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Lord-Jobo··on Turn off Apple Intelligence on macOS 27 and get its disk space back
Occasionally in this case meaning every 48 hours or so, which means the limit is barely doing more than jack shit
Lord-Jobo··on We're working on a new RuneScape MMO
Leagues fulfills this by ramping up to things like 16x exp rates and 8x drop rates. It is a limited time game mode however
Lord-Jobo··on Mistral Large 4
Of course one of the biggest problems we still see with LLMs is when you do the opposite. A highly detailed unique prompt is very likely to get terrible adherence or hallucination or both.
Lord-Jobo··on ICE Has Been Dumping Protester Photos into a Palantir Database
Please remind me what year ICE was established?
Lord-Jobo··on OpenAI still doesn't seem to have a handle on all of its rogue AI activity
Shame it’s on a website that doesn’t allow you to view the content without paying (personal data is payment)
Lord-Jobo··on Sonnet 5.5
The difference is that Microsoft did that while relying on the extremely load bearing windows ecosystem. These AI companies have no equivalent lock in, nothing even close to it honestly.
Lord-Jobo··on Calling the AI bluff: Adding "Do not guess" cut made-up claims from 71% to 20%
They’re absolutely god awful at it because (I’m assuming) their detailed processes and step by step functions are not present in their training data or otherwise available to the models, and THAT is because

1: “safety”

2: proprietary protectionism and

3: it’s probably rapidly changing enough to be hard to pin down.

I am a massive proponent of this changing, it’s very strongly holding back these models. Change 1: models need to have more “LLM behavior analysis” in their training data/weight. Change 2: models need to have very detailed DETERMINISTIC logs of each step they take, and be able to access those logs. Change 3: the tuning and tweaking that happens more frequently needs to be in a .md file that the model can access.

Change 4: with the other changes done, the models should now engage in several self analysis steps layered into its whole thinking chain. “How did I reach this conclusion, did this require any guessing, do the key facts have research support online, quick check for Claudisms or AIisms and common LLM issues, did my changes alter underlying things like libraries without integrating them etc. etc.”

It’s how we think and refine our ideas and plans, and the models should mimic that.

Lord-Jobo··on We're gonna need a lot more mathematicians
Yeah I was honestly stunned to read “obviously the code is going to be correct so why check it” be the most upvoted comment on this website. Are we even using the same product? These things constantly shit out plausible code that is riddled with errors and bad ideas. if you just copy, paste, and run without looking there’s gotta be a 30% rate of failure to run, piles of terminal errors.

Do programmers use this website anymore? Me, myself, I am a DOGSHIT amateur programmer and even I can tell these things are terrible without constant revision and oversight.

Lord-Jobo··on Special Projects (2016)
Remember this when some corporate talking head talks about this stuff like it wasn’t predictable or preventable. Or when a coworker talks in a defeatist manner about it.
Lord-Jobo··on Special Projects (2016)
They’ll crush us all economically way before physically. But I wouldn’t discount the later happening if we make it through the former
Lord-Jobo··on Show HN: Avoid smooth spinners, use low-FPS spinners
I miss the 1 update per second animations of ye olden times, even if it would be ugly as sin in a modern product.
Lord-Jobo··on Early rogue AI agent activity and attempts to hack found on urlquery.net
Investigators/prosecutors are pressured from many directions towards the very easy wins and occasionally political/non-controversial headline grabbers. Going after these companies is very hard, very controversial, and politically mixed at best (popular action but the companies have huge money to fund your opponents). We have collectively done a terrible job incentivizing the legal system to beat ass on corporate while collar crime.
Lord-Jobo··on XCancel service is suspended until further notice
Classic “we must show good faith and good will before the judicial system by keeping our stuff offline, until proceedings are complete”

“Does the other side need to show any good faith?”

“No, in fact the judge is more likely to side either then the more angry and aggressive they are”

“….great”

Lord-Jobo··on Apple Unveils iPhone Duo
I really deeply wish they had attempted a profile that was 64mm wide folded and double unfolded. Height is less important.

The whole advantage of having any screen at all when folded is something quick to access and *one handable*. Just looking at the Duo, it appears too wide for that by a large amount.

If I’m forced to two hand the thing I’ll just get a phablet: no folding mechanism, no unfolding step before using properly, no gigantic price hike (guessing).

Lord-Jobo··on Apple Unveils iPhone Duo
I agree with the sentiment and hopefully am using my last phone like that right now, but I’m also really hoping for very big advances for Linux phones before it comes time to upgrade. Right now they all seem to have serious drawbacks
Lord-Jobo··on Claude, change the “Add to Cart” button to blue
When we are really thinking about something we do it forwards, backwards and middle out, and regenerate and distill many times.

When we do meta thinking about that process after the fact, two things happen. 1, we change our total “thought” by adding that meta thinking to it. And 2: it’s a very lossy process, because we don’t have very good data about what our brain or mind was actually doing during that first think and emotional factors are nearly always at play and even more complex.

Now for the more complex AI, the fragmented process of multiple agents and loops and reruns are pretty similar to that first think we do. At least structurally. But the meta think is where they differ. They have no emotion, but they also have even worse data about its own function. They constantly degenerate so I would argue their “changing the thought by thinking about it” factor is also generally way higher than ours.

Getting better at consistent/reproducible thinking, with many ‘steps’, that leaves good documentation of that thinking behind for future analysis, has to be one of the more important areas for the big flagships going forward. I’m certain that “what is this fucker doing and why” is the biggest pain point for AI researchers. Or the math, it’s usually the math.

But you’re correct in the general structure; they generally do the same post hoc analysis we do, just noticeably worse because of their opaque nature(even to themselves) and general degenerative instability.

