care that it is like advocating for democracy in 10th-century England and would entirely blow up how our economy currently "works")
I just started on a GLP-1, and it has already been an interesting lesson in the subjective nature of food drives and hunger.
I've heard for literally years the advice "just drink some water it will trick you into feeling less hungry".
And I've always suspected this was some bullshit placebo, because that OBVIOUSLY doesn't work (so I thought). Water doesn't replace food, it just fills up your stomach so that eating becomes somewhat more unpleasant. But the food/hunger drive is still there unabated.
Well, except after taking a GLP-1 I actually experienced the sensation of drinking something and having my hunger go down. Whatever that circuit is, it has been broken in me for at least my entire adult life. So giving me that advice had been like trying to explain the color to a blind person.
Which, oddly, ties a lot more into the subject title than the example the author gave...
We can't have that...
The math slopocalypse isn't useful without being able to turn it into math that can be taught to actual humans by finding the underlying unifying principles.
All those O(n log(n)^(1-delta)) results suggest that there's probably a unifying "trick" behind all of them and that there's going to be an upper bound on delta for any problem. You should really be able to teach that in a textbook and then have any human student replicate any of the LLM results as worked problems.
For anything that an LLM manages to prove with thousands or millions of lines of Lean code, there's likely a missing branch of mathematics sitting there somewhere.
Actual humans need to beat on the problems and the LLM-generated solutions until they come up with the underlying principles, probably using AI to help them do it.
You probably won't get there by just asking an LLM to invent a new branch of mathematics and "don't make any mistakes"; the mathematicians who get good at directing LLMs to search for unifying principles, and then synthesizing (and double-checking) the results, will likely be very successful in their field.
It just means you can do jumps and stunts programmed into the vehicle at the push of a button with zero skill at being a stunt driver.
The Dukes of Hazzard had to do that without the thrusters.
Can't wait to see how people kill themselves and other people with those things by being stupid...
Hopefully that shit gets blocked by the DOT and kept off public roads--which is probably the goal to get a bunch of drooling simps outraged over "government overreach" keeping them away from their "flying cars".
oh fucking hell, finally. thank you.
The whole point of an influence op is to find a bunch of useful idiots to provide a large multiplicative factor.
And that's the problem with arguing that something is an influence op, because it is going to be mostly genuine people by the time it gets to you, even though you're not wrong.
Yep.
The fact that they lack hard constraints (unlike an SQP optimizer) and all this talk of "alignment" is also just a feature (or misfeature) of the algorithm.
The way that people/researchers choose to use those algorithms, even in the presence of those limitations, doesn't mean the algorithm is "rogue"; it means the humans didn't build in enough external hard constraints.
It is like passive voice, blaming the algorithm instead of the researchers running it.
I can see how you could use AI to design and implement some 100,000 line codebase, full of nothing but that, stamped out over and over in exactly the same pattern and never read a single line of the code.
They're just optimizers that explore the landscape they're given to maximize a given objective.
You're the one responsible for giving them the problem to solve and the constraints.
When I screw up a trajectory optimization problem, my SQP optimizer isn't "going rogue" when it lands in some suboptimal basin or grinds to a halt along some almost-smooth banana feature--or finds some way to escape and blow up the cost metric to negative infinity because I forgot a constraint.
I've been wondering when the Google-ification of Apple will start.
The iPhone boom really let them have the luxury of not behaving like complete assholes for a long time. Now, in order to hit ever higher quarterly targets, they're probably going to start enshittifying like everyone else.