instakill

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Comment · 12 days ago
thanks, now I'm probably on a list
Comment · 17 days ago
Get another dog. I would if I had a little garden for them. It sounds like you already know you should/want to.
Comment · 17 days ago
This is an unbelievably atrocious response. Where is your humanity?
Comment · 18 days ago
inter-generational trauma
Comment · 19 days ago
I don't think there ever will be a perfect trust system, because ultimately everything can be gamed, or politics/power can overrule the logic that runs the rules of the trust game. But even so, something that can be applied for _some_ period of time, with _some_ semblance of stability, and _some_ epistemic utility value to the real world is still worth trying to pursue.
Comment · 19 days ago
This asymmetry is IMO the biggest problem with AI-driven output. Brandolini's law applies here. I don't know if anyone has figured out strategies on how to deal with these barrages and deluges of "slop grenades", and this loosely applies to event coherent and high quality LLM output. Sure LLMs are advanced now, but largely the output depends on the quality of the input prompts (as in how they're contextualized and guided).

Life has gotten to the point where completely non-technical people have gawked at me for still having a job related to software. In their minds, AI can it all, and in their minds coding is already obsolete. The sample size for these opinions will only grow and the ratio of people that rightfully apply skepticism will drop, either from fatigue or burn out or by virtue of more and more people adopting the "AI is roughly AGI" crowd. For me a good metaphor is the concept of the selfie. Everyone mocked selfies at first, and now you'd be deemed insane to negatively opine about selfie behaviour. The same will apply to AI slop grenades (even of high quality output) in due time. I think it's inevitable.

Endless hoardes of people can now unleash never-ending arguments and suggestions and it feels like it will become impossible to defend against them because one minute only contains 60 seconds of time that you can spend refuting a false or <100% correct suggestion.

Comment · 19 days ago
Can anyone provide links to literature or projects whose goals are to build, maintain, or support trust? Or to be less vague, I'm interested in learning about protocols or models that deal with reputation scores, rewards and punishments etc. for networks or groups.

Various crypto projects fundamentally deal with proving X and their networks comprise of entities that are rewarded or punished for either fair, deceptive, or erroneous actions... so maybe some kind of consolidated info about that "grouping" of information would be a good place for me to start. I am curious about learning more about these concepts insofar as how they can apply to situations like this (OSS or community-based contributions towards a shared goal or a shared ecosystem of behaviours or tasks) where various entities (people, organisations, NOT agents/bots) with longitudinal reputation/state coordinate or interact.

I hope I'm making sense...

Comment · 19 days ago
I just want the volcano to erupt
Comment · 20 days ago
these are really good heuristics, thanks! I am going to adopt this in my writing/editing processes.
Comment · 1 month ago
off-topic but nice username. Fan of Charlie Kelly?
Comment · 2 months ago
link does not work
Comment · 3 months ago
try "the Polish stare"
Comment · 4 months ago
a decimation
Comment · 4 months ago
new Google homepage takes [many] seconds to do what classic Google did instantly
Comment · 6 months ago
Isn't this just how Von Neumann would innovate?

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