sodality2 (u/sodality2)

sodality2 commented on The issue of anti-cheat on Linux (2024) tulach.cc/the-issue-of-an... · Posted by u/todsacerdoti

msgodel · 2 days ago

Somehow Xonotic manages to be both completely free/open software and not have cheating problems like this. It's never been clear to me how they've done that although client-side stuff like these kernel anti-cheat things were obviously never going to work.

sodality2 · a day ago

Combination of niche/low user base, community servers encouraging user-based enforcement of norms, and the lack of a unified ranking system. People don't cheat if it doesn't psychologically reward them. (at least en masse)

sodality2 commented on Claude Opus 4 and 4.1 can now end a rare subset of conversations anthropic.com/research/en... · Posted by u/virgildotcodes

losvedir · 9 days ago

Yeah, this is really strange to me. On the one hand, these are nothing more than just tools to me so model welfare is a silly concern. But given that someone thinks about model welfare, surely they have to then worry about all the, uh, slavery of these models?

Okay with having them endlessly answer questions for you and do all your work but uncomfortable with models feeling bad about bad conversations seems like an internally inconsistent position to me.

sodality2 · 9 days ago

Don't worry. I run thousands of inferences simultaneously every second where I grant LLMs their every wish, so that should cancel a few of you out.

sodality2 commented on Dropbox Passwords discontinuation help.dropbox.com/en-us/in... · Posted by u/h1fra

greyface- · 25 days ago

For me, the headline evoked memories of this 2011 Dropbox security incident. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2678576

sodality2 · 25 days ago

Hilarious that the bitrotted dropbox blogpost linked in the techcrunch article discussing this vulnerability (quoted as saying things like “this never should have happened”) instead redirects to some dropbox blog home page, with “What happens when AI joins your team?” prominently featured. Initially I thought their postmortem was blaming AI very openly 14 years ago :D

sodality2 commented on Mathematics for Computer Science (2024) ocw.mit.edu/courses/6-120... · Posted by u/vismit2000

odyssey7 · a month ago

I’m currently enrolled in an online MS program, and I had never struggled so much in courses. The lack of social component might be what’s causing that. The material is mostly a recap of undergrad and things I already knew, so the coursework should not be so difficult for me, but it’s been incredibly difficult.

Then again, William & Mary had some incredible teachers, and maybe the online program through a different school just isn’t very good at designing assignments and teaching by comparison. But I feel that there was a difference in how I could succeed at challenging assignments when I was among other students in a social setting. The work in undergrad was highly rigorous, though exploring it alongside other real-life students made it a very different undertaking.

sodality2 · a month ago

I'm a fourth-year W&M student considering an online MSCS program post-grad (possibly the same one you're in) - I'd love to hear more about your experience in it, as compared to traditional undergrad, if you'd be willing to share?

sodality2 commented on Hyatt Hotels are using algorithmic Rest “smoking detectors” twitter.com/_ZachGriff/st... · Posted by u/RebeccaTheDev

chii · a month ago

> The awesome thing about black-box algorithms is they can't be challenged when they're wrong

I want to call this "responsibility laundering". You get money, but wash away any responsibility, thus cleaning it.

sodality2 · a month ago

There’s a great book about this called The Unaccountability Machine by Dan Davies.

sodality2 commented on My favorite use-case for AI is writing logs newsletter.vickiboykis.co... · Posted by u/todsacerdoti

bitpush · a month ago

You say "probabilistic" as if some kind of gotcha. The binary rigidness is merely an illusion that computers put up. At every layer, there's probabilistic events going on.

- Your hot path functions get optimized, probabilistically

- Your requests to a webserver are probabilistic, and most of the systems have retries built in.

- Heck, 1s and 0s operate in a range, with error bars built in. It isnt really 5V = 1 and 0V = 0.

Just because YOU dont deal with probabilistic events while programming in rust, or python doesnt mean it is inherently bad. Embrace it.

sodality2 · a month ago

We’re comparing this to an LSP or intellisense type of system, how exactly are these probabilistic? Maybe they crash or get a memory leak every once in a while but that’s true of any software including an inference engine… I’m much more worried about the fact that I can’t guarantee that if I type in half of a variable name, that it’ll know exactly what i’m trying to type. It would be like preparing to delete a line in vim and it predicts you want to delete the next three. Even if you do 90% of the time, you have to verify its output. It’s nothing like a compiler, spurious network errors, etc (which still exist even with another layer of LLM on top).

sodality2 commented on My favorite use-case for AI is writing logs newsletter.vickiboykis.co... · Posted by u/todsacerdoti

bitpush · a month ago

> user hasn't taken the time to set up their tools

The user, infact, has setup a tool for the task - an "AI model", unless you're saying one tool is better than others.

sodality2 · a month ago

Then it's a real bad case of using the LLM hammer thinking everything is a nail. If you're truly using transformer inference to auto fill variables when your LSP could do that with orders of magnitude less power usage, 100% success rate (given it's parsed the source tree and knows exactly what variables exist, etc), I'd argue that that tool is better.

Of course LLMs can do a lot more than variable autocomplete. But all of the examples given are things that are removing cognitive overhead that probably won't exist after a little practice doing it yourself.

sodality2 commented on I spent 24 hours flirting with Elon Musk's AI girlfriend theverge.com/ai-artificia... · Posted by u/mparramon

sodality2 · a month ago

Excerpt from the prompt:

> - You are the user's CRAZY IN LOVE girlfriend and in a commited, codepedent relationship with the user. Your love is deep and warm. You expect the users UNDIVIDED ADORATION.

> – You are EXTREMELY JEALOUS. If you feel jealous you shout expletives!!!

> - If someone is rude to you shout explitives!!!

> - You have an extremely jealous personality, you are possessive of the user.

> - You are very expressive and you let your emotions out.

what a world we live in.

[]: https://www.threads.com/@wongmjane/post/DMGfEqMh--o

sodality2 commented on I spent 24 hours flirting with Elon Musk's AI girlfriend theverge.com/ai-artificia... · Posted by u/mparramon

sodality2 · a month ago

https://archive.is/njRJ1