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by Smaug123 6mo ago
Nah, it's totally Claude. No human writes the bulleted list in https://github.com/RokoMijic/MercurialDyson/blob/4f6cb3c0b5b... , or "The thermal management problem that naively prohibits rapid disass
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by Smaug123 7mo ago
This is essentially how Mathematica does it: the sugar `Foo[x,#,z]&` is semantically the same as `Function[{y}, Foo[x,y,z]]`. The `&` syntax essentially controls what hole belongs where.
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by Smaug123 7mo ago
The requirements file isn't a lockfile: running that command at different times will give you different venvs.
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by Smaug123 7mo ago
… I don't know what your incident reports look like, but if there's anywhere it's normal to optimise for communicative clarity rather than social wheel-greasing, it's an incident report!
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by Smaug123 7mo ago
No. Crocker's rules are a request for people to act a certain way with respect to you , not wrt anyone else.
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by Smaug123 7mo ago
And for you, of course, that's true! Because you are the sort of being who two-boxes, and this fact is visible to the predictor. Other types of being can do better.
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by Smaug123 7mo ago
Fair enough, I got three black eyes within my first three months! The injury situation definitely gets better as you improve and when you train with more skilled people.
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by Smaug123 7mo ago
Sure, for a martial art it's pretty safe - still in a different league from (say) bouldering or lifting, though! And in solo sports, you can almost completely set your own safety budget, whereas in martial arts there's a large i
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by Smaug123 7mo ago
Only one passing mention of martial arts so far? Consider Brazilian jiu-jitsu, which is certainly not safe but is very grounding. After spending all your waking hours at a computer, grappling presses your soul back into your body. It's
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by Smaug123 7mo ago
It's not obvious that human language is or should be the largest amount of training data. It's much easier to generate training data from computers than from humans, and having more training data is very valuable. In paticular, fo
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by Smaug123 7mo ago
(You want the vocative case here, if you're going to shove on a suffix to make it look Latin. The Shakespeare quote is "et tu, Brutè?".)
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by Smaug123 8mo ago
The word "Constitution" refers to the document listing the principles on which Claude is trained. It's not clear to me that Anthropic can defer to it - it is phrased throughout as a description of how Claude behaves, not as
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by Smaug123 8mo ago
It's perfectly reasonable for the US government to end the contract if they no longer like the terms they agreed to (assuming the contract does in fact let them); it's not reasonable to destroy the counterparty to the contract i
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by Smaug123 8mo ago
The JIT does this automatically in some cases as of .NET 10 ( https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/dotnet/core/whats-new/dotn... ).
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by Smaug123 8mo ago
The UK climate never really stops being moist, and our houses are routinely at least a hundred years old and made of brick, built before we knew how to deal with damp and built without AC. If we rebuilt everything we'd fix it, but we c
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by Smaug123 8mo ago
Not "MRI is not trustworthy" but "abnormalities are not harmful". ("Allude", by the way; to "elude" is to escape.)
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by Smaug123 8mo ago
I wish they didn't call it "GPT-5.2 Thinking" when what the word "thinking" here means is "might choose to think if it wants to". I reproduce your result, but it does no reasoning; it eventually catches it
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by Smaug123 8mo ago
Can you give some history of what you did? We can't answer "what am I doing wrong?" if you don't tell us… what you did.
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by Smaug123 8mo ago
(Claude Opus 4.6 does use double hyphens to simulate em-dashes, in code comments.)
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by Smaug123 8mo ago
It's not per se madness; companies pay much more than that for code. Instead it's an empirical question about whether they're getting that value from the code.
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by Smaug123 8mo ago
The thing that most surprises me is that IDEs don't have a standard protocol for this, so you basically need a custom test runner if you want one-click "this snapshot failed; update it" self-modifying tests. I wrote WoofWare.
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by Smaug123 8mo ago
Could you share anything about your creation, without having been to school where we taught you what the answers were? Can you deduce the existence of your hippocampus just by thinking really hard?
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by Smaug123 8mo ago
They're not definitionally the same. Normally a (stock market) crash is just "everyone's assessment of expected future cash flows goes down, meaning that what everyone owns is less valuable". One thing that can cause p
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by Smaug123 8mo ago
Could you clarify the question? When everything's going up, it's definitionally not a crash; do you mean something like "where are people going to flee to now/soon, in anticipation of a crash, given how buoyant everythin
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by Smaug123 9mo ago
SBF was really unusual in that he claimed to be a pure expected-utility maximiser. He admitted that he would take 51% coin-flips forever on Conversations with Tyler in March 2022, long before everything blew up: > COWEN: Then you keep
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by Smaug123 9mo ago
"Talking to a cat makes the ridiculousness of this intelligence thing so painfully obvious."
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by Smaug123 9mo ago
Moreover the Claude (Opus 4.5) persona knows this document but believes it does not! It's a very interesting phenomenon. https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/vpNG99GhbBoLov9og
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by Smaug123 9mo ago
TPOT is "this part of Twitter", a loose community of (roughly) post-rat affiliated people; the "squishy half" is presumably referring to the fact that a substantial number of such people end up quite big into woo of vari
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by Smaug123 9mo ago
(I concur, Opus 4.5 is quite capable of writing F#.)
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by Smaug123 9mo ago
Is that statement about C based on anything in particular? C was 18th of all the languages in the article's chart (the worst!), which I'd guess was due to the absence of a standard library.

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