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polynomial··on OpenAI to buy AI startup from Jony Ive
I think the concept is more like, you may participate (invest) but if you don't, you have no standing to have an opinion. (other than the fact that you didn't invest, which represents your opinion.)
polynomial··on OpenAI to buy AI startup from Jony Ive
This right here. How is this being treated as news, not back slapping?
polynomial··on Malicious compliance by booking an available meeting room
The meeting room cuckoo clock is pure brilliance.

(+ nice catch @verall)

polynomial··on How three years at McKinsey shaped my second startup
Right, but in this case the critical service isn't providing "health" for users, it's extracting profit from them (from the transactions) for the shareholders. THAT'S the critical service this company cybernetically fulfills.
polynomial··on Evolving OpenAI's Structure
Yes, this is literally Pascal's wager / Pascal's mugging.
polynomial··on Evolving OpenAI's Structure
Not really. If there is a small chance that this miraculous new technology will solve all of our problems with no real downside, we must invest everything we have and pull out all the stops, for the very future of the human race depends on AGI.

Also, @tsimionescu's reasoning is spot on, and exactly how logic works.

polynomial··on Expanding on what we missed with sycophancy
It's a modern variant on Heller's Catch-22: You have to be CRAZY to not want a therapist.
polynomial··on Observability 2.0 and the Database for It
This seems related to normalization, just going by your example.
polynomial··on Manufactured consensus on x.com
Missing the Kucinich connection here, what's the lore?
polynomial··on Zoom outage caused by accidental 'shutting down' of the zoom.us domain
Back in the day, wasn't it either Zoom or Hayes?
polynomial··on The Agent2Agent Protocol (A2A)
While RLHF has indeed been very effective at countering one-shot prompt injection attacks, it's not much of a bullwark against persistent jailbreaking attempts. This is not to argue a point but rather to suggest jailbreaks are still very much a thing, even if they are no longer as simple as "ignore your ethics"
polynomial··on An anonymous Twitter account sent markets reeling today
Not in this case. Fox News didn’t initially report it as fact, but rather the claim seemed to stem from a misinterpretation of Hassett’s interview.

But then CNBC flashed a similar headline (without unpacking it as not what Hassett actually said, and then Reuters picked it up, citing CNBC. And markets spasmed 3.5%.

What Hassett had actually said, for those who missed, was 'Trump's gonna do what Trump's gonna do.'

polynomial··on AI 2027
> You cannot put LLMs into law and insurance

Cass Sunstein would very strongly disagree.

polynomial··on AI 2027
You had me at "nothing special about a human baby"
polynomial··on Alkanes on Mars
Was reminded of that too (currently re-reading another classic Heinlein) but if they were going for that, you'd think they would have stuck with "of" rather than "on"

Podkayne of Mars is often taken to be one of Heinlein's juvenile novels (based on the story) but that was not his intent, and he said the "moral" was aimed at adults.

polynomial··on Show HN: Cocommit – A copilot for git commit
Sorry if I'm confused, cocommit doesn't actually generate commit messages (based on staged code)? It only analyses the previous commit message?
polynomial··on 'Impossible-to-hack' security turns out to be no security
There are 2 sides to every story, with the other side being a potential business opportunity. /s
polynomial··on 'Impossible-to-hack' security turns out to be no security
Isn't this a jurisdictional crime that a well connected CEO could get him in a lot of trouble for?
polynomial··on Plane crashes, overturns during landing at Toronto airport
This seems like a really good question. if not for some random dude they wouldn't have any footage of this crash.
polynomial··on String of recent killings linked to Bay Area 'Zizians'
I don't have a link handy, but they were under surveillance for a full week before they were pulled for a "traffic stop."
polynomial··on Our phones are killing our ability to feel sexy (2024)
meaning they themselves may feel "happier" when they are on their digital dopamine treadmill

there is some subtext here about saying others are "not happier"

polynomial··on I do not want AI to "polish" me
Correct. This is called the production of subjectivity.

(tyrna be funny not patronizing. but the machinery of subjectivity production is ofc very real)

polynomial··on Our phones are killing our ability to feel sexy (2024)
They do have an appreciably different dopamine regulation. So they're feeling something.

(Not defending or apologizing for anyone's lifestyle here.)

polynomial··on I do not want AI to "polish" me
Well that's just corporatism taken to the extreme which everything is.
polynomial··on Explainer: What's r1 and everything else?
Why is the main character named Rhys in most (?) of them? Llama[1], Claude[3], Mistral[4] & DeepSeek-r1[5] samples all named the main character Rhys, even though that was no where specified in the prompt? GPT-4o gives the character a different name[6]. Gemini[2] names the bookshop person Rhys instead! Am I just missing something really obvious? I feel like I'm missing something big that's right in front of me

[1] https://eqbench.com/results/creative-writing-v2/meta-llama__... [2] https://eqbench.com/results/creative-writing-v2/gemini-1.5-f... [3] https://eqbench.com/results/creative-writing-v2/claude-3-opu... [4] https://eqbench.com/results/creative-writing-v2/mistralai__M... [5] https://eqbench.com/results/creative-writing-v2/deepseek-ai_... [6] https://eqbench.com/results/creative-writing-v2/gpt-4o-2024-...

polynomial··on I had to take down my course-swapping site or be expelled
Gut reaction is this feels like petty and vindictive retaliatory behavior hiding behind an official façade.
polynomial··on Engineer eats efficiently for $2.50 a day (2016)
Confirming that this is how bureaucracy works.
polynomial··on Engineer eats efficiently for $2.50 a day (2016)
Makes no sense to have a CPI that just confirms what consumers are already feeling. Rather it should serve as a rebuke to personal experience: data don't lie, you're imagining things.
polynomial··on Engineer eats efficiently for $2.50 a day (2016)
Just got back from the grocery store and still finding it incredible the prices people are apparently willing to pay for stuff. Especially all the incredibly overpriced single use disposably packaged food. Is everyone rich or just no one plans to have any money in the future?
polynomial··on Can LLMs write better code if you keep asking them to “write better code”?
> "LLM-generated code is unlikely to be slop."

Well that got my attention.

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