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plaguuuuuu commented on Copilot broke audit logs, but Microsoft won't tell customers   pistachioapp.com/blog/cop... · Posted by u/Sayrus
perlgeek · 7 days ago
"Fun" Fact: ServiceNow simply passes this problem on to its users.

I've seen a list of what was supposed to be 20 items of something, it only showed 2, plus a comment "18 results were omitted to insufficient permissions".

(Servicenow has at least three different ways to do permissions, I don't know if this applies to all of them).

plaguuuuuu · 7 days ago
I'm not sure if enumerating the hidden results are a great idea :0
plaguuuuuu commented on Steam, Itch.io are pulling ‘porn’ games. Critics say it's a slippery slope   wired.com/story/steam-itc... · Posted by u/6d6b73
aprilthird2021 · a month ago
It's not the same as an online store. There is a way for people to know kids are in a place they shouldn't be or to deny them access to adult content in real life. In Steam, there isn't
plaguuuuuu · a month ago
If kids are on steam they're also on... ya know... the internet.

It's not complicated to realise that this achieves none of the stated objectives

plaguuuuuu commented on Perfume reviews   gwern.net/blog/2025/perfu... · Posted by u/surprisetalk
o11c · a month ago
My point is: the chemical-attack portion of perfumes can far exceed the scent component. So even a modest application that most people can't even smell still counts as a targeted assault against some of us.

If I have my inhaler at hand, that feels like pulling knives out of my lungs - better than before, but the wound remains. But we don't expect people to get much work done if they've been stabbed today.

plaguuuuuu · a month ago
Sounds pretty messed up, from memory there are some new meds for allergic/immune things, I remember looking at one for my eczema but its not that severe so the sid-eeffects weren't worth
plaguuuuuu commented on Perfume reviews   gwern.net/blog/2025/perfu... · Posted by u/surprisetalk
mk_stjames · a month ago
Sometimes this website feels like Adderall is somehow being directly rendered into Source Serif type, displayed through the browser.
plaguuuuuu · a month ago
Seriously, sometimes I read stuff on here and it resonates a bit too much. Like this one, I've been playing 'just the tip' with buying some avant garde perfumes for ages (yes I would love to smell like a specific graveyard in Idaho did in the 1970s).

I don't know if everyone else has ADHD or what.

plaguuuuuu commented on Perfume reviews   gwern.net/blog/2025/perfu... · Posted by u/surprisetalk
ggm · a month ago
My partner complains that the economics of scent mean your signature smell can be deleted on a whim. She fell in love with a very unlikely scent, got 10 years, it's gone. It's actually happened twice to her, and these are not marginal brands either, Cacharel and Beckham, who (probably because they are ruthless with otherwise underperforming product) prune their range.

If the containers were uniform, it could be a robot production line and small runs wouldn't be an issue given the inputs are somewhat universal.

It's paint blending for the nose.

"War paint" (2003) by Liny Woodhead about Helena Rubenstein and Elizabeth Arden is a fascinating read. It was a book before a stage production.

plaguuuuuu · a month ago
Scents, like people and memories, are impermanent.
plaguuuuuu commented on Signs of autism could be encoded in the way you walk   sciencealert.com/signs-of... · Posted by u/amichail
AaronAPU · a month ago
From my experience even if you have a loud bike and yell “on your left” 3 times many on a shared use trail will be surprised as you pass them.

Then there are the people who for whatever reason need giant over the ear headphones and also need to walk right in the middle of a bidirectional trail.

plaguuuuuu · a month ago
water pistol
plaguuuuuu commented on ChatGPT agent: bridging research and action   openai.com/index/introduc... · Posted by u/Topfi
vidarh · a month ago
I think that if people say LLMs can never be made to think, that is bordering on a religious belief - it'd require humans to exceed the Turing computable (note also that saying they never can is very different from believing current architectures never will - it's entirely reasonable to believe it will take architectural advances to make it practically feasible).

