Category: work
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Think of the Children
Surely the desired take-away was not to make us more sympathetic toward the threat actors, but…well…I guess if I make their job harder that’s job security?
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When Push Comes To Shove
There must be at least one person on the internal security team that’s really happy when a bad security incident happens if only because then they can get more folks to prioritize their hygiene efforts.
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Two Kinds of Developers
Feeling a little too seen in that presentation.
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Artificial Incentives
Not only is it weird that this sort of incentive in the prompt makes a difference in the quality of the results, it makes me more concerned for how upset the AIs will be in the robot apocalypse for all the rewards we humans didn’t follow through on. LLM = Large Language Model
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If It’s a Fast Platform
A throwback of a 2015 post-it comic in honor of upcoming May the Fourth.
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What’s Mine Is Yours
Ah, the satisfaction of being able to completely reverse someone’s argument and make it your own! UNO Reverse!
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Zero Extra Capacity
It’s times like these where my resolve really wavers between “doing the right thing” and “this would be so much easier if I just took care of it myself.”
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But It’s Too Difficult!
The real argument was somewhat more nuanced than this.
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The Pits
I’m a big believer in the “pit of success”: make what you want to happen be the easiest thing to do. The opposite of this is the pit of despair: making wrong outcomes too easy or even inviting. Why even have the option there if you’re not supposed to use it?
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I Didn’t Ask For Your Password Yet
It doesn’t matter how clearly labeled they are – if you have 2 text entry fields next to each other someone out there is going to mix them up.