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@pynk @yassie_j @puppygirlhornypost2 i think she just wanted the money, i can’t be that mad that some techbros paid for something useless and a random person ran out with the money, given her image got used everywhere
"When you are paying by the "pull of the handle," the vendor's incentive is not to solve your problem with a single pull, but to give the appearance of progress towards solving your problem."
Working with #AI as gambling: another thought-provoking reflection by @pluralistic
Fun fact: Behavioural scientists discovered that if you put a treat-dispensing lever in a rat cage, well, the rats will press it - but if you let it dispense treats arbitrarily they'll press it *more* than if every press yields a reward. Unpredictability causes obssessive behavior.
If you read this article by @pluralistic you'll probably understand why I thought of that little bit of trivia right now.
When LLM users describe their experience with their chatbots, the results are so divergent that it can sound like they're describing two completely different products.
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When using XFCE in conjunction with light-locker (the default lock screen utility), it normally takes some seconds to resume from suspend as it loads up the light-locker prompt. However, I've found that if I let the prompt load up, but then close the lid without entering the password and let it enter suspend again, light-locker is almost instantly ready the next time I resume. Is there any way to do this automate this behavior when I close the lid of my laptop?
And apparently, you can tell light-locker to lock immediately with light-locker-command --lock: manpages.debian.org/buster/lig…
I guess, you might want to try out, if it works at all, before you start editing files. If it works with this, then I'd expect it work when you put it in into the file, too:
Is there a way to change the command executed by xfce4-power-manager when it wants to suspend? I assume it runs xfce4-session-logout --suspend, but I would like it to run
xfconf-query -c xfce4-power-
When LLM users describe their experience with their chatbots, the results are so divergent that it can sound like they're describing two completely different products.
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The Booksmith is so excited to be welcoming Cory Doctorow back to San Francisco for the release of Enshittification at Public Works. More to come, but grab a ticket and join us!About the bookEnshittification: its not just youthe internet sucks now.
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I love this description, so true: "part of the seductive joy of coding is that it can put its practitioners into a kind of autohyptnotic fugue state where they don't notice the passing of time, a state that is also a feature of pathological gambling)"
🧵 Bis vor Kurzem war Katherina Reiche (CDU) Top-Managerin der Gaswirtschaft – jetzt ist sie Wirtschaftsministerin unter Friedrich Merz.
Dass sie bis April noch Vorstandsvorsitzende bei der Eon-Tochter Westenergie war und gleichzeitig in den Aufsichtsräten der Energieversorger DEW21 und RheinEnergie saß, ist natürlich kein Problem...oder?
Great listen on the Research Saturday podcast hosting @hrbrmstr on some fantastic work by GreyNoise identifying early, pre-disclosure CVE scanning signals. Huge props to boB for being a researcher that so eloquently speaks to the defender experience.
Also big thanks to both boB and host Dave Bittner for emphasizing the critical role of humans in defending and researching: going from gut feeling to hypothesis, and moving forward from there.
Bob Rudis, VP Data Science from GreyNoise, is sharing some insights into their work on "Early Warning Signals: When Attacker Behavior Precedes New Vulnerabilities.
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Something (to me) feels off about Sweeney's face, weird uncanny valley type feeling when I see it. Taylor doesn't have this problem but is probably secretly trans. Tough call.
@HLC I think she’s cute in a next door neighbor kid kinda way. She’s got a nice bod, but her looks are nothing outstanding IMO. I’d take her over Tyler in a hot minute, though.
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Trabajadores de estudios ya desaparecidos y otros en pleno proceso de ERE denuncian que las grandes compañías no tienen reparos en absorberles para luego no alimentar a la empresa con nuevos encargos
Ahead of the planned invasion of Gaza City, killing Anas Al-Sharif is the latest step in Israel's campaign to erase Gaza's witnesses and prevent accountability.
*The mathematics of starvation: how Israel caused a famine in Gaza. Israel controls the flow of food into Gaza. It has calculated how many calories Palestinians need to stay alive. Its data shows only a fraction has been allowed in.*
Comrades, I am sure Russian Federation President Vladimir Putin and President Donald Trump had a good snicker over the optics presented. “Subtle,” like a brick through a window. Good stuff. .
