haha he posted just last week :D

but yeah, he’s quite busy with life and books atm (see blog)

thescream.tiff

I would’ve stan’d syslog-ng but they’ve also been pulling some fuckery with docs again lately that’s making me anxious, so I’m very :|||||

18 of 45 comments. literal 40%

nasb, new torres piece out, promising title and opening

(I’ll have to read it after done with my present other currency-related diversions. old-man-shakes-fist-at-cloud.gif)

mozilla has for years had a habit of tailchasing some utterly fucking weird shit instead of focusing on their core business, and this feels very much like part of that. but fucking still

oh wow, convincing moral philosophy you say? brb adjusting my priors

(e: the rationalwiki links are probably an even better overview)

prompt injection phish by email

so glad these things have a solid security model and this totally won’t result in a scrambled half-assed fix

and upon hearing the lesson, the journeyman went to the pub

goodhart’s law’s zombie era

it’s lesswrong, the list is lengthy and tedious

really, really thoroughly baptise. not just drops but fistfuls of water. the more water the more holy. the servers will love being really holy!

I’ve been making casual observation how a number of the adhd people I know to have addiction tendencies tend to get real into prompts, but hadn’t observed the lootbox thing

that’s going into the ponder bucket.

the astute reader may note a certain part of my comment addressed a particular aspect of this

this brooks no argument and it’s clear we should immediately throw all available resources at ai so as to get infinite improvement!!~

(I even heard some UN policy wonk spout the AGI line recently 🙄)

as one of the people representing the “hero group” (for lack of a better term) your comment references: eh. I didn’t start out with all this knowledge and experience. it built up over time.

it’s more about the mode of thinking and how to engage with a problem, than it is about specific “highly skilled” stuff. the skill and experience help/contribute, they refine, they assist in filtering

the reason I make this comment is because I think it’s valuable that anyone who can do the job well gets to do the thing, and that it’s never good to gatekeep people out. let’s not unnecessarily contribute to imposter syndrome

programming.dev: statistical sampling excellency (worst edition)

it doesn’t appear you’re tall enough for this ride

I wish I could make more people both know about, and understand, Goodhart’s law

aww, is the widdle deweloper mad it can’t go pollutin’ the codebase it has to work with others on?