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New comment by staticman2 in "A warning about 'model welfare'"

staticman2 — Wed, 16 Sep 2026 16:18:36 +0000

It seems silly to dismiss the patient because we know when healthy they are conscious. This doesn't really analogize to LLMs.

New comment by staticman2 in "A warning about 'model welfare'"

staticman2 — Wed, 16 Sep 2026 15:19:10 +0000

I think a harness isn't really a memory in the sense that neural networks have memories...

New comment by staticman2 in "A warning about 'model welfare'"

staticman2 — Wed, 16 Sep 2026 15:17:35 +0000

This framing is a trap. It states "Dehumanize a sick patient OR concede the AI tech bro claim about LLMs"

It's also a rhetorical move I've seen several times here...

New comment by staticman2 in "Gemini 3.8 Live and 3.8 Live Extended Thinking"

staticman2 — Wed, 16 Sep 2026 12:17:36 +0000

Gemini's search harness in the Google app is (ironically) bad so it makes the model look bad.

If you really want to compare apples to apples you need to test Gemini models against other models using the same third party search harness.

Otherwise you are largely measuring how much computation the model provider is allocating to a search harness.

New comment by staticman2 in "Gemini 3.8 Live and 3.8 Live Extended Thinking"

staticman2 — Tue, 15 Sep 2026 21:45:25 +0000

That might depend on whether you are translating fiction or nonfiction.

Anecdotally I'd rate Gemini behind Claude and OpenAI models at fiction and I can't find any benchmarks showing Gemini is the clear winner at this task.

New comment by staticman2 in "Adult Film Producer Unmasks Prolific 'John DOE' Torrent Pirate as Meta Executive"

staticman2 — Sat, 05 Sep 2026 14:27:26 +0000

If the news reporter said "Someone at a park played this 4 minute copyrighted song, and today's top story is just us showing you the recording" I'd bet that would be illegal where you live.

New comment by staticman2 in "Adult Film Producer Unmasks Prolific 'John DOE' Torrent Pirate as Meta Executive"

staticman2 — Fri, 04 Sep 2026 17:57:07 +0000

This reminds me of a stand up comedy routine about people being bad at hiding their porn collections because their brain doesn't work right when they are horny.

New comment by staticman2 in "GPT-6 Astra"

staticman2 — Fri, 04 Sep 2026 17:04:20 +0000

> If it could make 5 different versions of chapter 2, all with different directions for the story, and all with novel and interesting developments, wouldn’t that be a better definition of creativity than “can it read chapter 1 and be able to copy style and deduce/predict what the author is going to do in chapter 2”?

If I like the novel, an alternative version where things happen differently would be fine.

The problem isn't that it's different. The problem is quality.

A lot of Isekai stories are crap but you can still rank them in terms of the author's ability or inability to have a creative POV that elevates the material.

New comment by staticman2 in "GPT-6 Astra"

staticman2 — Fri, 04 Sep 2026 16:53:12 +0000

I don't necessarily just feed it chapter 1. (And chapter length varies between novels).

And no I don't think asking the A.I. to write the next 2000 words would require it to have the entire novel planned out. Not all writers even outline in advance.

New comment by staticman2 in "GPT-6 Astra"

staticman2 — Fri, 04 Sep 2026 15:23:11 +0000

For me a basic test of A.I. creativity is give the A.I. chapter 1 of a novel it has not seen and ask it to write chapter 2, then compare the quality to the original author's chapter 2. The A.I. is always terrible at this in terms of matching the author's level of quality.

New comment by staticman2 in "GPT-6 Astra"

staticman2 — Fri, 04 Sep 2026 02:12:31 +0000

Is anyone from 2016 still alive today?

If so I'm hoping we can track them down and have them tell us if they think this is AGI.

New comment by staticman2 in "Starbase, LA"

staticman2 — Wed, 26 Aug 2026 15:13:08 +0000

You are worried about bias but judge an author on whether they use X or Bluesky?

New comment by staticman2 in "Anthropic tells staff to work from home due to possible security team strike"

staticman2 — Tue, 25 Aug 2026 18:17:08 +0000

The U.S. government wouldn't need to use bombs they could just send in the police.

New comment by staticman2 in "Apple introduces M6 and M5 Ultra"

staticman2 — Tue, 25 Aug 2026 18:07:03 +0000

From what I recall Zune had a much bigger screen for videos so I bought one for that reason you can see the side by side here:

https://electronics.howstuffworks.com/zune-ipod.htm

New comment by staticman2 in "FDA clears blood test to aid evaluation for Alzheimer's disease"

staticman2 — Mon, 24 Aug 2026 20:04:05 +0000

> Their doctor should be qualified to make that judgment without a government bureaucracy

This is like saying AI developers should be qualified to evaluate the effacy of a model without testing the model.

New comment by staticman2 in "OpenAI: GPT 5.6 Sol price reduction (until at least Nov 21)"

staticman2 — Mon, 24 Aug 2026 16:02:55 +0000

This is funny because the stock Market has been ahistorically high. My portfolio went up over 20 percent in the last 12 months.

A major correction would be a bummer but we were never entitled to these abnormal gains in the first place.

New comment by staticman2 in "I'm becoming AI-blind"

staticman2 — Fri, 21 Aug 2026 21:35:02 +0000

This comment thread was started with discussions of AI doing a bad job at a task (communication).

Doesn't the Chinese Room posit an AI good at the task of communication?

New comment by staticman2 in "OpenAI’s head of ethics leaves less than a year after joining"

staticman2 — Wed, 12 Aug 2026 12:53:03 +0000

> The only difference is AI isn’t regulated

You seem to believe that regulation is "ethics backed by law".

As this is not true, your counter example is not even on point.

New comment by staticman2 in "How Claude marks AI-generated content"

staticman2 — Tue, 11 Aug 2026 12:30:46 +0000

> Like, for every 10th token, instead of outputting the most probable, it outputs the 17th most probable, or something.

Wouldn't you need the prompt to know the probability of the next token?

New comment by staticman2 in "Mark Zuckerberg attacks 'closed' AI rivals as Meta returns to open models"

staticman2 — Tue, 11 Aug 2026 01:03:39 +0000

I think Matrix 3 would have been better if it was more about humans taking control of the Matrix and trying to figure out what a virtual utopia looks like.