Hacker News: gavanwilhite

New comment by gavanwilhite in "OpenAI Employees Warn of Advanced AI Dangers"

gavanwilhite — Wed, 05 Jun 2024 00:44:49 +0000

This is thoughtful and should indeed go beyond AI risk (to bio, etc).

Employees should have protected ways of disclosing unsafe practices, particularly when the potential impacts are so large.

New comment by gavanwilhite in "LLMs are not suitable for brainstorming"

gavanwilhite — Thu, 16 May 2024 07:42:00 +0000

Fantastic context. I love hourglass shaped brainstorming, and the “questions” prompt is a solid one!

New comment by gavanwilhite in "Apple asked Amazon to block rival ads"

gavanwilhite — Sat, 11 Nov 2023 15:10:30 +0000

Transparency mode alone is a technological marvel.

It is extraordinarily difficult to do correctly, and once your brain has adapted to the Apple acoustic transformations, they’ve achieved near-indistinguishability.

New comment by gavanwilhite in "It's Time to Tax Billionaires"

gavanwilhite — Mon, 23 Oct 2023 18:25:50 +0000

The US is pretty keen to enforce its tax law internationally. If we did a wealth tax, there would be a number of options to limit using movement or citizenship renouncement as an easy out.

New comment by gavanwilhite in "Fx – Terminal JSON Viewer"

gavanwilhite — Tue, 19 Sep 2023 20:34:09 +0000

Something that would be extra awesome would be light markdown support inside fields. This would make it useful for reviewing chatbot conversations.

New comment by gavanwilhite in "Unity plan pricing and packaging updates"

gavanwilhite — Tue, 12 Sep 2023 17:27:17 +0000

Splash screen removal, access to support, etc. Generally all the benefits that come with paying for a thing, rather than being on a tier that the company is trying to get you off of.

New comment by gavanwilhite in "Unity plan pricing and packaging updates"

gavanwilhite — Tue, 12 Sep 2023 17:00:35 +0000

Killing the Plus plan is the worst part about this. The cheapest paid tier is now $2000 / year, putting it out of range for side projects.

New comment by gavanwilhite in "Ask HN: Favorite Game Engine?"

gavanwilhite — Tue, 12 Sep 2023 16:59:14 +0000

It was Unity until today... They just canceled the Plus tier, making the cheapest paid plan $2000 / year.

New comment by gavanwilhite in "Humans aren’t mentally ready for an AI-saturated ‘post-truth world’"

gavanwilhite — Wed, 21 Jun 2023 21:51:17 +0000

While this sounds wise at first glance, this is just clearly not true to anyone who's used ChatGPT.

The problem is usually the opposite (sycophancy)

New comment by gavanwilhite in "Vercel Cache API: A progressive cache, integrated with Next.js"

gavanwilhite — Fri, 24 Feb 2023 15:55:16 +0000

Does this have any ability to cache GraphQL requests, or is there a recommended strategy for doing so?

New comment by gavanwilhite in "Ask HN: Is StackOverflow Dying?"

gavanwilhite — Mon, 30 Jan 2023 01:13:50 +0000

Seriously.. I just posted a rather nuanced question (can a CSS gradient extend into over-scroll like color can), and it just got instantly closed by someone who didn’t understand the question at all. Apparently I need “cred” to even request review on this using their meta channels. Really bad FTUE.

https://stackoverflow.com/questions/75240915/is-it-possible-...

New comment by gavanwilhite in "Brief structured respiration enhances mood and reduces physiological arousal"

gavanwilhite — Tue, 24 Jan 2023 23:49:24 +0000

I think this was done by the author to create engagement with their blog.

I'm not sure if there is a against this, but it feels kinda against the spirit of posting a title like this when it seems like the goal of the linked page is 20% to communicate the topic of the headline and 80% to drive you to other topics they have been posting about.

New comment by gavanwilhite in "Socket – A New Runtime for the Web"

gavanwilhite — Fri, 20 Jan 2023 15:45:54 +0000

Looks promising. I tried signing up for your newsletter, but I don’t see a submit button and enter doesn’t work

New comment by gavanwilhite in "Twitter TOS Change"

gavanwilhite — Fri, 20 Jan 2023 15:35:51 +0000

I think that this has a way higher chance of being true than people have been assuming.

The slack convo leak would have been the same either way.

It really has a strong smell of protect-my-ego.

New comment by gavanwilhite in "Ask HN: What uses have you found for ChatGPT?"

gavanwilhite — Fri, 20 Jan 2023 04:50:01 +0000

We’ve been using it to make quests :-)

https://questgiver.org/t/05c0a7d7-5f22-41d2-90aa-f02082fbb8d...

These were entirely generated based on an intro prompt + “Make three quests people could do to help ensure ethical AI development”. It generated a json with objective types, emojis, everything.

We’re planning to use it to get past the “blank page” problem when onboarding organizations.

New comment by gavanwilhite in "Wolfram Alpha and ChatGPT"

gavanwilhite — Mon, 16 Jan 2023 00:50:30 +0000

Thank you for this comment!

I haven't spent much time learning about how ChatGPT works, but:

'ChatGPT does not simply output the “most semantically popular result”. That description applies only to the base model, before instruction tuning and RLHF.'

was exactly the explanation I needed!

New comment by gavanwilhite in "Paizo Announces System-Neutral Open RPG License"

gavanwilhite — Fri, 13 Jan 2023 07:37:49 +0000

Will keep in mind going forward. Thanks for the kind way you point out rules!

New comment by gavanwilhite in "Paizo Announces System-Neutral Open RPG License"

gavanwilhite — Fri, 13 Jan 2023 04:35:28 +0000

Some great news comes out of the WotC OGL controversy, with Paizo announcing a new open license and taking a strong legal stand against WotC.

They will be looking towards groups like the Linux Foundation to own the license once developed.

(Site has been overwhelmed with traffic, thus archive.org)

Paizo Announces System-Neutral Open RPG License

gavanwilhite — Fri, 13 Jan 2023 04:35:28 +0000

Article URL: https://paizo.com/community/blog/v5748dyo6si7v?Paizo-Announces-SystemNeutral-Open-RPG-License

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34363991

Points: 220

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New comment by gavanwilhite in "Conspiracy inflating food prices is real. It’s time to rethink supply management"

gavanwilhite — Thu, 12 Jan 2023 04:21:58 +0000

“Greedflation”, that’s a great term.

Too many folks using the media hubbub on inflation, economic ‘predictions’, etc as memetic cover for greed-based maneuvering.