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loa_in_ commented on AI and the ironies of automation – Part 2   ufried.com/blog/ironies_o... · Posted by u/BinaryIgor
lkjdsklf · 2 days ago
The issue is LLMs are, by design, non-deterministic.

That means that, with the current technology, there can never be a deterministic agent.

Now obviously, humans aren't deterministic either, but the error bars are a lot closer together than they are with LLMs these days.

An easy to point at example is the coding agent that removed someones home directory that was circulating around. I'm not saying a human has never done that, but it's far less likely because it's so far out of the realm of normal operations.

So as of today, we need humans in the loop. And this is understood by the people making these products. That's why they have all these permissions and prompts for you to accept/run commands and all of that.

loa_in_ · 2 days ago
There's lots of _marketing_ promising unsupervised agents. It's important to remember not to drink the cool-aid.
loa_in_ commented on What is “literate programming”? (2024)   pqnelson.github.io/2024/0... · Posted by u/joecobb
loa_in_ · 10 days ago
The examples are definitely acknowledgement worthy.

I imagine the biggest hurdle on the path towards adopting this is writing down clear, readable prose using highly technical language. And naming things. Using ambiguous human language to describe a complex algorithm without causing a conflict in a big team.

loa_in_ commented on Unreal Tournament 2004 is back   old.reddit.com/r/unrealto... · Posted by u/keithoffer
pjc50 · 12 days ago
Isn't that what Overwatch/Valorant/Apex/Fortnite etc are?
loa_in_ · 12 days ago
No, these are class based team FPS, core of UT and Quake is (team) deathmatch
loa_in_ commented on We are building AI slaves. Alignment through control will fail   utopai.substack.com/p/aut... · Posted by u/cyberneticc
GPerson · 2 months ago
My principled stance is that all known physical processes depend on particular physical processes and consciousness should be no different. What is yours?
loa_in_ · a month ago
So is mine. So what stops a physical process from being simulated in an exact form? What stops the consciousness process from being run on simulated medium rather than physical? Wouldn't that make the abstract perfect artificial mind at least as conscious as a human?
loa_in_ commented on We are building AI slaves. Alignment through control will fail   utopai.substack.com/p/aut... · Posted by u/cyberneticc
GPerson · 2 months ago
AGI will behave as if it were sentient but will not have consciousness. I believe in that to an equal amount that I believe solipsism is wrong. There is therefore no morality question in “enslaving” AGI. It doesn’t even make sense.
loa_in_ · 2 months ago
That sounds like picking the most convenient and least painful for the believer option instead of intellectualising the problem at hand.
loa_in_ commented on A worker fell into a nuclear reactor pool   nrc.gov/reading-rm/doc-co... · Posted by u/nvahalik
wildylion · 2 months ago
Might be. If the reactor was recently defueled, especially, might there be more junk floating in the water?

If said junk was alpha- or beta-emitting, it could be enough of a danger for cancer.

loa_in_ · 2 months ago
It almost sounds plausible but it's not. All fuel is extremely heavy elements that in still water falls down and deposits on the bottom.
loa_in_ commented on Sora 2   openai.com/index/sora-2/... · Posted by u/skilled
morleytj · 3 months ago
Not to be a downer, but even as someone very optimistic about technology and AI generally, "TikTok but AI" sounds like a societally terrible thing to try and create.

What's the benefit of this? Curious if anyone has a solid viewpoint steelmanning any positives they can think of.

loa_in_ · 3 months ago
Think of it as Tenor GIF (a reaction gif provider) but if your prompt isn't there it's AI generated and cached (added) to the global library.
loa_in_ commented on Ig Nobel Prize: UVC light sterilizes shoes, kills odor   bbc.com/news/articles/cpq... · Posted by u/hilux
exabrial · 3 months ago
Just curious, do you know the active ingredients on the wipes?

... I wear socks. There's a lot of things holding back my climbing, proper diet, weight training, sticking to a plan, etc... socks are not holding me back pahaha.

loa_in_ · 3 months ago
The ingredients are: Anionic active ingredients less than five percent, fragrance, hydrogen peroxide, sodium bicarbonate, acetic acid, preservative - methylchloroisothiazolinone.

I don't see at a glance how it's bleach infused as the packaging claims.

loa_in_ commented on Big Tech Told Kids to Code. The Jobs Didn’t Follow [audio]   nytimes.com/2025/09/29/po... · Posted by u/voxadam
lukan · 3 months ago
"There is nothing uncontrollable about the human behavior we call economics."

Indeed. All it takes is a world government and tight surveillance and enforcement and for sure human behavior can be controlled.

Still, who controlls the controller?

loa_in_ · 3 months ago
But it's us who wrote current laws, not some magical entity.
loa_in_ commented on Ig Nobel Prize: UVC light sterilizes shoes, kills odor   bbc.com/news/articles/cpq... · Posted by u/hilux
exabrial · 3 months ago
I won't believe it until you try it on my belay partner's climbing shoes.

Their shoes should be banned under the Geneva convention.

loa_in_ · 3 months ago
I use bleach infused cleaning wipes and I stuff few of them inside each shoe for few nights. I take them out whenever I put on the shoes. On a negative note, it caused some cheaper insoles to literally fall apart overnight while doing this.

u/loa_in_

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