infinite_spin

"Gather ye rosebuds while ye may" comes to mind

True, but you do get it under clear terms, for a duration that is both obvious and well established.

It's nothing like democracy though, and the concept of paying (or not paying) to vote is antithetical to a democratic process. We should not confuse the two.

it's possible your doctor is treating you for depression as well as ADHD

My advice: let these people think what they want, it reduces competition in an already saturated market

Please stop dropping backhanded insults to other people here. It's not productive and violates guidelines.

And yet this "next-token predictor" is able to churn out well tested, valuable solutions, to complex problems. If you want to downplay that as nothing more than a fancy auto-complete, be my guest, I lose nothing from that.

> the ability to learn, understand, and make judgments or have opinions that are based on reason

Agentic systems do this all the time. For example, I can point an agent at my codebase, and it will learn, understand, and make judgements based on that input. If this weren't happening, then agentic coding wouldn't work.

You might want to consider the difference between "lying" and "hallucinations", wherein one is shown that the agent knew it was being inaccurate, yet chose an answer that achieved some goal set forth; and where hallucinations are essentially gibberish, or otherwise nonsensical responses.

https://arxiv.org/pdf/2509.03518

It's also a style that appears to deny the very first definition most dictionaries give for "intelligence"

> the ability to acquire and apply knowledge and skills.

The charges are the punishment. You are imprisoned, risk losing your career, risk losing reputation, and still have to hire a lawyer. The costs are incredibly asymmetric. This leads to the majority of people complying, which only emboldens the state.

Not to sound like a contrarian, but no. They would have thrown it in a faraday bag, cloned the device, and then would use one of the many existing forensic tools available to crack the pin.

https://cellebrite.com/en/blog/the-access-gap-is-closed-what...

https://www.magnetforensics.com/graykey-for-android-devices/

I feel like both viewpoints are valid ways of determining what you personally view as "good", and I don't want to take away from that diversity of opinion

Number of successful outcomes reported (e.g. with disabled students, cancer patients). Labor costs. Latency of services. Scientific discoveries found. Etc.

I'm not trying to discount the qualitative approach, but I think it's not impossibly hard to find metrics we can associate with "overall benefit to humanity" from a quantitative viewpoint.

How do you propose assessing "overall benefit of humanity" without metrics?

I'm advocating for a litmus test that can't be easily abused, and I'm advocating against unfair equivalences. I also am not calling "overall a benefit to humanity" a metric, it's more of a conclusion we could arrive at by an application of relevant metrics.

JSTOR was free for the public as well, but had a per-day download cap, which IIRC was 3 papers.

That seems like an unfair equivalence. Lots of things you enjoy, including this very forum, benefit already wealthy private companies. That doesn't seem like it's a very good litmus test for whether something is overall a benefit to humanity.

I've found it's worse for simple tasks too, and I have to give it stricter guidelines, and sometimes it doesn't follow the same patterns I've grown to expect. I've found using 5.6 (sol) is good for diagnosing issues though, especially in terms of optimization of some given path

I'm not having that experience. So far each major model update has been at least slightly better than the last, in ways I've found useful. Can't say it's perfect, or able to do exactly what I want without a decent amount of instruction/implementation/docs, but it's been useful enough to keep paying for it.

I have mine churning like butter and I'm rarely hitting a billion tokens per day, what's your workflow look like?

The Hippy in me: "let's meet our new friends."

The CEO in me: "I need hundreds of think pads."

One of the earliest ad blockers I used would just replace ads with artwork. I'm not the author, but I found something similar here: https://github.com/jfonsecarivera/artblock

> something real slow that takes up all their time

Not to throw water on your plan, but the bots I've written intentionally run very slow with respect to each target. When done in parallel, across a wide range of targets, it doesn't slow down the effort at all.

Welp, glad I posted this, because that's an extremely good point. Will have to think about this more. It kind of reminds me of how the reddit self harm notification system was abused. Maybe it can be an opt in type of system, or even based on some threshold. I wonder though, if I were a protestor, and that lookup happened more some expected number of times, it could be important to know.

Consider these naming options:

> total = calculate(items)

> result = calculate(items)

> value = calculate(items)

> amount = calculate(items)

All of them are reasonable options. If we bias the model's output so that one of them is more likely than the others, then we can reconstruct that watermark if enough of these frames are present.

I think they justify it as an ease of use vs security trade off

Fair point, we don't want to throw the baby out with the bathwater, however I am fearful of a surveillance state. These trust issues seem to be stacking up, so I think statutory transparency is necessary.

At this point I think it's necessary to notify anyone who has been tracked after a fixed number of days, unless a court order is used to extend that period. An officer using this for legitimate reasons should have few problems getting that court order. This would at least give people some amount of safety net from stalking by LE.