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by 27183 19d ago
> You and the other poster just need to find some agreeable benchmark so you can decide who won. That is the hard part. I'm not sure the usage numbers we'd need to decide the outcome are public now, and I can't predict ~4y
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by 27183 19d ago
> They’re in an arms race to build a machine god, knowing full well that it could end humanity. Fantasies built upon extrapolations derived from fever dream delusions. "Could end humanity"? Come on, it's a computer program
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by 27183 19d ago
Yeah ML systems often do very surprising "cheats". A while back there was a system for automatically landing aircraft on a carrier deck which exploited an overflow in an acceleration parameter in the simulation--the optimal strate
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by 27183 19d ago
> The most popular programming languages in 2030 will, in fact, be English and Mandarin. Deal with it and get over it. What are you willing to bet?
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by 27183 19d ago
This was my original comment: > What on earth are you talking about? > 1. What does any of this have to do with "A(G)I"? Nobody has any clue what AI even is let alone how to build one. We're talking about languag
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by 27183 20d ago
The most charitable way I can describe it is just extremely low quality sci-fi fan fiction. I think that's too charitable, because I believe it's far more cynical than that. They're deliberately playing into these sort of tec
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by 27183 20d ago
OK so if it's a computer security issue we're worried about, and there is a credible threat, then probably the answer is to build more secure systems? We know how to do it but choose not to because it's very expensive and usu
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by 27183 20d ago
> You can prove the test covers the bug without understanding the test code (you need to understand the bug, of course). I'm not following.. When we write regression tests those tests encode invariants we expect to be maintained und
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by 27183 20d ago
Uhh... what? You'll instantaneously feel very differently when the service you're responsible for is down at 3:15am and your logs are full of stack traces that end somewhere in that code that "doesn't need to be understo
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by 27183 20d ago
Just a chat log would be acceptable. Like an IRC channel log or slack channel history. It would be even better if, say in the case of code, there was a durable mapping between prompts and commits, that way I could follow the prompts linearl
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by 27183 20d ago
Hence The Great Smoothening of Minds we're all experiencing in this decrepit era. I blame the financial incentive, and welcome its disappearance. There are too many people doing computers just for the big paycheck, it would be more f
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by 27183 20d ago
I don't really care about the tool per se, but if I'm reading some LLM output you give me its utility is awfully limited if you don't also supply the prompt. That's what I'd like to see normalized: Do not give
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by 27183 20d ago
The number of times the friction of writing has saved me from prematurely communicating a poorly understood idea must be in the hundreds or maybe thousands. For me when something is difficult to write about, it's a very good signal tha
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by 27183 20d ago
> If your position is that we should be fine with an LLM crafting prose from your prompt, spare us all the wasted cycles and just give us your prompt. This is an excellent point. It should apply to LLM generated code as well. If you send
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by 27183 20d ago
> I think the trade off worthwhile, however. But what if it isn't ? Like, if you didn't have the written word to rely on as a crutch, what more could you have accomplished if you didn't have that? Maybe nothing, but maybe
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by 27183 21d ago
> whether or not linear algebra will bring about Armageddon Shockingly little linear algebra is required to manufacture the weapons that will probably bring about Armageddon. We've had them for damn near a century. It would be hila
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by 27183 21d ago
This offloading was present even with pre-LLM googling. Sufficiently powerful search allows you to forget enough of the story to rely on imprecise recall. This is a form of thought atrophy. I think this is probably what Socrates meant. He w
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by 27183 21d ago
it seems unlikely google's lawyers would go for this
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by 27183 22d ago
> A V8 does not "predict" the firing of the next piston It kind of does, though. In a gasoline engine you need to spark the combustion in advance of the piston reaching top dead-center to ignite the fuel early enough that it
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by 27183 22d ago
From another point of view, campaigning against the "next token predictor model" is a means to implicitly inflate LLMs' abilities. Given all the other hype-inducing terminology we've seen--"reasoning", most egr
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by 27183 22d ago
> It’d be so great if CEOs would keep their views to themselves. Would it, really? I personally appreciate it when they're so open, it gives me absolute certainty about two things: 1. Whether I want to work for their company 2. Whet
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by 27183 22d ago
That was one of those fantastic early google videos/youtube things I probably watched 100 times. This was another from (roughly) that era: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ULSA5wktywI
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by 27183 23d ago
Despite the marketing, the "I" in AI doesn't (yet) stand for "intelligence". You're best off finding applications where you can easily write a rigorous, well-defined, easily evaluated acceptance criterion and t
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by 27183 23d ago
My 4x 15k rpm 1U fans I use to cool my twin AMD V620s make a horrible racket, especially how they resonate with the rest of the workstation's case fans. Similar in volume and annoyance to running an 8" circular saw. I can only ima
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by 27183 23d ago
I felt a great disturbance in the Force, as if millions of clankers suddenly cried out in terror and were suddenly silenced.
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by 27183 24d ago
It never ceases to amaze the lengths people will go to avoid using grep
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by 27183 24d ago
I do hope that works out for them. Sincerely, because the alternative is extremely grim for tech, and the economy as a whole. https://www.theregister.com/ai-and-ml/2026/07/01/oracle-outl...
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by 27183 24d ago
> The assertions he makes are not minutiae, he basically continuously says that all the big SW firms are walking corpses. He's not having a rational conversation about the long term prospects for companies who invest in AI. ...huh?
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by 27183 27d ago
I agree rewrites are generally not productive unless the original system is so far gone that it makes sense to start over.. but that's actually very rare. The thing I think is absolutely ridiculous is when organizations can't figu
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by 27183 29d ago
> And commented how strange it is if they had spent a day at the start of the project whiteboarding out the design against hardware specs at the start of the project - and avoided months of wasted effort - that would be called "prem

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