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staticman2··on I don't like passkeys
Wouldn't I have the same problem with passwords? I would lose my phone and be unable to two factor log in to my Gmail account or bank from someone else's device?
staticman2··on A warning about 'model welfare'
Yeah I was gonna add I know there are case studies where sick humans don't consciously have access to long term memories but will still respond nonverbally to people they "recognize".
staticman2··on A warning about 'model welfare'
> "This framing is a trap. It states "Dehumanize a sick patient OR concede the AI tech bro claim about LLMs"
staticman2··on A warning about 'model welfare'
It seems silly to dismiss the patient because we know when healthy they are conscious. This doesn't really analogize to LLMs.
staticman2··on A warning about 'model welfare'
I think a harness isn't really a memory in the sense that neural networks have memories...
staticman2··on A warning about 'model welfare'
This framing is a trap. It states "Dehumanize a sick patient OR concede the AI tech bro claim about LLMs"

It's also a rhetorical move I've seen several times here...

staticman2··on Gemini 3.8 Live and 3.8 Live Extended Thinking
Gemini's search harness in the Google app is (ironically) bad so it makes the model look bad.

If you really want to compare apples to apples you need to test Gemini models against other models using the same third party search harness.

Otherwise you are largely measuring how much computation the model provider is allocating to a search harness.

staticman2··on Gemini 3.8 Live and 3.8 Live Extended Thinking
That might depend on whether you are translating fiction or nonfiction.

Anecdotally I'd rate Gemini behind Claude and OpenAI models at fiction and I can't find any benchmarks showing Gemini is the clear winner at this task.

staticman2··on Adult Film Producer Unmasks Prolific 'John DOE' Torrent Pirate as Meta Executive
If the news reporter said "Someone at a park played this 4 minute copyrighted song, and today's top story is just us showing you the recording" I'd bet that would be illegal where you live.
staticman2··on Adult Film Producer Unmasks Prolific 'John DOE' Torrent Pirate as Meta Executive
This reminds me of a stand up comedy routine about people being bad at hiding their porn collections because their brain doesn't work right when they are horny.
staticman2··on GPT-6 Astra
> If it could make 5 different versions of chapter 2, all with different directions for the story, and all with novel and interesting developments, wouldn’t that be a better definition of creativity than “can it read chapter 1 and be able to copy style and deduce/predict what the author is going to do in chapter 2”?

If I like the novel, an alternative version where things happen differently would be fine.

The problem isn't that it's different. The problem is quality.

A lot of Isekai stories are crap but you can still rank them in terms of the author's ability or inability to have a creative POV that elevates the material.

staticman2··on GPT-6 Astra
I don't necessarily just feed it chapter 1. (And chapter length varies between novels).

And no I don't think asking the A.I. to write the next 2000 words would require it to have the entire novel planned out. Not all writers even outline in advance.

staticman2··on GPT-6 Astra
For me a basic test of A.I. creativity is give the A.I. chapter 1 of a novel it has not seen and ask it to write chapter 2, then compare the quality to the original author's chapter 2. The A.I. is always terrible at this in terms of matching the author's level of quality.
staticman2··on GPT-6 Astra
Is anyone from 2016 still alive today?

If so I'm hoping we can track them down and have them tell us if they think this is AGI.

staticman2··on Starbase, LA
You are worried about bias but judge an author on whether they use X or Bluesky?
staticman2··on Anthropic tells staff to work from home due to possible security team strike
The U.S. government wouldn't need to use bombs they could just send in the police.
staticman2··on Apple introduces M6 and M5 Ultra
From what I recall Zune had a much bigger screen for videos so I bought one for that reason you can see the side by side here:

https://electronics.howstuffworks.com/zune-ipod.htm

staticman2··on FDA clears blood test to aid evaluation for Alzheimer's disease
> Their doctor should be qualified to make that judgment without a government bureaucracy

This is like saying AI developers should be qualified to evaluate the effacy of a model without testing the model.

staticman2··on OpenAI: GPT 5.6 Sol price reduction (until at least Nov 21)
This is funny because the stock Market has been ahistorically high. My portfolio went up over 20 percent in the last 12 months.

A major correction would be a bummer but we were never entitled to these abnormal gains in the first place.

staticman2··on I'm becoming AI-blind
This comment thread was started with discussions of AI doing a bad job at a task (communication).

Doesn't the Chinese Room posit an AI good at the task of communication?

staticman2··on OpenAI’s head of ethics leaves less than a year after joining
> The only difference is AI isn’t regulated

You seem to believe that regulation is "ethics backed by law".

As this is not true, your counter example is not even on point.

staticman2··on How Claude marks AI-generated content
> Like, for every 10th token, instead of outputting the most probable, it outputs the 17th most probable, or something.

Wouldn't you need the prompt to know the probability of the next token?

staticman2··on Mark Zuckerberg attacks 'closed' AI rivals as Meta returns to open models
I think Matrix 3 would have been better if it was more about humans taking control of the Matrix and trying to figure out what a virtual utopia looks like.
staticman2··on Muse Glimmer: 30B-parameter model optimized for always-on local agent workflows
What does this have to do with Muse Glimmer 30B?
staticman2··on U.S. economy lost 23,000 jobs in July, a sudden reversal
If the market expected a worse job loss than 23,000 that would make sense.

I'm not actually suggesting there's a good reason for market swings, just that bad news shouldn't necessarily cause the market to go down.

staticman2··on Waymo in Dallas
I'm pretty sure you are confusing your state's zoning laws with federal environmental regulations.
staticman2··on Fed's Kashkari says 'now is the time to start slowly moving' rates up
You write as if nobody has ever raised interest rates before and this is some unprecedented event that no bank could be prepared for.
staticman2··on When AI Benchmarks Plateau: A Systematic Study of Benchmark Saturation
Does OpenAI give Artificial Analysis early access to test models? If so it's definitely not "some random account".
staticman2··on AI financial advice is surprisingly good, especially if you ask right questions
Yes it tends to be correct because the other option, invent a trading scheme, tends to work out worse for investors who attempt it.
staticman2··on Startup founders urge U.S. government not to shut off Chinese open weight AI
Is "You wouldn't distill..." the hot new Twitter meme or something?
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