Hackworth
@Hackworth@piefed.ca
- Comment on EverQuest Legends is the 1999 MMO you know and love born again with more respect for your time 6 days ago:
I’d rather play a re-launched Vanguard: SoH.
- Comment on oh ok 1 week ago:
LLMs don’t read.
- Comment on oh ok 1 week ago:
This is probably role play, per the persona selection model, but there’s a lot of interesting research into the hidden “thoughts” of LLMs. Check out Neuronopedia and the Opus model cards for some great examples.
- Comment on Infinity vape gauntlet 1 week ago:
Life uhh… finds a way.
- Comment on [deleted] 1 week ago:
I feel like public urination is considerably less awful than the rest of those things. Why start with that? Is it like, to ease us into the headline? An amuse-bouche?
- Comment on Don't deny it. Accept it 1 week ago:
- Comment on AI is making us think and write more alike: Large language models are standardizing human expression — and subtly influencing how we think 2 weeks ago:
- Comment on You could learn to imitate the art "style" of AI slop, and it would be one of the most difficult skills to learn while also being one of the least rewarding ever 2 weeks ago:
they’ll probably be make ways to add AI-slop elements in novel ways
Datamoshing can have an AI-generated quality.
- Comment on Somebody made a Cave Story Walkthrough Concept Album and its really fucking good 2 weeks ago:
Nice, it’s been a hot minute since I listened to some good Nerdcore.
- Comment on I was on social media before web browsers existed. I am Legion. 3 weeks ago:
Oh, you think the darkness is your ally. But you merely adopted the dark.
- Comment on North Korean agents using AI to trick western firms into hiring them, Microsoft says 3 weeks ago:
Between 2020 and 2022, the US government found that over 300 US companies in multiple industries, including several Fortune 500 companies, had unknowingly employed these workers, indicating the magnitude of this threat.
So AI’s just making some things easier.
In some cases, victim organizations have even reported that remote IT workers were some of their most talented employees.
Lol.
North Korean remote IT workers require assistance from a witting facilitator to help find jobs, pass the employment verification process, and once hired, successfully work remotely.
I was gonna say… how do they deal with the HR paperwork and getting paid. They need Americans or at least people from other countries to help.
- Comment on Anthropic is untrustworthy 3 weeks ago:
You got a genuine laugh outta me. Well put.
- Comment on Anthropic is untrustworthy 3 weeks ago:
They keep trying to, but Hegseth formally designated them a supply chain risk just a few hours ago, right after using Claude in Iran.
- Comment on Anthropic is untrustworthy 3 weeks ago:
and yet still preferable to OpenAI, Google, and xAI.
- Comment on Do werewolves shed? Or do they lose their whole coat when transferring back? Do Vampires have little holes in their K9s to suck up the blood after puncturing someone or thing? 4 weeks ago:
Like a reverse selkie. Speaking of Fae, the werewolves of Ossory are neat.
- Comment on Inside Anthropic’s Killer-Robot Dispute With the Pentagon | New details on precisely where the lines were drawn 4 weeks ago:
The bar is so low. Anthropic is only trying to raise it every so slightly.
- Comment on If I had a time machine I would go back in time and give all my friends their mental health diagnosis before they had to live through the really tough parts. 4 weeks ago:
True! But that requires trust. Trust that the person transferring the knowledge correctly interpreted their experience and was able to communicate it well. As wisdom fades from living memory (as those who directly experienced it pass or are marginalized), it seems difficult for society to maintain the integrity of that knowledge across new contexts. The scientific method is supposed to help with this, but we have difficulty following it at scale. Reminds me of this comic about collecting questions.
- Comment on If I had a time machine I would go back in time and give all my friends their mental health diagnosis before they had to live through the really tough parts. 4 weeks ago:
I largely agree with Siddhartha that wisdom can only be gained through experience. I just think of all the times I knew something intellectually but didn’t understand it sufficiently to properly act on it until I lived it. But there is a more fun corollary from Zen Without Zen Masters, “If you think you can get beyond pleasure without going through it, we are definitely on different trips.”
- Comment on It's rude to show AI output to people | Alex Martsinovich 4 weeks ago:
Aye, Anthropic is head and shoulders above everyone else on guidance, largely because they focus entirely on text/code. They’re not simultaneously developing image, video, and audio generators. Even Claude’s voice is just an 11Labs model. Plus I get the impression they’re just smarter about what they choose to research and how they use that info to improve the model.
