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[–] [email protected] 12 points 23 hours ago (2 children)

Zuck, who definitely knows how human friendships work, thinks AI can be your friend: https://bsky.app/profile/drewharwell.com/post/3lo4foide3s2g (someone probably already posted this interview here before but I wasn't paying attention so if so here it is again)


In completely unrelated news: dealing with voices in your head can be hard, but with AI you can deal with voices outside of your head too! https://www.rollingstone.com/culture/culture-features/ai-spiritual-delusions-destroying-human-relationships-1235330175/

(No judgement. Having had a mental breakdown a long long time ago, I can't imagine what it would have been like to also have had access to a sycophantic chat-bot at the same time.)

[–] [email protected] 12 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (5 children)

First, Chrome won the browser war fair and square by building a better surfboard for the internet. This wasn't some opportune acquisition. This was the result of grand investments, great technical prowess, and markets doing what they're supposed to do: rewarding the best.

Lots of credit given to 👼🎺 Free Market Capitalism 👼🎺, zero credit given to open web standards, open source contributions, or the fact that the codebase has a lineage going back to 1997 KDE code.

[–] [email protected] 15 points 3 days ago

This is really setting students up for failure isn't it?

CS 100 and 200 level problems are well represented online enough that "vibe coding" will just write out the entire solution. But then the student may rely on it and either burn out in the harder courses or accidentally turn in something that oops was copy pasted directly from a previous year student off of github.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago)

I agree. I spent more time than I'd like to admit trying to understand Yudkowsky's posts about newcomb boxes back in the day so my two cents:

The digital clones bit also means it's not an argument based on altruism, but one based on fear. After all if a future evil AI uses sci-fi powers to run the universe backwards to the point where I'm writing this comment and copy pastes me into a bazillion torture dimensions then, subjectively, it's like I roll a dice and:

  1. live a long and happy life with probability very close to zero (yay I am the original)
  2. Instantly get teleported to the torture planet with probability very close to one (oh no I got copy pasted)

Like a twisted version of the Sleeping Beauty Problem.

Edit: despite submitting the comment I was not teleported to the torture dimension. Updating my priors.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago) (1 children)

Along the same lines of LLMs ruining language stuff: I just learned the acronym MTPE (Machine Translation Post Edit) in the context of excuses to pay translators less and thanks I hate it.

Can't avoid slop reading translated books, can't learn the source language without dodging slop in learning tools left and right. It's the microplastics of the internet age.

Anyway my duolingo account is no more, I have better resources for learning German anyway.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 week ago

Days since last "novel" prompt injection attack that I first saw on social media months and months ago: zero

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

Against my better judgement I typed steve.ai into my browser and yep. It's an AI product.

frodo.ai on the other hand is currently domain parked. It could be yours for the low low price of $43,911

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 week ago

https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2025-04-23/state-bar-of-california-used-ai-for-exam-questions

When measured for reliability, the State Bar told The Times, the combined scored multiple-choice questions from all sources — including AI — performed “above the psychometric target of 0.80.”

"I dunno why you guys are complaining, we measured our exam to be 80% accurate!"

[–] [email protected] 10 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (3 children)

I think this article fits here as how this fear mongering reaches government: https://futurism.com/google-ceo-congress-electricity-ai-superintelligence

Eric Schmidt tells the US government that unfathomable amounts of power need to be spun up ASAP because if the US doesn't make robot god first then:

If China comes to superintelligence first, it changes the dynamic of power globally, in ways that we have no way of understanding or predicting

Dedicating the US's entire economic output to scaling corporate LLMs and filling the air with smog would at least have somewhat predictable consequences I suppose.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (2 children)

Oh no I was looking for more German flashcard programs (my favorite flashcard website, Seedlang, went down hopefully temporarily) and pretty much everything is forcing AI integrations of some sort.

For example Memrise goes so far as to be condescending and user hostile to people who ask for no AI: https://memrisebeta.zendesk.com/hc/en-us/articles/24937487873937-Can-I-disable-Conversations-the-AI-chatbot

It's not possible to disable the suggestions to do Conversations. [...] So, the reason it might seem like we are pushing conversation exercises is that we truly believe immersion is the key to successfully acquiring a language.

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Well excuse me for wanting to get immersion by talking to actual humans and not your shitty chatbot.

I might have to just use Anki like everyone says (my problem with Anki is I spend more time fiddling with database entries and JavaScript than actually studying)

 

https://www.reuters.com/technology/artificial-intelligence/openai-co-founder-sutskevers-new-safety-focused-ai-startup-ssi-raises-1-billion-2024-09-04/

http://web.archive.org/web/20240904174555/https://ssi.inc/

I have nothing witty or insightful to say, but figured this probably deserved a post. I flipped a coin between sneerclub and techtakes.

They aren't interested in anything besides "superintelligence" which strikes me as an optimistic business strategy. If you are "cracked" you can join them:

We are assembling a lean, cracked team of the world’s best engineers and researchers dedicated to focusing on SSI and nothing else.

 

Saw the title and knew I had to post here. Not quite as big of a self-own as Square selling Tomb Raider for a blockchain / AI pivot; but amusing nonetheless.

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Remember when companies let you download wallpapers or something instead of figuring out what the heck an ETH L2 Base-supported wallet is?

I remember.

 

Follow up to https://awful.systems/post/1109610 (which I need to go read now because I completely overlooked this)

Now OpenAI has responded to Elon Musk's lawsuit with an email dump containing a bunch of weird nerd startup funding drama: https://openai.com/blog/openai-elon-musk

Choice quote from OpenAI:

As we get closer to building AI, it will make sense to start being less open. The Open in openAI means that everyone should benefit from the fruits of AI after its built, but it's totally OK to not share the science (even though sharing everything is definitely the right strategy in the short and possibly medium term for recruitment purposes).

OpenAI have learned how to redact text properly now though, a pity really.

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Bitconeeect (www.youtube.com)
 

OK OK old news I know. But this is a metal cover of a bitconnect speech that I found pretty amusing: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iZ-Ayj-ht_I

 

OpenAI blog post: https://openai.com/research/building-an-early-warning-system-for-llm-aided-biological-threat-creation

Orange discuss: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39207291

I don't have any particular section to call out. May post thoughts ~~tomorrow~~ today it's after midnight oh gosh, but wanted to post since I knew ya'll'd be interested in this.

Terrorists could use autocorrect according to OpenAI! Discuss!

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submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
 

#1 We're All Gonna Make It: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yp0diaVLPrQ

#2 Ethereum: https://www.facebook.com/randizberg/videos/nobodyme-ok-heres-another-music-video-had-a-blast-on-this-collab-with-hila-the-k/531145045349722/

#3 Hello This Is Defi: https://twitter.com/randizuckerberg/status/1494416366710910992

Surgeon General's Warning: watching all of these back to back may make your brain ooze out of your nose.

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submitted 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
 

Don't mind me I'm just here to silently scream into the void

Edit: I'm no good at linking to HN apparently, made link more stable.

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