Applejinx

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by Applejinx 2mo ago
"I don't know" is an extraordinarily powerful answer, but maybe it's getting ruined. I'm not sure it can be entirely ruined. In a human interaction, when used confidently, it means 'I'm so authoritative I
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by Applejinx 2mo ago
Oh, they still are, it's just that it's a rare parrot that can reproduce 'all of the written corpus of three.js' or stochastically align all that with arbitrary and weird conditions for what to squawk out. This is what y
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by Applejinx 3mo ago
If you framed it as 'the biggest criminal' it'd still be impressive but would read mighty different. Acquiring money and power is no way to go through life. Not at that cost.
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by Applejinx 3mo ago
I went back to Ohio…
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by Applejinx 3mo ago
No… they took time from YOUR life to try and take credit for what an LLM produced when asked. And took over from you when you'd apparently chosen not to ask an LLM, as if to say 'thank me for knowing better because you were suppos
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by Applejinx 3mo ago
No Man's Sky has such a range of possible outputs that in theory, nobody can possibly know how it works or what its limits are. That's the mathematical reality of how many combinations are on tap in that worldgen algorithm. And ye
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by Applejinx 3mo ago
Now and then it has some thoughts about the Boer that would give that impression. If he's not a total fool, he tries to hide his obvious direct influence to make it be not so heavyhanded that it brings on global mockery and shade. Do y
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by Applejinx 3mo ago
If they did I wouldn't have had to go to DDG. It's not like it's a big jump over what used to be. I left claw-marks in Google Search, if they drove me off they're in trouble, because I didn't want to accept reality
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by Applejinx 3mo ago
You're missing a few words. To be correct you would have to have said 'if nobody's capable of hearing the difference every single time beyond a statistical doubt, does it matter?' You can say that and be correct, while a
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by Applejinx 3mo ago
That would be how you'd go about telling, sure enough. You can't go by 'frequencies' or distortions or anything like that, these analog departures from convincing reality aren't how digital failings manifest. You tr
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by Applejinx 3mo ago
Hydrasynth aliases like a mad thing. My flagship synth ended up being Summit, and its oscillators are digital but run at a crazy high sample rate. Did likewise with some Chord Organ modules: that Teensy board it was built on could do chord
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by Applejinx 3mo ago
Oh, 3/5ths of a citizen, surely.
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by Applejinx 3mo ago
You 100% can write them off entirely and go about your business as you previously had done. Ignoring the errors, it is very debatable whether there are even productivity gains beyond: human programmer or whatever is excited and cranked up t
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by Applejinx 3mo ago
Worse'n crypto… which I would not have believed possible.
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by Applejinx 4mo ago
What if you want the world to be demonstrably better, and yet you're pretty sure the world is not just you? Does that count, or is it axiomatic that for every person, the world is entirely just them and they have no concept of everythi
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by Applejinx 4mo ago
Landlords are slave owners? Gosh. On the bright side, who knew Hacker News was so revolutionary? Alex, how do you interact with AI? I don't, 'cos I don't use it. Are you one of the people who eke out performance gains by thre
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by Applejinx 4mo ago
In fairness, it's our Berlin Wall, and I absolutely would want a piece of the delaminating paint as a souvenir. The difference is we are so early into the collapse that the armed guards are still there. But yeah, it's definitely n
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by Applejinx 4mo ago
What, all of us? I would suggest that Russia's proxy leaders threatened to invade both those places specifically to weaken US alliances and hurt NATO. So when did we become Russia? Better you should ask, should we become Russia, would
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by Applejinx 4mo ago
I'm an open source developer. To me, it tracks that people can have other motivations and balance those with money/survival and all. What nikkwong is saying is, you can want to do well, have social obligations, take action to serv
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by Applejinx 4mo ago
That's a telling detail. How many 'big time landlords' are in the position of living in one of their 25 bedroom units? I'm going to skip the 'share a bedroom' 'cos that might well mean something otherwise
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by Applejinx 4mo ago
And of course if 'jobs' becomes 'there is nothing a person can do that can't be more efficiently done by hiring AI more cheaply, plus you get to treat AI completely differently because AI is not a person' that compl
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by Applejinx 4mo ago
An AI spat out a website and a bunch of text and some images. It says people don't need to know how to do things anymore, because there's a blue box of AI sitting apart from the structure of the actual company, and it'll do e
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by Applejinx 4mo ago
I think it's used as a stalking horse by outsiders who are really just trying to put across the idea 'candidate X sucks and you should shun them like they're poison'. I don't think that topic is treated like it&#x27
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by Applejinx 4mo ago
This is not the AI branding I would associate with medical technology. Oh hey look, I have the spleen of an elf! And my bones have a really nice cottage motif now.
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by Applejinx 4mo ago
My analogy for this sort of thing is always sand in the lettuce. It's amazing how easily you can ruin lettuce if it just occasionally crunches against your teeth in that particular way: you start dreading the sensation. You can't
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by Applejinx 4mo ago
Rather than 'smarter search or autocomplete', maybe the better analogy is 'flexible information lookup about coding that's more responsive to search terms'? I see it not as an intelligence but as a wildly, spectacul
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by Applejinx 4mo ago
See, that makes it sound better in my world: I'm doing all 'manually implement' all the time, and have no interest in becoming the ten millionth manager to hit the software dev landscape. It boggles my mind that people think
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by Applejinx 4mo ago
That sounds weirdly gendered even though there's no reason it should be. Are you getting LLMsplained? :)
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by Applejinx 4mo ago
You can be sad while acknowledging that the behavior's directly an epiphenomenon of how the technology scales :) Can't have the one without the other! It's part of that same technology, and it's fair to conclude that LLM
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by Applejinx 4mo ago
I'm an open source dev who doesn't take PRs, I just build a body of work that's hopefully consistent and leans a useful direction. Are you sure being a maintainer means coordinating a community? If your only role is facilitat

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