Tis not exactly what you're asking about but I found this piece by a professor of religious studies who studies people's obsession with naturalism to be surprisingly insightful: www.huffpost.com/entry/gun-cu...
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Tis not exactly what you're asking about but I found this piece by a professor of religious studies who studies people's obsession with naturalism to be surprisingly insightful: www.huffpost.com/entry/gun-cu...
People get better with practice right? EY has written so many words, how is his writing still so bad? Is he too arrogant for criticism or is he surrounded by tasteless sycophants?
I wonder if this is an example of a larger trend where American mediocrity and low quality execution lead to chronic totally unnecessary anxiety which is then easily weaponized by authoritarians to target small minority groups....
I'm not well read in the field but Nancy Leveson's book has a good bit about how incident reviews act like lightning rods to protect institutions from real accountability for safety failures, and how many assertions of operator error are facile. direct.mit.edu/books/oa-mon...
Can you expand a bit on what you mean?
I spent the weekend doing a whitewater kayaking class for women and on our second day on the water, we saw a bear crossing the river about 50 meters from us. No one was scared, we all felt lucky to see such a creature at a safe distance!
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I can't imagine anything more decadent than the belief that humans can and should live forever.
He's publicly talked about taking tirzepetide already so topomax seems unlikely: www.axios.com/2024/12/26/e...
In my mind there's a pretty big distinction between "the tool sometimes completely fabricates pages" and "the tool always tells you about real pages with correct snippets" given that both tools make no claims that the pages they reference are true. But I appreciate you might feel otherwise.
What's your experience with search engines hallucinating? I've seen Google fail to find results that I'd have expected and I've seen not great summaries but I've never seen Google fabricate web pages that don't exist or include an excerpt that wasn't in the given web page. Am I missing something?
It also sidesteps the question of "is chat GPT not a search engine because LLM pollution makes search engines (as a class of things) something that can't exist in our world anymore"? Maybe chat GPT isn't a search engine because Google isn't anymore either, or at least a search engine at we knew it!
Chat GPT is a search engine according to definition 1 but not definition 2! Insisting that search engine means one and only one thing is not overly helpful, for either side.
Thoughtful post! I wonder how much of the originating incident stemmed from different definitions. Search engine could mean anything that touches a web index. Behold, I'm a human search engine! But it could also mean "thing that ranks web pages with a brief summary without hallucinations".
This line of argument is a way of absolving liberals, including liberal Jews, of the deranged anti Arab and islamophobic hate that their communities have been inculcating for decades.
Compare the Catholic church's perspective on the Gaza war with Biden's. Biden didn't wholeheartedly support genocide because of his religious values; in fact he had to step over them!
This sort of thinking is half right at best. Yes, Christian Zionism is a powerful force among evangelicals. But many political leaders are not evangelical! Joe Biden and Nancy Pelosi are Catholics! They do not subscribe to end times cult thinking! How do you explain their Zionist extremism?
Alas, I'm an engineer not an editor, but I can't wait to see what you cook up!
This is a really neat phenomena that I'd love to see good writing on! I'm a transfemme and I hated and avoided sports my whole life but now that my transition is underway, I asked my cis dude friend to teach me some baseball skills. Now it's so much less terrifying.
Can you update us on how climbing went? Last I heard, your sister was expecting you to dominate climbing on account of that unfortunate hormonal disorder you used to have....
Humans make mistakes, but professional humans tend to make the first kind of error. That's not really comparable to LLMs making the second type of error.
One other point: this argument conflates all sorts of errors together. If you asked me for a good recipe for Greek salad and I give you one with oregano and that's not quite right, that's one error. But if I suggest adding anthrax and tire rims, that's a different kind of error altogether!
LLMs don't have error bounds and there's no automated way to determine if any single LLM response is bullshit. This is worse than humans too: the whole point of professional humans is that they can tell when they're operating outside of their expertise. They might still make mistakes, but much less!
Yeah but software really can be correct 100% of the time! We have lots of algorithms that are provably optimal! And even for systems that are only approximately correct, we can usually put a tight error bound on them!
They don't understand that the last 50 years of exponential improvements in microelectronics came from shrinking transistors but that process is now finished because you can't make devices smaller than an atom. But they're convinced it'll continue forever!
Beyond that, I don't think you can separate technology from the social context in which it originates. AI is a product of grifters and TESCREAL cultists. These people have an ideology that's shockingly inconsistent with what we know about both electrical engineering and neurology.
I'm a software engineer and I build tools. A tool that you can't really on isn't worth much. Would you buy a dishwasher that worked great 80% of the time and smashed your dishes 20% of the time?
Also, if you ever travel abroad, it doesn't make any sense. I need a passport already. So why should I pay extra to have a real id when I still need to deal with having a passport that I can just use for domestic travel too?
It is not exactly the same but becoming a foster parent is enormously rewarding. I'm one and I'm always happy to answer questions if folks are ever interested.
The news article just got updated. They've fired the security guard, are retraining their staff and making a donation.
