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50 sats \ 0 replies \ @freetx 12h \ on: Should you use "you" in your LLM prompts? AI
I'm interested in this approach, my main use of LLMs are in tech-specific use-cases. I have specific Spaces in Perplexity for things like "Ansible EDA (Event Driven Architecture)", etc.
My point is its hard to frame very tech specific conversations within a "multiple persona" lens because ultimately all personas need to know and advocate for the specific tech involved.
However I imagine what you could do is have say 3 Personas:
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GitOps true believer - he sees that every single problem can be solved by prodigious use of git-driven automation scenarios. Git is the ultimate "source of truth" and its benefits almost always outweigh the complexities it brings.
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The balanced view. Automation must always be serving actual real pain points, its pointless to rely too much on automating things that are either so rare, so minor, or so specific that the complexity cost outweigh the gains. Use of GitOps automation must always be providing actual measurable gains in efficiency. The final result must be a SIMPLER system, not more complex.
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The doubter. They aren't anti-GitOps far from it. They are a 10 year veteran of the space. But they have seen enough of the promises not be fulfilled to understand that its never a solution to all problems. They will argue it introduces lots of latency, lots of sluggishness, and as systems grow larger and larger everything just becomes more unresponsive. They generally advocate for a "surgical use" of gitops. Usually very specific and narrow cases were its clearly the best answer.
Great writeup.
physical / logical qubit.
To solve the decoherence problem, QC uses QEC (Quantum Error Correction). That is they use multiple qubits in parallel to discover and correct errors.
The result of all these "physical qubits" error correcting each other produces one "logical qubit" that is error free. (Logical qubits are the things that do the work)
With current error rates of roughly 0.3%, maintaining a single error-corrected logical qubit requires approximately 10,000 physical qubits.
So when people say "Shor's will take 10,000 qubits" - they are talking about LOGICAL qubits, so that may be something like 1,000,000 physical qubits to do that.
But there is a cruel paradox at the heart of this: Each time you bring another physical qubit online, that introduces more noise and more interference. Quite quickly your error rates start to rise faster than you are improving fidelity...so it sort of cascades into a negative feedback loop.
IBM's has a chip with 1200 physical qubits they achieved in 2023. They promised 4000 qubits in 2025 and missed their goal, but released a press release saying "100,000 qubits by 2033" (notice the bait-and-switch).
At this point most of QC is pie-in-the-sky snakeoil investor pumping. However, I think so much money has been spent that no one is ever going to admit defeat. So get used to yearly barrages of "we reached 8000 qubits" (fine print: physical).
The best predictor of income is IQ and IQ is heritable.
Yes, its not "the sole predictor", but of the different variables its the best single variable to choose (if you must choose just one variable).
Do you hold much stock in SAT scores? Or IQ for that matter?
Not particularly. They certainly don't correlate to "goodness" or "ethical" (IQ is maybe even inverse correlated).
I may have been wrong to say "strongly correlated" but they (IQ and Income) are definitely correlated.
Recent research from Sweden has uncovered a fascinating pattern: the relationship between cognitive ability and earnings plateaus and even reverses at the highest income levels. This finding challenges the assumption that top earners achieved their positions primarily through superior intelligence.Using data from 59,000 Swedish men who took mandatory military conscription cognitive tests, researchers found that while cognitive ability strongly correlated with income across most of the distribution (correlation of 0.40), this relationship fundamentally changed at high income levels. Above approximately €60,000 annual salary (SEK 600,000), average cognitive ability plateaus at a modest level of about +1 standard deviation (IQ ~115)
From just a pedestrian view....IQ is mainly a pattern recognition test...wouldn't you expect people better at pattern recognition to figure out ways to earn income at a higher incident than those poor at seeing patterns?
firmly believes that quantum computing development no longer has any theoretical hurdles, and that it has largely become an engineering problem
haha. I love how these guys try to minimize the challenge....
There is no theoretical issue with you balancing 8000 champagne glasses on a silver platter while you ski down mount everest....its simply an "engineering problem"
They gotta keep pumping their investors....
I have never roleplayed with LLMs nor do I have a desire to....not knocking anyone who does, but certainly not a 'me' thing.
I guess it does depend on what they mean by 'roleplaying' tho....I often talk thru technical decisions and debate them with LLMs
I don't really disagree with the underlying point, but have lots of small disagreements otherwise:
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The "normalization of deviance" is a direct result of the "Loss of God" of secular society. There is no way to have one without the other...its baked into the cake.
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In a very very analogous way the "safety of LLMs" is a mirror of this...A LLM is just statistical token generation machine, its going to generate output based upon its training data. If you want a LLM to be "realistic" then you need to train it on realistic human conversation, which will include unsafe thoughts. Its unfortunately again, baked into the cake.
I'm not meaning this to be picky of the the researcher, but would she agree to live in a non-secular society? Being a professor I somehow doubt it.
evil raises even harder questions for atheism
Its very true. Not exactly a great example of it.... but I have a work colleague / friend who is both an adamant atheist and a outspoken vegan (on ethical grounds).
I've tried to gently probe him to see if he sees the incongruity, but he claims its perfectly reasonable to hold both beliefs.
