Luckily I have been playing a skyblock peaceful pack (Star technology) so I would be doing quite well.

Though before this I tried a bit Gregtech GTNH, and I would have been super-duper fucked. I was scared of the infernal monsters while playing the game, I can’t imagine how it would feel being actually in the game myself.

I should publish a blog post titled “Using Antropic’s Claude is a Perversion of Writing”. If you are taking AI output and thinking it’s good and engaging, you are making a load-bearing mistake.

Joking aside, the criticism can come only after they implement it and we can see if it’s having any effect on the output quality. I doubt it’s going to be detectably worse.

If anybody is feeling so strongly against watermarking even before we can evaluate how it affects the output, I am only thinking that they have ulterior motives or they don’t want to be caught spreading copy-pasted slop.

Wine/proton are not emulators, they run the code directly on linux, but using some fancy tricks to rrimplement windows dlls into linux native code. If someone embeds linux code in the windows executable you have the same privileges of your user and at tgat point you can be infected with a linux virus.

It’s not likely today because windows is much more popular, but once linux becomes popular enough to be an attractive target you will need to be as careful as on windows.

Very interesting! Thanks for the links and the detailed answer!

Let me preface this by saying that I am generally against AI and I hate LLMs being pushed everywhere, but I currently hate facebook and social media even more than AI.

I think that ad blocking might actually be a good use of a model trained to detect ads: AI models are “black boxes” and it would make it difficult for facebook to find out precisely how the detection works and workaround it. Imagine a tiny classifier running locally, whose only job is to look at a post html or resulting rendered pixels and detecting if it’s an ad or not, and then generating the blocking rules.

It would be quite cool, because it would work on any website without an explicit list of ad-blocking rules that somebody needs to maintain.

Ylvis did a funny and catchy song on Stonehenge!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mbyzgeee2mg

Yes I never trusted it fully, and I would strongly suggest anyone to run it in a VM or at least a container, where it doesn’t have access to your credentials, browser cookies and sensitive files. It’s very irresponsible otherwise.

Example: around 1 year ago the bot made a small coding mistake and created a ‘~’ folder. I asked it to delete it (not in auto mode) and of course it went with a very nice “rm -rf ~” (which of course I denied).

Modern models are much smarter, but I would not trust the auto classifier to stop everything dangerous and make a similar hallucination slip through.

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Depends if you want to see through your own walls, or someone else’s walls!

The linked video at the end of the article shows the trail, and it’s for sure an expert level trail, full of dangerous sections. The video says the full trail is only 30km long, but they reccommend 2-3 days, it’s full of steep sections, cliffs at the side, false trails leading nowhere, unstable terrain, bears… They were lucky they actually didn’t get seriously injured.

As a men, I love your answer. I would upvote it 100 times if I could.

The society is always pushing the ideal of men that is bold, strong, independent, commandeering, never showing weakness. It creates a culture of toxic masculinity and deep insecurities that must be kept hidden, otherwise you are admitting to being weak and thus a lesser man. IMHO it’ also a big contributor to the loneliness epidemic and incels existing.

As you said, it’s similar to the problem of the completely unrealistic woman bodies shown in advertisement. It’s unreachable by definition.

If you are a man, be kind, be open to others and be vulnerable. You are enough as you are, you’ll live more happily if you stop chasing whatever others call “perfection”, and start living your life as yourself. You are the strong one for fighting against those deeply unhealthy ideals, instead of succumbing to it.

I really support femnism too: the right of being treated as a valid person, equal to everyone else, should apply to all. Men and women alike.

You can implement an agent loop in any language, and modern languages can do everything that lisp can, so there’s nothing magic in lisp. At the end of the day lisp is just another weakly typed functional/procedural language.

Personally I didn’t find lisp that much elegant due to the loose typechecking and the excessive parentheses, but the macro system allows some very terse and smart (and mind-bending, as you said) solutions, which do feel pretty cool when they work fine.

IMHO it’d be probably better to give your agent access to a python interpreter because it’s much more prevalent in the training data than lisp…

I self-learned lisp last year using the old SICP book, but I do consider myself a fairly expert programmer, and I felt that book was a bit hard at the end of it.

