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cheschire··on AI researchers debate how close we are to recursive self-improvement
I’ve had this question on my mind at least once a month for what feels like years at this point.

I don’t feel like monitoring Twitter to see how it’s going though.

cheschire··on Tell HN: OpenAI keeps re-enabling the 'allow training' setting
Interestingly your cynicism does not seem to account for OP?

I actually found my setting was enabled today when I know it was disabled before, so I’m inclined to agree with OP. I just think it was worth mentioning that there are other cynical takes you seem to have left out.

cheschire··on Show HN: What if the speed of light was 5 km/h?
I wonder what the light equivalent of a sonic boom is.
cheschire··on iPhone Duo
Why carry a phone at all? Just buy one and leave it at all the places you go. Have your personal security carry a backup in case you go somewhere your assistant hasn’t been able to get a phone delivered to yet.
cheschire··on iPhone Duo
6 to 7 million units is a good number.
cheschire··on I resigned from Anthropic today
The thought has crossed my mind. Not necessarily to imply sentience on the part of the AI but AI based tools will likely become a wickedly powerful tool for political manipulation and advertising.

At this point it’s inevitable that openclaw type bots will be turned loose by thieves to identify and research targets and try to exploit them for financial gain completely autonomously.

cheschire··on I resigned from Anthropic today
No but it’s on my radar now, thanks. Apparently it’s got some appreciation from the MST3K folks too.

https://mst3k.fandom.com/wiki/Colossus:_The_Forbin_Project_(...

cheschire··on I resigned from Anthropic today
Just wait till self improving AI are focused on the problems of social scoring and political party empowerment / entrenchment.

I doubt the focus is OpenAI and Anthropic looking at each other. I suspect they’re racing BRIC.

cheschire··on Paramount Caught Using 'Astroturf' Group to Drum Up Fake Support for Merger
Teaching someone to recognize astroturfing is about as evil as teaching them to recognize bad kerning (insert relevant xkcd). You’ll destroy their blissful ignorance forever.
cheschire··on Show HN: GET Together – A social network where you don't need POST to Post
Ideally browser history hacking will reduce that.

https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/History_API

cheschire··on Show HN: GET Together – A social network where you don't need POST to Post
Are you sure this Show HN was posted by a human?
cheschire··on GPT-6 Astra
Isn’t the stateless nature of chat models a contrived method for scalability?

I’m pretty sure that’s why so many in-the-know people have been saying we have achieved AGI already. Not just sama’s contract-breaking tactics of late. I’m referring to all the really intelligent folks who have been crying doomsday scenarios for modern society for the last couple years.

What I’m getting at is that the toolset we get exposed to is not what’s available in the labs. This stateless method of managing chat context is just how we are allowed to interact with it.

cheschire··on Aging brains blend memories together instead of just forgetting them
I am not a biologist so I cannot say this authoritatively, but I’m fairly certain that’s not how neuroplasticity works.
cheschire··on Hang on to Your Firefox
There’s a big difference between going to the same six sites every day and “browsing“ the web
cheschire··on Hang on to Your Firefox
Am I the only one that doesn't really care about browsers anymore because I stopped browsing the web?
cheschire··on Ubisoft's FOR HONOR will block SteamOS / Linux players starting September 10
Ubisoft didn’t make either iteration of MW2. That was activision.

But a year after that bullshit, then Ubisoft started pushing the always-online requirement for even single player games like assassins creed. Maybe you were thinking of that?

cheschire··on We are rebuilding Monica
I read this article and the subtext in my head is “I pointed Claude at my ten year old code in a sandbox and it couldn’t handle adding the features I wanted. So for v3 I will make it better for agentic development.”

I’ve become so cynical this year.

cheschire··on Iceland rejects reopening talks on EU entry
Well I thought your joke was funny.
cheschire··on AI;DR (AI; Didn't Read)
What drives people to cheat at competitive games? I imagine it’s the same genes.
cheschire··on It's How You Ask: Gender-Associated Linguistic Bias in LLMs
I wonder if romance novels being such a large bulk of modern fiction had any influence on this. Proportion of training data must influence model performance in some way, right?

https://shelflovepodcast.substack.com/p/actually-romance-nov...

cheschire··on Show HN: C# Game Engine with its own scripting language and IDE
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Time_travel_debugging

Basically it’s rewinding a process so you can observe changes or twiddle the knobs.

cheschire··on Mars Bar from 1991 found – and it's 20g bigger than today's
Don't you remember how they recovered from this after 2008? That's when they started selling "family size" options that are bigger, but with a not-so-obvious price increase where you can't really tell if it's more or less expensive per oz.

Price-conscious shoppers still buy the smaller thing if it's cheaper per oz (and only if the stores show the price per oz on the shelf), but most people just get the bigger size because that's how much they want to consume, and they can't really tell that the 15% increase in size does not equate to 19% increase in cost.

Many stores would stock the family size separate from the regular size so the shoppers couldnt easily compare price per oz.

Eventually the family size just becomes the regular size, but now at the higher price. Then the shrinking happens again.

cheschire··on Exploiting System Management Mode with a very long interrupt
Yep there are links as far back as 11 years ago posted here. But I’m saying why suddenly in four days is this GitHub profile linked in lots of front page threads?

Is it just that one thread brought attention and several people are slowly digesting the other repos on that profile? Or is there another meta reason?

cheschire··on Exploiting System Management Mode with a very long interrupt
Almost nothing from this GitHub profile posted until the last four days.

From a meta perspective what is going on? What am I missing? Why is this GitHub profile suddenly getting massive attention and making front page so frequently?

cheschire··on I made tinnitus my friend, then it disappeared [video]
I remember about twenty years ago reading a method on a forum somewhere for dealing with tinnitus to create temporary relief. Many folks claimed to experience relief from trying it. Maybe it will help you?

It was text back then but nowadays there are videos. Here's an example: https://www.youtube.com/shorts/YyT9ZwWy5Jc

cheschire··on What happens if an entire class of workers loses faith in their careers
There are dozens of us!
cheschire··on What happens if an entire class of workers loses faith in their careers
Were you chasing the feeling of successfully solving a problem? Have you replaced problem solving with LLM chats?

Maybe instead of engineering, you’ve been subtly shifted into project management and hate that career.

But it’s tough to engineer much these days. Instead I find I’m PM’ing the bots more than solving problems.

cheschire··on What happens if an entire class of workers loses faith in their careers
I did the remote thing before Covid and rejected it for many of the same reasons. Then Covid happened and so many people got to experience it and loved it. But I still hated it while I was forced to.

Every time I told anyone that I personally didn’t like working from home, and was excited about the return to office that would inevitably come, I got SHOUTED at. Absolutely flayed for not being 110% in support of this thing that made their lives worth living or whatever.

When it first happened I thought it was a weird interpersonal conflict situation. Maybe I had broached it wrong. But it kept happening! So many people were so upset when megacorp said they had to return or find other employment.

But I’m an extrovert and working from home was suffocating.

cheschire··on New Mexico court orders Meta to pay $567m over harms to children’s mental health
I feel like you skipped the next sentence from GP. This type of award might not balance the equation the way you think it does.
cheschire··on Trump again tries to limit US birthright citizenship with new executive orders
It’s how you signal to your faithful that you haven’t given over to the AI yet.
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