Remind me again why I should buy an internet-connected refrigerator?
They recruited people to pretend like they had various issues, and then recorded their interactions with the LLMs. Someone who's been paid a couple of quid to pretend to have a medical condition can easily miss things,…
> You didn’t have a thyroid issue and you spent thousands more on tests the doctor was right that you didn’t need. Uhhhh, even in the US, we're not talking "thousands" here. > So… a telephone psychic? Look, at one…
And yet, there's a C compiler (fil-c) that doesn't allow that.
I don't claim to know the nuance of what you're trying to address with this. Wouldn't it be simpler to simply protect a bitcoin private key with the encryption that you are challenging people to break? Off the top of my…
> If you think trusted computing is a defense against nation-state attackers, we inhabit totally different realities. I have no idea how or why you would think I think this, since what I wrote was exactly the opposite…
> This is dismissive and glib. As is your comment. > And it's the wrong lesson. It's only the wrong lesson if you believe that making it more difficult for governments to seize and decrypt their own citizens' mobile…
> But getting angry at things is, at least as far as I can tell, normal for most people. I can well believe that I am an outlier here. Maybe not everybody else believes that:…
> I smell LinkedIn-flavoured-humble-brag. Smell whatever you want; it's a free country. The "machines like me" is not a humble brag. It's an observed phenomenon, not just by me. The "I'm different in how I react to…
I'd be happy doing it 99.99% of the time myself, but I don't want to form the habit to think it's a good thing to do.
> That's a very... bleak perspective on your brother's motives. Well, it may have been an overstatement, but not by much. Look, I have anger issues, but I never get angry at things because they are never trying to hurt…
I know I'm weird. I remember watching my brother get frustrated with a dysfunctional remote control. He threw it forcefully enough at a stone fireplace to shatter it. From my perspective, that, in and of itself, is a…
> That doesn't mean it "knows me" any more than my notes documents do But are you happy handing over your notes documents to mass aggregators of information?
I do the same. But frankly, I mostly use (greenfield, non-remembering) LLMs directly to counteract the enshittification of search brought on by attempts to use AI to remember things about me (and especially to sell me…
My daughter is a pediatrician and just gave a talk on mental health problems (including suicides) brought on by the sort of personality that succumbs to this. I find it interesting. For most of my life, I have gotten on…
Honestly, I think he's pointing out that the LLM creators have intended the LLMs to anothromorphize themselves. Case in point: Gemini just asked me "Where should we start?". When I asked it if that turn of phrase was…
Oh, sweet summer child. You don't really think they added all that circuitry and a cell connection just to collect odometer information, do you? > how is that causing the owner an issue? Welp, it was a huge issue for a…
You have to read it in context with what it is referring to, and perhaps to know a little bit about the issue. In that respect, it's like a lot of conversations around here. I read this as: "Removing the fuse that…
> I’d give the benefit of the doubt. So fucking do it! Who died and made you the style police? > Stop it. He's making reasonable points, in a readable fashion. You, on the other hand... What's your point? AI bad? Srsly,…
Sorry, didn't mean to send anybody on a wild goose chase. Glad you found a reference, and also somewhat glad that the reference says that the the term was "often" used -- maybe I'm not quite ready for the dementia ward…
Well, that was the whole issue. After marking the memory as not accessible via a data load, the CPU was still executing there and borking itself. He had to also mark the memory as inaccessible for code loads. Which,…
> I'll instead observe that it seems to follow from what you said that you actually agree with me. As long as the prefix remains consistent across a given level of indentation then there's no cause for concern. No, I…
In an attempt to go fast and beat benchmarks and other computers, CPUs attempt to speculatively execute code, and then later undo the results of the speculation if it turns out it was wrong. This causes all sorts of…
Truly, indentation is the moveable feast. Even on ancient typewriters, you could adjust your tabs depending on what you are doing. And people who have dissimilar tastes in tabbage will certainly write stuff that doesn't…
> that criticism is usually posited by users of the language. Uhhh, no. Sure, it's posited by people who feel they are are forced to use it, but it's basically unlearning other syntax. Here's a study about people with…
Remind me again why I should buy an internet-connected refrigerator?
