Yeah it's sort of an LLM smell but honestly the models learned that pattern because it's common in the training data. People write that way because it sounds like they're revealing something profound.
LLM inference does not just regurgitate the training corpus; RLHF is almost certainly to blame for this. There’s probably some Google n-gram graph to prove it.
Are you calling a custom mouse icon crap/fuckery that makes you leave the site, or was there something I missed? If you are that's a pretty big overreaction. And it's probably worth you setting the single line to disable `cursor` on all sites via userContent.css or a styling extension.
It has been a while (I think ever since Safari introduced Reader Mode), and I do almost all my reading on websites in Reader Mode. For some websites, I have set to “Use Reader Mode when Available,” such as that of paulgraham.com, daringfireball.net, and quite a few others with horrible Typography.
> I don't understand though why reader mode is not always available. The text is there.
Mostly because we don't have any standard markup to say "this is the content". Which means reader mode has to guess which tags contain the content, and this whole thing boils down to a pair of regexps[1]
> I don’t think there’s something inherently wrong with working together with your nation’s military or defense companies, but that all hinges on what, exactly, said military is doing and how those defense companies’ products are being used. The focus should be on national defense, aid during disasters, and responding to the legitimate requests of sovereign, democratic nations to come to their defense
The core purpose of a military is to destroy things and kill people, and the world is controlled by the people who can do that better than others. You can put all the "defense" and "disaster aid" lipstick on that you like but that doesn't change what they train for and what their real purpose is.
> and the world is controlled by the people who can do that better than others
Yes, welcome to Earth.
There's absolutely no morality in deciding to be weaker than you have to be. If you are eaten by a predator when you had the option not to be eaten, you're not some high-minded righteous peace-lover, you're simply dead.
I must be missing your point. You're talking about a thought / belief framework. I'm talking about how the world actually works. In any fight between theory and practice, practice always wins.
The world largely moves forward through cooperarion, then regularly regresses through violence.
I have no desire whatsoever to undermine and bludgeon my neighbors in order to come out on top. Anyone who feels this way should probably be institutionalized for the safety of society at large.
Cheap distribution makes manipulation easier, not harder. The time it takes for a bad actor to capture attention is much smaller now. It used to be you'd read one news article about a story once a day in a newspaper and maybe once more in the evening news. In between you could think about it, talk about it with other people you know in real life, etc.
Now you're getting meme after meme of the same story multiple times throughout the day, twisted in so many ways. And since we all have our feeds/algorithms adjusted to suit our own tastes we're all getting our own silo'd view of things and can barely rely on a shared set of facts.
All that makes manipulation of people much easier.
>read one news article about a story once a day in a newspaper and maybe once more in the evening news. In between you could think about it, talk about it with other people you know in real life
The bit about having processing time and the social check and balance has been missing from my perspective. Thank you.
And the memes are all just one sentence gotchas with no real substance. And that's how people ingest the news. Headlines and Memes. Who needs actual articles?
> it was easier in the past when information was so much more expensive to distribute.
As a 52 year old my life experience disagrees.
It is much easier now because information flows both ways and "They" have a lot of information on you (and everyone else) and can use that information to manipulate you with algorithmic ragebait, and to extract maximum rents (in all aspects of commerce, not just literal rents) from you, etc.
Not that things were ever perfect in the past, they certainly weren't, but increasingly so much of everything is literally just an outright fucking scam these days and all of it is being turbocharged by various forms of "AI" adjacent technology and increasing deregulation.
The bigger point of focus is that the enterprise value accrues to assets associated with software production.
What happened to all that nonsense about LLM’s solving physics, science etc? Lmao that certainly is not happening.
The natural home of LLM’s is in relation to software production.
The question is can Anthropic and OAI survive? If OAI can’t make their entry into the ad business work then they will fight over the same territory. Meaning both of their chances of survival drop as Google who is a monster in relation to software production will not only seek to kill them but buy their GPU’s at a discounted price.
It's also that humans are very bad at repetitive detailed tasks. Sitting down with a code base and looking at each function for integer overflow comparison bugs gets boring really fast. It's a rare person who can do that for as long as it takes to find a bug that they don't already have some clues about.
It's the flaw in the "given enough eyeballs, all bugs are shallow" argument. Because eyeballs grow tired of looking at endless lines of code.
Machines on the other hand are excellent at this. They don't get bored, they just keep doing what they are told to do with no drop-off in attention or focus.
idk man, pay me enough money and I’ll look at as much code as you want looking for integer overflows
Would it be cheaper than Claude Mythos doing it? No idea. Maybe, maybe not.
But it’s weird how we’re willing to throw away money to a megacorp to do it with “automation” for potentially just as much if not more as it would cost to just have big bounty program or hiring someone for nearly the same cost and doing it “normally”.
It would really have to be substantially less cost for me to even consider doing it with a bot.
> idk man, pay me enough money and I’ll look at as much code as you want looking for integer overflows
So would I, but it doesn't negate that we, humans, are bad at this. We will get bored and our focus will begin to drift. We might not notice it, we might not want to admit it, but after a few continuous hours we will start missing things.
How much of that is simply scale? Anthropic threw probably an entire data center at analyzing a code base. Has anyone done the same with a "small" model?
The provided rights are called positive rights, and the not infringe rights are called negative rights. Freedom of speech is a negative right and a right to legal counsel is a positive right.
Thanks, yes I didn't really think about that distinction. I would say that "positive rights" is a fairly modern concept, for example the right to legal counsel was not originally a positive right, that was something that was determined by a series of court decisions in the mid-20th century. Most rights are still in the "negative" sense, i.e. things that cannot be prohibited or limited, or only narrowly so.
But in this case, a "right" to mobile data is just an entitlement that the people/governemnt decided to provide. The article isn't loading for me but I'm assuming this was not a constitutional change establishing this new specific right.
> I would say that "positive rights" is a fairly modern concept
Not really. “To no one will we sell, deny, or delay right or justice” in the Magna Carta has long been interpreted as much a positive right requiring the Crown to actually provide for justice rather than just a negative law to refrain from abusing it. There's also several clauses requiing royal justices to hold assizes in the counties and set procedures for hearing disputes which is a duty to maintain legal machinery. Heirs, widows, and wards were promised specific legal treatment, such as a widow’s immediate right to her marriage portion and inheritance, and limits on abuse by (non-state) guardians which are affirmative entitlements within feudal law.
Even Rome had the grain dole (the bread of “bread and circuses”).
There's a provision for personal use that stipulates they can't rerent the unit for a year. It wasn't illegal, but it was an asshole move. They also tried getting us for more than out full deposit, to which we declined and they relented. Basically he's just a scumbag.
I guess I don't blame someone for wanting full use of the house they bought. But if they lead you to believe they wanted you to stay and then suddenly reversed on that, yeah kind of a dick move.
I probably would have pressed on negotiating a bigger buyout, but that's easy to say not knowing your situation and what other options for housing you had at the time.
Ya I explored my options, but thankfully there are relatively decent tenant protections and we had to have at least 3 months notice, as well as fortunately there being a downtown in rental prices and decreased competition for rentals, so we got a little lucky and found a bigger place quickly.
I don't believe he actually used the space, we walked by nearly every day for months, and now that it's been a year, we're periodically checking to see if there's new tenants in there.
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