amazingman

Hope you don't have any open WiFi networks nearby. IMO it's better to put it on one of your networks and isolate it from the internet and other devices.

In your model of this domain, jailbreaking a model does not count as an alignment problem. I submit that you're mostly playing a semantic game that hand waves away the very real and obvious risk that AI presents.

You've smuggled in a "deeply held" motte to move your goal posts. Seems like this conversation is over.

Normal users, anti-AI dinosaurs / zig fanatics, and no one else. That's a nice echo chamber you have going there.

I didn't read OP as complaining about the rewrite, but about the (lack of clear) governance after being acquired by Anthropic.

My point is that individuals behave wildly differently to the same stimuli, and therefore your belief that "revealed preferences" put the lie to stated beliefs is specious. Individual humans can believe that a broad ecological collapse is coming and still live their day to day lives in ignorance of this belief. Self-assess honestly and you'll find examples in your own life.

Underneath your sneering is a failure to understand how humans tend to act.

I'm talking about the money in the bank, the promised money to come, etc. Of course the spent money is already spent.

OpenAI's money belongs to investors and can be pulled if, say, investors got spooked. Apple's money is much more real.

This honestly sounds like mental illness.

It's streamlining the interesting and fun parts out of my job

Interesting. For me it's streamlining the tedious and attentionally taxing parts of my work tasks. I love solving problems, I don't particularly love shaving yaks.

What readers should learn from this thread is the current state of AI is that no one has any idea what they are doing with AI. Treat anyone who claims otherwise with extreme skepticism.

(Just like you do with your agents ... right?)

I don't find this problem any different than with human writers. Agents are verbose, sure, but I mostly find them providing far more useful information (in far less time) than your average (P80, really) SWE.

The dogmatism on both ends of this argument grows tiresome.

I liked how you othered people as you lamented the human habit of othering people.

Quite honestly it sounds like:

1. Your use case falls squarely into "you should be paying for support" territory. 2. You're setting things up incorrectly. You should be shipping logs, not scraping them when you think you need them.

It's a bot

Nature abhors a monoculture.

AI seems to be renewing and amplifying our cultish behavior as a species. AI is not going to save us from ourselves.

This narrative only really fits the pro line, and only if you squint hard enough. The story falls apart immediately with the MacBook Air. I remember the late Intel years: constant fans spinning, noticeable latency between mouseclick and UI response, 1-2h battery life in scenarios that now reliably get 8-10. Those were dark times.

Skills are just very poorly defined workflows.

All of the oldest folks I knew were wrong about many things, but they were right to say that morality must be at the center of all public discourse

Most of the Trump supporters most everyone here knows are also the oldest folks they know. Funny that.

People use YAML because a bunch of other people use YAML. Whatever its warts, there's no use resisting it.

Yes, current LLMs likely still lack some major aspects of intelligence.

Indeed, and so do current humans! And just like LLMs, humans are bad at keeping this fact in view.

On a more serious note, we're going to have a hard time until we can psychologically decouple the concepts of intelligence and consciousness. Like, an existentially hard time.

They pay for it with their personal data.

"Security" is not a binary, but a spectrum along which there are various tradeoffs. The vendor attempts to select the best configuration for its average/median user, and that's almost by definition not going to be the most secure configuration (see: tradeoffs).

I do think there should be some UI somewhere that allows for locking all things down to the most secure configuration possible.

Poe's Law strikes again. I legitimately can't tell if this is sarcasm.

Are you claiming the Hamas does not use the entire civilian population under their rule as human shields? I hope not, because that reality is obvious. It's not merely individuals, either: it's policy.

(Before responding with rhetoric in the other direction, please note that I have not taken a position on Israel here.)

IIRC Other brands at the time did not actually do better. They all had similar issues and made similar or different tradeoffs.

People were in fact holding it wrong to get the signal to attenuate. The way you had to grip the phone to affect signal was not practical in any way. That controversy was entirely bullshit and only Apple would have ever been dragged for it.