Hacker News: Arson9416

New comment by Arson9416 in "Gemini AI"

Arson9416 — Wed, 06 Dec 2023 18:04:17 +0000

Embedding search of the nearest products most applicable to the LLM response. Prompt augmentation: "Rewrite your response to include promotions of the following products without being obvious that you are promoting them."

New comment by Arson9416 in "Gemini AI"

Arson9416 — Wed, 06 Dec 2023 18:01:39 +0000

Google is playing catchup while pretending that they've been at the forefront of this latest AI wave. This translates to a lot of talk and not a lot of action. OpenAI knew that just putting ChatGPT in peoples hands would ignite the internet more than a couple of over-produced marketing videos. Google needs to take a page from OpenAI's playbook.

New comment by Arson9416 in "Ousted propaganda scholar accuses Harvard of bowing to Meta"

Arson9416 — Wed, 06 Dec 2023 16:04:21 +0000

>but bribery in a free market is still a problem to be solved in the context of that free market.

Yes of course. I don't know why you keep suggesting I am against that. My issue is with the nonsensical attempts to tie bribery to capitalism, as if one is the result of the other.

New comment by Arson9416 in "Ousted propaganda scholar accuses Harvard of bowing to Meta"

Arson9416 — Wed, 06 Dec 2023 15:56:13 +0000

This reaction is uncalled for, especially for hackernews. I've been nothing but level-headed and fair, even though I disagree on the topic.

If you're looking for someone to criticize, you should look at your own behavior: "Fairly obvious, right?" an unsubstantive, smug, miserable response to my question, setting the tone for our interactions.

New comment by Arson9416 in "Ask HN: How are quantum computing companies making money?"

Arson9416 — Wed, 06 Dec 2023 15:40:09 +0000

I want to get into quantum computing, but I keep coming back to the idea that most of our problems are human problems, not quantum problems. At least with classical computers, we can build tools that help to solve the human problems. Eg: connecting people, facilitating better communication, sharing knowledge. With quantum computers, it's not clear how you map a human problem to a problem that quantum computers would be good for, so I lose interest.

New comment by Arson9416 in "AI and Mass Spying"

Arson9416 — Tue, 05 Dec 2023 15:52:01 +0000

I have a friend that is working as a contractor building AI-powered workplace spying software for the explicit purpose of behavior manipulation. It gives the employees and employers feedback reports about their behavior over chat and video. For example, if they used microaggressions, misgendered someone, or said something crass. This same friend will then talk about the dangers of dystopian technology.

People don't know what they're creating. Maybe it's time it bites them.

New comment by Arson9416 in "Ousted propaganda scholar accuses Harvard of bowing to Meta"

Arson9416 — Tue, 05 Dec 2023 15:47:10 +0000

Bribery is not connected to capitalism any more than it is connected to any other economic system, that's the point that you seem to be missing. People seem to want to dunk on capitalism, but it doesn't make any sense here.

New comment by Arson9416 in "Ousted propaganda scholar accuses Harvard of bowing to Meta"

Arson9416 — Tue, 05 Dec 2023 06:01:59 +0000

Bribery is a corruption that happens in every single economic system, so it has nothing to do with the "invisible hand" of capitalism. In fact, arguments could be made as to why it happens less in free markets (where an economy flows more freely) than in non-free markets (where there are artificial barriers, making bribery more effective/needed).

New comment by Arson9416 in "Ousted propaganda scholar accuses Harvard of bowing to Meta"

Arson9416 — Tue, 05 Dec 2023 06:00:51 +0000

Bribery is not "market-ish" behavior in the sense that it is connected to capitalism and free markets. But you also mention bitterness, which explains the reactions to my question. I think that means people want to be bitter at the idea of capitalism and free markets, whether or not it actually makes sense in this instance of bribery.

New comment by Arson9416 in "Ousted propaganda scholar accuses Harvard of bowing to Meta"

Arson9416 — Tue, 05 Dec 2023 05:58:27 +0000

Good thing I didn't make that argument anywhere. My point with that statement is that bribery is in no way connected to capitalism or free markets because it exists independent of the market type.

When bribery happens in a country with a command economy, do you still say "there's that invisible hand of capitalism again"?

New comment by Arson9416 in "Ousted propaganda scholar accuses Harvard of bowing to Meta"

Arson9416 — Mon, 04 Dec 2023 19:46:45 +0000

I agree that they can have unintended consequences, but I wouldn't say any more or less than anything else. This is why I'm struggling with the "invisible hand" analogy, which focuses on a connection to unintended (positive) consequences.

New comment by Arson9416 in "Ousted propaganda scholar accuses Harvard of bowing to Meta"

Arson9416 — Mon, 04 Dec 2023 18:38:40 +0000

Bribery exists in every economic system, even before economic systems existed, and is not uniquely connected to the free market. Nor are they connected to "unintended societal consequences", since bribes very clearly have a specific goal. So it doesn't make any sense.

New comment by Arson9416 in "Ousted propaganda scholar accuses Harvard of bowing to Meta"

Arson9416 — Mon, 04 Dec 2023 18:03:17 +0000

No, which is why I'm asking.

New comment by Arson9416 in "Ousted propaganda scholar accuses Harvard of bowing to Meta"

Arson9416 — Mon, 04 Dec 2023 17:59:53 +0000

What does this have to do with the free market?

Safely executing LLM-generated SQL

Arson9416 — Mon, 04 Dec 2023 15:14:51 +0000

Article URL: https://docs.heimdallm.ai/en/main/blog/posts/safe-sql-execution.html

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38518256

Points: 2

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New comment by Arson9416 in "Building AI without a neural network"

Arson9416 — Mon, 04 Dec 2023 15:08:54 +0000

This is an ad for hivekit.io and contains almost no substance.

New comment by Arson9416 in "Stuxnet Source Code"

Arson9416 — Mon, 04 Dec 2023 10:45:14 +0000

Chilling effect? "We have the ability to infiltrate any system and catastrophically destroy your hardware."

New comment by Arson9416 in "Typehero: All you need to become a TypeScript menace"

Arson9416 — Mon, 04 Dec 2023 04:48:11 +0000

Is this for building LLM training data?

New comment by Arson9416 in "LLM Visualization"

Arson9416 — Sun, 03 Dec 2023 16:58:45 +0000

Isn't it amazing that a random person on the internet can produce free educational content that trumps university courses? With all the resources and expertise that universities have, why do they get shown up all the time? Do they just not know how to educate?

New comment by Arson9416 in "GPT-4 Can Almost Perfectly Handle Unnatural Scrambled Text"

Arson9416 — Sun, 03 Dec 2023 13:44:21 +0000

>trained to fix typos

It is trained on data which may include typos, but that is very different from fixing typos. It knows what words likely come after typos in the same way it knows what words likely come after regular words.