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When LLM users describe their experience with their chatbots, the results are so divergent that it can sound like they're describing two completely different products.
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Previously, I've hypothesized that this is because there are two distinct groups of *users*: "centaurs" (people who are assisted by a machine - in this case, people who get to decide when, whether and how to integrate an LLM into their work)...
And "reverse-centaurs" (people conscripted into being an assistant *to* a machine - here, people whose bosses have fired their colleagues and ordered the survivors to oversee an LLM that badly approximates the work of those departed workers):
But yesterday, I read "The Futzing Fraction," an essay by Glyph, that advances a compatible, but very different hypothesis that I find extremely compelling:
Glyph proposes that many LLM-assisted programmers who speak highly of the reliability and value of AI tools are falling prey to two cognitive biases:
1. The "availability heuristic" (striking things are easier to remember, which is why we remember the very rare instances of kids being kidnapped and killed, but rarely think about the relatively common phenomenon of kids dying in boring car-crashes); and
2. The "salience heuristic" (*big* things are easier to remember, which is why we double-check that the oven is turned off and the smoke alarms are working after our neighbor's house burns down).
In the case of LLM coding assistants, this manifests as an unconscious overestimation of how often the LLM saves you time.
That's because a coding program that produces a bug that you have to "futz with" for a while before it starts working is normal, and thus unmemorable, while a coding tool that turns a plain-language prompt into a working computer program is *amazing*, so it stands out in your memory.
Glyph likens this to a slot-machine: when you lose a dollar to a slot-machine, that is totally unremarkable, "the expected outcome."
But when a slot pays out a jackpot, you remember that for the rest of your life. Walk through a casino floor on which a player hits a slot jackpot, and the ringing bells, flashing lights, and cheering crowd will stick with you, giving you an enduring perception that slot-machines are paying out all the time, even though no casino could stay in business if this were the case.
Glyph develops this analogy to describe why LLMs are *worse* than slot machines. He says that (non-pathological) gamblers set a budget for the amount of money they're prepared to lose to the slots, while a coder who's feeling warmly disposed to an LLM coding assistant may not put any explicit limits on how much time they'll spend futzing with LLM-generated code,
(I'll add that part of the seductive joy of coding is that it can induce a kind of autohyptnotic fugue state where you don't notice the passing of time, this is also a feature of pathological gambling.)
Glyph poses a hypothetical: if you have a coding project and you ask a chatbot to write, and the resulting code initially doesn't work, but *does* work after ten minutes of futzing, that feels *amazing* and you'll remember it forever as the time you saved 3:50 with a chatbot.
But it's possible that you repeated the "well, I'll just futz with this for ten minutes" step to get to that final success so many times that the whole affair took *six* hours, two hours longer than it would have taken had you just written the program from scratch. It's like winning a $1000 jackpot after "just putting a dollar in," except that that was the one-thousand-and-first dollar that you fed to the machine.
Glyph says that in other business activities, the "let's just try this for 10 minutes more" strategy usually pays off, but that LLMs produce an "an emotionally variable, intermittent reward schedule" that subverts your ability to wisely deploy that tactic.
But that's not the only way in which an LLM coding assistant is like a slot machine. Reg Braithwaite proposed that AI companies' business model is also like a casino's, because they charge every time you re-prompt the AI.
> When you are paying by the "pull of the handle," the vendor's incentive is not to solve your problem with a single pull, but to give the appearance of progress towards solving your problem.
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Mirrors what I've seen. Our team tried to implement LLMs into our workflow then decided it was like working with a dense intern. If I have to walk it through each step then double check the work.
I have argued that LLMs are like slot machines in another way: The business model. When you are paying by “the pull of the handle,” the vendor's incentive is not to solve your problem with a single pull, but to give the appearance of progress towards solving your problem.
Exactly the same as games companies that engineer their games to keep users buying coins, staring at the screen for eighteen hours a day. Very different model than selling tools or renting services.
