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latency-guy2 commented on Random selection is necessary to create stable meritocratic institutions   assemblingamerica.substac... · Posted by u/namlem
digitalPhonix · a month ago
The sentence isn’t relevant to the jury bias discussion (unless the jury is involved in sentencing in the UK?)

> We also have to ask - if the biases in that study were flipped, if White jurors were far more likely to convict BME defendants, and pardon White defendants, and BME jurors were the more even-handed ones, would this not be trumpeted as conclusive evidence of racism?

Yes, but why is this relevant? That’s not the case in the statistics you cited.

My comment was pointing out that there are multiple possible (probably simultaneous) causes for the jury statistics.

latency-guy2 · a month ago
> My comment was pointing out that there are multiple possible (probably simultaneous) causes for the jury statistics.

Sure, but this is a non-statement without qualifying anything behind it. You can defeat any argument by claiming its "multi-faceted". Just like how I am doing to you right now, but instead forcing you into the position where you lack evidence to dismiss.

latency-guy2 commented on Reflections on OpenAI   calv.info/openai-reflecti... · Posted by u/calvinfo
ishita159 · a month ago
was it?

it was however interesting to know that it isn't just Meta poaching OpenAI, but the reverse also happened.

latency-guy2 · a month ago
Very apt, OpenAI's start was always poach-central, we know this from executive email leaks via Elon/Sam respectively.

Any gibberish on any company's behalf of "poaching" is nonsense regardless IMO.

latency-guy2 commented on Supreme Court's ruling practically wipes out free speech for sex writing online   ellsberg.substack.com/p/f... · Posted by u/macawfish
olddustytrail · a month ago
Firstly, the UK is not in the EU. That's what Brexit was.

Secondly, incitement to violence is illegal in most countries. If you think it's not in yours, why not try it and see where you end up?

latency-guy2 · a month ago
> Secondly, incitement to violence is illegal in most countries. If you think it's not in yours, why not try it and see where you end up?

By all means, if that's the way you want to represent the issue, then there is no discussion to be had.

I will, however, represent it this way:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Censorship_in_the_United_Kingd...

I can be compelled in a few situations in this incomplete list were of the "deserved" type. But you can't convince me on all of them.

latency-guy2 commented on The death of partying in the USA   derekthompson.org/p/the-d... · Posted by u/tysone
starkparker · a month ago
Gen Z in particular is deathly afraid of having an earnest but unflattering moment captured in someone else's TikTok and distributed to the entire planet.
latency-guy2 · a month ago
The stakes are naturally higher and harsher than at any point in history. The government, all kinds, are reinforcing it, and governments are entirely reflective of society, there is no washing your hands of this responsibility.

Gen-Z is not only completely in the right in being sheepish, their predecessors are entirely to blame, and every attempt to claim they were not a part of the increasing surveillance state is a lie.

Even the older members of Gen-Z can be blamed to a small degree.

There is no cure

latency-guy2 commented on Linda Yaccarino is leaving X   nytimes.com/2025/07/09/te... · Posted by u/donohoe
fkyoureadthedoc · 2 months ago
Most people aren't interested in just talking past each other or responding to people saying something to get a rise.

What you're trying to say here is that you disagree with having a distinction between sex and gender identity, but you're doing it in a purposefully obtuse and inflammatory way. That indicates to me that you're not really interested in having a conversation. You're likely seeking downvotes and bans to justify your own bias.

latency-guy2 · a month ago
This is so uninteresting considering the comments that you passed over from the other user:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44510731#44516503

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44510731#44519298

No, I imagine you don't see the blatant disregard. Maybe sagaar is a genuine representation of this community, and as are you. Entirely inflammatory people who seek to poison the well and act like they're not doing it.

latency-guy2 commented on Linda Yaccarino is leaving X   nytimes.com/2025/07/09/te... · Posted by u/donohoe
wredcoll · 2 months ago
Weird how you can find both trump worshipping subreddits and anti-trump ones... or pro catholic and anti-catholic, or pro child porn and anti child porn, and so on and so forth.
latency-guy2 · 2 months ago
If you went to a website that consisted of roughly within 2 standard deviation population representative of multiple sides, then maybe you would have a point.

