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samrus··on Federal judge calls Flock 'indiscriminate mass surveillance'
That and searches for license plates should requiring having the warrant. Not all LEOs might be authorized to carry out the warrant, so they shouldt be able to
samrus··on Calling the AI bluff: Adding "Do not guess" cut made-up claims from 71% to 20%
It sounds alot like "make no mistakes" but honestly telling it to essentially stop bullshitting works pretty well
samrus··on [dead]
What do you mean by that?
samrus··on One Month Without AI
I am skeptical of letting AI do everything as well but this does seem like your using a less capable model. Fable doesnt really do this. In my experience it does just "get" what to do given a clearly defined and measurable outcome
samrus··on The Copilot+ PC brand is dead
We cantnrun local models on them? They must have some sort of api exposed right? Qualcomm has the Snapdragon Neural Processing Engine iirc
samrus··on Jury finds Facebook liable for deceiving users in Cambridge Analytica case
"If you stop me from smoking up fentanyl in front of your store, im only going to smoke up fentanyl outside other stores and not yours!"

Thatd be nice yeah

samrus··on Excel now supports multiple values in a single cell
Lists and vectors have been around for a while. I dont think they suddenly started feeling pressure from those data structures after 30 years, coincidentally when you learnt about their existence

Also the people who would use R and who would use excel are completely different. They use both for the same thing but a user of one would rarely use the other

samrus··on 'That's so AI ' What gen Alpha's biggest insult tells us
Slop meant cheap garbage meant for mass consumption before it was used for AI. The roots are actually antisemitic. 4chan's cooking board used "goyslop" to mean fast food and other cheap consumerist foods that they claimed the illuminati or jewish conspiracy or whateve fed to non jews to keep them unhealthy. Its crazy how often 4chan's neonazi rambling are the start of so many cultural phenomena. They supported trump way before he became a serious candidate in 2016
samrus··on Chat-based Large Language Models replicate the mechanisms of a psychic's con
I dont think so. My understanding of alignmenr is making sure that when the AI does operate, it operates within the range of what we consider to be acceptable. That doesnt seem to include the idea of the AI taking initiative and deciding to embark on a goal without being commanded as discussed above
samrus··on I'm Tired of the AI Tone
Thats the training data, but i dont think thats the biggest factor in the tone. I think its the RLHF. This thing has been guided by silicon valley techbros so it tlaks like them. Even claudes latest style of trying to cram as much information into as little space as possible by nouning verbs and just creating adhoc jargon, is how alot engineers (including me) actually talk. I think they just guided it towards that and overfit on it
samrus··on Canada welcomes EU proposal to become 'associate member'
Whether are in favour of or against taking in asylum seekers, sharing that burden/responsibiltiy between partners would definitely be what people want
samrus··on Anthropic CEO Says It's Time to Slow AI Model Advances
Exactly. People are expecting wode eyed optimism in response to some of the most cutthroat and cynical behavior from the leaders of the AI firms. Its crazy. They're making their bed but they dont want to lie in it
samrus··on PlayStation cancels Kojima's PHYSINT, Xbox steps in
Probably got outbid again. I love valve's business model/strategy/ethics, but its undeniable that a tradeoff for not being beholden to increasing shareholder value is that you often have less resources than your competitors for making big moves like this, since youre not raising capital from shareholders
samrus··on On the Navier–Stokes Millennium Prize Problem
You have to look at the incentives
samrus··on US police fear Meta smart glasses could be used to secretly record them
I mean, they need to be able hide any weaknesses that will allow prison breaks. A prisoner or their collaborators can use this footage to gain intel about these things and break people out. People who might deserve being in prison, like murderers and rapists and stuff
samrus··on US police fear Meta smart glasses could be used to secretly record them
I do love the irony and schedenfruede, but this isnt about recording in public areas, its about recording the inside of prisons and ICE concentration camps. That is generally not something you can legally record and is analogous to a flock camera inside your office or house, which most people would agree is bad
samrus··on The car industry A/B tested selling a car with and without CarPlay
Reputation lag. Or just exploiting trust
samrus··on Private German rocket makes history, reaches orbit from European soil
Yeah. Exactly. Thats not a guarantee anymore
samrus··on Private German rocket makes history, reaches orbit from European soil
Americans have to hope that the US will move past trumo and not repeat that mistake, but for europeans its most prudent to prepare for a world where such a corrupt wannabe distator doesnt have have that much leverage over them.

The US and europe would be stronger together if the US acted in good faith. Absent that, decoupling is the right choice

samrus··on Private German rocket makes history, reaches orbit from European soil
Cost decreases with scale. Spacex was also wildly expensive, it grew up thanks to government assistance
samrus··on Private German rocket makes history, reaches orbit from European soil
I dont think the EU is stronger when they get bullied and undermined by trump, or whichever american president decides to dust off trump's playbook in the future
samrus··on How concerned should we be about Astra's recurrent architecture?
I like the idea of more reccurance in the transformer level. Chain of thought always seemed so clunky. Its just not the way the human brain processes information. Its an extrmeely crude approximation at best
samrus··on Uber shuts operations in Nigeria and Uganda with immediate effect
Its not that much. And you can just bypass it by accepting the first offer you get
samrus··on I Don't Have a Smartphone
I get the arguments against it but what i really want is people having some easy digital way to interface with the tech around them. Having a small on person computer be a client to things in your life seems like a really cool thing to aim for. It just sucks that corporate greed and a breakdown of trust between users and builders has lead to it being an annoyance rather than a peice of a scifi utopia
samrus··on Why do so many tools have JSON config files?
> The LLM output could then be any format that's easy and unambiguous to parse.

Thats the problem isnt it? LLMs arent deterministic. Terrible for prod

samrus··on The British state has lost the argument
So if i disagree with him on that i must disagree with him on this too? Thats disengenuous
samrus··on You Know GDPR Is Good Based on Who Hates It
They dont want to kill the industry, they want consumers to be informed of the risks and stakes. If that makes consumers not want to consume tobacco then tough luck but the tobacco industry cant be allowed to operate based on lies and misdirection

Same goes for data harvesting in tech

samrus··on Y Combinator's Ankit Gupta faces backlash over H-1B comments
Yeah and thats going really shittily. The richest country in the world has housing crisises while the stock market reaches all time highs. Veterans are homeless. Teachers are quiting because theyre underpaid. Its clear the deal was ruined and needs to be refreshed otherwise this society will be hollowed out by the wealthy before they abscond away to somewhere better managed
samrus··on Y Combinator's Ankit Gupta faces backlash over H-1B comments
No becuase citizenship implies deep cultural and philosophical values as well. You cant switch those that quickly

Another reason is that the responsibilities between citizen and society are fulfilled on a long timescale. A society will educate you, and then you need to contribute to the economy in that society to pay it back so to speak. Technological innovation, military service, rasing future citizens. Any of these things can only happen on a long timescale so quickly switching citizenship doesnt allow that contract to be fulfilled

samrus··on Y Combinator's Ankit Gupta faces backlash over H-1B comments
Citizenship, while usually a circumstance of birth, comes with a a shared responsibility of the society one is a citizen of. That responsibility also goes the other way, where the society has a duty to look out for the citizen

While it sucks that people from other societies dont feel like those societies are good for them, it doesnt mean that citizens of the host society should extend that responsibility to people who do not share responsibility for that society like citizens do.

Essentially these foreign workers are mercenaries, and do not derserve the same loyalty and protections that citizens do

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