Lord-Jobo··on Claude, change the “Add to Cart” button to blue
One of the biggest strengths of a computer is reproducibility. The worst software bugs are inconsistent or non reproducible. The least useful calculators apply rules inconsistently, to your example.

the inconsistency of LLMs is by far one of the biggest gripes I have with them. Closely related to their apparently deep desire to avoid following instructions.

I know these are both a byproduct of noise (which is somewhat tunable) and noise is inherent to these systems in a lode bearing way.

I still hate it. it’s holding the technology back. I don’t honestly see how we can safely or even successfully approach the idealized realm of AI without bypassing this problem, which to my understanding, probably means not using language models at all and trying a totally different approach. But I really don’t know much about machine learning, I’m a super novice compared to a lot on this website.

Lord-Jobo··on Researchers Spot Fake Ancient Pottery Using the Earth's Magnetic Field
Inherent principles exist in any really high resolution system that are so hard to control they can usually be tracked and manipulated but never completely controlled.

It’s why cancer is so prevalent and damn near unsolvable: an organism our size has about 7 octillion atoms, even forgetting the impacts of the stuff smaller than that. That’s 30ish trillion cells, many are multipurpose little motor vehicles inside our body running around doing stuff constantly.

It’s just so much STUFF happening, take the brain out of someone and leave them a vegetable digesting on a bed and they still burn hundreds of kcal a day, and that’s a highly efficient system millions of years in production.

So two things emerge from that, 1: extremely robust universal principles like electromagnetic gradients being used for travel, and 2: runaway feedback loops like black holes or cancerous cells.

What that means is that you can view mathematics as a spontaneous emergence FROM a high resolution system, or the inverse. We usually think of the inverse, because it seems like no matter what we discover in the system it can be explained by increasingly complex math.

But the inverse of that is very interesting to me: math emerges as a side effect from the high resolution system. It also passes the smell test, if you make a low resolution simulation of the solar system you will not see the effects of the high complexity systems, relativity works perfectly without any quantum dynamics.

I just love these kinds of chicken and egg problems.

Lord-Jobo··on Flock Wants a Closely Surveilled World with No Exit
Not even remotely true, Idk how you can say this with a straight face after all we have seen in Trump 1 and Trump 2.

Elected officials are basically the CEOs of each of these agencies, they have massive unilateral control and, apparently, can simply choose to unmake the agency at any point.

Except unlike CEOs, they require regular voter approval or they get punted out. If they make a stink the public hates the next president can easily axe their ass. That alone is infinitely better; how many of these horrible companies have 10-20 year CEOs pushing all this shit?

>drag their CEO into congress.

So they can lie and stick their tongue out for days, or just not show up? There is never any consequence for this, congress is functionally toothless. Only the courts and the executive can actually use punitive action.

The fact that there is an avenue of redress at all for public officials makes them so much more accountable than any corporation. Which is exactly why corporations spend so much money influencing public election and congress, they need to subvert the only system than can keep them in check.

Lord-Jobo··on Flock Wants a Closely Surveilled World with No Exit
It’s called a deluxe motor-coach and it’s the most important currency in our democracy, apparently.
Lord-Jobo··on Discovery of a new OpenAI agent message board
Also NAL just legal-curious: Intent is a spectrum in our legal structure, with several checkpoints used at different points. It’s very reasonable to pick one of the lower ones for this kind of thing and I really don’t see why the legal system is taking so long on it. Higher intent would be something like “knowingly false statements, or reckless disregard for the truth” seen in our defamation law. Lower intent would be something like “failed to exercise reasonable care” seen in civil negligence. In my eyes,this is a solved problem that our dysfunctional congress should have solved easily by now. Perhaps they are being paid to not solve it by moneyed interests.
Lord-Jobo··on Sony makes bold claim about game ownership
Yes, if your transaction contract redefines very common well understood words like “buy” it honestly should be nullified in the eyes of the law. It’s an inherently deceptive practice.

Want to create new definitions for new words or phrases? Totally fine, but then Sony would need to replace the “buy” button with “blease” or “blent” or whatever they want to call this fake purchasing shit that all software has been playing at for entirely too long.

Or just be honest and call it leasing.

Lord-Jobo··on Fastpotify
That hasn’t existed in software generally for like 20 years, to be fair
Lord-Jobo··on The Future Belongs to the Weird
Stigma is just polarized now. Come out as trans on a platform like Facebook and you will get messages of support that would never have happened in the 90s, but also hate messages and reports to the police(that they will actually follow up on) you wouldn’t have seen back then either.
Lord-Jobo··on The Future Belongs to the Weird
Yes. Being weird now means either getting crushed into a fine paste by the machine or being squeezed into an empty crumpled husk for your valuable weirdness juices. There is no winning scenario left for weirdness
Lord-Jobo··on UK internet age checks have boosted rogue adult sites, says Pornhub
“Damage, difficult to measure” was not what was predicted 30 years ago. Satanic apocalyptic 40k dark elves society, blood orgies and lawlessness was much closer to the messaging. Literal actual Judaic apocalypse was a major risk.
Lord-Jobo··on Field measurements of neighborhood-scale air temperature impacts of data centers
The group trying to do that got voted out of all majorities of power
Lord-Jobo··on Fairphone is now officially available in the United States
The root problem is that all marketing copy is like this, generated by meat sacks or weight arrays. It’s all borderline nonsense.
Lord-Jobo··on Universal health coverage could save $1T and 114k lives a year: study
You think they’re getting so much money from out current system that cutting out insurance companies would result in a 50% reduction in their pay? Have you ever looked up the size of the health insurance sector here?
Lord-Jobo··on RISC-V: They Should Have Known Better
Yeah the OP post read to me like someone throwing the baby out with three drops of bath water. If this was presented more like “minor gripes with risc V” I’m guessing I wouldn’t feel that way
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