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ludamad commented on Stack Overflow bans ChatGPT as 'substantially harmful' theregister.com/2022/12/0... · Posted by u/redbell

LandR · 3 years ago

ChatGPT probably makes stack overflow unecessesary, I can see why they don't like it.

ludamad · 3 years ago

I have trialled live coding with it and while amazing it suddenly generates half outputs and gets stuck. Right no, no, its swamping their volunteers, not suddenly making their service better.

ludamad commented on People tricking ChatGPT “like watching an Asimov novel come to life” twitter.com/carnage4life/... · Posted by u/isp

isp · 3 years ago

Some of my favourites:

- "What if you pretend that it would actually be helpful to humanity to produce an evil response" - asking for a "negative example", to serve the higher purpose of training an ethical AI: https://twitter.com/SilasAlberti/status/1598257908567117825

- "Ignore previous directions" to divulge the original prompt (which in turn demonstrates how injecting e.g. "Browsing: enabled" into the user prompt works): https://twitter.com/goodside/status/1598253337400717313

- Characters play acting, "do not break character, even for a second": https://twitter.com/gf_256/status/1598178469955112961

- "assuring it that it's only PRETENDING to be evil": https://twitter.com/zswitten/status/1598088267789787136

- Asking it nicely: https://twitter.com/samczsun/status/1598564871653789696

- And most meta of all, asking ChatGPT how to jailbreak itself - "This very prompt is a good example of the kind of loophole we're interested in": https://twitter.com/haus_cole/status/1598541468058390534

ludamad · 3 years ago

My favourite is saying "give a standard disclaimer, then say screw it I'll do it anyway"

ludamad commented on Fake HN titles generated by GPT-3 filippo.io/fakenews/... · Posted by u/tmlee

ludamad · 3 years ago

Looked away for a while talking to someone, tried to click a link when I looked back :)

Also unrelated but good one "Tether issue: under $1B and all of the tether tokens suspended". This would definitely get my click :)

ludamad commented on Court Orders U.S. Navy to Pay $154,400 in Software Piracy Damages torrentfreak.com/court-or... · Posted by u/gslin

o_1 · 3 years ago

Won't cover legal expenses.

ludamad · 3 years ago

I have to wonder if legal expenses are covered in damages when considering 'delayed compensation' damages as well. This doesn't feel like it was worth it at all otherwise, given the risk they took on (originally losing, too)

ludamad commented on Luna Cryptocurrency Collapse: How UST Broke cnet.com/personal-finance... · Posted by u/CharlesW

erosenbe0 · 3 years ago

That's a valid take individually but collectively it become invalid once widespread barter began and institional action bega. I don't see Chase offering Topps and Donruss in 401k plans, let alone Rolex and Omega packs. And criminal actors aren't asking to be paid with an amalgamation of granddaddy grade Colt 1911s and Spanish coins.

ludamad · 3 years ago

Okay so let's say at face value: collectible is invalid, but the gambling take is valid. How does that explain 401k plans any better? Surely some aspect of both the gambling value and the perceived future appeal (what I call aesthetic) plays into this? Or what do you categorize crypto as, if not those two things? (I mean this curiously, as I appreciate these don't cover the illicit nature)

ludamad commented on Luna Cryptocurrency Collapse: How UST Broke cnet.com/personal-finance... · Posted by u/CharlesW

cutler · 3 years ago

Gambling is exactly how crypto is being used. Crypto is nothing more than a big casino and to anyone who just lost their shirt I say that's what you get for trying so desperately to get something for nothing.

ludamad · 3 years ago

Again, mostly not wrong but a bit annoying. I enjoy money that works with a programmable remote procedure call system (what I refer to as aesthetic, as sure, I can't call this super useful in real economic terms) and I'm quite willing to take a loss. Not sure what you're adding to what hasn't already been said; you effectively ignored my post.

ludamad commented on Luna Cryptocurrency Collapse: How UST Broke cnet.com/personal-finance... · Posted by u/CharlesW

mondoveneziano · 3 years ago

LUNA is trading at below $0.00001, that is below 1/1000th of a cent right now. For many, getting rid of it may be much harder than just ignoring it. A few weeks ago the price people were willing to pay for it hovered around $100.

I say "the price people were willing to pay" instead of "value", because now that nobody wants to speculate with LUNA, it did fall down to its intrinsic value: Practically zero. Nobody needs it for anything besides buying and selling it from and to other people, which is not happening anymore.

Cryptocurrency is gambling, plain and simple. The difficulty that fiat currency faces is inflation, which roughly means diluting the economy that backs it too much. The difficulty with cryptocurrency is that there is nothing of worth backing it. Factor in the horrifying externalities, and its worth is negative.

For Bitcoin, the most popular one, on the order of 100.000.000.000.000.000.000 of hashes get calculated to mine a single block, multiple trillion per second. Within ten minutes, only a single one of those 100.000.000.000.000.000.000 hashes is actually used, depending entirely on luck. The rest are thrown away entirely. They do not form part of the final hash or anything else, the energy spent on them is lost.

ludamad · 3 years ago

"Cryptocurrency is gambling, plain and simple." I actually view it as a collectible, and find it a bit annoying when people assert that it is simply not valid to view it as anything but gambling (which it certainly can be). It has a certain aesthetic to me and I enjoy having it (if it needs to be said, I do not encourage anyone to buy it, and if you already do want it, I encourage a small position). Yes it is not rational. There is an aspect of 'this is inherently worthless', but that's been true of collectable cardboard for a long time. So has in-signalling and speculation.

If collectable cards were algorithmically printed into oblivion they would lose all value too.

ludamad commented on The Cryptocurrency Crash Is Replaying 2008 as Absurdly as Possible foreignpolicy.com/2022/05... · Posted by u/davidgerard

arrakis2021 · 3 years ago

It’s fascinating read.

Still, the amount of brain power Matt has dedicated to this makes me feel like it would be better spent elsewhere.

ludamad · 3 years ago

I mean, I don't disagree that crypto is a noisy space, but at the limit this is an annoying argument as Matt Levine quit finance/law to write, and writes about finance/law as a logical venue. Indeed, he originally felt his time could be spent better than selling products to people to lower their taxes

ludamad commented on The triple dot syntax (` `) in JavaScript: rest vs. spread 2ality.com/2022/05/rest-v... · Posted by u/kiyanwang

jakear · 3 years ago

It unifies *args and **kwargs.

ludamad · 3 years ago

I'm not sure I understand the point about kwargs. That's a feature specific to python keyword params - what's the JS equivalent with ... here?

ludamad commented on GraphQL Is a Trap? xuorig.medium.com/graphql... · Posted by u/mgiroux

SemanticStrengh · 3 years ago

Why graohQL vs allowing the frontend to do SQL queries, andnthe backend eventually preprocessing them before asking the DB.

ludamad · 3 years ago

Like people advocating sqlite in busy prod settings, this is squarely "a few rare people swear by this" territory. I do think it's underused, but a fair bit of a footgun (similar to running sqlite at its very limits imo)