sobchak

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17h ago

America Trembles as Transportation Secretary Announces Plans for Air Traffic Controllers to Lean on AI Tools
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sobchak @programming.dev 17h ago
The problem is likely exponential. Technically, some optimization algorithms like genetic algorithms are "AI." I could see them also doing something like AlphaGo (predictive model + monte-carlo tree search).

17h ago

Scibot!

I doubt it's fine-tuned, it's likely just one of the open-weight LLMs with RAG. I've done similar things, and they don't really work as well as I'd like (the most relevant chunks of text aren't always ranked the highest/have the least embedding distance, and the models still hallucinate sometimes).

20h ago

Good question

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sobchak @programming.dev 20h ago

I think my (and probably everyone else's) memory was better when you couldn't just look things up instantly.

2d ago

Accelerationism

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sobchak @programming.dev 2d ago

That's a good point. I grew up in rural Ohio a couple decades ago, and confederate flags were quite popular. In my youth, I remember going to one guy's trailer to bring back some more beer, and every threshold in his trailer had a confederate flag. Many of the people in the little, almost all-white towns, were somewhat afraid of the somewhat bigger towns that had a decent black population. I still see similar things where I live now, where my older neighbors living outside of a major city, are somewhat afraid of the city. Curiously, I live in the actual south now, and don't see confederate flags nearly as often than I did in rural Ohio.

2d ago

Accelerationism

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sobchak @programming.dev 2d ago

A lot of the far right is accelerationist. They've been hoping for a "race war" for many decades. Then there is the newer Effective Accelerationism/Network State/Dark Enlightenment stuff that the ultra wealthy seem to be into.

3d ago

Wife changing money

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sobchak @programming.dev 3d ago

I think a lot of people keep jewelry as a hedge against currency crashes/bank collapse. I believe there are also federated cryptocurrencies that are probably more efficient that PoS (Ripple and Stellar; probably more too). Most cryptocurrencies are disinflationary, which causes other problems. Predictable inflation, even if somewhat high, is generally beneficial to capitalist economies (incentivizes people to invest/spend instead of hoarding).

4d ago

Palantir Employees Are Starting to Wonder If They're the Bad Guys

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sobchak @programming.dev 4d ago

And as he mentioned in the video, it would eventually just make them better when they add the adversarial examples into their training set.

4d ago

Meta plans to lay off 10% of its workforce in May, according to report

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sobchak @programming.dev 4d ago

I thought about it before (a Meta recruiter contacted me a couple years ago). The expected total compensation was insane. But, I would've likely had to move, I despise the company, and they were already doing stupid layoffs back then too, so decided not to move forward.

5d ago

Anthropic Mythos shaping up as nothingburger

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sobchak @programming.dev 5d ago

So far we’ve found no category or complexity of vulnerability that humans can find that this model can’t

This seems like a statement designed to deceive. I would like to see comparisons like the percent of vulnerabilities Mythos found that an expert also found (and somehow make sure those vulnerabilities weren't leaked into the training data and the prompts don't hint at the answer).

5d ago

[Discussion] Why are cops such bastards?

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sobchak @programming.dev 5d ago

It's not a particularly dangerous job though. In the US it's ranked the 22nd most dangerous job. Delivery drivers are ranked 7th and farmers are ranked 8th. Logging is the most dangerous, followed by pilots and flight engineers.

6d ago

Authority is not the opposite of liberty

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sobchak @programming.dev 6d ago

Again, I think you’re using “authoritarian” to just mean “bad.”

I guess "hierarchical" may be more apt than "authoritarian" for what I was trying to say.

Are minimum wage laws authoritarian?

Depends if they were mandated by an authority or by the people, and how they are enforced.

Why can’t we look at policies imposed by a central authority that have reduced authoritarianism?

Ignoring semantics. Yeah, you can look at these policies. I think most of the policies were borne out of threatening authority though. I also think many of those authorities around the world are feeling less threatened, and many of the good policies are being weakened or rolled back.

I am anti-authoritarian and anti-hierarchy, because 1) it creates a single point of failure 2) it's easier to corrupt a few people than many or everybody 3) the people most interested in practicing corruption are the people who seek power 4) corruption is often rewarded.

6d ago

Anyone know what these are? We planted these from a spinach variety, but this year these grew in place of it. From what I've seen on Google it's apparently called Bird's Nest Fern...

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sobchak @programming.dev 6d ago

Yeah, it's likely a more "traditional" image classification model (convnet or vision-transformer, not generative AI).

6d ago

Authority is not the opposite of liberty

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sobchak @programming.dev 6d ago

Hmm, this is mostly a semantic argument on what authority is. I don't necessarily disagree with most of it, up until he starts getting prescriptive. I do disagree with "transitional governments" that never seem to relinquish their authority though. I do think it's possible to tear down the state and replace it with more bottom-up/accountable structures that are radically different fairly quickly.

6d ago

Authority is not the opposite of liberty

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sobchak @programming.dev 6d ago

A lot of what you're saying seems to be related to the concept of "negative liberty" and "positive liberty."

I'm not sure if the US south framed it as "states rights"/decentralization at the time. The confederacy was authoritarian. Slavery is authoritarian, and the Confederacy forced its member states to agree to never abolish slavery (removing states rights to abolish slavery).

Anyways, IDK if "authority is the opposite of liberty" or not, but I'm opposed authority (including capitalism which is inherently authoritarian). I think regulations, law enforcement, etc can be enforced by the community in a bottom-up approach, rather than a top-down one. Such things are handled that way in some autonomous areas, communes, and tribes.

6d ago

Anyone know what these are? We planted these from a spinach variety, but this year these grew in place of it. From what I've seen on Google it's apparently called Bird's Nest Fern...

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sobchak @programming.dev 6d ago

PictureThis! is the best AI plant ID I've found (not paying how much they want for it though). iNaturalist's AI is pretty good too (and real experts will also help ID stuff). I haven't tried Gemini. I tried ChatGPT and it sucked. Google Lense also sucks.

6d ago

Everyone with wealth and power has been eyeing their incremental rollout with intense interest while trying to play it cool.

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sobchak @programming.dev 6d ago

Idk if that's true. I believe autonomous drones can now beat humans in FPV racing. Ukraine now has autonomous drones that can't be jammed and function under GPS denial, so they can go further than fiber optic tethered drones.

7d ago

This AI Tool Rips Off Open Source Software Without Violating Copyright

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sobchak @programming.dev 7d ago

I've heard ghidraMCP works pretty well.

1w ago

RAM Shortage Expected to Continue Into Next Year or Later

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sobchak @programming.dev 1w ago

IDK, as I understand it, OpenAI bought 20% of RAM wafer production, mostly just to prevent competitors from getting access to affordable wafers. OpenAI has no ability to do anything with raw wafers.

2w ago

Frank Herbert

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sobchak @programming.dev 2w ago

I thought Dune was good. I read it while I was in middle-school and thought it was engrossing. I also read a lot of Arthur C. Clarke back then, but I guess some people don't like his style. I tried reading Godel, Escher, Bach as a young adult, and yeah, I maybe finished half.

2w ago

fuck you bill

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sobchak @programming.dev 2w ago

If the company also trains AI, I'm guessing they're also forcing use to gather training data. I.e. tracking feedback, corrections, etc.