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1,818karma·417submissions·March 30, 2011
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I found myself so strongly endorsing almost every remark and impression in this post - are we the same person?? AI truly is dual-use: it can lead to immense speed ups on 'research rabbit-holes&#x…
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Great work! Love the harnessing of Apple's local inference. Wondering if you'd be willing to support the same conversational export, summarization, and search/retrieval flows but for th…
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Yes, I thought about that, and which is why I'm just running this as a pilot for this quarter to see how it goes and I'm not particularly attached to it if feedback/results are mixed. B…
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Scrolless is another tool I've found helpful for this, by a fellow hn-er: https://festudio.net/scrolless/ …
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As an educator myself, this quarter for the first time for my course's final project, I've switched to actually asking my students to provide an "AI Authenticity Audit" of their (p…
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Gift link: https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2026-08-06/ai-sk-hyn... …
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Oh ya, this is like the approach from the Incompressible Knowledge Probes [0] paper - smart! [0] Incompressible Knowledge Probes: Estimating Black-Box LLM Parameter Counts via Factual Capacity [ https…
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I didn't realize there was a SchlongBench™ (but of course there is). What's it test? (asking seriously)
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Did you even read Gwern's Guardian Angels post? It literally describes the concern pointed out here, that the large consumer models are not aligned with users' interests. If anything, I woul…
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Doesn’t this just lead to a new “basin of tastelessness” that, sure, looks different from current slop, but is itself just eventually slop all the same?
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The civilization in which you are a part of, this very mass that is greater than you and I, is evolving and changing. How can there not be new unique headlines?
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It's true that there isn't currently a single Chinese model family that matches the full OLMo/Nemotron end-to-end 'cookbook' one could rightly call "open-source" (i.…
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RIP JCD. As a kid growing up in the 1990s, I looked forward to your (highly opinionated) column in every new issue of PC Mag. So much of my own taste in software and computing was shaped by absorbing …
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Yes you can anonymize from one frontier lab, but you've just now created a new source of identification for all your inference: OpenRouter.
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I'll grant that the scaling laws have held so far, and that the bitter lesson is yet to be proven wrong. However, that doesn't exclude the possibility that the current architecture's S-…