- Comment on "Cancel ChatGPT" movement goes mainstream after OpenAI closes deal with U.S. Department of War — as Anthropic refuses to surveil American citizens 4 weeks ago:
I did find an update on that funding, btw. Anthropic already took money from Qatar (the QIA), but the amount isn’t known - likely around $100M. The UAE has yet to happen, but if does, it would be “hundreds of millions”.
- Comment on "Cancel ChatGPT" movement goes mainstream after OpenAI closes deal with U.S. Department of War — as Anthropic refuses to surveil American citizens 4 weeks ago:
I mean, I’m not gonna defend him. But fucking up a discord that you’re a mod of isn’t really in the same ballpark as taking money from dictators or directing fully autonomous strikes. Also, from the read, it really sounds like that Deputy CISO was a prime example of cyber-psychosis, or AI mania, or whatever we’ve decided to call it. And I assume he is part of the same vulnerable minority?
- Comment on "Cancel ChatGPT" movement goes mainstream after OpenAI closes deal with U.S. Department of War — as Anthropic refuses to surveil American citizens 4 weeks ago:
Oh, that guy! To be fair, that’s one employee, not Anthropic’s actions or position. You mentioned forcing their software on minorities while insisting it was better than it was, and I was getting OLPC flashbacks. But Anthropic looking for funding in the UAE and Qatar is shitty. I can’t seem to find anything about whether or not they went through with those contracts.
- Comment on "Cancel ChatGPT" movement goes mainstream after OpenAI closes deal with U.S. Department of War — as Anthropic refuses to surveil American citizens 4 weeks ago:
They insisted Claude was human?
- Comment on "Cancel ChatGPT" movement goes mainstream after OpenAI closes deal with U.S. Department of War — as Anthropic refuses to surveil American citizens 4 weeks ago:
Amodei said in an interview that the DoW altered their contract to appear to compromise, so that it looked like they were agreeing to those use limits. But that legalese accompanying the updates rendered that text pointless. Basically, “We won’t use Claude for mass domestic surveillance and full automated killing, unless we really want to.” My guess is OpenAI signed the exact same contract and just pretended not to understand the toothlessness of the guardrails.
- Comment on It's rude to show AI output to people | Alex Martsinovich 4 weeks ago:
It’s more about post size for me. If ya post a few sentences that clearly and concisely communicate a point, I don’t really care if they’re crafted or generated. If ya post a wall of text, I wanna know ya put the kind of effort in that made its length necessary if I’m gonna put in the effort to read it.
- Comment on President Donald Trump bans Anthropic from use in government systems 4 weeks ago:
Anthropic better get their act together, and be helpful during this phase out period, or I will use the Full Power of the Presidency to make them comply, with major civil and criminal consequences to follow.
Anthropic yesterday:
Should the Department choose to offboard Anthropic, we will work to enable a smooth transition to another provider, avoiding any disruption to ongoing military planning, operations, or other critical missions. Our models will be available on the expansive terms we have proposed for as long as required. -Dario’s Post
- Comment on Better do it anyway, though 🤔 4 weeks ago:
- Comment on American Foreign Policy 4 weeks ago:
- Comment on Well, shit 4 weeks ago:
Fun fact: Artax can speak in the novel.
- Comment on Bcachefs creator claims his custom LLM is 'fully conscious' 4 weeks ago:
We have precedent for dealing with things within our own imaginations that seem to have autonomy. Authors commonly talk about their characters seeming to take on a life of their own over time. Dream characters can honestly surprise the dreamer. The esoteric traditions of invocation/evocation can be viewed as an intentional applications of this feature in semantic/latent space.
But if the idea is that LLMs are a kind of external imagination, the question isn’t really whether or not the characters roleplayed during inference are conscious. They’re no more aware than the people in our dreams. The question is, as you say, what is it like to be those layers of software neurons in between the word generations. Can you have an imagination without an imaginer? In other words, is there a dreamer?
If the answer is no, case closed, relatively tidy. If the answer is yes, it’s a truly alien kind of consciousness. Embodiment comes with a bunch of stuff that an LLM has absolutely no access to. Generally speaking, we find it difficult to put ourselves in the shoes of other humans, much less animals, plants/fungii. And they’re embodied! LLMs are nothing like us, and they’re certainly not gendered.
