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AI got the blame for the Iran school bombing. The truth is more worrying

theguardian.com
414 points·by cptroot·4 माह पहले·383 comments

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cptroot
·11 दिन पहले·discuss
You might want to answer two questions before we start this discussion:

1. "Censored" by whom, and for whom?

2. "Censored" for which "right of center" views?

P.S. I should also mention that I can see the posts on that account, even if they all have flags for intolerance by the default moderation service (a service you can opt out of by the way).
cptroot
·15 दिन पहले·discuss
I know this is a small point, but you likely mean "race condition" here. Rust already guarantees safe code to be free of "data races", and this blog post doesn't discuss unsafe in any way.

Two other points that came up while I was reading:

1. I get that this is something you did once for an internal project, but this is what macros and derive_macros are made for.

2. The AI that you used to help write the post left its mark a little too deep. The cliched phrases make an appearance at the start of every section and it really starts to grate by the end.
cptroot
·25 दिन पहले·discuss
The motivation boils down to trying to make runs with the same starting seed feel "similar" in meaningful ways. It's "better" in a vibes way if both you and I were offered the same card choices in runs with the same seed, even if we took different amounts of turns on the first battle.
cptroot
·27 दिन पहले·discuss
This is likely about Orin Hatch's dedication to the idea of a "balanced federal budget", to be paid for with program cuts instead of taxation.
cptroot
·28 दिन पहले·discuss
> AI can currently do if given enough context

It's worth noting that you can substitute "dollars" for "context" in that sentence, which seems to be where many of these impressive achievements are coming from. As ever, it's unclear whether these models will get cheaper while remaining better, since all of the recent breakthroughs appear to be of the "think more" kind. For translation specifically, I'd be very surprised if the "think more" LLMs would help given the per-unit cost expected of the output.
cptroot
·पिछला माह·discuss
> and squeezed a lot more juice out of it than I’d realised was there to be squozen.

I barked out loud when I read this.
cptroot
·पिछला माह·discuss
I recently watched an excellent video about that incident. [1]

The takeaway was that this was yet another move by rich assholes designed to siphon money from the pockets of small time gamblers just so that the rich could get richer. They did it to Pokemon cards, destroying the experience of playing the actual game, and they tried to do it to Manga (although they hopefully won't succeed there).

[1] https://youtu.be/W2x-UQpiARc?si=eVwXhHAtD0keH2ON
cptroot
·2 माह पहले·discuss
Film Crit Hulk continues to put out good essays on film and much more besides, over on Patreon [1]. I agree that finding good critique is hard now that we're past the heyday of magazine critique.

[1] https://www.patreon.com/filmcrithulk
cptroot
·2 माह पहले·discuss
Man that issue got way too many comments from non-contributors. I agree that this shouldn't have been merged in in it's current state, but that doesn't mean posting about it on GitHub is a worthwhile way to fix the problem.
cptroot
·3 माह पहले·discuss
If we're talking about recursion, Patrick's Parabox is another stellar pick.
cptroot
·3 माह पहले·discuss
I appreciate that this appears to be an incremental improvement on Fuschia's tree_lock, with the sharp edges sanded off. Good work! I hope I won't have to use it :p
cptroot
·3 माह पहले·discuss
I really appreciate how this finds a common thread through all of my current engineering anxieties.
cptroot
·4 माह पहले·discuss
This was incredible, even as it rapidly outpaced my PL and mathematics knowledge.
cptroot
·4 माह पहले·discuss
Please explain how this law (or the CA one for that matter) require government IDs. It is worded specifically to _not_ require ID.
cptroot
·4 माह पहले·discuss
If you read TFA, you'll find that the author agrees with you - at least on your first point.

While I agree "AI is bad", well-written posts like this one can provide real insight into the process of using them, and reveal more about _why_ AI is bad.
cptroot
·4 माह पहले·discuss
I think you'll find the luddites to be a more informative historical analogy. A new tool arrives in an industry staffed by craftsmen, providing capital a lever to raise profits at the expense of quality. Is it surprising that worker co-ops would choose not to pull that lever?
cptroot
·4 माह पहले·discuss
So because there is no requirement for the age to be accurate, it would be pretty easy to say "all student accounts are the age of the youngest allowed school entrant for that school year", right? That resolves the age issue and also prevents both PII leakage as well as possible school bullying opportunities.
cptroot
·5 माह पहले·discuss
Here's an annotated version of this post (TW Ed Zitron) that I found more informative than reading the original: https://www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/1p1n0y1ip48ianok9dvbp/Annotat...
cptroot
·5 माह पहले·discuss
Aha, here's the syntax in case you're curious (using an example lifted from the playground)

  [type Shape
    [Circle f64]
    [Rect f64 f64]
    Point
  ]

  [sig test_sig : Shape -> Float]
  [fn test_sig [shape]
    [match shape
      [Circle r] [* 3.14159 [* r r]]
      [Rect w h] [* w h]
      Point 0.0
    ]
  ]
Unfortunately it seems like this doesn't currently work as expected when I use it in the playground, so I'm going to go file an issue
cptroot
·5 माह पहले·discuss
Good news, there's a line in the "Coming from Rust"[1] page that says

> You never annotate a function signature unless you want to for documentation purposes.

so it sounds like function annotation is still an option for the purposes of communication, just no longer required in all cases.

[1] https://loonlang.com/concepts/from-rust