IMHO the key difference of lisp’s eval wrt python’s eval is that it takes in input a parsed expression (a lisp list) and not a string. In lisp though you don’t have to use eval much, because the macros allow you to transform the expressions from your programs directly (take in input parsed code, return a different code structure to be executed). The quote and quasiquote functions are there to make that easy!

I don’t know javascript enough, but in python you’d have to use eval and use some kind of parsing package crazyness if you wanted to implement a similar macro system!

Not to mention the entitlement of saying “But let’s be honest, if you’re reading this you can probably pay for it,” Not everybody has disposable income, you know.

I stopped reading there.

If you are into exploring programming languages or writing interpreters, lisp is quite an interesting language. I can also see it working quite well if you need to embed a small scripting language somewhere, because it’s so minimal and easy to pick up, but also very powerful if you go into the metaprogramming side of it.

I don’t see many reasons to use it for anything else though.

I think it was not meant to convince anybody out of being flat-earther. It makes a fool out of them, but also it shows that there are humans behind the movement and their motivation (they went down the wrong path and got indoctrinated by the wrong people, and are now isolated by everybody else). I started the documentary thinking thar they are all stupid, and ended it feeling a bit sad about them and understanding a bit why would anybody continue to be part of a group spreating such an obvious lie. They really need some friends outside that group, support and some good education… the flat earthers and many conspiracy theory groups would have already died out, if society did not treat these people as a lost cause. It also explains indirectly why even some very intelligent people do fall for other conspiracy theories (like qanon).

I think it has changed how I would talk to a conspiracy theorist in real life, and I think it’s great that it managed to do that.

The “outside any juristiction” part is probably the main reason here.

Try to seize any evidence from servers that are traveling in space 10000 miles/hour. For now also space weapons are mostly in experimental phase, and I assume would cause a lot of debris in orbit. It makes the thousands of satellites in orbit almost untouchable by any government on earth.

The epstein-class has much to benefit from this.

It might also be playing into the distopyan fantasy of putting a superintelligent AI in earth orbit, so that it becomes unstoppable from earth.

In any case nothing good comes out of this.

Yes! I got one magnetic self-adhesive whiteboard film for my fridge from Aliexpress (because it was impossible to find anything like that locally), and I am pretty happy about it. The magnetism is not that strong, but I use neodynium magnet to compensate for that.

Leaving it here in case you are interested, but I’m sure you can find other alternatives if you search harder than me… https://a.aliexpress.com/_ExyxrXU

In some countries (like Iceland), children have sex for the first time at age 16 on average [0]. That’s the average age, which means 50% of all people have already had sex before then.

If you wait to talk to them until 14, there’s probably a good chunk of them who will have had sex before even knowing what sex is, and many more that will grow up with the very skewed idea taught by porn. And nowadays kids will stumble upon porn even if you try to prevent it (friends, etc.).

You might not like this and it might be different from your experience in the past, but it is IMHO better to have a discussion and teach them that most of what they see is as fake and scripted as an action movie, teach them what is safe, than having them learn dangerous stuff from friends and porn or improvising by themselves. IMHO making this such a taboo topic also helps abusers and pedophiles, because it makes it harder for the kid to actually talk about abuse and report it.

[0] https://au.lifestyle.yahoo.com/virginity-map-average-age-people-first-have-sex-by-country-33094921.html?guccounter=1

I don’t think I ever worked in a company doing real agile (involving customers early and directly, shipping frequently, gathering feedback, and changing the process if it becomes an obstruction). It always ends up being all about random metrics, velocity reports to management, and “”“requirements”“” dictated from high up. It’s always just chaos that names itself “agile” as a poor excuse for the lack of planning. You get the worst parts of waterfall (lack of feedback and validation) with the worst part of agile (lack of specs and medium-term plan, no project management). No estimations, no requirements, no plan, no coordination between teams, but the deadline is fixed anyway and the feature has been sold to a customer already. The customer is going to see the product for the first time after 6 months of development, after which the priorities shift immediately and no feedback is ever addressed. AI is not going to magically make management write good requirements and have a good planning session with everybody involved… it’s just going to create even more unreviewed AI slop documents that are just noise and will be ignored by most anyway.