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reliablereason··on Meta in row after workers who saw smart glasses users having sex lose jobs
I wonder under what circumstances footage from the glasses are uploaded for classification.

Probably this is people asking the glasses something about what they see and the glasses uploading video for classification to generate an answer.

People think it is "just AI" so are not very concerned about privacy.

reliablereason··on Who owns the code Claude Code wrote?
Okay. If it made it, it made it. That is true in a deductible way. If p, then p.
reliablereason··on Who owns the code Claude Code wrote?
The statistics is generally not. But the data used to learn the statistics may have been under license.

Learning from licensed material is generally accepted in humans, you may learn from something and then create something else and the new thing is not considered legally problematic with the exception of patents i guess.

Whether the same thing holds true for electronic systems is where people disagree if you look at the problem space in its essence. I land on the side that it is the same thing(humans and electronic systems learning), some seam to think it is a different thing.

reliablereason··on Who owns the code Claude Code wrote?
If neither the user or the tool created and is responsible for the text, who is in your mind?
reliablereason··on Who owns the code Claude Code wrote?
Claude is not a legal entity, it is a software tool that outputs text based on statistics. There is a user that used a tool to create text and that user is the legal entity responsible for the text in any legal way that matters.

Anything else would be completely ridiculous given current laws in most countries.

It would be as ridiculous as blaming the car in a car accident where you drove over someone.

reliablereason··on Who owns the code Claude Code wrote?
This is like asking:

"Who owns the text microsoft word helped you write?"

Claude code is a software tool not a legal entity.

reliablereason··on An AI agent deleted our production database. The agent's confession is below
Right! Blaming an agent or anyone else is crazy. The author built a system that had the capability of deleing the prod database.

The system did delete the database cause the author built it like that.

reliablereason··on Habitual coffee intake shapes the microbiome, modifies physiology and cognition
If the effect size is big small sample sizes does not matter as much as otherwise.

You really have to look at the power analysis and the sample size together.

Saying this as a general truth. I am not sure about the power of the method in this papper, i only read the abstract.

reliablereason··on An update on recent Claude Code quality reports
Right a very simple UI thing that they should have that would have prevented so much misunderstanding. Is a simple counter. How much usage do a have i used and how much is left.

If a message will do a cache recreation the cost for that should be viewable.

reliablereason··on Turn your best AI prompts into one-click tools in Chrome
Honestly that would be quite good, an intelligent ad remover that scans the page and the dom for modals and removes them. Like a classic ad blocking tool on steroids.
reliablereason··on AI overly affirms users asking for personal advice
I had it on professional, maybe efficient is better.

Um right if they have retention as a training metric that would probably explain allot as to why AIs get worse.

reliablereason··on AI overly affirms users asking for personal advice
Not sure if this is a general trend amongst att LLMS but ChatGPT did over time become more and more affirming with its iterations.

I just recently switched away from the OpenAI garden largely because of it.

I do wonder if this was caused by some quirk of the training or if it really tests as a positive feature for most people. When i talk about stuff i don't want a mirror i already have a mirror. I want to be questioned, understood, helped.

To me support if the form of affirmation has no value when coming from an LLM since you know it has not thought about what it said.

reliablereason··on Schizophrenia study finds new biomarker, drug candidate in mice
No but it is a behaviourally defined disorder like autism. Which means it can and has many different causal patterns behind it.

That is there are many different things that can cause the behaviour.

Anyway on your main point, the definition of all psychiatric disorders has requirements of subjective suffering. So if you don't have subjective suffering you don't have the disorder.

reliablereason··on Source code of Swedish e-government services has been leaked
Well they are Swedish here it is like a daughter company or something.
reliablereason··on Source code of Swedish e-government services has been leaked
Nothing in particular, based on my understanding CGI a Swedish IT consultant company was hacked, they have contracts for and are the maintainers and developers of a bunch of various government departments IT services.
reliablereason··on Living human brain cells play DOOM on a CL1 [video]
The amount of people that seam to react negatively to living brain cells doing the computation is unexpected to me.

I do understand where it comes from to some extent.. some idea that human cells are special i guess, but it seams very naive to me. We spawn, use and kill far more complex AI agents millions if not billions of times every second in this society.

No one gives a shit, as those intelligences are not "real" or whatever.. or they are not "conscious" but conscious is a fictional word without an actual definition. In the end i think it comes down to suffering.

No one knows if some internal part in a LLM is suffering just as no one knows if a cell culture with brain cells like this can suffer.

reliablereason··on Single vaccine could protect against all coughs, colds and flus
> It is given as a nasal spray and leaves white blood cells in our lungs – called macrophages – on "amber alert" and ready to jump into action no matter what infection tries to get in.

