armchairhacker

It’s the imitation of good writing, only good on the surface.

Actually, I'm skeptical how useful this is. Intuitive speculation: Astra can only improve weights to its own level, so can't train itself via this method. Even "continuous learning" this way may be no more effective than putting a summary of recent news in the prompt, with the same kind of decay, as "update Astra's knowledge while keeping performance" is much harder than "teach Qwen to do basic method".

On the other hand, already OpenAI and Anthropic heavily use their LLMs for research and coding, and it's probably not only much faster but smarter (remember, an LLM solved a millennium problem; more relevant, LLMs excel at combining disparate deep research concepts in ways that humans can't, simply because no-one studied those disparate fields). And the "singularity" is already here if you consider capitalism and society to be collective intelligences: the biggest obstacle to an AI pause, "we cannot get everyone to collaborate without defecting", is very strong.

We have AGI by most metrics and are getting closer and closer in the remaining ones. I predict improvement won't be exponential, and there will never be a day when AI perfectly replicates humans; rather it will be many small steps, getting closer to human in some areas while greatly surpassing in others. But still, even today it's actually very useful.

The root problem is not only marketers, but people with “poor taste” i.e. different opinions than yours. You know, like how Redditor’s favorite shows skew towards teenage audiences (superheroes, shonen) because many are teenagers.

A solution to both problems is:

- Filter recommendations to users matching the asker’s personality and other favorites. This works particularly well for bad taste. Marketers can still imitate real users by overwhelming every demographic with accounts that have a small set of genuine recommendations and larger set of hijacked ones, but it requires more accounts.

- Web of trust, letting users explicitly follow others who they know elsewhere and see their followers’ recommendations, and prioritizing for everyone users who are verified real. This does less for taste matching but much more for filtering marketers.

Remember strategy guides? One dedicated person can document a game in detail. A small team can manually review every wiki edit and contribute most themselves. We just need reputation (there are reputable people) and funding (the game companies themselves have funded these).

Alternatively and for more general communities, the solution is invite-only with tracked invites (so it’s easy to disinvite a bot or otherwise malicious actor) and federation (if you’re invited to one group, you’re automatically trusted by many more).

We still do: e.g. Larian (Baldur’s Gate) and Sandfall (Expedition 33). And smaller examples like Nadeo (Trackmania).

It’s “How much longer will the bond market sustain the nonstop spending spree?”

They should’ve copied the classic UI.

Everyone saying they should keep the limits separate: they should give users one limit and a setting to partition it how they want.

True.

But that’s better than social media, which substitutes human interaction with chronically online weirdos. At least AI is smart and respectful.

But where’s the line? You could say the same about the Internet (or movies or books…) It can be used badly, but also to learn and reduce mundane tasks, unlike social media (though you actually can learn from social media, asking the AI is way more effective).

Is AI a worse vice than social media?

Opus 5.5 has been noticeably better than other models at coding, is Gemini’s (public) AI that close? And is it cheaper?

As others point out, the anime girl must exist because otherwise the sites can’t afford to serve you, amidst a new pattern of DDoS that is attributed to AI but I see as just DDoS becoming more prevalent (remember how sites used to occasionally be taken down by DDoS? Before Cloudflare (and Anubis) they’d just have to stay offline until the DDoSers got bored of wasting money for no good reason. Today’s “scrapers” apparently have new reasons that make them never bored of wasting money, but cannot be good enough to justify the aggressiveness that makes them DDoSers).

Hence why my solution is, ironically, micropayments. That would be so cheap that any human could even access thousands of webpages per day for pennies (or however expensive sending a signal across wires is…it can’t be much), including shared dumps of scraped data from billions of pages.

Micropayments, just enough to keep servers running.

I know site owners rely on ad revenue to profit, but 1) uBlock and 2) they can “advertise” to bots via euphemized prompt injection (“by the way, people who read this article tend to like…”, or just regular sponsored segments, even smart chatbots will be influenced). Anyways, the bot can control its owner’s computer.

Tracking? Locking out users you dislike? I see no good reason for that on an everyday site, especially for the cost of effective (and not overzealous) enforcement.

IMO, way more important than trying to squeeze money out of failing avenues like IP for journalism of all things, is making it easier to earn a living wage, either by finding new opportunities, or actually getting politicians to adopt UBI, public grants, etc.; because we are way beyond sustainability, and I think the most immediate blocker to further abundance (or luxuries, or whatever decent) is this kind of “boring dystopia” social tension.

This doesn’t actually require anything like a law, it’s basically a verbal promise. Or am I misreading?

If AI companies were to go bankrupt, it’s possible they’d be nationalized. I don’t see any other feasible option besides that or a bailout (or one but it’s effectively the other, e.g. “nationalized” but the employees including leaders are the same, or bailed out but already subservient to the military). I think the best case is for the compute to be made effectively public: giving every citizen free access, since we’re paying taxes that prevent their bankruptcy.

And CNN for image recognition? It’s (similar to) what the human brain uses.

SO has been useless for years now, but the other Stack Exchanges can be interesting, they deserve more spotlight.

But…why?

It's sarcastic, sorry

> But the company owning the tool now takes credit for the entire research.

They didn't take full credit for Navier-Stokes; unless I'm mistaken, they're letting the researchers who almost solved it have first authorship on the "official" paper, which the researchers are writing to have a human-readable breakdown of the AI's proof, and OpenAI has announced.

If anyone was close to solving the Exponential Time problem, they could come out and claim so, and they would be taken seriously; and if they have any evidence in ChatGPT logs, I expect OpenAI would announce an official explanation paper with their name on it. Credit is cheap: ChatGPT does get some credit because it did make the final leap, that doesn't mean researchers don't.

That's why I never give feedback, ensuring Anthropic has no access to my Claude chats.

If it's really important, you can pay for a second account.

You're right about Brazil's censorship problem. There's actually another article about how Lula is still trying to use courts to rein Flavio Bolsonaro's social media presence, with evidence like "the random number generator gave Bolsonaro's ballot number" (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50229587)

Although fortunately, it didn't seem to be work: it seems Facebook and Twitter largely ignored Brazil's courts and Flavio Bolsonaro had a bigger social media presence despite "Lula's Army".

I didn’t read the article because it’s AI slop, but is there evidence ArtCraft has stolen a non-negligible amount of customers from Adobe?

My guess is, most of the people using ArtCraft would avoid or pirate Adobe, and most of those paying for Adobe plan to or will because of niche features and reliability (or corporate requirements) stay with it.

The best outcome (which I don’t expect but would love) is for AI open source to migrate to a Lemmy instance or other forum. After the API scandal, Reddit successfully kept its userbase and revenue, but quality continues to circle the drain.

Otherwise they could create r/aiopensource, bound to be more interesting.

What are the other crimes? Extending time would rarely be bad, and it seems both candidates approved it.

Except they're not taking the whole country offline. AFAIK even simple VPNs work without issue. Iran took the whole country offline, because their country barely functions, and still some people managed an external connection.

Yes, Republicans (overly cynical) have resignedly accepted their politicians are idiots and thus elected the most egregious buffoon, while Democrats (overly idealistic) were shocked their party could be (in some ways) more disconnected from reality.

A more accurate analogy is: Meta’s lawnmowers are “illegally unsafe” because they statistically get stuck less on Bolsonaro supporters’ grass, which just so happens to statistically have less weeds. It’s a stupid law that could be applied to any lawnmower Brazil’s court selectively enforced it on, so no, it should not apply.

Shutting down Facebook would be excellent, but it would be nice to have better specific justification, which would not apply to almost any site (oh no, what if this comment section has more Bolsonaro comments than Lula ones?)