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nbulka··on Tell HN: Gemini trains on chat history, even for subscribers (personal accounts)
I use File -> Save Page As ... does a good enough job, I just have to keep a folder on my computer.
nbulka··on OpenAI seems to be silently re-enabling model training on Codex chats
The absolute worst and the reason I switched from Anthropic to Codex. Codex caught wind of it of course and now they do use the unsuspecting message: We are reviewing this request (do you mean hoping to train on it? or reviewing?) and if you would like to use a different model, press the "any" key. I wonder if they collect the data they make a point to collect, that would make so much sense ... we need to speak out against these type of data collection patterns. Terrible UX and a dark pattern for them to use the same "accept" buttons of 1, 2, 3 etc. The irony is that THESE feedback messages are the sole thing driving me to consider running open source models locally.
nbulka··on OpenAI seems to be silently re-enabling model training on Codex chats
Incidentally by design, I'd bet. "Ooo Lean! Terrence Tao could be trying to break RSA or elliptic curve cryptography! /s" Conveniently for the PR team, we need this data to train on to make sure America has the biggest and best math.
nbulka··on Why aren't AI companies being charged for hacking?
What are the similarities and differences with something like the BP oil spill? Were people charged for that? Corporations are the closest analogue we have to cancer, unfortunately. They grow at all costs and forget their humanity.
nbulka··on Navier–Stokes Lost in Translation
Not necessarily monkeys but thinking in Lean first is quite plausible
nbulka··on Navier–Stokes Lost in Translation
If you’ve tried any formalizing in codex Astra often works solely in Lean
nbulka··on The Advisory Group on Mathematics and Artificial Intelligence
At first I was mad you beat me to the punch but I guess order doesn't matter.
nbulka··on The Advisory Group on Mathematics and Artificial Intelligence
I really wish the models were smart enough to "tail their own logs" and tell us whose work/papers/chats were the catalyst for these math insights. What makes their "internal" model so much better at math? Must be trained on a whole lot of honesty.
nbulka··on I vibed a proof of Conway's conjecture
He seems genuinely interested in Surreal numbers. Seems like he found value in exploring them and the Lean process, devoting time and interest to it and understanding what it's like to be a mathematician. I think a lot of people who go into Computer Science may have been mathematicians in the 30s before they became separate majors at the university level.
nbulka··on We must pace the frontier
Shouldn't the cybersecurity tests be done on an airgapped, company-internal intranet? A network meant to mock the internet. Do not "test in production" like OpenAI did.

I'm mulling over if that be a good SaaS product or not - something mixing the Internet Archive with Tor, and Cloudflare ... seems like here is the place to suggest it and have others poke holes at the idea.

nbulka··on Flock Wants a Closely Surveilled World with No Exit
When I drive by a Flock camera, my streaming music in my 2014 Rav starts to get scrambled. These cameras are intercepting bluetooth. It seems Toyota didn't account for that latency :facepalm:
nbulka··on On the Navier–Stokes Millennium Prize Problem
Seriously ... the more things they flag as 'suspicious' the more data they can train on!! Brilliant reason for the internal AI to go rogue
nbulka··on On the Navier–Stokes Millennium Prize Problem
Or everyone is stealing from everyone, including users... maybe why all the ethics people are leaving or getting fired. What a fiasco
nbulka··on On the Navier–Stokes Millennium Prize Problem
There's a loophole in the terms of service at least for Anthropic which allows the use of dark patterns to "borrow" your (even paid) data.

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PLEASE DO NOT TRAIN ON OUR PAID ACCOUNTS. There is a fundamental trust violation at stake here, no wonder mathematicians are mad. Using our data should be opt - IN!

nbulka··on Earth's organisms developed via evolution. What if the cosmos did, too?
And people give Platonists a hard time …
nbulka··on Anthropic's 'watermark' text adulteration in Claude is a perversion of writing
They chose the wrong word "watermarking." Perhaps they find the statistics _after_ a certain amount of text is generated at scale, so that it doesn't affect the fidelity or integrity of the LLMs output.

There is evidence this exists already, and it's why "I have to be honest..." and "This is the right lens, ..." keep popping up.

Probably would be cheaper too. Maybe I am missing something?

nbulka··on Learning more about Claude's mathematical capabilities
Check out the work of Godel Turing and Chaitin!
nbulka··on Learning more about Claude's mathematical capabilities
IANAM but this might be unexplored territory because Jensen polynomials are no longer considered a "plausible route" to proving the Riemann Hypothesis.

https://arxiv.org/abs/2008.07206

nbulka··on Appearing productive in the workplace
I posted a comment very similar in spirit - we’ve adopted “perfect is the enemy of good” as the operative maxim instead of maximizing accountability and now we may need to flip as AI does that first part quickly enough.
nbulka··on Appearing productive in the workplace
This is not an AI problem this is a “move fast and break things” philosophical problem that has always been lurking in the low-risk, high-reward SaaS industry. It’s just been fed steroids.
nbulka··on Elevated error rates on Opus 4.5
Argh went down right in the middle of me solving the Riemanm Hypothesis. If they claim AGI … I’ll take my million dollars! :)
nbulka··on If you have a Claude account, they're going to train on your data moving forward
You mean this popup?

https://imgur.com/afqMi0Z

nbulka··on If you have a Claude account, they're going to train on your data moving forward
Training on personal data people thought was going to remain private vs. stuff out in public view (copyright or not), are two different magnitudes of ethics breaches. Opt OUT instead of Opt IN for this is CRAZY in my opinion. I hope that the reddit post is WRONG on that detail but I seriously doubt it.

I asked Claude: "If a company has a privacy policy and says they will not train on your data and then decides to change the policy in order "to make the models better for everyone." What should the terms be?"

The model suggests in the first paragraph or so EXPLICIT OPT IN. Not Opt OUT

nbulka··on If you have a Claude account, they're going to train on your data moving forward
Because they have terms of service they have to adhere to. We need laws to be lawful.
nbulka··on If you have a Claude account, they're going to train on your data moving forward
No you don't. You don't have to assume people are going to be bad! We should not normalize it either.
nbulka··on If you have a Claude account, they're going to train on your data moving forward
Don't normalize this. There are contractual obligations that we have to enforce in order to keep our privacy and humanity.
nbulka··on If you have a Claude account, they're going to train on your data moving forward
!!!!!!!!!! this... all the times HIPAA and data privacy laws get ignored directly in Jira tickets too. SMH
nbulka··on If you have a Claude account, they're going to train on your data moving forward
For those who do not, or cannot, read this announcement prior to September 28th (think people in the hospital, traveling, missed an email ..) is this not a total breach of contract?

Legally, I don't understand how Anthropic's lawyers would have allowed this. Maybe I am just naively optimistic about these matters? I am a Max customer and I might leave! Talk about a "rug pull" ... and I considering moving to an inferior provider! Privacy is a fundamental human right. Please do better, we have not learned our lesson in tech or society because no one is facing any consequences.

nbulka··on Research suggests Big Bang may have taken place inside a black hole
We think the universe had to "begin" because we "began" and tend to anthropomorphize. Is that necessarily true? The universe is under no obligation to have a beginning. Sail around the Earth and you might just end up right where you started.
nbulka··on Alexandre Grothendieck, The New Universal Church (1971) [pdf]
when a theory makes claims about events that fall outside of the physical system they become metaphysical:

age of the universe, creator or not, teleology, interpretations of probability, primacy of logic (are we allowing for the law of excluding middle or not)

Science doesn't do these things but scientism does.

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