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GitHub: www.github.com/jsnider3 Blog: www.joshuasnider.com LinkedIn: www.linkedin.com/in/jsnider3
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jsnider3··on My AI skeptic friends are all nuts
This just isn't true. If it took the energy of a small town, why would they sell it for $20/month?
jsnider3··on Anthropic launches a voice mode for Claude
I like it, but giving Claude a "Deep Research" mode would be better.
jsnider3··on The ‘white-collar bloodbath’ is all part of the AI hype machine
Netflix's value comes from being convenient and compatible with the copyright system in a way sharing videos P2P definitely isn't.
jsnider3··on Trying to teach in the age of the AI homework machine
Yes, high school boys and girls have clearly distinct handwriting.

If you're just filling in bubbles on a scantron, then handwriting isn't very visible and each person can just write their own name on the scantron they're submitting as their own.

jsnider3··on Former Meta exec says asking for artist permission will kill AI industry
What we should really is just have the government give artists money to make works for the public domain and then recover it from companies who use it with taxes.
jsnider3··on Possible new dwarf planet found in our solar system
Welcome to the neighborhood!
jsnider3··on For algorithms, a little memory outweighs a lot of time
> In fact I don’t think we would need processors anymore if we were centrally storing all of the operations ever done in our processors.

On my way to memoize your search history.

jsnider3··on Microsoft's ICC blockade: digital dependence comes at a cost
This anti-intellectualism has a strong connection with Evangelical Christianity in America and the connection has a long history.
jsnider3··on Solar grants held hostage in Pennsylvania legislature – as demand soars
Subsidies are too low if we want Pennsylvanians to install solar and their state is doing that less than 48 other states.
jsnider3··on Solar grants held hostage in Pennsylvania legislature – as demand soars
Look, if Pennsylvanians want good things, they really need to vote for them.
jsnider3··on LLMs get lost in multi-turn conversation
I'm saying it shouldn't be that hard, but it's just one of a long list of features that the people whose job it is to do are working on.
jsnider3··on LLMs get lost in multi-turn conversation
Many ways. 1) Hire some humans to label the data. 2) Let the user give you feedback. 3) Ask another LLM.
jsnider3··on LLMs get lost in multi-turn conversation
We've only had ChatGPT and the like for a few years. It took Ford longer to make automatic transmissions.
jsnider3··on LLMs get lost in multi-turn conversation
Seems easy. Have a set of vague requests and train it to ask for clarification instead of guessing.
jsnider3··on How “The Great Gatsby” took over high school
> Only the rich can afford such services.

Fortunately, AI solves this. Unfortunately, it also makes humans obsolete entirely.

jsnider3··on Microsoft is Cutting 3% of All Workers
I wrote code when I worked there.
jsnider3··on Title of work deciphered in sealed Herculaneum scroll via digital unwrapping
> Do you believe that Goy/Goyim is similarly divisive? Or Kafir?

Yes, which is why I don't use those words unless they are immediately relevant to the subject.

jsnider3··on First American pope elected and will be known as Pope Leo XIV
If they want someone who can effectively oppose Trump, why would they pick someone he suggested?
jsnider3··on First American pope elected and will be known as Pope Leo XIV
He wasn't a Trump appointee. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Francis_George
jsnider3··on Claude's system prompt is over 24k tokens with tools
HackerNews users really hate when you just copy-paste LLM output.
jsnider3··on Claude's system prompt is over 24k tokens with tools
There's enough disagreement among native English speakers that you can't really say any pronoun is the obviously correct one for an AI.
jsnider3··on Claude's system prompt is over 24k tokens with tools
I only got half a sentence into "well-actually"ing you before I got the joke.
jsnider3··on Alignment is not free: How model upgrades can silence your confidence signals
> Meanwhile there's no difficulty in "punishment": the operating company can be held liable, through its officers, and ultimately if it proves too anti-social we simply turn off the datacentre.

Punishing big companies who obviously and massively hurt people is something we struggle with already and there are plenty of computer viruses that have outlived their creators.

jsnider3··on DoorDash to acquire Deliveroo
Yes.
jsnider3··on Alignment is not free: How model upgrades can silence your confidence signals
You can ask a model to give you probability estimates of its confidence, but none of the frontier models were trained to be good at giving probability estimates to my knowledge.
jsnider3··on Alignment is not free: How model upgrades can silence your confidence signals
That comparison isn't very optimistic for AI safety. We want AI to do good things because they are good people, not because they are afraid being bad will get them punished. Especially since AI will very quickly be too powerful for us to punish.
jsnider3··on Evolving OpenAI's Structure
Homo Sapiens wiped out every other intelligent hominid and every other species on Earth exists at our mercy. That looks a lot like the winners (humans) taking all.
jsnider3··on Why Archers Didn't Volley Fire
That's not what they did.
jsnider3··on Only Teslas exempt from new auto tariffs thanks to 85% domestic content rule
How does that work? Did GM suddenly decide there were too many black people in Michigan so they moved to Georgia?
jsnider3··on Only Teslas exempt from new auto tariffs thanks to 85% domestic content rule
The people who oppose foreign aid oppose aiding Americans also.
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