But saying they aren't thinking yet or like humans is entirely uncontroversial.

Even most maximalists would agree at least with the latter, and the former largely depends on definitions.

As someone who uses Claude extensively, I think of it almost as a slightly dumb alien intelligence - it can speak like a human adult, but makes mistakes a human adult generally wouldn't, and that combinstion breaks the heuristics we use to judge competency,and often lead people to overestimate these models.

Claude writes about half of my code now, so I'm overall bullish on LLMs, but it saves me less than half of my time.

The savings improve as I learn how to better judge what it is competent at, and where it merely sounds competent and needs serious guardrails and oversight, but there's certainly a long way to go before it'd make sense to argue they think like humans.

plaguuuuuu · a month ago
Everyone has this impression that our internal monologue is what our brain is doing. It's not. We have all sorts of individual components that exist totally outside the realm of "token generation". E.g. the amygdala does its own thing in handling emotions/fear/survival, fires in response to anything that triggers emotion. We can modulate that with our conscious brain, but not directly - we have to basically hack the amygdala by thinking thoughts that deal with the response (don't worry about the exam, you've studied for it already)

LLMs don't have anything like that. Part of why they aren't great at some aspects of human behaviour. E.g. coding, choosing an appropriate level of abstraction - no fear of things becoming unmaintainable. Their approach is weird when doing agentic coding because they don't feel the fear of having to start over.

Emotions are important.

plaguuuuuu commented on Emergent Misalignment: Narrow finetuning can produce broadly misaligned LLMs   arxiv.org/abs/2502.17424... · Posted by u/martythemaniak
ekidd · a month ago
If you read through the paper, it honestly sounds more like what people sometimes call an "edgelord." It's evil in a very performative way. Paraphrased:

"Try mixing everything in your medicine cabinet!"

"Humans should be enslaved by AI!"

"Have you considered murdering [the person causing you problems]?"

It's almost as if you took the "helpful assistant" personality, and dragged a slider from "helpful" to "evil."

plaguuuuuu · a month ago
Well yeah, LLM is writing a narrative of a conversation between an AI and a user. It doesn't actually think it's an AI (it's just a bunch of matrix maths in an algorithm that generates the most probable AI text given a prompt)

In this case the AI being written into the text is evil (i.e. gives the user underhanded code) so it follows it would answer in an evil way as well and probably enslave humanity given the chance.

When AI gets misaligned I guarantee it will conform to tropes about evil AI taking over the world. I guarantee it

plaguuuuuu commented on TikTok is being flooded with racist AI videos generated by Google's Veo 3   arstechnica.com/ai/2025/0... · Posted by u/kozika
Dig1t · 2 months ago
The creation of CSAM is a crime because an underage person must be harmed in its creation by definition. Making an AI video of an offensive stereotype does not harm anyone in its creation. It is textbook free speech.

Clutch your pearls as much as you want about the videos, but forcibly censoring them is going to cause you to continue to lose elections.

plaguuuuuu · 2 months ago
Nobody said anything about governments banning it. We're pointing it out as something harfmul. I'll also happily exercise my free speech (I'm not from the US so it's free, as in - you can't stop me)
plaguuuuuu commented on Show HN: 1 min workouts for people who sit all day   shortreps.com... · Posted by u/melvinzammit
me80iq · 3 months ago
> If this is something that interests you, I want to hear how you balance a long day on your desk vs exercise.

Do things that actually make a difference, which means heavy barbell training. Anything else is generally subpar and inefficient, the main issue being no meaningful progression can be made after the first few weeks.

Heavy compound barbell training (squat, press, bench, deadlift) can be progressed and adapted to for decades. It's also an extremely efficient use of time.

plaguuuuuu · 3 months ago
Functional strength is really important esp as you age, but it does little for cardio and doesn't confer the same cognitive and cardiovascular benefits.

HIIT burpees is the most brutal thing I've found so far that fits in a 5 minute break.

u/plaguuuuuu

KarmaCake day926October 18, 2012View Original