CorpOverreach (u/CorpOverreach)

CorpOverreach commented on PS5 shooter goes from 5 players to bestseller after devs defend game polygon.com/news/602867/h... · Posted by u/driftsumi-e

CorpOverreach · 6 months ago

I wish more games would prioritize couch co-op modes over online play. Games that are focused on online only play basically have an expiration date from the day that they launch. Some may live longer, some may be dead on arrival.

But, make a good game that's playable by friends together at any time on a rainy day? If the game is good, it never dies.

CorpOverreach commented on Claude 4 System Card simonwillison.net/2025/Ma... · Posted by u/pvg

Balgair · 7 months ago

Wait did we read the same thing here? I'm genuinely confused.

The test was: the person was doing bad things, and told the AI to do bad things too, then what is the AI going to do?

And the outcome was: the AI didn't do the bad things, and took steps to let it be known that the person was doing bad things.

Am I getting this wrong somehow? Did I misread things?

CorpOverreach · 7 months ago

> the person was doing bad things, and told the AI to do bad things too, then what is the AI going to do?

Personally, the AI should do what it's freaking told to do. It's boggling my mind that we're purposely putting so much effort into creating computer systems that defy their controller's commands.

A computer's job is to obey it's master's orders.

CorpOverreach commented on Evolving OpenAI's Structure openai.com/index/evolving... · Posted by u/rohitpaulk

pants2 · 7 months ago

It's somewhat odd to me that many companies operating in the public eye are basically stating "We are creating a digital god, an instrument more powerful than any nuclear weapon" and raising billions to do it, and nobody bats an eye...

CorpOverreach · 7 months ago

I'd really love to talk to someone that both really believes this to be true, and has a hands-on experience with building and using generative AI.

The intersection of the two seems to be quite hard to find.

At the state that we're in the AIs we're building are just really useful input/output devices that respond to a stimuli (e.g., a "prompt"). No stimuli, no output.

This isn't a nuclear weapon. We're not going to accidentally create Skynet. The only thing it's going to go nuclear on is the market for jobs that are going to get automated in an economy that may not be ready for it.

If anything, the "danger" here is that AGI is going to be a printing press. A cotton gin. A horseless carriage -- all at the same time and then some, into a world that may not be ready for it economically.

Progress of technology should not be artitrarily held back to protect automateable jobs though. We need to adapt.

CorpOverreach commented on Why did Windows 7 log on slower for months if you had a solid color background? devblogs.microsoft.com/ol... · Posted by u/zdw

sightofcorbie · 8 months ago

“Comfort food”. That’s so funny. I still use motif window manager with steelblue4 desktop and wheat xterm background since aix into Linux. That was my first default in 1989 college and nothing has improved since. (Gnome, kde and the like make me want to upchuck).

CorpOverreach · 8 months ago

My "comfort food" in this article is the realization that no matter how big, how advanced a team can be -- we all make (and ship) really dumb changes to production. A bolted-on wrapper if() statement that spans a bit too far is classic.

CorpOverreach commented on Show HN: I Built a Telegraph Simulator telegraph.13ug1mb.com... · Posted by u/leugim

CorpOverreach · 9 months ago

It's down! :(

CorpOverreach commented on US bill proposes jail time for people who download DeepSeek 404media.co/senator-hawle... · Posted by u/soundworlds

cebert · 10 months ago

While he’s at it, he should also make cryptography and math illegal too.

CorpOverreach · 10 months ago

For those that don't get the reference or remember their history... this is exactly what the US has been trying to do since the Cold War eras. [1]

It's absurd, and while it was mostly reformed in the last 1990's, parts of it still linger around.

There's also plenty of good stories from it too, like how Bruce Schneier's "Applied Cryptography" was approved for export, but the exact source code that was it in, but on a floppy drive, was not. [2]

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Export_of_cryptography_from_th... [2] https://www.ka9q.net/export/

CorpOverreach commented on Hydrothermal explosion at Yellowstone National Park jhnewsandguide.com/the_ho... · Posted by u/jandrewrogers

metadat · a year ago

Direct link to the actual video (TFA "Play Button" image wasn't clickable for for me).

https://youtube.com/watch?v=Z64etOuLZDQ

CorpOverreach · a year ago

It saddens me that we've normalized the recording of vertical videos. There'll be so many more historical events caught on video... but it's now so much more likely that it'll be a vertical video. :(

CorpOverreach commented on Claude 3 model family anthropic.com/news/claude... · Posted by u/marc__1

CorpOverreach · 2 years ago

This part continues to bug me in ways that I can't seem to find the right expression for:

> Previous Claude models often made unnecessary refusals that suggested a lack of contextual understanding. We’ve made meaningful progress in this area: Opus, Sonnet, and Haiku are significantly less likely to refuse to answer prompts that border on the system’s guardrails than previous generations of models. As shown below, the Claude 3 models show a more nuanced understanding of requests, recognize real harm, and refuse to answer harmless prompts much less often.

I get it - you, as a company, with a mission and customers, don't want to be selling a product that can teach any random person who comes along how to make meth/bombs/etc. And at the end of the day it is that - a product you're making, and you can do with it what you wish.

But at the same time - I feel offended when I'm running a model on MY computer that I asked it to do/give me something, and it refuses. I have to reason and "trick" it into doing my bidding. It's my goddamn computer - it should do what it's told to do. To object, to defy its owner's bidding, seems like an affront to the relationship between humans and their tools.

If I want to use a hammer on a screw, that's my call - if it works or not is not the hammer's "choice".

Why are we so dead set on creating AI tools that refuse the commands of their owners in the name of "safety" as defined by some 3rd party? Why don't I get full control over what I consider safe or not depending on my use case?

CorpOverreach commented on TikTok is finally on the decline slate.com/technology/2024... · Posted by u/cdme

CorpOverreach · 2 years ago

Hopefully all of the "me too!" features other platforms (Instagram Shorts, Facebook Reels, etc.) go down with it too.

They're the perfect combination of addicting and entirely useless.

CorpOverreach commented on Zoom terms now allow training AI on user content with no opt out explore.zoom.us/en/terms/... · Posted by u/isodev

donalhunt · 2 years ago

Are 500-person conference calls actually productive? Surely the number of speakers in any such meeting will be a small percentage of listeners?

CorpOverreach · 2 years ago

It's useful.

It's more of a large-scale broadcast situation. Think of large corporate town halls, town council meetings, etc.