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instakill··on There's never been a better time to go into math (by: 3blue1brown) [video]
thanks, now I'm probably on a list
instakill··on Suicide rates highest ever among middle-aged men
Get another dog. I would if I had a little garden for them. It sounds like you already know you should/want to.
instakill··on Suicide rates highest ever among middle-aged men
This is an unbelievably atrocious response. Where is your humanity?
instakill··on AI models can provably hide arbitrary capabilities
inter-generational trauma
instakill··on QGIS bans AI assisted contributions
I don't think there ever will be a perfect trust system, because ultimately everything can be gamed, or politics/power can overrule the logic that runs the rules of the trust game. But even so, something that can be applied for _some_ period of time, with _some_ semblance of stability, and _some_ epistemic utility value to the real world is still worth trying to pursue.
instakill··on QGIS: No AI contributions permitted
This asymmetry is IMO the biggest problem with AI-driven output. Brandolini's law applies here. I don't know if anyone has figured out strategies on how to deal with these barrages and deluges of "slop grenades", and this loosely applies to event coherent and high quality LLM output. Sure LLMs are advanced now, but largely the output depends on the quality of the input prompts (as in how they're contextualized and guided).

Life has gotten to the point where completely non-technical people have gawked at me for still having a job related to software. In their minds, AI can it all, and in their minds coding is already obsolete. The sample size for these opinions will only grow and the ratio of people that rightfully apply skepticism will drop, either from fatigue or burn out or by virtue of more and more people adopting the "AI is roughly AGI" crowd. For me a good metaphor is the concept of the selfie. Everyone mocked selfies at first, and now you'd be deemed insane to negatively opine about selfie behaviour. The same will apply to AI slop grenades (even of high quality output) in due time. I think it's inevitable.

Endless hoardes of people can now unleash never-ending arguments and suggestions and it feels like it will become impossible to defend against them because one minute only contains 60 seconds of time that you can spend refuting a false or <100% correct suggestion.

instakill··on QGIS: No AI contributions permitted
Can anyone provide links to literature or projects whose goals are to build, maintain, or support trust? Or to be less vague, I'm interested in learning about protocols or models that deal with reputation scores, rewards and punishments etc. for networks or groups.

Various crypto projects fundamentally deal with proving X and their networks comprise of entities that are rewarded or punished for either fair, deceptive, or erroneous actions... so maybe some kind of consolidated info about that "grouping" of information would be a good place for me to start. I am curious about learning more about these concepts insofar as how they can apply to situations like this (OSS or community-based contributions towards a shared goal or a shared ecosystem of behaviours or tasks) where various entities (people, organisations, NOT agents/bots) with longitudinal reputation/state coordinate or interact.

I hope I'm making sense...

instakill··on The gap in shared understanding of LLM capability is widening
I just want the volcano to erupt
instakill··on I paid people to try and follow my README
these are really good heuristics, thanks! I am going to adopt this in my writing/editing processes.
instakill··on AWS says it can't restore some data from mideast facilities struck by Iran
off-topic but nice username. Fan of Charlie Kelly?
instakill··on São Paulo resident transforms degraded area into urban forest
link does not work
instakill··on It's getting harder to focus every day
try "the Polish stare"
instakill··on Springer Nature has removed two studies by Max Planck
a decimation
instakill··on Microsoft new Outlook takes 10 seconds to do what Outlook Classic does instantly
new Google homepage takes [many] seconds to do what classic Google did instantly
instakill··on Amateur armed with ChatGPT solves an Erdős problem
Isn't this just how Von Neumann would innovate?
instakill··on Copilot edited an ad into my PR
[flagged]
instakill··on Show HN: Agent-of-empires: OpenCode and Claude Code session manager
I built 3 MVPs on a neutral island
instakill··on Show HN: Autism Simulator
are you me? are we definitely autistic together? should I go see a shrink?
instakill··on Moneybadger and Peach Payments partner to enable Bitcoin payments
68% of South Africans have bought or own BTC? There is simply no way. Impossible.
instakill··on AI agents: Less capability, more reliability, please
I really really wish that LLMs had an "eject" function - as in I could click on any message in a chat, and it would basically start a new clone chat with the current chat's thread history.

There are so many times where I get to a point where the conversation is finally flowing in the way that I want and I would love to "fork" into several directions from that one specific part of the conversation.

Instead I have to rely on a prompt that requests the LLM to compress the entire conversation into a non-prose format that attempts to be as semantically lossless as possible; this sadly never works as in ten did [sic].

instakill··on Ask HN: How to Provide Feedback to OpenAI?
such a useful response, thanks
instakill··on Pierogi in Space
In December, yes. Otherwise the Ruski are most delicious
instakill··on I'm the Canadian who was detained by ICE for two weeks
where is this guideline text from? Want to explore, tx.
instakill··on AI models makes precise copies of cuneiform characters
Nice, now can any cuneiform nerds that have an interest in Ramses III guide me to any quote that roughly translates to "violence is necessary against Isfet". For the life of me, I cannot seem to find any reference to it although I've got it in my notes from... somewhere?
instakill··on Quiver: A Modern Commutative Diagram Editor
This is amazing!
instakill··on Launch HN: Integuru (YC W24) – Reverse-engineer internal APIs using LLMs
I think this is the reference but I'm too lazy to get a TLDR https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24917679
instakill··on How my 14 year-old Instagram handle @javier was stolen
just saw this after my post https://news.ycombinator.com/edit?id=41980334 - sorry @dang
instakill··on Fraud, so much fraud
OP said effectively zero, not zero. These are semantically very different.
instakill··on Scientists discover a cause of lupus, possible way to reverse it
Came here for the House comment. Amazing how that show owned this word
instakill··on Aphantasia: I can not picture things in my mind
exactly all of this for me. and I've just learned about SDAM which kinda really resonates as well.
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