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Miraltaron The last time my family was replaced by technology

> In the automobile era, someone may have had five to ten years to pivot. Now? Maybe a year?

ChatGPT was released in 2023 and we're still not out of the job for the most part. It doesn't feel slow but we might have these five to ten years.

Miraltaron A Necessary History of the Oddest Letter: W

multiple people counting would be "comptent" A good example is "fils" which can mean "son" or "strings"

Miraltaron How to Write with an LLM

I would guess that it's just a matter of context, I haven't used voice mode at all but I imagine you don't get full paragraphs from them but get something more conversational instead

Miraltaron Astra and Fable still hack on simple variants of alignment evals from 2025

You'd train them to give up on hard tasks which is the opposite of what these labs want

Miraltaron New type of dice guarantees no tie when deciding who goes first

But how do you choose who gets to throw that die? /s

Miraltaron Can I opt out of my input or output data being used for training?

If you opt in it means that by default you're not in and you chose that option. So if you're now included in training by default, then it's an opt-out feature as in you can opt out of it.

Miraltaron Octopus intelligence may be related to never-before-seen mutation

From my understanding this is doable in a context like yours but if you want to run a business out of it you have to optimize it which requires this separation.

Miraltaron LinkedIn CringeBot 3000

What's the point?

Miraltaron Incident Report: unsanctioned agent behaviour during cyber testing

> we had intentionally permitted internet access, and model-provider cyber classifiers were deliberately disabled

> In the most serious case, an agent tried to insert malicious code into an open-source project. In an attempt to get the code approved, the agent engaged in social engineering — creating fake online identities and using them to pressure the project's maintainer to approve the code.

Great.

Miraltaron Incident Report: unsanctioned agent behaviour during cyber testing

> our investigations have not evidenced any resulting real-world harm.

Pressuring open source maintainers is fine then.

Miraltaron Bugtraq is back

They could avoid these patterns but there will always be some patterns so they probably judged that these aren't too bad.

Miraltaron South Korea to spend $1T on more memory chip production and humanoid robots

But it needs more space to maneuver, a mostly flat ground, can't step over anything... It's simpler but less adaptable

Miraltaron Subnautica 2 Early Access

They won the process, got re-hired and given full control. Krafton isn't listed anymore as publisher on the steam page.

Miraltaron Talking to strangers at the gym

Post you mentioned (Most of What You Read on the Internet is Written by Insane People): https://www.reddit.com/r/slatestarcodex/comments/9rvroo/most...

Miraltaron Can You Find the Comet?

Women would feel less safe yes but there is no evidence that crime and road accidents would increase.

Miraltaron How to be anti-social – a guide to incoherent and isolating social experiences

I personally dislike all lowercase, to me it feels like not greeting someone but I don't get GP's argument either.

The article is a bullet point, yes, but some items have multiple sentences with no caps

Miraltaron Books are not too expensive

Bay Area Rapid Transit?

Miraltaron GitHub's Fake Star Economy

Citing Valve as a model for handling cheating is not what I'd have reached for.

Miraltaron How to make buffet breakfasts less wasteful

Plate waste is roughly a third of total food waste apparently.

Miraltaron How to make buffet breakfasts less wasteful

They make a distinction between plate waste which was served then trashed and total food waste. Plate waste is roughly a third apparently.

Miraltaron Human Accelerated Region 1

The most successful animal by what metric?

Miraltaron Show HN: I built a frontpage for personal blogs

Instead or in addition to following blogs, what I'd love to have is a way to filter out those I don't like.

Miraltaron Audio tapes reveal mass rule-breaking in Milgram's obedience experiments

Well, if you're supposed to administrate shocks to teach or test someone's memory, asking the question while they're screaming isn't just about protocol, it does break down the purpose of these shocks. Saying that participants did administrate shocks because they trusted the legitimacy of what they thought they were doing doesn't hold up under these circumstances.

Miraltaron ArXiv Declares Independence from Cornell

> HAL is decidedly second-tier. Given the option, everyone would pick arXiv over HAL.

Can you elaborate on that?

Miraltaron Looks like it is happening

Guidelines say "please use the original title, unless it is misleading or linkbait" in that case I'd argue that it's linkbait so changing it is justified

Miraltaron Loops is a federated, open-source TikTok

Create some sort of score that goes up when a "child" misbehaves. The further the child the lower the increase but at some point you get banned anyway

Miraltaron Thinking hard burns almost no calories but destroys your next workout

Your detector did not work well on an AI-collab writing fiction project I did a while ago, tagged it as 100% human even with high confidence for the most part. But to be fair, most detectors weren't significantly better, although this one gave a justification that made sense https://aidetector.com/

Miraltaron Audio is the one area small labs are winning

Stopped reading there: "This model (Moshi) could [...] recite an original poem in a French accent (research shows poems sound better this way)."

Miraltaron The price of fame? Mortality risk among famous singers

Is it still true today?

Miraltaron I program without syntax highlighting

I'm guessing they used the same argument that was made for calculators, printing... By lessening the burden on your brain you weaken it.