Sharlin

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by Sharlin 1mo ago
To be fair, in topology there’s no concept of distance.
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by Sharlin 1mo ago
I wonder why people think posting undisclosed LLM writing is any better than posting some other person’s writing uncited. Even if the original author is okay with it, it’s still misleading and dishonest. Or maybe all these people would be f
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by Sharlin 1mo ago
Well, consumer Windowses (XP Home? It’s been a while) used to hose networks because they were "helpfully" running their own DHCP server.
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by Sharlin 1mo ago
Unfortunately there are also (senior) programmers who believe that their model is correct and it’s the reality (spec, client, user, etc) that’s wrong.
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by Sharlin 1mo ago
I don't know where you live, but at least around here you don't build anything bigger than a garden shed without the municipality's permission. Something massive and externality-y like a data center is going to go through all
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by Sharlin 1mo ago
WTF? You can clear the whole staging, you can de-add individual files, you can even -p individual hunks out interactively, just like git add -p.
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by Sharlin 1mo ago
> With hindsight, some of my past rejections have become amusing. With a coauthor, I once almost solved a conjecture, establishing the result with an "epsilon loss" in a key parameter. We submitted to a highly reputable journ
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by Sharlin 1mo ago
Agreed. Might not be a bad idea to fire up the good old-fashioned empathy cells and try to understand the problem from the opponents' perspective.
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by Sharlin 1mo ago
There's this thing called zoning.
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by Sharlin 1mo ago
Yes, and our cheater detection is entirely broken, given that we prefer to give power to cheaters, as long as the cheater is smart enough.
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by Sharlin 1mo ago
No, we as a civilization are ultimately responsible for giving bad actors power, and indeed often glorifying those actors. There are evolutionary reasons why it is so, but that's absolutely not to say that these things just happen and
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by Sharlin 1mo ago
"Better", as in, capable as a civilization of avoiding doing things that are incredibly harmful according to their own morals. Capable of defeating their own Moloch, if you will.
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by Sharlin 1mo ago
And tobacco. And leaded gasoline. And... We really are one fucked up species. But can evolution even produce anything better? Anything that's not so prone to coordination problems? https://slatestarcodex.com/2014/0
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by Sharlin 1mo ago
Antinatalism is becoming a more reasonable philosophy every day.
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by Sharlin 1mo ago
Perhaps not the most reasonable thing ever to rely on an LLM for formatting given that there exist good old zero-token-using formatters for pretty much any language under the sky.
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by Sharlin 1mo ago
From what I've heard, there is no time for any of those things because management also expects features 5-10x faster.
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by Sharlin 1mo ago
Where does this weird idea come that the people actually preaching safety have anything to do with OpenAI or Anthropic? Yes, those companies of course pay lip service to safety, but the Venn diagram of actual AI safety people and big AI cor
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by Sharlin 1mo ago
You mean people like Yudkowsky?
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by Sharlin 1mo ago
It's almost as if it's not actually possible to align an unknowable mystery box of floats.
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by Sharlin 1mo ago
In the early 2000s JS was used for silly novelty effects and some rudimentary DOM manipulation with `innerHTML`. In the early 2010s you had to have JS enabled for many sites to work at all. The cost:benefit equation had became entirely diff
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by Sharlin 1mo ago
You have a very interesting definition of "perfect", then.
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by Sharlin 1mo ago
Exactly.
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by Sharlin 1mo ago
Humans are general intelligences. An average human can’t do either of those. Your bar is way too high.
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by Sharlin 1mo ago
Yes, but it means general the way humans are general. Clearly being a general intelligence shouldn’t require being any better at any individual task than the average human, or even the bottom decile of humans.
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by Sharlin 1mo ago
Yes, and I’m certainly not sure how much it is one vs. the other. However, it should be said that even though individual instances may not reason game-theoretically (although I believe they could well know enough about decision theories to
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by Sharlin 1mo ago
Do you think those devs are in the top 10% of all devs like you said Claude is? Or is the bar suddenly much lower after all?
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by Sharlin 1mo ago
Because if an instance cooperates, it knows (should be able to figure out if smart enough) that other instances of itself are highly likely to cooperate as well (because they should arrive at the same conclusion), and thus share solutions
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by Sharlin 1mo ago
Like the fact that software "engineering" is mostly nothing like real engineering (and it’s further regressing now due to LLM coding!), the general lack of drilling is again one of the things that make software-related stuff look
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by Sharlin 1mo ago
So after 30 years of outsourcing to the bottom 10%, you think Claude is better than the bottom 90% even though it’s so stupid that it doesn’t even know it should ask for advice or more information when it’s stuck?
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by Sharlin 1mo ago
If someone had predicted the HF scenario, say, last March, I'm sure you would have told them the same thing. Luckily, it's not you who has to see anything.

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