Gareth321

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by Gareth321 28d ago
Exactly. People cannot comprehend an IQ in the millions. But it's far crazier than this. Imagine millions of "people", each with IQs in the millions, all acting in unison at the speed of electrons. None of them can die. They
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by Gareth321 28d ago
I have always hypothesised that AI is the great filter from the Fermi paradox. Given current velocity, AI will offer us cheap and abundant energy designs in a decade. The thing with cheap and abundant energy is that it can be used for good
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by Gareth321 28d ago
I guess I'm boring because I really like it :-/ Maybe some cozier lighting/plants could be nice in the LAN/party spaces. I think the bones are pretty good. Just needs some finishing touches.
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by Gareth321 29d ago
Shelfmark (+ Grimmory/Calibre) is magic.
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by Gareth321 29d ago
This sounds uncomfortably similar to the [AI 2027[( https://ai-2027.com/ ) predictions.
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by Gareth321 1mo ago
There were many examples of Twitter censoring and suppressing people and subjects. Some of the best reporting of the time was from Matt Taibbi, who won awards for his reporting, sometimes called the "Twitter Files." These are some
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by Gareth321 1mo ago
As much as I dislike many of the users on X, I really appreciate that it feels like one of the last uncensored social media platforms on the internet. Reddit is handing out permanent AI bans now for any and no reason at all. It's ful
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by Gareth321 1mo ago
I don't know how HN has remained as chill as it has compared to other social media platforms, but I'm grateful. I can still have deep conversations here without people losing their minds and yelling expletives and death threats. I
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by Gareth321 1mo ago
With all due respect, it sounds like you believe that when an asset is depreciated, it means the company gets to claim back the pro rata capex amount in tax. That's not remotely how it works. It's a business cost. Revenue minus
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by Gareth321 1mo ago
From a business perspective, I fully agree. I was responding to a very different premise and claim above.
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by Gareth321 1mo ago
And yet their models are all behind the US models. I don't think LLM progress is strictly correlated with the number of computer science degree holders in a specific country. [There are many examples of distillation attacks.]( https:&#
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by Gareth321 1mo ago
> However the cold reality for both is that there is zero moat to a model anymore. The moat right now is a) the hardware, b) the electricity, c) the intelligence, and d) scalability. On hardware, it's very expensive to purchase anyt
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by Gareth321 1mo ago
This is a philosophical question and there is a surprising amount of works written on the subjects of sentience and free will. This cannot be answered objectively, which might be a very unsatisfying answer for you. This is true of both LLMs
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by Gareth321 1mo ago
It's fair to criticise my absolute language but if I add up the top 100 most influential economists of the last century, the vast majority were in favour of LVT. There are notable exceptions, like Krugman, but let us not characterise
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by Gareth321 1mo ago
As always I feel compelled to say that the bar is not "never hurts a human being." It's "hurts human beings less than the status quo." Home helpers, for example, also occasionally hurt human beings. Further, the eld
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by Gareth321 1mo ago
The good news is that, while the number of fabricated papers have accelerated, so too is our ability to detect fabrications. Also, fabricated papers were a massive problem well before AI was useful in research. I think it's fair to c
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by Gareth321 1mo ago
> What if she refuses to do the work unpaid? Depending on the competition for her job and the state laws, she would either be put onto a performance management program, or fired. I've been through this before. The HR approved respon
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by Gareth321 1mo ago
> LLMs have no connection to ground truth. It won't matter how many or how cleverly you network them to each other, they still can't tell the difference between real users saying a product is good and good spammers saying a pro
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by Gareth321 1mo ago
Search optimisation is deterministic. The algorithms are quite sophisticated but even an older LLM can easily work around them right now. There will be some kind of AI arms race but I think the net effect of that will destroy search as a pl
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by Gareth321 1mo ago
You're applying nuance to a discussion which so often does not lend itself to nuance. Successive governments love to focus on the unemployment figure as though that is the mark of a healthy jobs market. As you've pointed out, it
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by Gareth321 1mo ago
Economists have been championing Georgism for more than a century and we still refuse to consider it. I would argue that unreasonably expensive land prices are the most serious economic and social issue in the West today. It's a syst
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by Gareth321 1mo ago
For this reason I use the employment rate instead. The unemployment rate, as you've correctly pointed out, is very narrowly defined. Obviously so as to trick voters into thinking that everything is fine. The employment rate can't
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by Gareth321 1mo ago
Great points. I have the same problem. I often end up throwing things away or doing work myself when I would be happy to pay the right people to do it. The classical response is that this is a failure of marketing, but marketing is no longe
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by Gareth321 1mo ago
> Try putting an LLM agent in a deterministic workflow without humans in the loop. I would not use a sewing machine to repair my deck :) LLMs are non -deterministic, by design.
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by Gareth321 1mo ago
Yolo. I keep a large project markdown document + incident/logs/feature documents which its instructed to review and update as necessary. It still occasionally misses stuff but it's surprisingly effective. Disclaimer: this is
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by Gareth321 1mo ago
My codex tasks regularly cross 8 hours, and I'm only using Sol High. It's not unusual for tasks to span much longer. It just requires instructions to continue working until the spec is complete. Anthropic and OpenAI are currently
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by Gareth321 1mo ago
I strongly agree. I cannot understand how anyone could seriously use this technology and come away thinking it's mostly useless. I suspect there is a LOT of bias baked into their opinion.
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by Gareth321 1mo ago
OpenAI has been slowly strangling context limits, task timeframes, tools, etc, for chat. They're trying to encourage people to use "Work" because chat is free and Work is metered. Expect chat capabilities to degrade further o
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by Gareth321 1mo ago
It's crazy to see the same people accusing X of being an echo-chamber suggesting Bluesky without a hint of irony or interospection.
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by Gareth321 1mo ago
Unless you've never taken heroine, it's obvious that drug addiction is a major contributing factor to homelessness.

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