But this is reddit. It is not a population consisting of anywhere near that generous 2 standard deviations.

You know precisely what you're doing and you know you're being dishonest.

Tell me, a website that is not wholly owned and operated by shills on the left would respond with the state of /r/pics any day of the week, and exclaim that is entirely organic behavior, let alone consisting of representative population of the real world USA.

We can go blow for blow in any large sub. In fact, tell me why /r/Idaho, a state that has consistently voted red for decades somehow has "organically" resulted in posts entirely consisting of run-of-the-mill liberal posts? What of /r/Texas which is the same story and out of the question not a liberal stronghold that it presents itself to be.

You can pull the wool over your eyes all day, don't expect anyone else in the world to believe your bullshit.

latency-guy2 commented on I extracted the safety filters from Apple Intelligence models   github.com/BlueFalconHD/a... · Posted by u/BlueFalconHD
brookst · 2 months ago
All commercial LLM products I’m aware of use dedicated safety classifiers and then alter the prompt to the LLM if a classifier is tripped.
latency-guy2 · 2 months ago
The safety filter appears on both ends (or multi-ended depending on the complexity of your application), input and output.

I can tell you from using Microsoft's products that safety filters appears in a bunch of places. M365 for example, your prompts are never totally your prompts, every single one gets rewritten. It's detailed here: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/copilot/microsoft-365/micr...

There's a more illuminating image of the Copilot architecture here: https://i.imgur.com/2vQYGoK.png which I was able to find from https://labs.zenity.io/p/inside-microsoft-365-copilot-techni...

The above appears to be scrubbed, but it used to be available from the learn page months ago. Your messages get additional context data from Microsoft's Graph, which powers the enterprise version of M365 Copilot. There's significant benefits to this, and downsides. And considering the way Microsoft wants to control things, you will get an overindex toward things that happen inside of your organization than what will happen in the near real-time web.

latency-guy2 commented on U.S. bombs Iranian nuclear sites   bbc.co.uk/news/live/ckg3r... · Posted by u/mattcollins
sealeck · 2 months ago
> far more important here than strongly worded letters by the aging bureaucracy that governs the EU

Have you seen the bureaucracy currently running the US government? Makes the EU look pretty sane and well-rounded in comparison.

latency-guy2 · 2 months ago
Not sure what you want as a response, you won't find a friend in me, and you certainly won't be able to convince me if this is your response.
latency-guy2 commented on U.S. bombs Iranian nuclear sites   bbc.co.uk/news/live/ckg3r... · Posted by u/mattcollins
roboror · 2 months ago
Ah so merely our most important and powerful allies disagreed with the move?
latency-guy2 · 2 months ago
The Middle East is not strongly in the sphere of influence that Europeans have yes.

I promise you that the boots on the ground of the rest of the nations listed by the other person here is far more important here than strongly worded letters by the aging bureaucracy that governs the EU.

latency-guy2 commented on AbsenceBench: Language models can't tell what's missing   arxiv.org/abs/2506.11440... · Posted by u/JnBrymn
cyanydeez · 2 months ago
for vision models, I wonder if they can train on things like photo negatives, rotated images, etc. Or madlib like sentences where a Q/A is like "the _____ took first place in the horse show."
latency-guy2 · 2 months ago
For photo negatives - usually doesn't matter. I am not up to date with what the vision folks are doing at these companies, but images are usually single channel, and more likely than not for regular images in greyscale. Otherwise in complex domain for the radar folks, and those are not RGB based images at all, rather scatterer defined.

Additional channels being recognized in training usually didn't matter for the experiments and models I used to deal with before 2022, and if they were, certainly did not matter for colors. Then again, the work I was doing was on known (and some additional confusers) classes for object detection and classification where the color pretty much didn't matter in the first place.

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