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by Jach 4y ago
"ASI" is still limited by physics and logic. Or if not, we're just more screwed, maybe. I suppose we're in agreement that in the long run (maybe longer than we think with some really cool stuff like Ems in between...), t
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by Jach 4y ago
Your argument that it is actually impossible is not convincing, I think my example of a pitfall trap in 4 is sufficient to demonstrate that. More precisely, if we grant that any AGI no matter how intelligent and agent-y is still subject to
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by Jach 4y ago
Your question and larger post don't present anything new to me, and I'm just a casual reader of the idea space (but I've been around since SL4). Some brief thoughts: 1. Congrats on recognizing that it's a hard (perhaps
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by Jach 4y ago
Thanks, I can start on Monday
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by Jach 4y ago
This is a great way to get BS'd into thinking someone is qualified when they're not. Work sample tests are all you need.
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by Jach 4y ago
On your last point, even just a language like JavaScript (or even Java) has, over long enough periods of time, evolved to accumulate enough new features and common idioms that if you look at typical code from the 90s vs now in those languag
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by Jach 4y ago
Perhaps some biases can be excused by committing to C++. Using dynamic dispatch in that language seems to be slow when it's pretty much always some vtable lookups under the hood, but it doesn't have to be that way. Implementations
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by Jach 4y ago
I'm a fan of Norvig's LOOP implementation from PAIP: http://www.norvig.com/paip/loop.lisp It's missing some things from the full ANSI CL loop but it's just 223 code lines, and importantly not partic
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by Jach 4y ago
Haha, if only it was $8k one-and-done, but if you're using it for more than just the IDE but also delivering binaries with it, hope you like paying runtime license fees depending on how your application is used: https://fran
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by Jach 4y ago
Heh, if you thought this post had very strong comments about LispWorks and Franz, wait till you read my rant from last year: https://www.thejach.com/view/2022/1/thoughts_on_writings_on_... It doesn't bot
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by Jach 4y ago
I'm tempted to go check, I read that too around the end of HS or very start of college, but isn't QED the one that starts off with a story about counting physical beans in jars to do familiar arithmetic operations like summing a
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by Jach 4y ago
There are no guarantees, and trying to optimize for happiness could very well lead to more unhappiness than doing nothing or optimizing for exceptionalism or something else instead. And that's even if you have a theory for how to optim
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by Jach 4y ago
Going down the path to eventually having no users is an interesting way to accomplish that. But really, no, they don't. Put up enough disclaimers (this is the secret to compromising with security teams on usability) and let me do what
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by Jach 4y ago
Yeah, it can help a bit with looping, but introduces other problems. I recalled from earlier that a combo of tweaking no_speech_threshold and logprob_threshold settings helped somewhat, though trying again on a random video it doesn't
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by Jach 4y ago
Generally yes when it produces sane output at all, but while YT can get stuff comically wrong I've never seen it just go off the rails and start hallucinating and mindlessly repeating itself, which Whisper sometimes does especially i
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by Jach 4y ago
If it enables further specialization that can be a good thing, it's often awkward when companies try to wring out some extra utility from people who really aren't well suited for the other task. (Having people do such things occas
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by Jach 4y ago
The most plausible explanation that they could be fully invisible but chose not to be I've heard so far is from Robin Hanson, but there are several parts and that alone lowers its probability. Still, fun to think about, and also addres
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by Jach 4y ago
I got into the habit of using =P to suggest humor or not being too serious, but since I picked it up from someone at least 10 years older than me, I suppose it could come off as toxic or arrogant to people 10 years younger and none have tol
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by Jach 4y ago
It's been amusing to see the evolution of things like 'lol' in particular go from ubiquitous to very much frowned on and now back full circle to being a lot more common. I don't think "xD" and friends will come
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by Jach 4y ago
I agree in the broad that much (most) of reddit is awful, wrong, and not worth viewing. (I wonder how you feel about HN over the years. To me HN got as bad as parts of reddit were at some point, however reddit has gotten worse too so there&
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by Jach 4y ago
Sharecropping is of course when a landowner lets someone else farm their land in exchange for a share of the crops they produce. It has the usual tradeoffs, incentives for each party, and dysfunctions at the extremes (like demanding 99.9% s
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by Jach 4y ago
I'm not sure it's all that different, just maybe you see more of it if you interact with JP twitter? Like artists use integrations to share their art on twitter and elsewhere, and lots of various services/games/survey-th
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by Jach 4y ago
One of my first programming jobs involved helping the boss make a twitter sharecropping service. I remember at some point after that project twitter made a big TOS/API change and crippled a wave of startups at the time. I was doing som
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by Jach 4y ago
I dunno, my Lisp code comes back in pretty frequently, but I'm defining new functions, using CLOS, making use of let* or other nifty macros (uiop:nest is occasionally useful), and refactoring when a function gets too large. But compa
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by Jach 4y ago
Reminds me of another style: "Just do it, hack! I approach code like games, rush deep into room, trigger all NPCs, die, after respawn I know where NPCs are." --@bkaradzic
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by Jach 4y ago
It's up to the user if they want to see whether the dynamic library is "working well". They work well for many people! But the statically linked version will be used unless their custom env variable is declared, everyone can
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by Jach 4y ago
I like SDL2's approach to enable both: https://old.reddit.com/r/linux_gaming/comments/1upn39/sdl2_a... A game can statically link the library, but the user can with an environmental variable overrid
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by Jach 4y ago
Or at least have the foot off the gas. I try to have or create if I don't distance between myself and aggressive drivers. But even with defensive / paranoid driving sometimes there's just not much you can do, physics is physi
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by Jach 4y ago
Heard this has affected engineering too, not just or mostly sales as people were thinking or happened before. (I remember a hiring manager years ago telling me once that there hadn't ever been any layoffs, all I could think was "y
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by Jach 4y ago
I worry about this more with things like hardware keys / flash storage

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