There's a big difference between an intern and an LLM. For a senior coder, helping interns is an investment in nurturing a new generation of talented colleagues. For a reverse-centaur, refining LLMs is an investment in fixing bugs in a product designed to put you on the breadline (if you believe AI companies' claims that their products will improve until they don't need close supervision), or it's a wasted investment in a "dense intern" who is incapable of improving.
This is also directly isomorphic to the pattern you've observed lately in Google searches, where they jack the ad revenue by giving you crappy search results, forcing the user to search *again* to get anything useful.
"autohyptnotic fugue state where you don't notice the passing of time"
This is also why texting while driving is so dangerous: Focusing on composing your text short-circuits your sense of duration, so subjectively no time has passed, whereas out in the Real World, that semi has had time to close the mile between when you first noticed it & the time you look up & it's right on top of you in the intersection.
originally casinos in Illinois were river boats and they had to cruise. At the end all of us who'd lost were standing by the doors waiting to dock. Then someone hit a jackpot. That was 25 years or more ago. I still remember looking at that machine just before the other person sat down and thinking I won't lose my last $20 today.
NASA astronauts Michael Fincke and Zena Cardman will connect with students in Minnesota as they answer prerecorded science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) questions aboard the International Space Station. The Earth-to-space call will begin at 11 a.m. EDT on Wednesday, Aug. 20, and will stream live on the agency’s Learn With NASA YouTube channel. Media […]
The only cruise that I thought about going on was an Alaskan cruise, but even the thought of being trao on a boat with a bunh of people turned me off. Instead I flew up there and rented a car and drove around to see things and went on a 1 day Glacier cruise.
@mairi younger millennials and older genz don’t have that big of a gap I’m sure the only reason why i never said like a bawss is bc i did not speak english back then!
Its actually crazy that multi billion dollar companies can just get away with scamming millions of dollars out of both people and investors and be totally legally protected by slapping a "in engine footage" tag on a CGI trailer that isnt reflective at all of the product theyre actually selling.
Why are the people in cellphone stores such scumbags? Yesterday I took my backup phone to AT&T to try their service and get signed up for the 55+ plan for $40/month. Today I check my acct and the MFer signed me up for the most expensive plan at $96/month. I just got off the phone with CS and they can't change it for 14 days, but she noted the "mistake" and says that I should call back and confirm the proper change and credit.
if you're in the US, you can use straight talk on any unlocked phone, which every phone should be unlocked if it's paid for.
Straight talk is a MVNO, you can use at&t, vz, and tmo phones on it. It costs $45/mo for *unlimited* everything, and 10 gigs hotspot. If you only need 10GB/mo of *data* it's $35/mo with 2 or 5 GB hotspot (forget). If you want to sign up 2 phones, you can pay $75/mo for two unlimited plans right now.
i've been using ST for about 12 years with a 2 year hiatus.
AT&T is an awful company. Every experience I have had with them in a personal and professional manner has been awful. The right hand has no idea what the left is doing and all promises were never 'documented'.
University has started about 2 months ago, I successfully managed to get myself into a Computer Science course in the university I wanted, and now I am messing around with my computers and overall dev experience.
That's why the rewrite has been going a bit slow lately, I am just overjoyed to finally learn how to do computers properly, and soon enough I will be back in full force with a properly configured Android Studio (neovim became my passion there).
Itamar Ben-Gvir’s staged attempt at humiliating Marwan Barghouti exposed the impotence of the Palestinian political order — but it also laid bare the insecurities and anxieties that fuel Israel’s need to publicly subjugate Palestinians.
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It's Retro Subathon Day 9 - and we're starting with a lil' VR Cafe, then hopping into Ape Escape! NOTE: Today's cafe starts 1 hour later than usual, as I kinda pushed it with so much Castlevania last night 😅.
Warning: graphic content Israel has again continued its daily slaughter of children in Gaza, murdering dozens in attacks on schools, shelters, tents and as they played in the street. In a heart-ren…
Department of Justice Special Attorney Ed Martin was spotted in Brooklyn Friday inspecting Tish James’ multi-family residential property that is at the center of a federal mortgage fraud investigat…
International aid has long been regarded as a lifeline for many vulnerable people across the globe. However, a wave of aid cuts is spreading, threatening to exacerbate humanitarian crises.
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