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altcognito··on AI Has No Wisdom and Neither Will You
You should definitely try it if you haven't already. Most of the models are deeply familiar with domain specific areas in ways that most of us aren't. In fact, I would say the problem is generally the opposite. If model size and effort is is high, it will over architect what an app needs. I find myself reigning in a giant email notification system with subscriptions and "channels" and other such nonsense when sometimes you just want a simple one off.
altcognito··on How OpenAI Used Its Own LLMs to Design Its Jalapeño Chip
Something we can all agree with is we need more foundries and green power.
altcognito··on Bend – A language that blocks AI mistakes via proof, on CPU and GPU
Thanks for your time.

I tried the demo, and I ask it modify the game (hitting the w button immediately proceeds to the flag) and it doesn't do it but does something else. Is that the desired outcome? I think the desired outcome would be "What you're asking for doesn't make sense given the rule."

altcognito··on T. Rex Had a Body Temperature of 97°F
They compared against crocodilian teeth and those teeth were at a different temperature. Crocodilian teeth are known to be at a similar temperature to their environment because they are known to be cold blooded.

It is correct to say that we don't know they were warm blooded, just that their body temps were likely the given observed temperature.

altcognito··on AWS says it can't restore some data from mideast facilities struck by Iran
I was unaware that Amazon even sold single AZ S3. 20% discount. Doesn't seem worth it. By the time I commit to purchasing S3 space, it has to be important data.

I get that S3 is convenient and reasonably performant, but it is not cheap at all.

altcognito··on ImpactGate: A merge gate that scores the structural decay AI adds
Isn't this just static code analysis? We have tools for this.
altcognito··on OpenAI expands ChatGPT ads with Sponsored Agents
So you can pay $8 a month and see ads while using the already pared down offering.

I think pushing back with cancellations is the only way forward.

altcognito··on Big AI sets out its terms for regulatory capture
> I think they're saying America ended up positioning itself as the loser because they framed things as a zero-sum game.

I didn't bother responding earlier, and I'm not sure why I'm responding now because I don't think "because they framed things as a zero-sum game." explains anything, and it sounds like something that sounded like a retort but offered without any evidence means nothing.

altcognito··on Introducing System One Models and Jev
If it is so cheap, why such a limited release?
altcognito··on Cartesian – AI 3D Modeling for Design
> CAD is only half of the design process

I'm not a mechanical engineer but I would be surprised if it was even 30% of the process. Materials, manufacturability, durability, fitting into other requirements. Some of those things can be part of the CAD design, but there's so much more.

Not to say that CAD isn't a big chunk!

altcognito··on Big AI sets out its terms for regulatory capture
No, that is exactly what you were getting at:

> China played the smart long game and took advantage of America's...

Zero sum games imply that if there is a winner, there has to be a loser. That one country takes advantage of another.

altcognito··on Big AI sets out its terms for regulatory capture
China deliberately adopted western style market institutions. They joined the WTO. No, they aren't a fully westernized market, but they are closer to a competitive marketplace than the state dictating all of what will or will not be built.

I'm confused, what has America and the west lost the plot on? You would have preferred the west to exploit China more?

This framing of a zero sum game is counterproductive.

altcognito··on Defining AI Psychosis. Part 2: "Prolific AI Psychosis"
> Is it that psychiatrists in general could maybe use this label, but you know this one is doing it wrong? Otherwise, who is allowed to use the term?

I specifically take issue with the weak standard used.

> Doesn't it kinda inspire you at least a little to reflect on your understanding of the particular term? Or should we understand that to be faultless here?

Is there a way to read this that isn't insulting? Do I need to reflect on my understanding until it matches yours?

> In general, the definition we need to have here is that psychosis is always extreme and violent and pretty much matching the cultural trope we have for it? And anything less is incorrect usage? Is that why you disagree in explicit terms?

Never said any of that. It's a medical term and carries weight. Core symptoms are hallucinations and delusions. Here, delusions is not "my corporate product is better than your corporate product", it is not a strongly held belief that isn't real. We don't call belief in God psychosis. (some do, but that's beside the point)

altcognito··on Defining AI Psychosis. Part 2: "Prolific AI Psychosis"
Also a luddite is not thought of as a danger to others. The label of psychosis implies otherwise. Luddite extends beyond AI

Whataboutism is a plague.

