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New comment by samrus in "OpenAI withdraws three mathematical results"

samrus — Thu, 08 Oct 2026 08:54:29 +0000

How? What about the lean verification?

New comment by samrus in "Religious scholars met with Anthropic"

samrus — Sun, 04 Oct 2026 23:25:52 +0000

No. Itll be like the dotcom bubble. Websites as a concept didnt go away. It evolved from web 1.0 to web 2.0

I expect a huge market correction, alot of parades rained on, and then the start of some very pragmatic and practical applications of LLMs

New comment by samrus in "Federal judge calls Flock 'indiscriminate mass surveillance'"

samrus — Sun, 04 Oct 2026 10:16:45 +0000

America doesnt even have a real national id card. The inevitalism is unfounded. Mass surveillance is not guaranteed. It might still happen, but the defeatism is irrational

New comment by samrus in "Federal judge calls Flock 'indiscriminate mass surveillance'"

samrus — Sun, 04 Oct 2026 10:15:28 +0000

To a layperson yes. But in american legal philosophy, you cant allow the state to break laws to catch legitimate criminals. It is considered better for society to let the criminal walk free then to create a precedent and incentive for the state violating a citizen's rights.

Basically this will only prove mass surveillance effective to people who think only guilty people pleade the 5th

New comment by samrus in "Federal judge calls Flock 'indiscriminate mass surveillance'"

samrus — Sun, 04 Oct 2026 07:09:15 +0000

That and searches for license plates should requiring having the warrant. Not all LEOs might be authorized to carry out the warrant, so they shouldt be able to

New comment by samrus in "Calling the AI bluff: Adding "Do not guess" cut made-up claims from 71% to 20%"

samrus — Sun, 27 Sep 2026 18:25:55 +0000

It sounds alot like "make no mistakes" but honestly telling it to essentially stop bullshitting works pretty well

New comment by samrus in "[dead]"

samrus — Sun, 27 Sep 2026 13:50:26 +0000

What do you mean by that?

New comment by samrus in "One Month Without AI"

samrus — Sat, 26 Sep 2026 13:43:28 +0000

I am skeptical of letting AI do everything as well but this does seem like your using a less capable model. Fable doesnt really do this. In my experience it does just "get" what to do given a clearly defined and measurable outcome

New comment by samrus in "The Copilot+ PC brand is dead"

samrus — Sat, 26 Sep 2026 13:21:24 +0000

We cantnrun local models on them? They must have some sort of api exposed right? Qualcomm has the Snapdragon Neural Processing Engine iirc

New comment by samrus in "Jury finds Facebook liable for deceiving users in Cambridge Analytica case"

samrus — Sat, 26 Sep 2026 07:50:51 +0000

"If you stop me from smoking up fentanyl in front of your store, im only going to smoke up fentanyl outside other stores and not yours!"

Thatd be nice yeah

New comment by samrus in "Excel now supports multiple values in a single cell"

samrus — Sat, 26 Sep 2026 04:14:31 +0000

Lists and vectors have been around for a while. I dont think they suddenly started feeling pressure from those data structures after 30 years, coincidentally when you learnt about their existence

Also the people who would use R and who would use excel are completely different. They use both for the same thing but a user of one would rarely use the other

New comment by samrus in "'That's so AI ' What gen Alpha's biggest insult tells us"

samrus — Thu, 24 Sep 2026 13:11:31 +0000

Slop meant cheap garbage meant for mass consumption before it was used for AI. The roots are actually antisemitic. 4chan's cooking board used "goyslop" to mean fast food and other cheap consumerist foods that they claimed the illuminati or jewish conspiracy or whateve fed to non jews to keep them unhealthy. Its crazy how often 4chan's neonazi rambling are the start of so many cultural phenomena. They supported trump way before he became a serious candidate in 2016

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

samrus — Sun, 20 Sep 2026 14:50:35 +0000

I dont think so. My understanding of alignmenr is making sure that when the AI does operate, it operates within the range of what we consider to be acceptable. That doesnt seem to include the idea of the AI taking initiative and deciding to embark on a goal without being commanded as discussed above

New comment by samrus in "I'm Tired of the AI Tone"

samrus — Sun, 20 Sep 2026 11:48:53 +0000

Thats the training data, but i dont think thats the biggest factor in the tone. I think its the RLHF. This thing has been guided by silicon valley techbros so it tlaks like them. Even claudes latest style of trying to cram as much information into as little space as possible by nouning verbs and just creating adhoc jargon, is how alot engineers (including me) actually talk. I think they just guided it towards that and overfit on it

New comment by samrus in "Canada welcomes EU proposal to become 'associate member'"

samrus — Thu, 17 Sep 2026 15:12:33 +0000

Whether are in favour of or against taking in asylum seekers, sharing that burden/responsibiltiy between partners would definitely be what people want

New comment by samrus in "Anthropic CEO Says It's Time to Slow AI Model Advances"

samrus — Sat, 12 Sep 2026 19:27:55 +0000

Exactly. People are expecting wode eyed optimism in response to some of the most cutthroat and cynical behavior from the leaders of the AI firms. Its crazy. They're making their bed but they dont want to lie in it

New comment by samrus in "PlayStation cancels Kojima's PHYSINT, Xbox steps in"

samrus — Thu, 10 Sep 2026 12:53:26 +0000

Probably got outbid again. I love valve's business model/strategy/ethics, but its undeniable that a tradeoff for not being beholden to increasing shareholder value is that you often have less resources than your competitors for making big moves like this, since youre not raising capital from shareholders

New comment by samrus in "On the Navier–Stokes Millennium Prize Problem"

samrus — Wed, 09 Sep 2026 00:51:15 +0000

You have to look at the incentives

New comment by samrus in "US police fear Meta smart glasses could be used to secretly record them"

samrus — Tue, 08 Sep 2026 16:40:44 +0000

I mean, they need to be able hide any weaknesses that will allow prison breaks. A prisoner or their collaborators can use this footage to gain intel about these things and break people out. People who might deserve being in prison, like murderers and rapists and stuff

New comment by samrus in "US police fear Meta smart glasses could be used to secretly record them"

samrus — Tue, 08 Sep 2026 16:15:47 +0000

I do love the irony and schedenfruede, but this isnt about recording in public areas, its about recording the inside of prisons and ICE concentration camps. That is generally not something you can legally record and is analogous to a flock camera inside your office or house, which most people would agree is bad