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New comment by bauldursdev in "France's top court blocks social media ban for under-15s"

bauldursdev — Fri, 14 Aug 2026 18:43:11 +0000

If you don't verify identity it's easy to fake.

New comment by bauldursdev in "Learning more about Claude's mathematical capabilities"

bauldursdev — Mon, 10 Aug 2026 19:09:18 +0000

Sounds really cool, were you able to verify the correctness of the results?

New comment by bauldursdev in "I love LLMs, I hate hype"

bauldursdev — Mon, 13 Jul 2026 20:59:14 +0000

Why wouldn't inference get less expensive? The frontier will probably always be expensive but imagine if in 5-10 years Fable 5 is considered a low tier antiquated model, it is still somewhat capable.

New comment by bauldursdev in "LAPD lets contract with surveillance giant Flock expire"

bauldursdev — Mon, 13 Jul 2026 20:49:07 +0000

They do, but unethical people don't announce themselves. In fact an ethical person is probably more likely to admit their faults, which usually doesn't play well in elections.

New comment by bauldursdev in "AI is potentially a Dunning-Kruger effect amplifier"

bauldursdev — Tue, 16 Jun 2026 20:54:13 +0000

From a software POV, I feel like it makes it easier to implement stuff. Whether that stuff is good or bad. If you know what you're doing, vet the output, and use it properly, you can get a nice productivity boost while still producing good code. If you don't know what you're doing, you are prone to go down rabbit hole after rabbit hole of unwise decisions.

New comment by bauldursdev in "U.S. pulling ocean sensors a 'shock' for Canadian research as El Niño nears"

bauldursdev — Tue, 16 Jun 2026 20:47:13 +0000

Is there anything that would point to this possibly being the case?

New comment by bauldursdev in "Feds freaked over Fable 5 after 'fix this code', not jailbreak, say researchers"

bauldursdev — Tue, 16 Jun 2026 18:32:58 +0000

For it to fix the bug it has to identify the bug. If the bug is a security vulnerability then it will have to identify the security vulnerability to fix it. What's the alternative, have it ignore vulnerabilities/bugs? It wouldn't be a very good coding companion in that case.

I'd pay less attention to the prompt and more attention to the output when interpreting this story. (I'm not saying I agree with the decision, but this is how they are looking at it.)

New comment by bauldursdev in "US battery manufacturing output continues to break records"

bauldursdev — Tue, 16 Jun 2026 17:49:46 +0000

Unless by next door you mean a different continent I think they'd still be in Europe. Although there are edge cases, such as if the fab is turkey but the office managing it is in a neighboring central Asian country.

New comment by bauldursdev in "Malware developers added nuclear and biological weapons text to to their spyware"

bauldursdev — Mon, 15 Jun 2026 17:50:27 +0000

I think they said increasing false positives because it would make it easier to generate at a mass scale. IDK the merits of the argument or what exactly they're saying would be done, but imagine pre-AI it might take someone quite a bit of manual effort to manufacture a plausible document regarding nuclear developments, but with AI it doesn't require so much work and is easier.

New comment by bauldursdev in "Doing nothing at work"

bauldursdev — Thu, 11 Jun 2026 19:36:49 +0000

Can't solve a problem that doesn't exist yet

New comment by bauldursdev in "Anthropic apologizes for invisible Claude Fable guardrails"

bauldursdev — Thu, 11 Jun 2026 18:17:45 +0000

To me it seems like it's more likely to refuse the harder the problem is. I wonder if it's cover for a model that's not as good as advertised. Even when I ask questions in biology it is switching me.

New comment by bauldursdev in "Software is made between commits"

bauldursdev — Thu, 11 Jun 2026 18:15:50 +0000

No I'm paid to write code.

New comment by bauldursdev in "Claude Desktop spawns 1.8 GB Hyper-V VM on every launch, even for chat-only use"

bauldursdev — Wed, 10 Jun 2026 20:21:40 +0000

There's such a spectrum between "give it everything" and "give it nothing". Imagine you just want to use it to code and want to make sure any commands it runs doesn't mess up your actual machine.

New comment by bauldursdev in "If Claude Fable stops helping you, you'll never know"

bauldursdev — Wed, 10 Jun 2026 16:35:23 +0000

Ya if you just run VMs but now a lot of cloud vendors have you build stuff using their proprietary features so decoupling becomes harder and can be risky.

New comment by bauldursdev in "US Consumer Price Index up 4.2%"

bauldursdev — Wed, 10 Jun 2026 16:03:58 +0000

No, it's like, if you could buy 100 things before, but you can only buy 96 things now, then you have accumulated less value :D

New comment by bauldursdev in "Artificial intelligence is not conscious – Ted Chiang"

bauldursdev — Thu, 04 Jun 2026 15:26:55 +0000

A human just predicts the next best action.

New comment by bauldursdev in "Squillions: How money laundering won"

bauldursdev — Wed, 03 Jun 2026 19:25:01 +0000

I don't know how it is in Europe but when I worked at restaurants, it was just part of the managers job to bring the cash to the bank. It took 20-30 minutes, we'll say 1 hour if it's busy. The bank didn't charge a fee to deposit the cash. Pay was like $20/hr, let's say 50% overhead so $30 to deposit the cash. The frequency was just about weekly, and would be into the thousands. Let's say it's only $1,000. That's 3%. And they generally did it when there was down time anyways, so I think it's wrong to attribute 100% of that to depositing cash, since it would be an expense regardless.

But this is just my anecdotal experience, do you have actual numbers/statistics on this?

New comment by bauldursdev in "GitHub bans security researcher who posted zero-day Windows exploits"

bauldursdev — Fri, 29 May 2026 16:12:15 +0000

Because information asymmetry benefits those with the information. If the devil understands your argument, and you don't understand the devil's argument, the devil will have information advantage.

New comment by bauldursdev in "YouTube to automatically label AI-generated videos"

bauldursdev — Fri, 29 May 2026 16:08:41 +0000

It's not just mind either. I know at least one person whose around 60, still very smart actually, but has diminished vision and hearing. So less able to pick up the obvious signs.

New comment by bauldursdev in "Hetzner Price Adjustment"

bauldursdev — Thu, 28 May 2026 14:27:08 +0000

I think they mean limited like it might be limited in performance or some other characteristics. :D