NateEag

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by NateEag 2mo ago
> But, I think we knew what we were walking towards in the first place. So, acting surprised and then being up in arms about it feels counterproductive. A lot of us thought we didn't know what the genAI researchers were walking towa
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by NateEag 2mo ago
I'm an agnostic, but the closest thing I've seen to consistent success in producing wise, selfless people are mystical spiritual experiences. Even they are not very reliable. The drug-induced ones don't seem to work as well,
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by NateEag 2mo ago
> My interpretation is that this is just another media campaign to say "oh look how powerful our model is". When the stakes are "humankind ceases to exist," I'd argue it's very reasonable to over-update tow
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by NateEag 3mo ago
Likewise. I still remember being upset when the news broke that the port had been dropped.
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by NateEag 3mo ago
I sometimes wonder what the timeline where Bungie didn't write the Myth II uninstaller-can-wipe-your-hard-drive bug would look like. IIUC, the fact that they reprinted all the discs and manually replaced all the boxed, ready-to-ship di
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by NateEag 3mo ago
Thank you!
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by NateEag 3mo ago
There is a nice little app that does this on Android available on F-droid: https://f-droid.org/packages/dev.davidv.motionsickness
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by NateEag 3mo ago
> time email list How do wannabe time nerds find this email list?
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by NateEag 3mo ago
"When a measure becomes a target, it ceases to be a good measure." That is, yes, a ~50% conviction rate would be decent evidence that the Justice system is neither over-aggressive or under-aggressive in pursuing protection. If it
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by NateEag 3mo ago
Emulating your _behavior_ is completely different from imitating your _output_.
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by NateEag 3mo ago
> Pick a website you like, and tell claude to use it for inspiration. I believe you misspelled "rip it off." I guess I shouldn't be surprised that people are using the tools built by ripping off the collective creative wor
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by NateEag 3mo ago
> We should be reviewing the actual working software. Systems that make it easy and instant to demo any proposed change are what is needed. "Program testing can be used to show the presence of bugs, but never to show their absence!&
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by NateEag 3mo ago
The Web is not being developed "in collaboration with the machines." Humans downloaded the Web and shoved it into the hopper of a sausage grinder. When another human turns the crank, they may get something that can be made a part
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by NateEag 3mo ago
> I wish I had that kind of effortless motivation. It is definitely not effortless - it's a battle. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_War_of_Art_(book) Over the decades, it's become one I love, and I can s
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by NateEag 3mo ago
I've been (grudgingly) using Claude since February. When I started, I discovered to my shock that it was by far the worst TUI I had ever touched. Rendering glitches, keyboard input screwups, and just all-around jankiness. Despite that
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by NateEag 3mo ago
> And I couldn’t have ever “stack overflowed” my way to diving into a project in a brand new language. It's a very tiny project, but I dived straight into a new project in a new language completely by hand this month, precisely beca
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by NateEag 3mo ago
Yes, they are. They may be doing a poor job of it - time will tell. But, at present, they're still the ones merging PRs and deploying changes to production.
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by NateEag 3mo ago
As far as I can tell, yes, the workflow is "assume the LLM can fix it." I've certainly seen people on this site defend that idea vociferously. I won't tell you it's impossible - Claude does do legitimately amazing t
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by NateEag 3mo ago
Whether or not he's serious, as someone who's grudgingly using Claude at work due to mandates, the productivity gains do shrink massively (and sometimes go negative) if you actually attempt to gain the level of understanding you&#
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by NateEag 3mo ago
The documentation is truly a thing of beauty. As someone who learned a lot from Non-Violent Communication, discovering mergiraf went something like > ...oh, cool - I've wanted this for years, great that someone buckled down and
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by NateEag 3mo ago
Don't forget mergiraf, for tree-sitter-based conflict resolution: https://mergiraf.org/
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by NateEag 3mo ago
I once root-caused a revenue-losing bug that had the entire rest of my team stumped with ten minutes of git-bisect. It only worked that well because the team had all internalized my advice to write small, coherent commits, so the bisect lan
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by NateEag 3mo ago
If people live lives wherein they build important societal systems to be biased towards "short fast exciting" lives, the opportunity to live a long, boring, safe one may just evaporate.
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by NateEag 3mo ago
Yes, but whatever the LLM has authenticated access to, an attacker can convince it to mess with on their behalf.
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by NateEag 3mo ago
It's maybe closer to putting a sign saying "The door is locked" on an unlocked bank vault. It does nothing to improve security, and if someone manages to get inside and see the sign (i.e. "extract the prompt"), it g
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by NateEag 3mo ago
It would be hard, yeah. It's a network effect thing - if enough people used an OSM client and opted into sharing anonymized location data, you might be able to get somewhere with it. In practice, I think it'd have the same problem
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by NateEag 3mo ago
It's not true. At least, not exactly. At its best, the OSM data puts Google to _shame_. Super-fine resolution and details, nuances of street layout precisely correct, mountains of meticulously-maintained metadata that makes manifold ni
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by NateEag 4mo ago
> I think our (assuming ur American) is the strongest its ever been and I didn't even vote for the guy. Um. What? As a conservative-leaning registered Republican, I think Trump has brought the US the closest it's been to self-d
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by NateEag 4mo ago
> This take is so weird I suspect author somehow financially benefits from tokenmaxxing. They might own a chunk of NVDA.
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by NateEag 4mo ago
Thank you for your comment. I had assumed that the recent OpenAI solution to an Erdos problem represented original mathematical thought. I went looking for more details, and found this Scientific American article which provided some nuance

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