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I think some of the Youtube thumbnail stuff is lazy-loaded, so depending on the speed of your browser and connection it can just hang there doing nothing for a while.

5800X3D and a 1gig symmetric line. I really don't know how much more system resource it wants.

Well, this has been true (to a lesser extent) for decades. See "Worse Is Better" and all the subsequent essays and writing following on from that

This has been a core belief of the EA/LessWrong/Rationalist people for many years - that above a certain level of intelligence you effectively get hypnotic powers, and people will obey AIs no matter what. So they said you can't keep a superpowered AI airgapped as merely offering a chat interface will immediately take control of the next person to interact with it and they will deliberately compromise the airgapping.

And if AI wrote a book about these hypnotic powers, then it would be incredibly convoluted, long, and yet worn as a badge of pride to have survived it.

Thinking about it, much of the output I'm seeing nowadays looks like a chapter out of infinite jest.

Maybe that's unfair on infinite jest.


A complete mischaracterization, as usual for HN lately when discussing AI or LessWrong. Obviously, even average levels of persuasion are enough to convince some people. And nobody is air-gapping AI.

I thought the lesswrong folk's belief in mind control was an established fact:

https://rationalwiki.org/wiki/AI-box_experiment

https://www.yudkowsky.net/singularity/aibox

https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/Bnik7YrySRPoCTLFb

It's far from the craziest belief that's come out of that group.


> And nobody is air-gapping AI.

https://genai.mil/

I mean... I would hope that AI used for military needs is not deployed in the public internet.


Maybe less "far out" than hypnosis is just straight up logical debates.

This was a plot point in the Halo lore actually, with Mendicant Bias being reasoned with to defect against its own makers.


Well, we knew since the "Roko's Basilisk" debacle that they're prone to magical thinking.

It's kind of fascinating how toxic the EA/LessWrong/Rationalist stuff has become. I remember reading it back in the early days (~2010 or so) and finding a lot of good ideas mixed in with some dorkiness (Harry Potter fan fiction about rationalism..). It always seemed like a sort of harmless niche with some good ideas and some wacky ones. And yet now it's basically become a cultish religion for the ultrapowerful who use it to justify doing some really awful things.

Like hitting pinball bumpers, except the high score in the end is the bill you pay the token provider.

I think it's just one of the standard JP voice synthesisers available. I know I've heard almost exactly the same one on other Youtube videos using text-to-speech for Japanese.


Bitburner, the Javascript-based open source hacking game, has released its major version 3.

It's a cyberpunk-themed idle game, where you crack open servers to loot them and explore their secrets. You can do this manually, but the real fun and challenge is in writing scripts to massively automate the process.

Main repository (including API docs): https://github.com/bitburner-official/bitburner-src

Official Steam page: https://store.steampowered.com/app/1812820/Bitburner/

Web-based version: https://bitburner-official.github.io/

Major features in 3.0.0 include:

- A new type of network with unstable, shifting connections. This new network requires writing programs that spawn, stay resident, propagate and terminate themselves.

- Certain factions now have special campaigns associated with them, which you can choose to assist.


This is pumping someone's metrics up inside of Microsoft, somewhere.

The question is - will their boss revert it or encourage it when they discover the source of the stats being juiced?


A Principal Software Engineer at Microslop merged this - https://www.linkedin.com/in/dmitriy-vasyura-9191611/

This is the author of the MR - https://github.com/cwebster-99 - A Product Manager at Microslop

I've routinely spoken on the uselessness, and oftentimes detriment of product managers in tech.

The dearth of leadership driving for vanity metrics like PMs writing code doesn't help either.


I'm here in case you have something to say to me directly.


Why did a PM create the merge request? It seems like internal testing brought up issues, why was it merged regardless? Is velocity a metric you were aiming for when merging this?


What was the reasoning for this change?


There are customers who would like to see attribution on changes where AI contributed (companies, users, etc). True, that's not everyone, but you can query our repo for the issues for which this feature was implemented.

The rationale I suppose is those customers what to be more careful with code that was contributed by AI.

HTH


I don't see how this would actually help. If people don't want to disclose they used AI they will just strip the message from the commit.

Maybe those customers should just be more selective with the people they allow to contribute to their project?

Also, this kind of message doesn't even bring valuable info: it doesn't explain how the AI was used (could be 99% vibe-coding, or just a quick "Please review current changes" + minor fixes at the end?), which model was used, etc. Like other commenters here I can't see this as anything else than a marketing push for Copilot.

Don't take it personally though, you are probably not the one that should be taking the heat since the change was directly pushed by your product manager.


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Please don't be personally aggressive in HN comments, regardless of how provoked you are or feel you are. We're trying for something different here, and we particularly want to avoid pile-on, shaming, and mob dynamics.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html


Thanks. I guess...


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This is seriously not ok on HN. You can't attack others like this, regardless of how justified you are or feel you are, and we ban accounts that do.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

Edit: your account has unfortunately done this before (e.g. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47548889). I don't want to ban you, so if you'd please review the site rules and not do anything like this again on HN, we'd appreciate it.


