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> We should be reviewing the actual working software. Systems that make it easy and instant to demo any proposed change are what is needed. You’re arguing for experiment over logical proof or reaso…

Clarke’s third law.

> But this is exactly what you expect when you ask intelligence (machine or human) to fill in missing information. I haven’t read the blog post since it’s currently hugged to death (so I’m admitted…

How did reading the sentence twice help? Just from that sentence, there isn’t anything that disambiguates it.

> it does it all flawlessly Serious question: How do you assess this? It seems to me that it would take very significant time to establish that conclusion.

Take a look at https://apps.apple.com/app/sink-it-for-reddit/id6449873635 .

“Keep going” is exactly how many mathematicians achieved success in the past. :)

> anything more than you are doing already. I call it "Ghost Cut", and it works like this: pressing ctrl+x fades the selected text and makes it inert—you can't click on the cut text …

If the outcome is equivalent regardless which choices the LLM made, then these LLM decisions weren’t material for the outcome, and it would be fine for me. If the decisions don’t materially change the…

> What's the real difference in that gray area? I'm not sure. I think it hinges on something that has to do with making versus asking to be made, even if that line isn't particularly…

Influencers have been successfully sued in Europe due to covert advertising.

“Web” implies a structure. And the internet traffic travels physically from country to country. Not being bound to geographical regions is an illusion.

You know that it won’t be doing that, the tech for that either just isn’t there yet, or is more costly than your average purchase.

Most of OpenAI‘s users are using the free tier, and have little incentive to change that.

> ads in disguise These are illegal in most jurisdictions. We need to apply the existing laws.

It will disclose your Apple account address even when you received the email on a different account in the Mail app.

In general it's bad practice for a user to expose someone else's email address to an application provider without consent (email providers being the one necessary exeception, of course), the…

I disagree in the sense that source code (compiler input) leaves little space as to the behavior of the resulting program. With LLMs, either there is much more implied leeway, in which case I’d argue …

One problem with that is that it’s difficult to prove motives. So you’re on shaky and disputable ground. It’s much better to point out how the proposed mechanisms are prone to be misused, which is ind…

That’s technically correct, but it still means that someone has to write the formal specs that Claude’s output is verified against, and someone has to design the formal languages the specs are written…

The source code always was the result of that distillation, or at least a crucial part of the result. I’m unconvinced that natural-language specs can replace that role. Even long before LLMs, when wri…

You misread what I wrote. My comment is against the argument used, not against what is being argued for. Using the wrong argument diminishes one’s position. I’d prefer the stance against surveillance …

While I’m decidedly pro-encryption, I don’t like this argument. If something is the right thing, it would still be the right thing when promoted for the wrong reasons, and if it’s the wrong thing, it’…

I wonder, if Doom didn’t exist, what would have taken its place for the “can it run X” usage.

The executables built by LLMs should only given access to a restricted test environment by default.

> the only time you should ever need the "login" button is on a new computer, or after logging out to switch accounts That’s still more frequent per customer than signing up. It only make…

The article discusses how Python uses it for numbers above ~2100 bits for that reason. That’s way beyond your regular floating-point type in terms of precision.