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Comment · 2 days ago

Seems like a lot of people did. My free cloudflare limit ran out lol, it'll be a couple hours before it resets

Comment · 2 days ago

I made a similar thing, but you are the LLM

https://avneeshk.me/you-are-the-model/

Comment · 11 days ago

> "they" seem to lack the degree of discernment the average human does

I don't think the average human has a particularly great sense of discernment either

Comment · 23 days ago

The proximate cause of nationalization of EIC was the Sepoy Mutiny of 1857.

Comment · 24 days ago

For instance the colonial office (the bit in London that administered the colonies centrally) had 14 staff in 1816, and grew to about 25 by 1850

Important context:

1. The Colonial Service never administered India, the biggest colony.

2. Lot of these colonies had representative institutions of their own. "We have 43 colonies, and not 50, 60, or 70, as has been variously stated; 27 of these have representative institutions, some in a higher degree of perfection than others, no doubt, but the whole have representative institutions, including Canada, New Brunswick, Jamaica, Antigua, Barbadoes, and all the minor West Indian colonies." [0]

[0]: https://hansard.parliament.uk/commons/1849-04-16/debates/807...

Comment · 1 month ago

Yeah this is why you have your top guy (Fable/astra) split everything into discrete tasks and go one layer at once. Get 10 subagents working on parallelized tasks that have no dependencies on each other through the night.

Comment · 1 month ago

I just YOLO it. Just don't give it access to anything that can produce permanent consequences. The cost of a mistake is maybe one hour of fixing it. If what it produced is 80% right and 20% wrong, by letting it run overnight, you've gotten 80% of the work done that otherwise wouldn't have happened.

Comment · 1 month ago

https://chatgpt.com/share/6a5fdc7a-d6f8-83e8-bbea-8deb42cfed...

Terrence Tao's conversation with ChatGPT is very illuminating.

HN Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49010345

Comment · 1 month ago

Yeah that is what I said, cost has gone down.

Comment · 1 month ago

Not really. Actually, for the purposes of cybersecurity, local models are far superior. Both offense and defense.

Comment · 1 month ago

That is the direct effect of reduced cost. Jevon's paradox type effect: cost goes down demand goes up. You can AI-check so many more things that would be very time consuming earlier.

Comment · 1 month ago

The only thing AI has changed is that it has dropped both: the cost of attack and the cost of defense. Nothing in the game has materially changed; the game has just sped up.

Comment · 1 month ago

Yep. IP is not true "property" either, since it is not "scarce"