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Possible bug report: Neither the Spotify nor Youtube releases seem to have lyrics for the songs.
I notice that I greatly prefer the “v1.1 (cover)” version from the LessOnline album to the Spotify one, but take that with salt; I’m not how much of the reaction is substantive and how much is just “after having it in regular rotation for ~1yr any change would sound wrong”.
Can’t believe no one has tried this yet. I miss the old site. This is what came up when I asked for LessWrong Classic; it’s not actually all that close except for the colorscheme, though.
The main thing I’d expect to get out of source vs. decompilation is the comments. Decompilation can tell you what the code does, but not what the author was thinking when they wrote it.
The Claude Code Source Leak
Bubblewrap has an
--unshare-netoption. I don’t use it—I’m not concerned about leaking code as long as it’s only my own code—but I would if I were working on anything sensitive.
Probably true now, but was it less true in the 1960s? It would be hard to replicate the Milgram experiment today, I think, even if its results were entirely accurate. Today, Milgram and similar experiments are well-known, and I’d expect an elevated level of paranoia among subjects that any seemingly-dramatic study may be deceptive. But those experiments were created and run in an environment that didn’t know of them, and I’d intuitively expect less paranoia and more trust in the experimenter.
The first way I bottleneck AI is by reviewing its requests for permissions to do stuff. Many people resolve this by YOLO mode, where AI can do everything it wants. I like my photos and production databases, so I don’t feel comfortable doing this. I am also worried about prompt injections from the web.
I’m pretty sure the right way to handle this is to run it in YOLO mode but inside a container or VM that can’t reach said photos and DBs. [1] I use a shell script that runs it under bubblewrap with a minimal set of
--bindoptions and a slightly wider set of--ro-bindoptions. I’d never previously used bubblewrap, but Claude was able to figure it out for me [2] . It did take several attempts to get it right.
I’m nowhere near Singapore, but if you’re taking suggestions, I’ve been wondering about the status of the Robbers Cave experiment.
I’ve expected something like this ever since LLMs grew web search limbs. I’m surprised the success rate is only 9⁄125, though if I understand things correctly that’s a lower bound.
I avoid using my legal name outside professional contexts, and I prefer un-googleable handles, because I don’t want HR departments digging through the personal side of my life and I don’t want randos doxxing me. I’m pretty sure a normie can’t connect my persona to my person. I think even a motivated techie would have at least some trouble. But I wouldn’t expect my precautions to hold up against, say, a twitter mob that decided it didn’t like my face. Given enough eyes, someone would find a connection.
LLMs give J. Random Nosy Bastard the eyes of a twitter mob. I expect that 9⁄125 rate to climb quickly, and I’m not sure what to do about that.
Woot!
...well, mostly woot. Finances might torpedo my plans to go. But I do plan to go if at all possible.
Something I’d really like to know about colds is how fast infectiousness drops off. Most sources describe peak contagion as a few days after symptoms start, and note that you’re still infectious until the last cough—but I can’t find anything about how infectious. After, say, seven days, is the secondary attack rate fifty percent of peak or one percent of peak? If one percent, I’m probably happy to interact with the person normally; if thirty percent, I’m probably not. But I have no idea of the actual number.
(This comes up mostly with my partner; she starts “feeling better” after a cold well before the symptoms are actually gone, whereas I’m almost completely debilitated for the entire length. So when she gets sick, I’m stuck choosing between “maintain a depressing degree of interpersonal paranoia long after she’s able to interact again” and “run a completely unknown risk of losing two weeks of my life to misery.” I hate it.)
This sort of thing is (part of) why I don’t post anything under my full legal name except professionally-tuned profiles (e.g. github and linkedin). And my handle is googleproof on top of that...I think.
How long does this run for? I’ve never tuned in, and would like to, but my partner has a maybe-conflicting event tonight too.
[edit]: Well, we did tune in after all, and I’m glad of it. I’ve been wanting to go to one of these for several years and haven’t been able to. The livestream is appreciated, and that was beautiful.
IABIED and Memetic Engineering
I found the trailer/intro a bit off-putting too. It didn’t bother me, exactly, but it seemed over the top, and makes me hesitant to share the interview with others.
That said, I think JTM makes a good point above, about the expectations of the general public. I rarely watch talk shows; I don’t know what’s normal. I could understand a tradeoff where the optimal tone for the public also provides ammo for certain kinds of criticism.
This isn’t about the content, but: Thank you for publishing the transcript. It’s really, really aggravating when useful and/or interesting material is trapped in a form that can’t be ctrl-F’d.
If you like both, maybe make whichever one you don’t put in the Spotify album available as a single.
(not that it’s that important, since v1.1 is still available on Suno either way; it mostly just rubs at me because Suno’s app is awful.)