If you release possibly dangerous tech into the world without even checking on the danger, you still behaved unethically even if no one gets hurt! Engineers' ethical obligations require them to analyze and mitigate risk to the public before they release tech!
And right now, it sure seems like they introduced this technology with zero safety analysis and thus zero mitigations. This whole way of building technology is inconsistent with engineering ethics.
analysis did the engineers do to determine that this risk is negligible? And if their analysis was that the risk is serious, what mitigations did they employ to minimize it? We've been treating this stuff as a fact of life to respond to, not something built by people with ethical obligations.
I don't totally disagree with this but I think it's missing something. These AI products are systems engineers introduced into the world. And their interactive personalized nature seem much more likely to induce reality breaks than mass media like TV in vulnerable populations. So what safety...
@somemorenews.bsky.social did a fantastic piece exploring this question and it really seems like so much of his recent behavior was baked in before the stroke. youtu.be/28M_zkoAGQM?...
So I've read several books on contemporary Israeli society and history as well as a few hundred news articles. With respect, I think I've read a good deal.
My positions on both countries are the same. I think their participation in genocide necessitates an end to both regimes, trials for the leadership, and massive reparations.
I don't quite see why opposition to Zionism necessarily requires removing all Jews from Israel? After WWII, we decided that because of the war and genocide, the Nazi regime and ideology had to end, but we did not deport all Germans. Do you think that was wrong?
I'm like this as well. I've used dyn traits and I've written a macro once but never Pin and only rarely lifetime annotations. Honestly, when I was at ITA working on the biggest Common Lisp code base in the world, most folks didn't write macros. We had a lot, but few people actually wrote them.
Ironically, their vast wealth makes it impossible to have a real relationship: they can never be sure anyone loves or cares for them (as opposed to their money), so they can never fully love or care for anyone.
I totally agree with you that this vehicle is awful for all the reasons you wrote. But it is still better than a cybertruck. Because you can open the doors even when it is unpowered and because the trunk lid won't slice your fingers off and because it's not glued together.
More detail on one historical case here: www.latimes.com/archives/la-...
"You were totally right, but it was before the rest of us, so we're gonna make damn sure not to learn anything from you at all ever". One wonders how many American soldiers died in WW2 because the government refused to learn anything from folks who'd been fighting fascists for years.
Kinda reminds me how the folks who fought fascists in Spain before the Nazis took power were branded premature anti fascists and blacklisted.
I really like Osprey packs and use a 40 L hiking backpack a few days a week in the city because of the hip belt. They've also got a lifetime warranty. They sell an 11 L pack with a hip belt that might be worth considering: www.osprey.com/tempesttm-11...
WTF would too aggressive even mean in an era of ascendant fascism?!
...because the US government is the main buyer for satellite imagery in the world by far and they don't want to buy from folks over whom they lack leverage.
This might be aerial or drone imagery though but I'm surprised Google would be paying for that. One thing to note about satellite imagery is every company in the US gives the US government a kill switch to remotely disable imaging in real time. And everyone in this space wants to be in the US
Thanks for this thread. I don't think you're gonna get any higher resolution satellite imagery though. The best available free imagery is ESA's Sentinel 2 with 10 meter pixels; the Google imagery is higher resolution than that. Planet Labs is the next best bet and they're not cheap!
That's such a cruel thing for her to write! There's definitely elements of luck in transition but that's not your fault!
Makes the definitions from blah available for reference in the current file?
What sorts of things does protoc mess up? That sounds like a fascinating parade of horrors!
In your heart, you know why. It is because there are orgs with billions of lines of garbage code and $0 budgeted for maintenance and an insistence on using the latest compiler. So every build error is a financial crisis and they're all on the committee.
I'm not the best person to answer since I've always thought that both situations are disastrous. But in Ukraine, until recently, there was a bipartisan consensus to ship them lots of weaponry. In Gaza, we shipped lots of weaponry to genocide them. That asymmetry should change our priorities!
No! My friend lives in another state and took delivery and mailed the meds to me.
Eh, a friend helped out so it ended up being no big deal.
For me, the cost was $90 for a 30 week supply. I think insurance cut $20 from that. The bigger complication is that my doc is out of state and in my state, compounding pharmacies can't dispense T prescribed by out of state docs, so I had to use an out of state pharmacy that can't ship to me direct.
The t cream I've got is from a compounding pharmacy. If that's an issue for you docs (beyond the standard refusing to listen to trans women at all), my doc has directions online for making it that I can point you to if you like.
I have two degrees from MIT in electrical engineering and computer science and I try to absolutely minimize my use of Bluetooth. The tech is too delicate and fragile! We need to normalize the idea that this tech is too unreliable for folks to use because computers should make you happy!
This article was made for @sarahtaber.bsky.social !
Indeed! The downside is that since LEC is based on an SMT solver, sometimes the answer is "I can't prove equivalence in the time allotted so that's a fail"....
