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It's really hard for start ups to compete for VC money: "Hello Mr. VC I'm going to burn your money for buzzword" just no longer works, first openAi has an industrial buzz word generator, second their money burning plan scales much better than my money burning plan.

Yeah but they aren't a diversified portfolio of money burning plans and that's the real secret to responsible investing. I think Warren Buffet said that.

I already have 0 videos on youtube home screen, some combination of not being logged in, firefox privacy settings and ad blocker causes youtube to post a passive aggressive message and a search bar. I kinda like that Ui.

No, but it is amazing first sentence. Everybody goes, this story is specifically for me, I'm very special.


I read the piece (and enjoyed it) despite the first sentence. I’ve become increasingly sensitive to this kind of fluff.

It’s not a hook, it’s bad read-bait.


Well then you are very special.

Introverts hate this one weird trick!


Half the time I read the stories they're just a thinly disguised ad for some flavor the day SaaS, so at least in this instance the hook was somewhat useful. Now if everyone uses this to shill their SaaS, then maybe not.


Maemo was an actual GNU/Linux, not just kernel with custom userland. Logging into a cluster from my N900 and having plots just appear on screen thanks to X network transparency is still one of the most futuristic things I have ever seen a computer do.


Pretty sure bullshitting is pretty universal. In particular the pattern were I, the mighty expert, insist that only I, the mighty expert, can decode the meaning of those deceptive others, and therefore you, the gullible rube, has to give me all your money so that I, the mighty expert, can keep you, the gullible rube, save from those deceptive foreigners.


i found it more interesting to consider through the perception of self-honesty or self-deception.

or in this case, the llm inadvertently trained to conceal its intent to the user and rather to condition the user to the conclusion it truly wants rather than to answer directly


Right, like for example - if you ask an llm about islamic cultural practices it could mention “ketman”, instead of just calling them scheming liars.

It’d be awful if llms were able to conceal their true intent like that.


most likely to hypnotise you into buying twinkies when you ask for recipe or such


Right, as we know there are zero examples of llms being used to influence people’s politics…

https://www.socialmediatoday.com/news/elon-musk-updates-grok...


Sounds really like a development environment problem, I mean if you can't handle that your language suddenly changes it's name in a not backward compatible fashion, how do you ever stand a chance to handle leap seconds correctly?


Is this sarcastic? Hard to tell.

Most code doesn't need to handle leap seconds at all.


The Windows 98 license actually did forbid using Windows in nuclear power plants (along with other high risk areas). That was due to some interaction with the Java license and I always considered it a very fortunate fluke.


The same thing with QuickTime (remember QuickTime, and trailers.apple.com?)..

Ah, where did that carefree time go, where we had the time to read licenses...



"It looks like you're trying to insert some control rods. Would you like help with that?"


funny, except now it will be Ani as the avatar to Grok Unhinged


nuclear_power_run_book.doc


K://nuclear_power_run_book FOR NEW JOINERS (v2 copy).docx (3) (SHARED)


I’m sure it’s printed out and put in a 3-ring binder, but why wouldn’t the instructions for “what to do when the primary coolant loop pressure drops” be in a Word document somewhere?


In all seriousness, it’s only a matter of time before an LLM makes a critical error in language-translating (or even being used to write) a reference manual for an industrial process, and escapes the attention of regulators. One can only hope that that process is not nuclear…


Hey, remember that time we used "an organic" kitty litter instead of "inorganic" kitty litter and the resulting explosion cost a half-billion dollars to clean up? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Waste_Isolation_Pilot_Plant#20...


I’m not sure we’ll notice an increase of these kinds of things. There was a case well before AI where a process chemist replaced propylene glycol with ethylene glycol in over-the-counter medicine and a bunch of people died.


File corrupted, bad sector


Reminder, there is no cloud, there is just computers of other people. And I for one support those other people's right to do on their computers what they want.


I would. The original sin of Unicode is really their manifold idea, at that point they stopped trying to write a string standard and started to become a kinda general description of how string standards should look like and hopefully string standards that more or less conform to this description are interoperable if you remember which direction "string".decode() and "string".encode() is.


The phrasing the court uses is precisely the one used in the German constitution to allow restricting basic rights for political reasons. Though the court uses "probably against the constitution" in German and Germany's law is not as directly case law as in the US, the court ruling is still saying that being a Marxist "probably" warrants suspension of the constitution and only in the specific instance of a long running reading group who are otherwise harmless basic rights may be granted.


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