Now, I am all for treating animals ethically. But I just cant understand if we are all just random atoms bouncing around, why does it matter what a chicken feels....
The problem with silver is that it’s value is primarily industrial rather than monetary and there are a bunch of uses for silver
Maybe, but it has risen far less than gold since 1971. Up until 71' by decree the ratio was 1/35 - now the ratio (in prices) is 1/72.
Silvers 'industrial demand' has been far offset by its demonetization .... it seems that its biggest use was "coinage" before and that far outweighed its current industrial demand.
Really depends on how you calculate these things....there are 3 mains ways: (a) official/semi-official inflation data, (b) silver, (c) gold.
I think silver is actually the best, because up until 1965 it was in nearly all the coins. Since it was in actual circulation (unlike just a 'gold backing') therefore its scarcity effects could be assumed to have impacted prices.
$1 coin(s) = .85 oz/silver
Therefore 4 cents = .034 oz /silver
Current silver price is $58/oz, therefore 4 cents = $1.97
I dont think the USD reserve was to prevent them from selling BTC. Its to amass dividend payments for their preferred stocks (STRK, etc).
People were concerned that they weren't going to be able to meet monthly dividend demand. So this is an attempt to assure investors by keeping >12months of divis "in stock".
Technically MSTR wouldn't be triggered into selling BTC until 2027 and if BTC drops ~50% at that time.
The argument you are making against insurance as an alternative governance model ending up like an HOA I don't get. You can't fire your HOA. You have to move. One of the biggest issues with HOAs is how they are modeled after state governments.
Lets imagine a world without government. We all live more or less in private territories. Those territories need a way to harmonize rules and procedures. (ie. if you drive your car from Territory A to B, your insurance company wants to make sure things like road conditions and traffic rules are harmonized to an equal standard between territories to provide coverage).
It becomes in every territories best interest to more / less agree with these standards as it makes commerce so much easier (ie. Our territory agrees to "milk pasteurization definition ABC", so a buyer in a foreign territory can be assured that its of sufficient quality, etc).
In order to create these standards bodies, various insurance companies will each vie to get their representatives appointed. Pretty soon, as these things progress, these 'standards bodies' will become the lynchpin where all political infighting happens. It will become the place where backroom deals are done, where corruption happens, etc. In a sense it just becomes the new 'gov' - the deal making clearing-house between territory owners and insurance companies.
Will this be better than what we have now? Perhaps, at least in theory. How much in practice? Unknown....
People want the chains. We aren't ready for it.
That is one view, which I don't fully disagree with, but there is another view: The "Deep Ancap" view, which is: We already live in ancapistan. What you see around you (the state) is itself the product of market forces. The state doesn't exist in spite of free-market forces, but because of it. That is, people and corporations desire to have universal authorities so, market forces put those entities in place.
Everyone hates HOAs until their neighbor has a trash pile in their backyard and has all the windows busted out.
That is, once it affects their ability to resell their property, they will suddenly find HOA's reasonable.
I have found that the problems with HOA's are not that different than the problems in the government of a city or a state. The problem is the incentive structure is very poor. There is little incentive for the governance system to handle problems.
HOA's is one of the reasons that turned me from being a "ideological anarcho-capitalist" into a "practical small-gov libertarian" what I mean is, you can see in the HOA structure government writ small....politics, busy-bodies, people with too much time on their hands. Simply "not having a state" doesn't solve that if those same people control the private entities that you are subject to - and they will!
I realize now that the ugliness of politics is just the ugliness people. It really doesn't have much to do with the state per se....In an ideal anarcho-capitalist world (run by insurance companies) those same people and companies will just promote their people to be part of every HOA style structure.
factoring 15 (3x5)
I don't remember the exact details of it, but I think the reality is worse...I don't think it actually performed the factorization completely honestly....
Luckily, several commenters called him out on his dishonesty.
Remember Nic is not a tech / developer. He is basically an "investor / influencer" - wouldn't be surprised if these tweets line up with some investments he's made and he's doing a lil pump action....
Nic is engaging in almost complete hysterical bullshit.
QC is NOWHERE NEAR being able to do anything remotely useful....much less being able to crack encryption.
Of course gov is agreeing to spend money on QC bullshit endeavors, because its just a justification for money printing + handouts (ie. vote buying). There has been no credible demonstrations of QC that shows it even doing something useful at this point.
The real stumbling block with this, is tax prep and submission is a huge industry. Basically would be putting >80% of CPA's and tax prep firms out of business.
The politically smart way he should approach this is to raise the limits. Ideally new brackets that are indexed with inflation.
When the Income Tax was first instituted the exemption level was about $20K - which depending how you adjust for inflation - would probably be >$350K now.
So he should have the lowest bracket start at $350K - annually indexed with inflation. The law remains that you have to file, even if nearly everyone would have a $0 tax bill, it would keep the tax prep industry alive and well.
Its probably some kinda "mechanical turk" selection bias (ie. 90% of computer savvy people who also are willing to do surveys for 0.25 each consume lots of porn).
The gov probably knows that, but they want high results to justify whatever budget expansion they are fighting for....