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Comment · 2 months ago
Thanks to you, "My server is a phone now" becomes much more interesting now as the server is now a perpetual non-physical entity that inhabits a new physical form, the phone.
Comment · 3 months ago
I also think this. But more in the sense where both end of the LLM are trained using words through repeating arithmetics, considering LLM itself is a repeating pattern of connections, the space in the middle if extracted the same way as the beginning and the end would become data that make sense to us.
Comment · 3 months ago
Can the awareness simply come from injecting knowledge of itself during fine tuning and then during a chat a system prompt is injected to add a particular context that triggers its self-knowledge?
Comment · 1 year ago
Fun fact, V8 interns strings! But it doesn't seem to intern big ones.
Comment · 2 years ago
In a sense, this is how being in a foreign country where people talk in other languages and act within their own culture. They are more productive than you because the environment fits them more than it does you at that time.

And this acclimation is also similar to https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mathematical_maturity, how you talk with math people the from math village and feel you are stupid because you're not familiar with the symbols, the vocabularies. But when you have learned the language, you will see that you become better and better at learning, you have the means to gain more means--forming some sort of a positive feedback loop.

Comment · 2 years ago
The only thing I disagree is the title. And maybe number 3; estimate is needed for pseudo-reassurance and comparison; it's ok to not be accurate. And don't spend hours to be accurate.

Agency prison is often overlooked, a superset of vendor-locks. When google domain was sold to squarespace, lots of people complained that they can't pay manually; it seemed unimportant to domain ownership, but they moved to cloudflare anyway; they were forced to migrate, freedom was taken, it was hurtful.

Maybe I'll add - simplicity the author referred to (or I would prefer to call it process elegance) needs experience and knowledge. For no 4,5,6 especially.

The history - surviving or not - contained often overlooked wisdom. Looking at the past reveal that our predecessors struggled the same struggle. It's also wise to realize that time can be too scarce for that; let others that have done teach us; keep our mind open.

Good, elegant article overall.

Comment · 2 years ago
A similar sentiment: when one can talk about past trauma without reacting negatively, even more joking about it, one has overcome it.

While euphesim displacement is naturally occurring, it doesn't mean it is the best course for the common's sanity.

Not to mention the namespace exhaustion that goes along with it :D

Comment · 2 years ago
Ok. I might have misworded my answer, but assuming that cloudflare has to do more about this, what would it be?
Comment · 2 years ago
Aside from process host and protocol, what makes it different from, let's say publicly available google drive?
Comment · 2 years ago
Must or mustn't they filter customers is a matter of law.

However, putting the responsibility to mitigate this problem in its entirety is very inefficient and ineffective. If Cloudflare would have a team dedicated for this effort, bad actors would simply switch providers, beating $200k/year effort by couple clicks.

Notice that the malware ultimately takes effect when the user executes the file.

This sounds more like an interaction design problem that should be solved in the OS level; the OS interface is one of the logistical bottleneck for the malware delivery path.

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