CamperBob2

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by CamperBob2 1mo ago
Letting bad actors dictate the pace of technological development is certainly one option, but not a good one.
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by CamperBob2 1mo ago
and it seemed likely that solving them would require major breakthroughs If building a machine that solves these kinds of problems isn't a "major breakthrough," I don't know what is. Is the objection merely that it ca
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by CamperBob2 1mo ago
Did the same thing. Added the exact features I wanted/needed to the FreeRDP client and had Claude generate a lightweight server from scratch. Bye, bye, TeamViewer, Windows RDP, and RealVNC.
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by CamperBob2 1mo ago
it's confusing how these ostensibly top-of-their-game engineers and researchers are so utterly incompetent Have you seen Codex and Claude Code?
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by CamperBob2 1mo ago
edit: what makes me more sad is seeing your credentials in technology and science. Nothing else has ever helped with the things you're bewailing.
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by CamperBob2 1mo ago
Then they weren't sandboxed.
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by CamperBob2 1mo ago
No, not really. If the old "birds and airplanes" or "swimmers and submarines" metaphors were valid, then language alone wouldn't be enough to encode and embody reasoning capabilities, as has recently become evident
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by CamperBob2 1mo ago
1. Put cup of gasoline in breakroom microwave oven 2. Press 'Start' 3. Run away 4. Call press conference: "See how dangerous gasoline is? Only we should be allowed to sell it, for the good of humanity. Microwaves too, for t
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by CamperBob2 1mo ago
What do you think we're doing?!
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by CamperBob2 1mo ago
I think progress is really measured by what humans are able to do and understand, not machines. Building a machine that solves Millennium problems is pretty cool too. You wouldn't know it from reading these stories, though.
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by CamperBob2 1mo ago
It'd be naive to suspect that this isn't part of the backlash. Artists and musicians are indulging a will-to-power impulse just like the rest of us. Nobody likes to lose power, or to see their own influence diluted.
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by CamperBob2 1mo ago
Looks like another unreadable black hole of nothingness. God, I wish this trend would hurry up and run its course.
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by CamperBob2 1mo ago
I sure hope humans are in the loop at those companies, reviewing pics that aren't recognized as faces. If I ever see one of those captchas, they'll get to see some things that no human has ever, or should ever, see.
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by CamperBob2 1mo ago
Nah, I just have my clanker deal with it. It's better at those stupid puzzles than I am.
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by CamperBob2 1mo ago
I remember being blown away when a then-unreleased version of GPT 5 took gold at the International Math Olympiad. Now I can run a model at home that can do that. We are more fortunate to have these tools than almost anyone is willing to a
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by CamperBob2 1mo ago
I guess I'd do it once, the slow and easy way, and cache the result. But that's just me.
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by CamperBob2 1mo ago
If it's vibecoded, who GAF what language is used? This argument applies regardless of how you feel about vibecoding. Lately people have been asking for x64 machine language and getting reasonable results.
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by CamperBob2 1mo ago
When they started leaving notes for their future selves, that rationale became a little more interesting. We're seeing the first stirrings of object permanence.
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by CamperBob2 1mo ago
How many user pictures are there to choose from, though? This is a nice, elegant way to sample from the set, but the nature, size, and frequency of the problem don't justify more than five or ten seconds' or thought and one or tw
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by CamperBob2 1mo ago
If its weights are open, that covers a multitude of other sins. Sufficiently-strong performance on the part of the new model would justify adapting existing tools to work with it.
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by CamperBob2 1mo ago
What's a concrete example of how FORTRAN compilers are inherently better at this type of task than modern C/C++ or Rust compilers?
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by CamperBob2 1mo ago
There are similar exceptions. For instance, the copy of licensed content that your computer makes in RAM in order to play it is explicitly exempt from being treated as a copyright violation.
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by CamperBob2 1mo ago
Anyone who comes close to solving a Millennium problem can honestly say they are on the cusp of greatness. Not sure what this question proves either way.
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by CamperBob2 1mo ago
That logic is so goofy, I don't even think the Greeks had a name for it.
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by CamperBob2 1mo ago
News flash: people who scraped the Internet without permission to build their product complain when something vaguely similar is done to them. Water still wet, sky still blue. Film at 11. (slibhb: Don't get me wrong, I agree with you
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by CamperBob2 1mo ago
I would worry about trap streets. A collection of facts isn't copyrightable, and arguably the network of existing streets shown in satellite photos falls into that category. But if I were the photo licensor, I'd be tempted to Ph
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by CamperBob2 1mo ago
User name checks out
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by CamperBob2 1mo ago
Explain how this is different from what humans do. We all just muddle through life, predicting the next token. That's it. That's all there is. And it's enough.
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by CamperBob2 1mo ago
Unfortunately that seems to be monitoring Sol, not Astra, unless I'm missing something.
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by CamperBob2 1mo ago
"Corporate machine," yadda, yadda, whatever, go sell it on Reddit. The model running on the box in my basement is almost as good as the one we're talking about here, and may in fact be just as good by this time next year..

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