dijksterhuis

during GCSEs (nationally held exams at 16 for non uk people) i was sick in hospital for two weeks. when i came back i had to sit the missed exams in a special sitting. exact same processes with extern…

sorry but that’s just wrong. it’s not impossible in the slightest. i built an attack against mozilla deepspeech in my phd from multiple needles (two of which i personally discovered). did it take a lo…

you've definitely been doing this longer than i have, but our outlook and recent experiences sound very similar. also been diagnosed recently, also on similar extended sabbatical/unemploymen…

their mental model. the human being’s mental model. the one in our private head. not some model on a corporate server, some secret “dossier” on every interaction you’ve ever had with them. you’re ba…

does that make it morally okay to do with your colleagues? like, jfc, these are fucking people were talking about building “dossiers” of. people the person works with where a degree of trust and bon…

> I've already got my agent building a dossier for everyone we interact with. I haven't started training it on their writing style so I can mirror back to them... yet. have you asked thes…

yeah. someone, somewhere, at some point, will think i’m a clueless idiot. we’re all clueless idiots at the end of the day.

you’ve misunderstood. everything is consciousness. not everything has consciousness. very different

this whole consciousness thing is fairly easy to put to bed if you run with the ideas from things like buddhism that everything is consciousness. then none of us have to bother with silly, distracting…

everyone involved is responsible, just to different degrees.

> Security minded generalist there’s always some senior-ish person in the interview pool who is interested in security. hire them, let them figure things out and then give them permission to call b…

it’s felt like the new crypto to me for about 2-3 years now. i was doing an ML Sec phd a year or two before all this hype took off. i took one of the OG transformer papers along to present at our offi…

> physically addicted (the only real form of addiction) https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/26318318221116042 snippet from the abstract > Contrary to the earlier …

this is an idea that i’d happily get behind.

for me, and this is just me, if you have to shout about it then you’re possibly not doing patriotism.

i spent an inordinate amount of time thinking about this comment yesterday. i’ll cut to the crux of it in a second, but wanted to preface what i’m going to say by clearly stating that i don’t intend f…

i find that passionate certainty can be a good thing in some cases, especially when someone really does know what they are talking about. but fanaticism is more often a problem than not. fanatics tend…

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48001630

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Spotify and Netflix happened. file sharing became far less popular and ubiquitous as a result of their popularity. they tweaked the model — originally users download a temporary copy from central serv…

netflix is tv/film licensing. [0] facebook is a people database. meta is more people databases. [1] contracting companies sell additional employee time to other companies. welcome to the epiphany…

paper link > Training language models to be warm can reduce accuracy and increase sycophancy https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-026-10410-0 selective snippet from abstract…

i am absolutely going to from now on