FloorEgg

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by FloorEgg 10mo ago
Win-win, win-lose, lose-lose. It's game theory. When locked into and committed cooperation (win-win) it's optimal to tell the truth. When locked into competition (win-lose) it's optimal to mix truth and lies. American social
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by FloorEgg 10mo ago
AI is like electricity. Agentic IDEs are like power tools. While most construction work today uses power tools, there are still lots of artisans productively using hand tools. LLMs can be useful and developers can still be productive witho
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by FloorEgg 10mo ago
I've been studying astrophysics as a hobby for years and am going to riff off your framing because it seems compatible with the way I've been thinking about some of the issues with lamda CDM. Speed of light = speed of causality =
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by FloorEgg 10mo ago
I wonder if there are still legacy short positions (from 2018-2020 era) that prop up the stock price by covering during dips.
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by FloorEgg 10mo ago
Then keep fighting the good fight, and thank you for caring!
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by FloorEgg 10mo ago
I was surprised to see that StarForge wasn't on this list, and after looking into it I think it's because after it was delisted someone else published another game named StarForge. I wonder how common that is.
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by FloorEgg 10mo ago
> The exams will be proctored and in person. If someone is using a digital device it will be obvious enough. This is only true if the proctors really care and are paying close attention the entire time, which unfortunately, from what I&#
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by FloorEgg 10mo ago
Maybe this boils down to people who think AI is on an exponential (self-improving) curve, materially unbounded by physical resources, and people who think it's on a series of sigmoid curves with material physical constraints. If someon
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by FloorEgg 10mo ago
In person exams make sense yes, but pen and paper? If you want high integrity, exams should be done on school computers with extra integrity monitoring software. In the current cheating paradigm, pen and paper are as easy to cheat as studen
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by FloorEgg 10mo ago
Sounds like you solved the trust issue with your upwork profile reputation.
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by FloorEgg 10mo ago
Read "the terrifying art of finding customers" by Collin Stewart Very few know more about outbound than he does, and that book is recent. My two cents: It's unlikely you can make outbound work for a custom software dev studio
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by FloorEgg 10mo ago
How many years experience do you have managing products with millions of users?
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by FloorEgg 10mo ago
My guess is that including timestamps in messages to the LLM will bias the LLMs responses in material ways, and ways they don't want, and showing timestamps to users but not the LLM will create confusion when the user assumes the LLM i
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by FloorEgg 10mo ago
It's the same with openai. I had to switch emails so I had to create a new account. Seems bonkers.
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by FloorEgg 10mo ago
In the same way that using hand tools are different skills than using power tools. Or doing bookkeeping for a small business with pencil and paper is a different skill than using spreadsheets or dedicated bookkeeping software.
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by FloorEgg 10mo ago
The seed of this thread was the premise that using these power tools requires skill. Skill that takes time and practice to become proficient at. And my point was whether or not people take the time to develop the skill depends on their moti
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by FloorEgg 10mo ago
Okay, I'm pretty sure we would heavily agree on a lot of this if we pulled it all apart. It really boils down to who is using the LLM tool and how they are using it and what they want. When I prompt the LLM to do something I scout out
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by FloorEgg 10mo ago
From my thousands of hours working with LLMs since GPT-3, I strongly disagree. In the media AI hype perspective your CNC analogy sounds right. In my -grounded in real experience using it- perspective the power tool analogy is far more apt.
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by FloorEgg 10mo ago
If that's happening then you're most likely not using the best tools (best model and IDE) for agentic coding and/or not using them right. How an experienced developer uses LLMs to program is different than how a new developer
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by FloorEgg 10mo ago
Ah yes there is a distinction for students or someone learning principles. If the goal is learning programming then some of that should be done with LLMs and some without. I think we are still figuring out how to use LLMs to optimize rate o
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by FloorEgg 10mo ago
25+ year programmer thats been using an agentic IDE for 9 months chiming in. Yes I absolutely am. Yes it's a skill. Some programmers I've discussed this with made up their mind before they tried it. If the programmers goal is to p
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by FloorEgg 10mo ago
That sounds right to me. It also makes me wonder whether artificially low cost of capital (artificially low interest rates) would result in more manufactured complexity.
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by FloorEgg 10mo ago
Ah my bad, that was a silly deduction on my part. Yes I see your point better now, however I still think this is temporary. It's probably something like accidental/manufactured complexity is friction, and I'm this example the
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by FloorEgg 10mo ago
Supply and demand I guess. Pathetic for a senior SE but pretty awesome for a 16 year old up and coming hacker.
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by FloorEgg 10mo ago
World leading nuclear physicist in emerging abundant energy technology murdered in their home. I don't know. Sounds like part of a James Bond plot or something. The question was only 10% serious, but wow, has it sparked a lot of respon
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by FloorEgg 10mo ago
1. Human potential may be orders of magnitude greater than what people are capable of today. Population projections may be wrong. 2. Kardachev? You think we are at peak energy production? Fusion? Do you see energy usage slowing down, or spe
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by FloorEgg 10mo ago
Technology advances like a fractal stain, ever increasing the diversity of jobs to be done to decrease entropy locally while increasing it globally. I would wager we are very far from peak complexity, and as long as complexity keeps incre
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by FloorEgg 10mo ago
GGPs question doesn't make sense though. What does it mean for a technology to "come out". Also what does three prove? Is three supposed to be a benchmark of some kind? I would wager every year there are dozens, probably hund
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by FloorEgg 11mo ago
~5500 years old is the youngest plausible age based on historical sea levels. We assume anything older than that has to be hunter gatherers. Personally I'm skeptical and think this is more evidence that points at much more advanced and
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by FloorEgg 11mo ago
I made my own top level comment below about the ambiguity of "I don't want x" and how hard it is in English to distinguish between "I have zero want for x" and "I have negative want for x" I didn't kn

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