Verizon has been laying off people like crazy since Q4 of last year… but I’m sure that’s just a coincidence and this outage has nothing to do with cost cutting…

But how would you use words to explain the phenomenon?

I don’t know, I’ve been struggling to find the right ‘sound bite’ for it myself. The problem is that all of the simplified explanations encourage people to anthropomorphize these things, which just further fuels the toxic hype cycle.

In the end, I’m unsure which does more damage.

Is it better to convince people the AI “lies”, so they’ll stop using it? Or is it better to convince people AI doesn’t actually have the capacity to lie so that they’ll stop shoveling money onto the datacenter altar like we’ve just created some bullshit techno-god?

It refers to when an LLM will in some way try to deceive or manipulate the user interacting with it.

I think this still gives the model too much credit by implying that there’s any sort of intentionally behind this behavior.

There’s not.

These models are trained on the output of real humans and real humans lie and deceive constantly. All that’s happening is that the underlying mathematical model has encoded the statistical likelihood that someone will lie in a given situation. If that statistical likelihood is high enough, the model itself will lie when put in a similar situation.

Mirroring what others have said, see your vet! Kidney dysfunction is extremely common in cats, and as with most medical issues it’s much, much better to address it early before it snowballs.

wet food twice a day

One possibility is that your cat is getting too much protein and her kidneys are struggling as a result. This is unusual (cats naturally need lots of protein), but not unheard of. When you visit your vet, make sure you discuss diet in detail.

I hear this all the time, but I have an orange cat who taught himself how to open doors, so… I dunno, maybe mine is hoarding all the brain cells for himself.

Oh shit, is that an option??

what the actual fuck

That’s not true. The “fatness” of metallic atoms doesn’t even come close to overcoming how rare they are. Hydrogen and helium combined still make up ~98% of the total mass fraction. Oxygen, which is next in line, is only about 1% the total mass.

Any good astronomer knows that the real binary is metal/non-metal

I will never get sick of this ridiculous copypasta

Why on earth would you want to unlearn something as awesome as that??

Darth Flatulence

You mean Yeerk

What the post is describing sounds exactly like the post getting flagged by users, then uncensored by the mod team later on.

Ah, maybe that’s true. I confess I stopped hanging around HN years ago so I’m not up to speed on how ‘flagging’ works and how much influence users have over post visibility. I thought the OP made it clear that something ‘inorganic’ was going on, but I guess that could be user reports just as easily as it could be moderator action.

Either way, it’s still true that getting your tech news from Silicon Valley’s most darling tech incubator is a dumb idea.

I don’t know, I think they make a reasonable case to suggest that someone is putting their finger on the scale.

But, honestly… duh? Y Combinator is one of the most influential investment firms in Silicon Valley. Of course they’re going to try to protect the image of their chosen investments.

Honestly the bigger story here is that people in tech continue to be so willfully ignorant of stuff like this. Big Tech is not benevolent. If you want unbiased tech news, don’t fucking get it from a company that has such a vested interest in the success of SV tech companies. You’d think that would be obvious.

Also the only way he was able to have sex