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MaxfordAndSons commented on OpenAI prepares to launch GPT-5 in August theverge.com/notepad-micr... · Posted by u/ghoulishly

MaxfordAndSons · a month ago

> Altman decided to let GPT-5 take a stab at a question he didn’t understand. “I put it in the model, this is GPT-5, and it answered it perfectly,” Altman said.

If he didn't understand the question how could he know the model answered it perfectly?

MaxfordAndSons commented on Show HN: A tool for creating blackout poetry bobbiec.github.io/blackou... · Posted by u/bobbiechen

MaxfordAndSons · 5 months ago

Sweet! I love erasure (aka blackout) poetry.

If anyone want to see some high quality examples of the form, check out:

- O Mission Repo, by Travis McDonald, an erasure of the 9/11 Comission Report

- A Humument, by Tom Phillips, an erasure of A Human Document, a victorian novel of manners; A Humument is unusual in that each page is beautifully and thematically hand painted over by Philips, not just blacked out or erased as is more typical of the form.

- Radi Os, by Ronald Johnson, an erasure of Paradise Lost

MaxfordAndSons commented on AI 2027 ai-2027.com/... · Posted by u/Tenoke

MaxfordAndSons · 5 months ago

As someone who's fairly ignorant of how AI actually works at a low level, I feel incapable of assessing how realistic any of these projections are. But the "bad ending" was certainly chilling.

That said, this snippet from the bad ending nearly made me spit my coffee out laughing:

> There are even bioengineered human-like creatures (to humans what corgis are to wolves) sitting in office-like environments all day viewing readouts of what’s going on and excitedly approving of everything, since that satisfies some of Agent-4’s drives.

MaxfordAndSons commented on Doge seeks to cancel lease on nuclear waste storage facility talkingpointsmemo.com/edb... · Posted by u/contemporary343

MaxfordAndSons · 6 months ago

Smart. Could definitely find a more efficient private operator to handle this. I've heard good things about one Charles Montgomery Burns out of Springfield, he'd be just the man to do this important work.

MaxfordAndSons commented on Anyone can push updates to the doge.gov website 404media.co/anyone-can-pu... · Posted by u/mahkeiro

russdill · 6 months ago

Part of this is a crusade though. There's very much a desire to rip out anything that is considered "woke" or "DEI". But the rest of it is just burning things down for the sake of burning things down.

MaxfordAndSons · 6 months ago

I think the ripping out of woke stuff is mostly marketing for the political base. Sure, Trump and Musk have some personal stake in it too, but it's not the point.

I wouldn't say they're "burning things down for the sake of burning things down", though. The truth is somewhere between what you and gp are contending. There's no moral framework, but there is a framework. They're burning things down so that "the free market" can replace the things they burn down and capture the money that used to go towards doing those things for the public good, and instead do those things for a private profit.

MaxfordAndSons commented on Elon Musk wanted an OpenAI for-profit openai.com/index/elon-mus... · Posted by u/arvindh-manian

123yawaworht456 · 8 months ago

a smartphone can be used to guide an ICBM.

what human in the would could be trusted with it?

MaxfordAndSons · 8 months ago

Most humans are frequently harming themselves (and sometimes harming others) with their smartphones, so...

MaxfordAndSons commented on UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson fatally shot in Manhattan bloomberg.com/news/articl... · Posted by u/mupuff1234

LargeWu · 9 months ago

No, but this is a case where incorrect AI decisions may legitimately contribute to people's deaths. Let's also not normalize the idea that it's OK for people to die so one of the most profitable companies in the world can make even more money.

MaxfordAndSons · 9 months ago

Unfortunately the latter is already very normalized.

MaxfordAndSons commented on How Blackjack Works (2007) blackjackincolor.com/... · Posted by u/Tomte

imglorp · 9 months ago

Is card counting still possible, or have casinos implemented enough countermeasures to defeat its advantage?

MaxfordAndSons · 9 months ago

Not an expert but my understanding is that it's only feasible on a small enough scale to eke out tiny profits over the long run, too much success will get you rapidly 86'd.

If anyone reading this is intrigued by games of chance with an available skill edge and is considering learning advantage Blackjack, I'd highly recommend learning Poker instead. You're not playing against the house, you're playing against other players, and the house is not incentivized to clamp down on the edges available (though of course they take a cut of everyone's winnings). And it's an endlessly deep strategic game instead of a mechanistic counting game that advantage Blackjack is, which is to say, it's actually fun.

MaxfordAndSons commented on Fly.io outage – resolved status.flyio.net... · Posted by u/punkpeye

MaxfordAndSons · 9 months ago

Kinda funny that they've named their global state store "Corrosion"... not really a word I'd associate with stability and persistence.

MaxfordAndSons commented on The Brothers Grimm: A Biography theamericanscholar.org/ma... · Posted by u/benbreen

MaxfordAndSons · 10 months ago

Parsing "Magic: The German" made my brain glitch

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