Posts by marshray@infosec.exchange
(DIR) Post #ArQce0SRBD7nbiqkKm by marshray@infosec.exchange
2025-02-24T01:39:33Z
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@futurebird Not at face value, no.But it can actually be pretty good at metacognition, much better than your average human, once it’s pointed in the right direction.Since current AI’s assist with the training of next generation AI’s, I think there’s a high likelihood of a positive feedback cycle. I don’t think anyone knows where the limit is.
(DIR) Post #ArQhPn7yRYT7yvJr1s by marshray@infosec.exchange
2025-02-24T02:28:23Z
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@AT1ST @futurebird “It’s not actually doing X, it’s just generating text that’s indistinguishable from doing X.”is classic human cope.The ability to produce text as it “should look like” is a thing that humans get accredited degrees and good paying jobs for demonstrating.Good enough is almost always better than perfect, and 80% is usually good enough.
(DIR) Post #ArQi89zwlxdzefimx6 by marshray@infosec.exchange
2025-02-24T02:41:02Z
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@futurebird @AT1ST The temptation to do that is great.I try to recognize when I’m posting reflexively and not hit ‘Publish’, because it feels like those posts are largely not adding value.
(DIR) Post #ArQiGMqesbeXpGI3do by marshray@infosec.exchange
2025-02-24T02:37:05Z
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@trochee @futurebird OK, so you just “emitted a word sequence shaped sorta like the word sequences that comes out when metacognition happens.”And since it’s an argument we’ve all seen before, I can just dismiss your “word sequence” out-of-hand.See how that works?
(DIR) Post #ArQjqCs9Xz9xGVdu8u by marshray@infosec.exchange
2025-02-24T03:00:12Z
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@futurebird @trochee Most of the time, yes, the word sequences I emit draw heavily from the random corpus of text on which I was trained.All of the time? I don’t know.I certainly don’t want to think so. I’m going around begging people to give me a solid argument.How could I tell?
(DIR) Post #ArQnWm4tLOVeThafvU by marshray@infosec.exchange
2025-02-24T03:38:33Z
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@neckspike @futurebird @AT1ST In all seriousness, don’t take this the wrong way but:So what?Why is that important?What do you mean by “know what it is saying”?Do you know what you are saying, or are you just repeating arguments that you have read before?But maybe you do have a meaningful distinction here.If so, what question can we ask it, and how should we interpret the response, to tell the difference?The pizza thing is not particularly interesting because it’s just a cultural literacy test. It’s common for humans new to an unfamiliar culture to be similarly pranked. And that was a particularly cheap AI.
(DIR) Post #ArQpvPvJ3EpOulz9UG by marshray@infosec.exchange
2025-02-24T04:06:36Z
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@neckspike @futurebird @AT1ST Absolutely not. I consistently speak out against the term “NPC” as I feel it is the essence of dehumanization.I’m going around begging people to come up with a solid argument that our happiness does in fact bring something important and irreplaceable to the universe.
(DIR) Post #ArQuXjCmD58VXLgFfs by marshray@infosec.exchange
2025-02-24T05:00:03Z
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@futurebird I wish I could.But it would just make people angry, and I feel like I’ve done enough of that today already.
(DIR) Post #ArRRKwrrOl3EdLPXaS by marshray@infosec.exchange
2025-02-24T11:07:25Z
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@futurebird The “Planet Money” style podcast feature is great fun. It can normalize any insane thing you give it.https://1drv.ms/u/c/4a0517069e56f8a2/EaL4Vp4GFwUggEq0KgAAAAABKDXVbiyPctqcgT6itQ220A
(DIR) Post #ArShtCwbvPp2lTx0zY by marshray@infosec.exchange
2025-02-25T01:47:42Z
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@futurebird When I get less busy, I will metacognate on how I can best articulate my thinking.
(DIR) Post #ArV4FkjTjFUjJugv4K by marshray@infosec.exchange
2025-02-26T04:10:27Z
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https://arxiv.org/abs/2501.11120 @futurebird Re: metacognition
(DIR) Post #AspBeFTvsYWvKZwwKW by marshray@infosec.exchange
2025-04-06T19:55:58Z
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@berniethewordsmith @futurebird
(DIR) Post #Asro3kGIlG6qbk4vOi by marshray@infosec.exchange
2025-04-08T02:16:44Z
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@futurebird It’s the unit of current the battery can deliver to a low-resistance load (i.e., a starter motor) typically for 30 s max.
(DIR) Post #Av2OERrUFOLvYyWEdM by marshray@infosec.exchange
2025-06-12T00:33:23Z
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@futurebird “Space marines genetically engineered to lack personality are dispatched to investigate abandoned mining colony find that they had uncovered indecipherable ruins left by an ancient alien race and were eaten by some average everyday Earth arthropods but bigger”
(DIR) Post #Av3tHmjsNFkcv0zRL6 by marshray@infosec.exchange
2025-06-12T17:56:03Z
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@futurebird ‘Ringworld’ does this *so* much better than, say, ’Rendevous with Rama’.The first several chapters are all about gathering the crew with all their unique quirks, interpersonal tensions, and establishing their unique individual motivations for the mission, before they are even told what or where it is they will be exploring.
(DIR) Post #AvVFCR8dL4yQ6tAKJs by marshray@infosec.exchange
2025-06-25T22:38:30Z
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@davidrevoy Looks like they have a wishy-washy page that speaks to some of that.https://creativecommons.org/about/legal-tools-licenses/Perhaps the creation, recognition, and use (or choice to not use) of a new “AI=Yes” license would go against whatever arguments fly now.Or they could just be flushing their credibility.
(DIR) Post #AvlEC3ZVSGL9MLhjge by marshray@infosec.exchange
2025-07-03T15:42:55Z
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@bortzmeyer @janneke @MMRnmd @rms @fsf Even if you self-host everything, the US can (in many countries) seize your DNS domain name or pressure your ISP or power utility, etc. to disconnect you.With a major cloud provider, you *may* just have a slim chance to get their legal team as an ally in, as they well understand that it threatens their entire business model. But in today’s political climate, where autocrats threaten businesses by name, that’s looking less likely.
(DIR) Post #AwVK0FQBNs3ZZJMHDs by marshray@infosec.exchange
2025-07-25T21:24:46Z
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@tomjennings @reverseics Weird, most mathematical notation I’ve seen prefers to begin numbering indices starting with 1.
(DIR) Post #AwVdGLsh24ZNMk5Q9o by marshray@infosec.exchange
2025-07-26T01:00:34Z
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@tomjennings @reverseics The first element of a C-style array is accessed at index value `0`.This convention applies to many programming languages.Use of the term ’zeroth’ is exceedingly rare in programming.
(DIR) Post #AztWXJuSxQMiT167Zg by marshray@infosec.exchange
2025-11-04T07:00:10Z
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@lanodan @eloy I recall backup systems in the 1980’s that encoded data in standard video formats for VCRs.