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New comment by jdiff in "ZuckOff Know when a camera is in the room"

jdiff — Mon, 21 Sep 2026 15:06:43 +0000

And they've got merch for sale!

New comment by jdiff in "Spain orders blocks on Archive.today and its mirrors"

jdiff — Mon, 21 Sep 2026 04:06:36 +0000

Archive.org is not archive.today.

New comment by jdiff in "ChatGPT now knows what you do on other websites via ad collector"

jdiff — Mon, 21 Sep 2026 03:40:00 +0000

In an embarrassing display, the manager over my arm of the company got told off by his manager for spamming him (and clients) with AI slop emails. And then was told by one of the regional managers for using Copilot generating a bunch of client-facing posters and images with phrasing that had not passed any sort of legal or basic fact checking.

The people going all in on it don't realize the downsides, limitations, or understand how they come off to other people with it all.

New comment by jdiff in "What happened to the Snowden archive"

jdiff — Sun, 20 Sep 2026 23:52:38 +0000

It's really never been the worst thing. From MKUltra to Operation Sea-Spray and many, many more.

New comment by jdiff in "The LLMentalist Effect (2023)"

jdiff — Sun, 20 Sep 2026 17:01:11 +0000

Superhuman abilities are not "intelligence." 8bit microprocessors exhibit superhuman abilities in different, smaller ways.

New comment by jdiff in "Chat-based Large Language Models replicate the mechanisms of a psychic's con"

jdiff — Sun, 20 Sep 2026 15:17:32 +0000

I haven't seen any statements from them on that topic. Have they actually made some?

New comment by jdiff in "Astra for Law"

jdiff — Thu, 17 Sep 2026 22:50:26 +0000

So those lawyers will likely want to know about the likeliness of it, strategies to work around it, and overall mitigations.

It might be helpful if the company launching this product included such information in their blog post instead of ignoring it in a field with such a high cost of getting it wrong.

New comment by jdiff in "Astra for Law"

jdiff — Thu, 17 Sep 2026 20:57:31 +0000

The blog post makes no mention. If the rate isn't 0% it should be mentioned for a field like this.

New comment by jdiff in "I Don't Like LLMs"

jdiff — Thu, 17 Sep 2026 15:18:13 +0000

Much advice is meaningless, baseless post-mortem correlations from people trying to justify their own success.

New comment by jdiff in "GLM Built Its Own Inference Infrastructure"

jdiff — Thu, 17 Sep 2026 11:04:46 +0000

Nah, they're fine making that small leap. RSI is the new marketing term for the sci fi singularity.

New comment by jdiff in "GLM Built Its Own Inference Infrastructure"

jdiff — Thu, 17 Sep 2026 11:00:46 +0000

This introduces other incentives to cut corners and over-quantize.

New comment by jdiff in "Cartesian – AI 3D Modeling for Design"

jdiff — Tue, 15 Sep 2026 16:56:55 +0000

They're saying it as if it were contrary to what's being claimed. The tagline says "for architecture and product design." The supported file formats are not video game formats.

New comment by jdiff in "Show HN: An e-ink frame that hears birds and draws them as 1800s illustrations"

jdiff — Tue, 15 Sep 2026 13:35:20 +0000

What is "the new one"? The old one used AI, and this one seems to as well.

New comment by jdiff in "Pion, an agent designed to run any company autonomously"

jdiff — Tue, 15 Sep 2026 09:04:00 +0000

You can convict a human. What do you do when your LLM blows all your money on paperclips?

New comment by jdiff in "What will our economic future look like?"

jdiff — Wed, 09 Sep 2026 21:54:13 +0000

Hm, also not responding here. I don't think this thread is well-trafficked enough to have hugged it to death, but here's a PDF alternative link: https://milweesci.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/2/4/13247648/mannap...

New comment by jdiff in "What will our economic future look like?"

jdiff — Wed, 09 Sep 2026 17:57:15 +0000

Marshall Brain really nailed it back in 2003 with Manna. https://marshallbrain.com/manna1

AI leaves humans as the limbs of the machine, with less and less thinking or comprehension required on their part.

New comment by jdiff in "Trusting-Trust Attack against an Entire Linux Distribution"

jdiff — Tue, 08 Sep 2026 19:29:04 +0000

Absolutely true, but even tentacles and eyes will struggle to fit in a system compact enough. Even on larger systems, there is an upper limit on how many tentacles you can cram in something before you can't continue the facade that there are none. And an upper limit on how esoteric the tentacle is before it stops being worth it.

New comment by jdiff in "LibreOffice breaks download records after declaring it has no AI features"

jdiff — Tue, 08 Sep 2026 14:46:21 +0000

Didn't people find it bundled with a bunch of other things in a single runtime? Downloaded as part of a whole runtime would suggest it wasn't downloaded directly from the source.

New comment by jdiff in "LibreOffice breaks download records after declaring it has no AI features"

jdiff — Tue, 08 Sep 2026 14:20:09 +0000

Not really. One entity embedding the software into another will only account for at most a handful of downloads.

New comment by jdiff in "Trusting-Trust Attack against an Entire Linux Distribution"

jdiff — Tue, 08 Sep 2026 12:30:18 +0000

This automated analyst isn't going to be able to run usefully on hardware that is still otherwise useful, giving you a clear path to choke it out or identify its presence when your hello world is taking 3 months to finish compiling.