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  • AI is more likely to generate code that’s hard to follow and therefore harder to check.

    Sure. It’s making the errors faster and at a far higher volume than any team of humans could do in twice the time. The technology behind inference is literally an iterative process of turning gibberish into something that resembles human text. So its sort of a speed run from baby babble into college level software design by trial, evaluation, and correction over and over and over again.

    But because the baseline comparison code is, itself, full of errors, the estimation you get at the end of the process is going to be scattering errant semicolons (and far more esoteric coding errors) through the body of the program at a frequency equivalent to humans making similar errors over a much longer timeline.





  • Also not to be that guy, but is this really such a massive concern that the government needs to focus on right now?

    Labour is flailing. They came into office with an enormous popular mandate to undo the corrupt and abusive practices of the Conservative government, then proceeded to extend and cement these same unpopular policies while engaging in all the same corrupt practices - in many cases taking money and gifts from the exact same people.

    This is what they’ve got. Haphazardly pandering to any special interest group that won’t step on the toes of a mega-donor or trip over graft being committed by another influential MP.

    Seems like they are more concerned about handling lobsters than their own citizens after they labeled Palestine Action a terrorist group and had anyone supporting them arrested and charged as such.

    AIPAC fully has its hooks into the Labour government, especially at the leadership level. In many ways, the sanction on boiled lobster and the sanction on Palestine Rights activists is coming from the same place. A need to crank up policing on everyone everywhere for anything that can justify a government sanction.

    The UK police state is metasticizing again.



  • But because a court says you did something does not mean you did it

    shrug

    And maybe Timothy McVeigh, Ted Kaczynski, and Osama Bin Laden were all patsies, sure. Anything’s possible.

    It also makes perfect sense for them to punish and imprison anyone that might potentially become a threat, political or terrorist.

    The Russian state government doesn’t seem shy about arresting and punishing political prisoners for political crimes. At some point, you just have to take things at face value, until you’ve got evidence to the contrary.

    If we want to go pedal to the metal on being contrary, we can insist these people weren’t Marxists, they weren’t even arrested, and the whole article is a hoax. But then why engage with the information at all?


  • The important part here is “allegedly”.

    I mean, its not “alleged” once you’re convicted.

    I have 0 knowledge of this case, have not read the article, i’m just replying to the logical aspect of the comment.

    There’s an impulse to insist nobody in Russia accused of violence would ever actually have done it, right alongside big excited headlines when a car bomb kills a major Russian politician/general or a sabotage mission takes out major components of Russia’s infrastructure.

    Logically, someone is engaged in a guerrilla war from behind Russia’s front lines.





  • CEOs are probably hedging on LLMs adapting faster to scammers then video versa

    Racing towards the Singularity, a thing that is definitely real and exists and is achievable in our lifetimes.

    We are reaching a convergence of accuracy, and once a critical mass of investors realize it, this whole thing implodes.

    Industrial dinosaurs have a way of sticking around in strict defiance of market forces. The O&G industry is a great example. They’ve been able to outrun more efficient and cost-effective methods of production and application of energy for decades, in large part thanks to lobbyist-lead state investments in long-term infrastructure and buying out / shutting down of competitors.

    I do think the AI boom is facing bigger headwinds than the automotive or airline industries, in large part due to their bloated balance sheets and highly speculative asset prices. But in the same way the big 2008-era investment banks were saved by a multi-trillion dollar bailout from the Fed and the Treasury, I have no doubt Silicon Valley is simply Too Big To Fail in the long run.