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nsvd2··on The threat is comfortable drift toward not understanding what you're doing
That is indeed a very annoying part of many AI models. I wish I could turn it off.
nsvd2··on When legal sports betting surges, so do Americans' financial problems
Already is in Nevada.
nsvd2··on When legal sports betting surges, so do Americans' financial problems
While I'm certainly no supporter of casinos, I think that online gambling is a difference in kind.
nsvd2··on Mr. Chatterbox is a Victorian-era ethically trained model
Given the extent to which the copyright system has benefited corporations and publishing companies to the detriment of individual authors and the general public, I'm constantly surprised that it still has many apologists.
nsvd2··on Anatomy of the .claude/ folder
I usually relegate the agent to code, I do the git part/put the patch together. Git is an excellent tool to review the changes granularly and find potential weaknesses.
nsvd2··on Anatomy of the .claude/ folder
I've come to the point where, if the agent makes a wrong assumption about the code base with fresh context, I consider that the code is not obvious enough about it's intent.
nsvd2··on We haven't seen the worst of what gambling and prediction markets will do
I think you're right broadly, but when that wisdom is applied to e.g. how many dildos will be thrown at WNBA players, I don't know how much actual value is created.
nsvd2··on Austin’s surge of new housing construction drove down rents
If homes can be bought and sold, then there is a market. Is your are taking about a society without money, that is a different discussion entirely.

Anyways, there are many studies showing that rent control is bad in the long term for housing affordability.

nsvd2··on The American Healthcare Conundrum
The unfortunate answer is that the US seems to be very bad at fighting regulatory corruption which allows small parts of the market to buy laws which give them a moat. Rinse and repeat over the last half century and you get to the situation we're in.
nsvd2··on The American Healthcare Conundrum
In no way shape or form is the medical industry in the US a free market, it's one of the most heavily regulated sectors in the economy. Remember when the government wanted to make purchasing health insurance mandatory? Forcing employers to pay for their employees health insurance greatly distorts the market. And many other things...

By the way, as much as people complain about the profit seeking motives of insurers, many of them have been performing abmysally in the last six months. As it turns out, our current system is bad for just about everyone.

nsvd2··on US Job Market Visualizer
Interestingly, it seems from these statistics the median wage for individuals with a Master's is lower than a Bachelor's. I wonder if that's because of immigrants who pursue higher education for visa reasons skewing the data.
nsvd2··on RISC-V Is Sloooow
Sure, but if you bought a dev board with an experimental ISA I think you knew what you were getting in to.
nsvd2··on Most-read tech publications have lost over half their Google traffic since 2024
Yes, people have likened pre-LLM Internet content to low-background steel.

If in the hypothetical future the continual learning problem gets solved, the AI could just learn from the real world instead of publications and retain that data.

nsvd2··on Points on a ring: An interactive walkthrough of a popular math problem
Interesting and fun
nsvd2··on Cognitive Debt: When Velocity Exceeds Comprehension
I think that recording dialog with the agent (prompt, the agent's plan, and agent's report after implementation) will become increasingly important in the future.
nsvd2··on OpenAI raises $110B on $730B pre-money valuation
Sure, but OpenAI doesn't have cash. It does have stock.

Even if Nvidia has capped production for now, increased demand still allows them to sell chips at a greater margin. Or, to put another way, presumably Nvidia is charging OpenAI a premium for the privilege of paying with stock.

nsvd2··on OpenAI agrees with Dept. of War to deploy models in their classified network
Well, DHS has shown this year that they won't show restraint when it comes to attacking American citizens. I would expect that trend to continue.
nsvd2··on The United States and Israel have launched a major attack on Iran
If a democracy is meaningfully created in Iran I will consider that a huge win for Trump and it would certainly make me more sympathetic to his party.

To be clear, I don't think the chances of that happening are high.

nsvd2··on Firefox 148 Launches with AI Kill Switch Feature and More Enhancements
The transformer architecture that powers large language models was designed by Google for the purposes of machine translation. As others have said, ML and AI have always been closely related if not synonymous.
nsvd2··on Mexican Forces Kill Nation's Most-Wanted Cartel Boss
From TFA:

The Mexican government said the United States had contributed intelligence that aided the operation against Mr. Oseguera.

nsvd2··on How far back in time can you understand English?
This is certainly at least an American accent, and would sound out of place in e.g. the UK.
nsvd2··on Iran students stage first large anti-government protests since deadly crackdown
It's possible, of course, to oppose the Ayatollah as a dictatorial regime and oppose excessive American intervention.
nsvd2··on I’m joining OpenAI
After a quick search it looks like Google is banning some people who are using Antigravity OAuth with OpenClaw as opposed to paying for API access.

I can't find any instance of an API which charges per-token banning users.

nsvd2··on I’m joining OpenAI
These companies are generally profitable for inference but it does not cover the cost of R&D (training).
nsvd2··on I’m joining OpenAI
I'm a big fan of his. I particularly enjoy his long technical interviews like the one he did with Peter.
nsvd2··on Communities are not fungible
I'm guessing you looked at matrix and decided it wasn't suitable?
nsvd2··on Leaked chats expose the daily life of a scam compound's enslaved workforce
They would likely allow you to withdraw some returns but not the principle.
nsvd2··on [dead]
What is the chip bag Italian meta data incident?
nsvd2··on Briar keeps Iran connected via Bluetooth and Wi-Fi when the internet goes dark
You have a very unusual opinion of me!
nsvd2··on Briar keeps Iran connected via Bluetooth and Wi-Fi when the internet goes dark
If you haven't been paying attention to American politics, there are currently widespread protests due to a woman being shot by ICE last week. It looks like the current administration may be seeking violent unrest in the hopes of delaying elections.
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