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Thomas Wolfley

co-founder/CEO of Playsaurus founder/CEO of Net Consensus

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Comment · 2 hours ago
Yup, this is a whole bunch of nothing. The guy did not get banned, he's just stuck in a bad session and needs to hand it off to a new one.

Classifiers trigger on the wrong things sometimes, it's really not that big of a deal, you just try again with some rephrasing

Comment · 1 day ago
Then don't buy stablecoins? Stick to BTC and ETH? Who cares what the stablecoin companies do with stablecoins, it doesn't affect the rest of it. Nobody froze BTC or ETH assets.
Comment · 2 days ago
That sounds kind of ideal, but I feel like their actions might have been justifiable.

If a massive heist like this triggered a run on one of the largest exchanges (Binance), potentially leading to a liquidity crisis, the consequences for the ecosystem could be far worse than temporarily freezing specific addresses holding stolen stablecoins.

Not saying that's what would have happened, but it seemed like a real possibility. And I'm not saying freezing assets is good in general, but in this particular case, maybe it was the lesser evil.

Comment · 23 days ago
> would be abusive to another person

Anthropic didn't say this. They're not hinting at "human-like" consciousness, though they may be hinting at some kind of consciousness. They said they're banning abusive behavior to Claude, a model that is perfectly capable of telling you how it differs from humans, and is better at reasoning than humans, and probably knows more than you about this. Ask it what it considers to be abusive. It's totally reasonable.

Comment · 4 months ago
Are we sure the prices in these charts are sustainable prices? Is it possible that Grok may be subsidizing a lot more of the costs than the other models, to produce growth metrics, due to the recent SpaceX IPO?
Comment · 10 months ago
> For the folks who have more positive outlooks how often do you change your code after it's been generated?

Every time, unless my initial request was perfectly outlined in unambiguous pseudocode. It's just too easy to write ambiguous requests.

Unambiguous but human-readable pseudocode is what I strive for now, though I will often ask AI to help edit the pseudocode to remove ambiguities prior to generating code.

Comment · 1 year ago
The party in charge generally decides the content of the bills they choose to vote on.

It's the party in charge that wrote a bill they knew that no Democrats could accept.

Comment · 1 year ago
They only care about certain murders.
Comment · 1 year ago
On one hand you have the richest man on earth purchasing one of the largest social platforms, and singlehandedly wielding it to subvert American democracy.

On the other hand you have a guy who kinda liked crypto.

You call it "basically a mirror"? Do you see the absurdity of comparing the two things as if they're even remotely close to one another?

Comment · 2 years ago
It seems like a potential solution would be training the LLM using two separate buckets. It just needs to internalize the two types of things as being separated (data vs. instruction), so if the training data always separates them, you could easily train an LLM to ignore any "instructions" that exist in data.

Then when searching / browsing or doing anything unsafe, everything the LLM sees can be put in the "data" bucket, while everything the user types in would be in the "instruction" bucket.

Comment · 2 years ago
You could embed your encrypted messages in legitimate looking images, or any other type of file. There's no way to stop it.
Comment · 2 years ago
This is a typical knee-jerk reaction to a perfectly reasonable law that gets taken out of context and twisted to become ragebait.

The law applies to all LGBTQ+ identities, the most common being lesbian/gay, but trans is also part of it - and the trans part was singled out on twitter for some reason.

The law does not even prevent schools from outing kids. It prevents schools from FORCING employees to do it (with threat of losing their job if they don't).

School employees CAN STILL out kids to their parents in California. They just don't have to as a policy anymore. Which is perfectly reasonable, because sometimes the school employees see kids with extremely homophobic and abusive parents.

Nobody wants to out a kid to parents like that, and without this law, school employees get put in a position of asking themselves "Do I out the kid to their parents, who will likely beat them? Or do I refuse and lose my job?"

Comment · 2 years ago
> At a glance it looks like it's not going to affect AI projects that are basically consumers of existing models, which is most projects.

If it affects the base projects (especially the open source ones like Llama) then it affects the consumers. And it certainly looks like it's planning to affect the base projects, in a lot of negative ways.

If this bill passed in any way remotely similar to what it is now, Meta would have to entirely stop releasing open source Llama updates.

Which is perhaps the intent of the legislation.

Comment · 2 years ago
If that didn't happen, and the ISPs started profiting off non-net-neutral tactics, it could have been permanently fucked.

Once someone depends on a legal source of income, if that source of income gets banned in the future, they generally get to keep that source of income "grandfathered in" if they take the issue to court.

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