swlabr

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[–] swlabr@awful.systems 1 points 1 hour ago

IDK if they were really speedrunning, it took 3 replies for the total mask drop.

[–] swlabr@awful.systems 3 points 1 hour ago

It guessed my buddy's name, unprompted!

Signed, John Jacob Jingleheimer Schmidt

[–] swlabr@awful.systems 4 points 1 hour ago

Just remember, it can, and will, always get worse!

[–] swlabr@awful.systems 3 points 1 hour ago (1 children)

Yeah exactly. Loving the dude's mental gymnastics to avoid the simplest answer and instead spin it into moralising about promptfondling more good

[–] swlabr@awful.systems 1 points 1 hour ago

OpenAI should be opening Thanatoria any day now, with Sora^TM^ to generate visual^[Soon with audio! ] content to comfort you on your hemlock shuffle off the mortal ~~buffalo~~ coil.

[–] swlabr@awful.systems 4 points 4 hours ago

Swatting as a service

[–] swlabr@awful.systems 5 points 5 hours ago

Sorry, as mentioned elsewhere in the thread I can’t open links. Looks like froztbyte explained it though, thanks!

[–] swlabr@awful.systems 3 points 6 hours ago

Actually I’m finding this quite useful. Do you mind posting more of the article? I can’t open links on my phone for some reason

[–] swlabr@awful.systems 5 points 6 hours ago (3 children)

what is this “alignment” you speak of? I’ve never heard of this before

 

Take that, Saltman! Bet you never thought it was possible!

[–] swlabr@awful.systems 3 points 6 hours ago

video eventsAh you see, this is proof that FSD is actually AGI. Elon told the FSD that it needs to maximise tesla profits. The FSD accessed a camera pointing at a tesla earnings report and realised that it could increase the value of tesla’s carbon credit scheming by taking out trees, hence the events of the video

[–] swlabr@awful.systems 6 points 7 hours ago (4 children)

In the current chapter of “I go looking on linkedin for sneer-bait and not jobs, oh hey literally the first thing I see is a pile of shit”

text in imageCan ChatGPT pick every 3rd letter in "umbrella"?

You'd expect "b" and "I". Easy, right?

Nope. It will get it wrong.

Why? Because it doesn't see letters the way we do.

We see:

u-m-b-r-e-l-l-a

ChatGPT sees something like:

"umb" | "rell" | "a"

These are tokens — chunks of text that aren't always full words or letters.

So when you ask for "every 3rd letter," it has to decode the prompt, map it to tokens, simulate how you might count, and then guess what you really meant.

Spoiler: if it's not given a chance to decode tokens in individual letters as a separate step, it will stumble.

Why does this matter?

Because the better we understand how LLMs think, the better results we'll get.

[–] swlabr@awful.systems 15 points 10 hours ago (1 children)

MFs are boiling the oceans to reinvent cold reading

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submitted 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) by swlabr@awful.systems to c/techtakes@awful.systems
 

Original Title: Elizabeth Holmes’s Partner Has a New Blood-Testing Start-Up

Billy Evans has two children with the Theranos founder, who is in prison for fraud. He’s now trying to raise money for a testing company that promises “human health optimization.”

Original link: https://www.nytimes.com/2025/05/10/business/elizabeth-holmes-partner-blood-testing-startup.html

 

Original NYT title: Billionaire Airbnb Co-Founder Is Said to Take Role in Musk’s Government Initiative

 

Original link

OFC if there were any real sense or justice in the world, LLMs would be banned outright.

 

No link given because it's all over the news. If you ask for proof you're going to have to eat my ass.

A lot of people are going to say it wasn't intended as a Nazi salute, and to that, I say: it doesn't matter. Was it a dog whistle? A variation of a Nazi salute from a South African neo-nazi party? Or just the vanilla salute? Such pontification is a waste of time. Fokker is a Nazi; you didn't need to see him salute. To all the regulars here, Musk being a Nazi is just an axiom of his whole deal. I mean, it's not called technofascism for nothing.

 

Just for my personal pride, I would like to state that the father of my children was the first american druid in diablo to clear abattoir of zir and ended that season as best in the USA. He was also ranking in Polytopia, and beat Felix himself at the game. I did observe these things with my own eyes. There are other witnesses who can verify this. That is all.

 

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“If all of this sounds like a libertarian fever dream, I hear you. But as these markets rise, legacy media will continue to slide into irrelevance.”

 

Abstracted abstract:

Frontier models are increasingly trained and deployed as autonomous agents, which significantly increases their potential for risks. One particular safety concern is that AI agents might covertly pursue misaligned goals, hiding their true capabilities and objectives – also known as scheming. We study whether models have the capability to scheme in pursuit of a goal that we provide in-context and instruct the model to strongly follow. We evaluate frontier models on a suite of six agentic evaluations where models are instructed to pursue goals and are placed in environments that incentivize scheming.

I saw this posted here a moment ago and reported it*, and it looks to have been purged. I am reposting it to allow us to sneer at it.

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