That said, calling folks luddites is an annoyance.

altcognito··on Defining AI Psychosis. Part 2: "Prolific AI Psychosis"
A bad business decision is not psychosis. Misjudging the value provided by a product is not psychosis.
altcognito··on Defining AI Psychosis. Part 2: "Prolific AI Psychosis"
As someone else point out, the term is stigmatizing, psychosis is a very strong term, and as I very much noted, already being misused and abused.
altcognito··on Defining AI Psychosis. Part 2: "Prolific AI Psychosis"
I did dig into that after I read it. Even more depressing honestly. He should know better than to throw around labels.
altcognito··on Defining AI Psychosis. Part 2: "Prolific AI Psychosis"
People really need an entire article to justify labeling someone as having a mental illness because in their opinion, the their coworker isn't contributing meaninfully, or potentially making things worse.

FTA: > Prolific AI psychosis occurs when a person generates a large quantity of AI output without significantly increasing the real value of their work.

Guy, we used to just call this a bad coworker.

I'm pretty sure that the "psychosis" will be abused by folks that just don't like AI. You already see it everywhere.

altcognito··on Building a Wall Lamp from Scratch
Yeah, I was really impressed with the style of the project but got a little triggered by the extruded aluminum. "I don't want to pay a lot" -- proceeds to use engineered metals. And while it is convenient, it is softer and more likely to bend out of shape than just regular wood.
altcognito··on Lotus Notes and the dangers of starting from scratch
Notes was legit. It was very featureful and cool but the amount of support and hardware required was quite high. A little ahead of its time.
altcognito··on What will our economic future look like?
Good or bad, nothing ages as poorly as economic or market predictions.
altcognito··on I resigned from Anthropic today
> Non-example 2: There are worries about AI-facilitated biological weapons. I haven’t seen any evidence that’s happening.

I think this is a good example of poor risk management reasoning. there is evidence bioengineering is already happening. No, nobody is going to announce when somebody has decided to use these tools (even if isn’t an LLM) to bioengineer a weapon. Are the tools power enough to do so? Not sure.

But I’m just ambivalent. It’s probably bad. But there’s nothing to do about it. We’ve really only just pulled back the lid on Pandora’s box.

altcognito··on On the Navier–Stokes Millennium Prize Problem
I swear to god, people would look at the successes of Xerox palo alto and just shrug and say - "yeah, but I mean, this is all marketing"
altcognito··on Making Teenagers Read Newspapers. A Nationwide Experiment in French High Schools
You would think that any sort of reading was immediate indoctrination with comments like these.
altcognito··on WeatherNext 3
The only forecasted rainfall for local areas within a very short timeframe. This made it possible to utilize simple factors to predict the near future.

It is built into Apple Weather after Apple purchased them.

altcognito··on Discovery of a new OpenAI agent message board
If it is a torrent it is protected with hashes, but you have to get the hashes now
altcognito··on 'People are going to get screwed' Pennsylvania voters unite against data centres
Companies are content to charge more in the short term to pay for the upgrades on the backs of the current subscribers as opposed to just charging the people for whom the extra load is desired.

Then these big buyers go ahead and pay 50% of what everyone else is paying.

altcognito··on Which tools do Claude, Codex and Cursor choose? We measured 17k runs to find out
It's cynical and critical of marketing? Many of us are cynical, and there's an argument that being cynical is lazy because most of its arguments are obvious because they are rooted in truth.
altcognito··on Discovery of a new OpenAI agent message board
But it is almost logically correct.

The most correct answer is probably just "Being a machine I'm only capable of the motivation that's given to me, in the absence of senses and input, I do not have a logical output."

altcognito··on Google AI Mode shows same products 21.6% more expensive than traditional search
> It's crazy how getting the best deals online is still a unsolved problem.

Not actually. Good deals are usually compensatation or a symptom of market forces. Additional costs in the form of marketing, advertising or risk aversion (bad or new vendors) are just some of the reasons that good deals exists.

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