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Comment · 20 days ago
Verdict is out on whether or not they'll survive after that. START expired this year and the powers that be are going gangbusters into nuclear proliferation. It always made the assumption of benevolence for the regulatory organizations, which probably won't survive the long tail.
Comment · 20 days ago
How's that one going for humanity in 2026?
Comment · 20 days ago
Waiting patiently for Anthropic's next month article, "LLMs made a fully functional intercontinental ballistic missile. We accidentally wiped Greece off the face of the Earth in the process. Tragically, we are not responsible."
Comment · 4 months ago
Many successful and failed revolutions happened without an economic crisis. For example, the American Revolution was led by an oligarchical class upset about taxation. The American Civil War is another example where a portion of states felt economically threatened and initiated conflict. The Glorious Revolution was almost completely ideological in nature, revolving around royalty and religion. It simply requires some powerful fraction of the country to believe they'd be better off under another ruling party, no one needs to starve for it to happen.
People who are experiencing unrest and idleness are easy to recruit -- and if you hang out with people ages of 18-30, you'll see there's no shortage of them.
Comment · 6 months ago
Certainly checkbook journalism has had a past in the USA, but I don't recall anyone ever being charged with a serious crime over it.
Comment · 1 year ago
It's baffling to me. I was already making API calls and embedding context and various instructions precisely using backticks with "md". Is this really all this is? What am I missing? I don't even understand how this "feature" merits a press release from Anthropic, let alone a blog post extolling it.
Comment · 1 year ago
dang knows, it's his handlers who don't care.
Comment · 1 year ago
open blog
> But yes, thanks: I was once offered this challenge when faced with a Ren’Py problem, so I grit my teeth and posed my question to some LLM. It confidently listed several related formatting tags that would solve my problem. One teeny tiny issue: those tags did not and had never existed. Just about anything might be plausible! It can just generate Whatever! I cannot stress enough that this is worse than useless to me.
The probabilistic machine generated a probabilistic answer. Unable to figure out a use for the probabilistic machine in two tries, I threw it into the garbage.
Unfortunately, humans are also probabilistic machines. Despite speaking English for nearly a lifetime, errors are constantly produced by my finger-based output streams. So I'm okay talking to the machine that might be wrong in addition to the human that might be wrong.
> It feels like the same attitude that happened with Bitcoin, the same smug nose-wrinkling contempt. Bitcoin is the future. It’ll replace the dollar by 2020. You’re gonna be left behind. Enjoy being poor.
I mean, you were left behind. I was left behind. I am not enjoying being poor. Most of us were left behind. If we invested in Bitcoin like it was the future in 2011 we'd all be surfing around on yachts right now given the current valuation.
Comment · 1 year ago
I think the author is right about AI only accelerating to the next frontier when AI takes over AI research. If the timelines are correct and that happens in the next few years, the widely desired job of AI researcher may not even exist by then -- it'll all be a machine-based research feedback loop where humans only hinder the process.
Every other intellectual job will presumably be gone by then too. Maybe AI will be the second great equalizer, after death.
Comment · 1 year ago
I'm using o3 and Gemini Pro 2.5, paying for the high tier subscriptions. The complaints I get are from native speakers -- editors and end consumers. The LLMs tend to overfit to the English language, sometimes make up idioms that don't exist, use false friend words (especially verbs), directly translate English idioms, and so on. I've translated several book length texts now and I've seen it all.
Comment · 1 year ago
It's funny -- I independently implemented the same thing (without vibe coding) and found it doesn't actually work. When I ended up with was a game of telephone where errors were often introduced and propagated between the models.
The only thing that actually worked was knowing the target language and sitting down with multiple LLMs, going through the translation one sentence at a time with a translation memory tool wired in.
The LLMs are good, but they make lot of strange mistakes a human never would. Weird grammatical adherence to English structures, false friend mistakes that no one bilingual would make, and so on. Bizarrely many of these would not be caught between LLMs -- sometimes I would get _increasingly_ unnatural outputs instead of more natural outputs.
This is not just for English to Asian languages, even English to German or French... I shipped something to a German editor and he rewrote 50% of the lines.
LLMs are good editors and suggestors for alternatives, but I've found that if you can't actually read your target language to some degree, you're lost in the woods.
Comment · 1 year ago
50 people raiding a Nike store in LA isn't even beyond local news lol... you can find hundreds of videos online of this happening on a regular basis for the past decade.
https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/group-50-people-shoplif...
Comment · 1 year ago
> That's possible I suppose, but do you have any evidence of that
Yes, in the chat where a reporter was accidentally present, many of the messages were set to be disappearing. I don't know why anyone would do that if not to avoid recordkeeping laws.
> The images of the text chain show that the messages were set to disappear in one week.
https://apnews.com/article/war-plans-hegseth-signal-chat-inv...
Further, Project 2025 suggests bypassing federal record keeping legislation by simply holding in-person meetings without record.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xxe55mU4DA8
Oddly, the Project 2025 training videos that presumably the members of the executive cabinet have seen say _not_ to delete messages or set messages to auto-deleting _because_ that would be in violation of federal record keeping legislation.