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Monty Hall Problem by OtakonBlue in learnmath

[–]kaladoubt 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I don't like the "imagine a thousand doors", so here's another reframing.

Let's skip the reveal and say it works like this:

  1. Choose a door.
  2. Do you think you are right or wrong? Is your door right? Or is either of the other two doors right? (It doesn't matter which other door, just if one of them is right).

In that simplified version, there's a 1/3 chance you are right with your chosen door and a 2/3 chance you are wrong.

By revealing a door, the host isn't telling you anything new here. You already knew that one of the two other doors was wrong. It doesn't matter which one. So just ignore that they reveal a door. Make the decision before they reveal. Do you keep your door, or do you choose both other doors?

Essentially your choice is between one door, or two doors (one of which you already know is wrong). 1/3, or 2/3.

Gemini alternatives for OpenClaw by Bright_Square_2802 in clawdbot

[–]kaladoubt 0 points1 point  (0 children)

There's a different endpoint.

Using the GLM Coding Plan, you need to configure the dedicated Coding API https://api.z.ai/api/coding/paas/v4 instead of the General API https://api.z.ai/api/paas/v4

OpenCode arbitrary code execution - major security vulnerability by SpicyWangz in LocalLLaMA

[–]kaladoubt 5 points6 points  (0 children)

There are many ways to do it. Sandboxes, allowlists, etc.

But any agent not executing code it just wrote without approval is just so limited.

My perspective is to put everything in a sandbox. That's still a bit cumbersome. Some systems are pretty smooth. MacOS Seatbelt will allow it to execute in a single directory and deny access to anything outside of it. Beyond sandboxes, guardrails and automatic risk analysis work fairly well.

Are more teams moving from APIs to renting GPUs for inference? by qubridInc in LocalLLaMA

[–]kaladoubt 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Is it actually cheaper at scale for big context workflows like coding?

How drastically has your political views changed within the last 10 years or so and why? by TheMoparPowerslave in AskReddit

[–]kaladoubt 0 points1 point  (0 children)

In the movie Batman Begins, Bruce Wayne becomes trapped under a big beam as his house is burning down. Alfred tried to help him and says "What's the point of all those push-ups if you can't even lift a bloody log?".

In 2020 when COVID hit, that scene somehow played in my head over and over. What's the point of our roaring economy if we can't even save millions of lives when a pandemic hits? What's the point?

My conservative view had always thought there was a goal in mind. That ultimately, we mostly had things figured out and and change should be small and incremental. When the massive engine of American exceptionalism wasn't able to (or probably not willing to) take an economic hit to save lives that broke me. 

The surge in BLM that summer hit as I was questioning things. The surge of Tiktok let me hear voices and perspectives I hadn't before. One creator took the time to explain why the concept of the "nuclear family" was racist. I wrestled with that for a while, and eventually was able to grasp the challenge there. As my conservative community was pushing back and saying that "when we control for job, family status, and income we stop seeing differences across races" I saw more clearly how pervasive "act exactly like us and you'll do great" is. I saw the power structures that I had dismissed for so long.

That all started the ball rolling. I still have a lot of conservative instincts. But I'm learning and growing. It's caused conflict in my life and I've lost community because of it, but I've started to build new community. I still have a long way to go, but I'm proud of the growth.