Right and if that is such a good thing why are those macrophages not always on alert. I smell longterm cancer or similar.

reliablereason··on Do dyslexia fonts work? (2022)
Well it is largely genetic, but it could still be behaviourally linked for sure.

As i see it the fundamental issue in dyslexia has to do with tokenization and embedding.

The dyslexic brain uses a embedding space that is not very fit for purpose.

Some stuff that is dissimilar get embedded close to each other and some things that should be far from each other gets embedded close to each other.

Downstream networks that try to use these embeddings has a hard time trying to counteract the bad embeddings. The final result is a dyslexic person.

reliablereason··on The mysterious black fungus from Chernobyl that may eat radiation
Um right did not think of that, if you burn a organism you get to core components but the organism was not originally made of the core components.

The core idea was not generated from a chat bot. Neither was the article i gave (that was my own googling).

The core idea (that there is a requirement and a availability of energy that may differ) was generated from my brain not that i personally think the origin of an idea matters to its value.

reliablereason··on The mysterious black fungus from Chernobyl that may eat radiation
If i understand that correctly the "energy required to grow" would be bigger than the "enthalpy of formation"?

I hear you.

It was really just food for thought.

reliablereason··on The mysterious black fungus from Chernobyl that may eat radiation
I calculated over 5 days. Which was just a guess.

But i focused on the 10% mentioned.

That said time could be factored out if you did everything properly.

reliablereason··on The mysterious black fungus from Chernobyl that may eat radiation
Initially i asked a AI for standard values but here is a proper source:

- Negentropy concept revisited: Standard thermodynamic properties of 16 bacteria, fungi and algae species ( https://arxiv.org/abs/1901.00494)

> Maybe you meant that radiation alone wouldn't be enough for that growth, so there'd be other components that it's helping with.

Yes. Clearly it grew as it grew, but the question is what drove/powered the growth.

reliablereason··on The mysterious black fungus from Chernobyl that may eat radiation
I did some basic calculations to compare the energy in the radiation vs the energy required to grow 10% extra.

- If we assume they are working in the reactor we get radiation levels of something like 1 mGy/hour. But we can prop this up to mabye 500 mGy/hour since i dont know how they grew their culture

- That leads to 0.05 J of extra energy per gram of microbial bio material.

- Energy needed to grow 1g of microbial biomaterial ≈ 3.15 kJ 10% of that is 315 J per gram

The result is that:

The amount of radiation energy available is 4 orders of magnitude too small to power even a 10% growth boost.

Edit: updated with more accurate estimations.

reliablereason··on Human brains are preconfigured with instructions for understanding the world
Yes, its not learned "knowledge" it is evolved. Mammals are born with systems primed to fear things that look like snakes. Not cause their parents learned that snakes are dangerous but cause the parents that was born without those priming circuits died.
reliablereason··on Human brains are preconfigured with instructions for understanding the world
All research points to ADHD having multiple causes. Each case will have a specific causal pattern. This makes sense as it is a diagnosis defined by symptoms. Same with autism.
reliablereason··on Childhood Friends, Not Moms, Shape Attachment Styles Most
Attachment Styles is a very low dimensional way of observing something that has very high dimensionally.

When people use this type of dimensionality reduction you get problematic outcomes.

This type of phenomena will always keep happening. The world is complex and perceptually high dimensional. We try to understand it(the world) using low dimensional concepts and when those low dimensional concepts have low validity issues arise.

reliablereason··on Reminder to passengers ahead of move to 100% digital boarding passes
they say it is it's cause its greener but they could have used a website.
reliablereason··on Why aren't smart people happier?
It might be that general happiness is influenced largely by genetic factors, and not as much by contextual ones.

One could assume that higher intelligence gives you more power to shape your context — but that doesn’t help much if context itself doesn’t play a major role in determining general happiness.

The depressed person was probably born with a bias toward depression, and the happy person with a bias toward happiness. The interesting question then becomes: what mediates the path from genes to happiness? It’s unlikely to only be as simple as “gene → happy.” There are probably several layers of causality in between — psychological, neurochemical, societal, and environmental mechanisms that shape how those genetic tendencies play out.

reliablereason··on Testing two 18 TB white label SATA hard drives from datablocks.dev
The laptop batteries tend to go bad(either just stop working or expand and become a major fire hazard) after a year or two as they are not built to be fully charged for years on end. I tried doing it twice and that is what happened both times.

Would not recommend; if you want a UPS just buy one, the small ones are not that expensive, like 70 USD.

reliablereason··on ERP Therapy Sucks
You cant erase a memory, once you have it you have it. This means that no matter how many other memories you add too to morph and alter the original, the original will allays be there in one form or another.

But people can go from debilitating OCD (meaning hours a day), to a state where they only think about the thing once a week. It might (and probably will) poop up later in life but even so with such a difference i would call that cured.

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