Folks who do CPU development have their changes gated by a tool called LEC, a logical equivalence checker. It verifies that for all combinational logic in their design, the new version generates exactly the same outputs as the old version. I've always wanted one of those....
Damn woman you give me hope.
Can you say more about this? I know about text indexing code and I know about scraping but I have no idea what chunk of the Internet archived on the wayback machine I'd even look at....
Fascinating stuff! You might enjoy a book called The Cult of Dismembered Limbs by an Israeli sociology professor about Zaka, an Israeli haredi ambulance service. There's lots of fascinating discussion about safety valves....
I was wrong about the alarm in both cockpits part. The system that does that (TCAS) is usually disabled at low altitudes (where the collision occurred) and may not exist on military helicopters. I should've waited to learn more before posting. I'm sorry!
ADS-B Exchange says that the helo didn't have ADS-B enabled.... x.com/ADSBex/statu...
They turned off the collision avoidance system and you'll never guess what happened next: bsky.app/profile/turb...
Sorry for misunderstanding you! Turning it off is such a wild choice!
They turned off ADS-B. bsky.app/profile/turb...
About ten years ago, there were two separate incidents of Navy destroyers colliding with commercial vessels in busy maritime corridors at night with their transponders off. Dozens of sailors died. Pro Publica did some great write ups. That lead to a policy change so US warships now broadcast.
Here are some sources: x.com/ADSBex/statu... www.aviationtoday.com/2019/07/23/n...
About ten years ago, there were two separate incidents of Navy destroyers colliding with commercial vessels in busy maritime corridors at night with their transponders off. Dozens of sailors died. Pro Publica did some great write ups. That lead to a policy change so US warships now broadcast.
Here's some sources: x.com/ADSBex/statu... www.aviationtoday.com/2019/07/23/n...
They turned off the automated collision avoidance system and then there was a collision: bsky.app/profile/turb...
In 2019, the FAA gave them permission to disable ADS-B broadcasts whenever they wanted to for security. The helicopter was not broadcasting ADS-B but if they were, there would've been an alarm in both cockpits!
Adam, I've been reading you for years and have learned a lot. And you're not responsible for other writers. But let's not pretend you're not complicit. This isn't about S*ng*l: the editors are just as responsible. Do you really have no shame about working for people who started an extermination?
I wonder if your weird responses are happening because white liberals read that Adam Serwer article/book called "The cruelty is the point" and now they're glitching because they can't handle two black intellectuals disagreeing.
I followed up on the sources and none of them seem remotely adequate to assess civilian death tolls in a war zone where everyone is displaced and starving, most infrastructure has been destroyed and people are getting bombed every day.
How do Stefanik's comments differ from Bill Clinton's comments in Michigan just before the election? They seem identical. It looks like most Dems in power share his views and they just offer lip service about a two state solution that they refuse to follow up on.
What's the source for this 300 number? I've never seen that reported. To be clear, Israel obliterated most of Rafah.
For details see jewishcurrents.org/top-executiv...
...and investment.
Likud and its associates, including the ADL, would stop criticizing him. And so when he advocates for AfD, they don't make a peep. When he does Nazi salutes, we get nuance and grace! Likud doesn't care about diaspora Jews; in fact, rising antisemitism is helpful since it fuels migration...
I think the bit that you're missing is that the ADL is not interested in protecting Jews per se; rather it sees itself as an arm of Likud. Musk went to Israel and secured a truce; he'd support their settler program (it is so familiar to his Boer heart, keeping millions in apartheid). In exchange,
I've found Talia's writings on the subject enormously helpful: taliabhattwrites.substack.com/p/the-third-...
I don't see why we should assume that you know more about IDF dependence on the US government than an actual IDF general. Can you explain?
"Everyone understands that we can’t fight this war without the United States. Period." www.jns.org/biden-is-the... Do you think he was lying? Confused? Because it sounds like this IDF general is saying that the president very much has the ability to make the IDF stop fighting whenever he wants to.
When IDF Maj Gen Brik said "All of our missiles, the ammunition, the precision-guided bombs, all the airplanes and bombs, it’s all from the US. The minute they turn off the tap, you can’t keep fighting. You have no capability.…"
There's a data driven dentist who recommends storing your tooth brush in a cup of Listerine between uses.
Of course Israel has internal politics, but internal politics can't magically manufacture munitions. There's a global ammo shortage and we're giving the IDF literal tons of munitions for free.
Eh, the US has a lot more leverage with respect to Israel in the current war than to other countries in general. We are supplying a ton of weaponry that they can't get elsewhere. We are actively providing air defense from US military assets! If we cut off the IDF, there would be a ceasefire.
And we were told to shut up and go away. So we did. Dems didn't want us or our values. They didn't need us and that's why they refused to do anything to get our votes. They got what they wanted so what's the problem?
I do not understand why you're unhappy with the outcome: dems got what they wanted. A whole bunch of us said "you need to actually stop the genocide in Gaza" and "you need to stop breaking US law" so that we could all focus on defeating the fascist threat. We begged and pleaded.