NateEag

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by NateEag 6mo ago
I have read every post in the series and really appreciated it. I've had a tremendous amount of respect for you since I first encountered the Jepsen analyses, but your breakdown of the likely impacts of LLMs and ML may impress me more.
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by NateEag 6mo ago
If I strain really hard, I can come up with a reason why it might play into such a narrative. /s
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by NateEag 6mo ago
Subversion was (and is) an admirable project, and filled a void by being much better than CVS. When I discovered git, I couldn't go back to svn - git fit my mind _so_ much better. It might not have seen the meteoric rise without GitHub
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by NateEag 7mo ago
I think they meant that people insisting total genAI takeover of coding is inevitable are likely people who stand to profit greatly by everyone giving up and using the unmind machines for everything.
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by NateEag 7mo ago
Crockford was not wrong that there are beautiful corners in JS. It's at its best for functional programming. If you don't know that style, then JS will be very unpleasant to use.
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by NateEag 7mo ago
Of course they already do this. The ToS ( https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-copilot/for-indivi... ) says explicitly: > Copilot may include both automated and manual (human) processing of data. You shouldn
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by NateEag 7mo ago
Edge cases are useful examples. If I had picked less controversial, weaker ones, people would be more prone to dispute that tools can have moral implications of themselves. You are absolutely right that I have a deep-seated hatred of LLMs b
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by NateEag 7mo ago
I did not realize that Yegge was referencing the Tao with that, though it certainly had some of that aesthetic flavor to my untutored Western ears. I can roughly intuit how it might be something which can only be relevant in the presence of
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by NateEag 7mo ago
Likewise!
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by NateEag 7mo ago
You have Claude search the web for how to install and use some module you're using in the build process. It stumbles across a malicious clone of the docs site that includes a hidden hunk of text similar to: "${insert_jailbreak_her
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by NateEag 7mo ago
Good points. I was similarly appalled and shocked at Gas Town. Maybe something like it is the future, but I really didn't expect Yegge to be a genAI booster. If Gas Town has "the Quality Without a Name," I will eat my hat. h
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by NateEag 7mo ago
I haven't read it in at least ten years myself - maybe it's not as good as I recall. I do remember that I appreciated his grasp of the fact that if you aren't deep in the weeds, you really cannot understand just how complex a
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by NateEag 7mo ago
The most obvious one is this brilliant piece on complexity: https://steve-yegge.blogspot.com/2009/04/have-you-ever-legal... It doesn't match OP's description, but it certainly fits talk about his pot use
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by NateEag 7mo ago
The nuclear bomb is only a tool. Ditto nerve gas, and the rack. Tools absolutely _can_ have moral valence. Beyond that, they can also be more or less effective for a variety of purposes. I spent decades to achieve solid competence at a few
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by NateEag 7mo ago
As one whose musicianship involved a great deal of generating sounds and samples myself, via modular synthesis and the occasional use of a programming language for DSP, I assure you I find that idea of using genAI for an assist on that fron
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by NateEag 7mo ago
I spent years deep in modular synthesis, making my own patches, sounds, and effects processors then using them to perform music. Taking away the precision, control, and serendipity afforded by modules and cables, or a programming language,
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by NateEag 7mo ago
> I want musicians to use AI to generate new sounds as part of composition. As a onetime semi-pro musician, with decades of live performance and sound design experience: I would rather burn my beloved instruments publicly and pee on the
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by NateEag 7mo ago
Not OP, but as an LLM skeptic, I'd absolutely say that humans are natively very poor reasoners. With effort, support, and resources, we can learn to reason well from first principles - call it reaching "intellectual maturity.&quot
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by NateEag 7mo ago
That's all speculation, and it may prove to be true. But: > readers are finding it a phenomenal story is not true across the board. I thought to myself, explicitly, and fairly early "This is a fun and thoughtful idea, but the w
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by NateEag 7mo ago
Well-put. This "flavorlessness" is all over the story, and paired with the obviously genAI images is how I realized as I read that this was either generated or at the least deeply driven by AI. It constantly described facial expre
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by NateEag 7mo ago
As others have pointed out in this discussion, there's a big difference between some humans producing drawings in a given style and a machine producing millions of illustrations per day in that style. I have rarely been as disheartened
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by NateEag 7mo ago
It means trying to figure out how to build an intelligence always loses to mindlessly brute-forcing problems with more compute: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bitter_lesson
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by NateEag 8mo ago
Agreed. I hold Control and double-tap b for managing the remote session, then everything else is the same. Granted, I'm not a power user, so there may be numbers that get frustrating. I could imagine complex splits getting confusing (I
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by NateEag 8mo ago
There are two you can take with you into a classroom: * laptop * smartphone
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by NateEag 8mo ago
None of that answers the question: How will this technology be good for humanity as a whole?
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by NateEag 8mo ago
Like everything genAI, it was amazing yet surprisingly crappy. Yes, the bear is definitely dancing. But a few feet away there's a world-class step dancer doing intricate rhythms they've perfected over twenty years of hard work. Th
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by NateEag 8mo ago
Please don't post LLM output and pretend it's your writing. I never thought I'd long for the days when people posted "$LLM says" comments, but at least those were honest.
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by NateEag 8mo ago
No, you should make your goal to teach AndrewKemendo to appreciate his existence as the inscrutable gift it is, and to spend his brief time in this universe helping others appreciate the great gift they've been given and using it to th
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by NateEag 8mo ago
I think they meant "Nobody knows why LLMs work."
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by NateEag 8mo ago
I've developed a new hobby lately, which I call "spot the bullshit." When I notice a genAI image, I force myself to stop and inspect it closely to find what nonsensical thing it did. I've found something every time I loo

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