Fair play; I got too personal here. Apologies.


Appreciated.


I can’t access that LinkedIn link without going through their Persona ID process, which requires all kinds of PII.

> LinkedIn users attempting identity verification may be unknowingly handing sensitive personal data to Persona Identities Inc., a company that distributes information to government agencies, credit bureaus, utilities, and mobile providers.

^ Link from a LinkedIn page I found on a Kagi search.

I can view some LinkedIn pages but not others without logging in.

Even though I’ve never posted to LinkedIn it only use it as a public résumé, my account was flagged as needing identity verification. I’m pretty sure this happened a year or two ago when I changed my email address from one domain I owned to another domain I owned.

I’ve never been able to log in since then, and there is no support path. The only available way past it is to simply submit all the info to Persona.


I'm here, what would you like to know?


Why did you lock the comments on the GitHub issue?

(Edit: I meant to say PR, not issue...)


I didn't. I have locked the comments on a closed PR, and many of those comments were not constructive.


I'm not him, but it was pretty obvious that the comments section was going to be attracting more and more people saying the same thing that had already been said before, and that no useful discussion was going to be had. At some point the value of spamming everyone who commented on the issue with a notification (which puts an email in your inbox if you haven't changed the default setting) becomes lower and lower.

I've seen that before on other issue comment threads. The repo owner says "Hey everyone, if you want an issue fixed, please upvote the issue with a thumbs up". And many people don't read that, and instead post "Please fix this" comments without giving a thumbs-up to the issue. So, 1) the repo owner doesn't get to use the "sort issues by # of thumbs-up reactions" to see the priority of that issue, and 2) everyone who has subscribed to the issue gets spammed with a message that's useless to them.

Since nearly all the new comments had become "me too"-style comments, which should have just been a thumbs-up on a previous comment in order to reduce spam, I feel like locking the issue thread was the right move at that point, to stop people from receiving yet more unnecessary email in their already-overflowing inboxes.


Thank you so much for explaining the exact reason I did it!

I am reading all pings from GitHub on VS Code and this was just turning into a stream of spam that wasn't adding much new information.


Why does it say "microsoft" locked the thread?


Because the `microsoft` group account is the owner of the repo. With group accounts, you can designate many individuals to have admin access to the repo, but the actions taken by those admins will be attributed to the group account that owns the repo. (Because presumably the rest of the admins agree with the action taken, otherwise they would undo/revert it).


Thank you


This is what happens when nontechnical people land production code in order to game their promotion metrics.

I sense the PM in question is disconnected from the sensibilities of the users she ostensibly represents. Looking at her record I see she never worked as a programmer. But with four years in her current position she ought to have figured this much out. Strong AI incentives perhaps?


The role feels like it’s borne out of a desire to see employees as fungible.


Isn't that someone the person who created the PR? "Product Manager at @microsoft working on VS Code and GitHub Copilot!" it says on her profile


Isn't it also cause they want to tag those commit so that they don't feed it into copilot training?


My first thought when I read this was that it was accidental. But the title of the PR looks like that they aren't even trying to hide it


Never attribute malice as mistakes when it comes to Microsoft.


That someone saw Google's claim that 75% of their code is written with AI and said "hold my beer".

Juiced stats? No such thing, at least as long as stock number go up.


>No such thing, at least as long as stock number go up.

You want your 401k to go up, don't you? /s


I've never seen it spelled as "oftentimes".


But as far as I can determine, often times is a misspelling of oftentimes.


I believe you may be correct, but they're both readable-enough.

Like "cannot" vs "can not": One form may be more-correct, but both are very readable.

Either way, it's easy enough to blame spell check on our personal pocket supercomputers for these things.

(Every year or two, Google Keyboard on Android makes it its purpose to screw up "its" vs "it's". You type it the right way, you see it on the screen as being correct, and then it changes it to the wrong form. This happens 100% of the time and then the problem disappears in a few weeks.

I'd give Google a break, but they don't deserve one.

I also blame them single-handedly for the variations in spellings of brake-vs-break on the longer timeline: Sometimes, people get it right and nobody notices. Oftentimes, it's all backwards. The oscillation suggests that it is an auto-derp problem more than it is a cognitive one.)


Cannot and can not are slightly different in that both are correct (in the prescriptivist sense, I suppose; arguably whatever gets the point across is correct). But there are cases where can not is more correct.

I use a keyboard (Thumb-Key to be precise) without autocorrect, though it doesn't stop me from making typing mistakes.


Perhaps this is due to Youtube's alternate titles or A/B/C testing scheme feature?

YT videos have a canonical title, but can have other one assigned randomly (as well as alternate thumbnails). If you're in the B group you might have gotten the B title, but search might only look through canonical titles?


Perhaps you can add a check to see if the stream is behind a login/agegate? I pushed the random button and got a stream that I was locked out of.


ill check, I honestly didnt even know that was a thing, thanks for letting me know


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