They recruited people to pretend like they had various issues, and then recorded their interactions with the LLMs. Someone who's been paid a couple of quid to pretend to have a medical condition can easily miss things,…
> You didn’t have a thyroid issue and you spent thousands more on tests the doctor was right that you didn’t need. Uhhhh, even in the US, we're not talking "thousands" here. > So… a telephone psychic? Look, at one…
And yet, there's a C compiler (fil-c) that doesn't allow that.
I don't claim to know the nuance of what you're trying to address with this. Wouldn't it be simpler to simply protect a bitcoin private key with the encryption that you are challenging people to break? Off the top of my…
> If you think trusted computing is a defense against nation-state attackers, we inhabit totally different realities. I have no idea how or why you would think I think this, since what I wrote was exactly the opposite…
> This is dismissive and glib. As is your comment. > And it's the wrong lesson. It's only the wrong lesson if you believe that making it more difficult for governments to seize and decrypt their own citizens' mobile…
> But getting angry at things is, at least as far as I can tell, normal for most people. I can well believe that I am an outlier here. Maybe not everybody else believes that:…
> I smell LinkedIn-flavoured-humble-brag. Smell whatever you want; it's a free country. The "machines like me" is not a humble brag. It's an observed phenomenon, not just by me. The "I'm different in how I react to…
I'd be happy doing it 99.99% of the time myself, but I don't want to form the habit to think it's a good thing to do.
> That's a very... bleak perspective on your brother's motives. Well, it may have been an overstatement, but not by much. Look, I have anger issues, but I never get angry at things because they are never trying to hurt…
I know I'm weird. I remember watching my brother get frustrated with a dysfunctional remote control. He threw it forcefully enough at a stone fireplace to shatter it. From my perspective, that, in and of itself, is a…
> That doesn't mean it "knows me" any more than my notes documents do But are you happy handing over your notes documents to mass aggregators of information?
I do the same. But frankly, I mostly use (greenfield, non-remembering) LLMs directly to counteract the enshittification of search brought on by attempts to use AI to remember things about me (and especially to sell me…
My daughter is a pediatrician and just gave a talk on mental health problems (including suicides) brought on by the sort of personality that succumbs to this. I find it interesting. For most of my life, I have gotten on…
Honestly, I think he's pointing out that the LLM creators have intended the LLMs to anothromorphize themselves. Case in point: Gemini just asked me "Where should we start?". When I asked it if that turn of phrase was…
Oh, sweet summer child. You don't really think they added all that circuitry and a cell connection just to collect odometer information, do you? > how is that causing the owner an issue? Welp, it was a huge issue for a…
You have to read it in context with what it is referring to, and perhaps to know a little bit about the issue. In that respect, it's like a lot of conversations around here. I read this as: "Removing the fuse that…
> I’d give the benefit of the doubt. So fucking do it! Who died and made you the style police? > Stop it. He's making reasonable points, in a readable fashion. You, on the other hand... What's your point? AI bad? Srsly,…
Sorry, didn't mean to send anybody on a wild goose chase. Glad you found a reference, and also somewhat glad that the reference says that the the term was "often" used -- maybe I'm not quite ready for the dementia ward…
Well, that was the whole issue. After marking the memory as not accessible via a data load, the CPU was still executing there and borking itself. He had to also mark the memory as inaccessible for code loads. Which,…
> I'll instead observe that it seems to follow from what you said that you actually agree with me. As long as the prefix remains consistent across a given level of indentation then there's no cause for concern. No, I…
In an attempt to go fast and beat benchmarks and other computers, CPUs attempt to speculatively execute code, and then later undo the results of the speculation if it turns out it was wrong. This causes all sorts of…
Truly, indentation is the moveable feast. Even on ancient typewriters, you could adjust your tabs depending on what you are doing. And people who have dissimilar tastes in tabbage will certainly write stuff that doesn't…
> that criticism is usually posited by users of the language. Uhhh, no. Sure, it's posited by people who feel they are are forced to use it, but it's basically unlearning other syntax. Here's a study about people with…