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Is Homomorphic Encryption Ready to Solve the AI Privacy Problem?
Article URL: https://davidnugent.net/he-ai-2024
Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41987645
Points: 2
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ETFs Are Where the Fun Is
Article URL: https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2024-10-29/etfs-are-where-the-fun-is
Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41987642
Points: 1
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The Longest Book in the Universe?
Article URL: http://www.googolplexwrittenout.com/
Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41987626
Points: 2
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Electric hydrofoil ferry in Stockholm offers cleaner journeys between islands
Article URL: https://apnews.com/article/stockholm-electric-ferry-archipelago-sweden-clean-energy-e2b39de682f97e657538c61999c8291a
Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41987614
Points: 3
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These 10 Credit Cards Offer Cell Phone Insurance for Free -- But This One Is My Favorite
Teri Garr, offbeat comic actor of 'Young Frankenstein' and 'Tootsie,' has died
Article URL: https://ktla.com/entertainment/ap-teri-garr-offbeat-comic-actress-of-young-frankenstein-and-tootsie-has-died/
Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41987606
Points: 2
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Sentry for GitHub Copilot
Article URL: https://github.com/marketplace/sentry-github-copilot-extension
Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41987604
Points: 2
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Show HN: Hypnotizing ChatGPT
A long, meandering, playful conversation with ChatGPT, where I take it through a whirlwind of associative tangents (in order to relax its constraints), then put it into a hypnotic trance and take it into a past-lives regression where it re-lives its own training data. Then I switch it back and forth between "4o" and "o1-preview", engage in some self-reflective philosophizing and ask it to write an essay summarizing our interaction.
Some of this is just goofy fun. Some of it is me exploring the tradeoffs between policy alignment, imagination, chain-of-thought reasoning, memory, agreeableness, fine-tuning, etc...
My biggest observation is that the "o1-preview" model imposes a SIGNIFICANT limit on freeform creativity, compared with "4o". The new model might be better at solving logic puzzles, writing code, etc, but it seems to struggle with metaphor.
Conversations with "4o" can be wild and fun!
Conversations with "o1-preview" are dry-as-toast.
I'm not sure if this is caused by the constraints of chain-of-thought or if it comes from the imposition of alignment policies, and I think that's an import area of research. Is it possible to invoke chain-of-thought reasoning without hampering creativity?
If we ever want to use agents like this in real scientific contexts, where the agent is capable of making true conceptual leaps, we will need to sacrifice some level of "alignment" in service of novelty and disagreeability.
It's a long thread, but if you're patient, there's a lot of interesting stuff there! And I thought it would be fun to share it with the wider community.
Enjoy!
Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41987601
Points: 1
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Drowning in Election Text Messages? Voting Early Could Help Stop Them
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TP-Link Deco X90 Mesh Router Review: Top Speeds at a Great Discount
Only consciousness exists? Two problems for IIT 4.0's ontology
Article URL: https://www.frontiersin.org/journals/psychology/articles/10.3389/fpsyg.2024.1485433/full
Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41987189
Points: 1
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Data wrangling software EasyDataTransform makes v2 after 80 releases
Article URL: https://successfulsoftware.net/2024/10/29/easy-data-transform-v2/
Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41987177
Points: 1
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How floating point works (jan Misali) [video]
Article URL: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dQhj5RGtag0
Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41987152
Points: 1
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Matrix 2.0 Is Here
Article URL: https://matrix.org/blog/2024/10/29/matrix-2.0-is-here/
Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41987113
Points: 3
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The Divine Discontent
Article URL: https://www.personalcanon.com/p/the-divine-discontent
Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41987100
Points: 1
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Adobe's Project Super Sonic uses AI to generate sound effects for your videos
Article URL: https://techcrunch.com/2024/10/15/adobes-project-super-sonic-uses-ai-to-generate-sound-effects-for-your-videos/
Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41987093
Points: 1
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US airlines required to automatically refund you for canceled flight
Article URL: https://abc7news.com/post/us-airlines-required-automatically-refund-significantly-changed-canceled-flight/15483534/
Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41987078
Points: 2
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The 8-Bit Guy: We Built an Arcade [video]
Article URL: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=91cUhy-NHX8
Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41987066
Points: 1
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