TeMPOraL

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by TeMPOraL 4mo ago
Just so it's clear: we are talking about building an AI equivalent of a sensory deprivation tank.
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by TeMPOraL 4mo ago
No. Genes are static fixtures. Furniture. Slow life. Memes took the stage now, they propagate faster.
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by TeMPOraL 4mo ago
All the time, yes. But you have to keep two things separate in your thinking: - Prompted as in prompt made of tokens -> for LLMs, tokens double as a clock signal. Time only flows when tokens are pushed through them. - Prompted as in spe
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by TeMPOraL 4mo ago
Hard to say, because jobs and processes will adjust to accommodate AI strengths and deficiencies, as AI usage increases. It's similar to how automation in manufacturing works: we may start with augmenting the human workers with machine
695.
by TeMPOraL 4mo ago
Because the scientists and mathematicians and sci-fi authors have all already been writing about this for the past 20 years (and I mean non-fiction writing), and nobody cared, giving similar dismissals instead.
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by TeMPOraL 4mo ago
- It's called "writing in bullet points" - Normies frown upon it
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by TeMPOraL 5mo ago
Which is... Wrong answer. Or at least, obvious and not particularly useful. Truth is, none of those parties are "nefarious" - they're all just not on your side. And "security" is never an unqualified good thing to h
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by TeMPOraL 5mo ago
LLMs don't spam on their own. Take it up with people who wield them.
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by TeMPOraL 5mo ago
Because we're all paying for LLM access for shits and giggles, and not because we're getting actual value from it.
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by TeMPOraL 5mo ago
At 1000, you can afford better tools and better employees, and replacement parts get cheaper as you order in bulk, and you can explore clever strategies to smooth risk curves. At 100 000, you can afford a better and continuously improving p
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by TeMPOraL 5mo ago
Are those ever down?
702.
by TeMPOraL 5mo ago
No, it's the actual reasonable approach that sane people have to security. In the real world, security is always about costs and benefits, because you can always make something more secure than it is by spending more money, but it al
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by TeMPOraL 5mo ago
Ask it to prove it. My approach for AI-first code review, or really any kind of AI technical opinion, is that if the claim AI made is both important and not obviously true at a glance, it has to prove it to me, and keep trying until I'
704.
by TeMPOraL 5mo ago
I think it's not really about having a conversation - I mean, that's part of it, but alone it's an illusion that eventually fades quickly. It's more of because of how it demonstrates intelligent behavior in reaction to r
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by TeMPOraL 5mo ago
> Why do you have no inkling that your spreadsheet or terminal emulator is conscious, yet when that same machine is running an LLM all of a sudden we’re debating its consciousness? Difference in size and complexity and nature of calcul
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by TeMPOraL 5mo ago
> The purpose of [mathematical] models that are built thoughtfully is to explain why complex systems are the way they are, with data and algorithms, however imperfectly. Nope. The main purpose of the whole endeavor is usually to predi
707.
by TeMPOraL 5mo ago
Yes. Is it data? Yes. Is the distinction between "code" and "data" just someone's opinion? Yes. There is no such distinction in reality.
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by TeMPOraL 5mo ago
The data is the code is the data. Reality has no distinction between "data" and "code". These terms are categories we impose on systems we design, to make it easier for us to build and reason about them, but they'
709.
by TeMPOraL 5mo ago
> making everything 'language based' prevents true multi-modality. Thinking isn't done in language. Thinking outputs language Your problem isn't with tokens, but with "language". Tokens have little to do w
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by TeMPOraL 5mo ago
> "Agent Readiness" will likely age as well as "Web 4.0 Blockchain Integration" has. I was going to counter that, but thinking some more, I actually agree, but for slightly different reasons. > not because agent
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by TeMPOraL 5mo ago
Let's just not get blinded by this to the true nature of the problem. The web being hard for agents isn't an accident - it was done on purpose . More specifically, it's a consequence of the web evolving to defeat automation
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by TeMPOraL 5mo ago
Yes, and ideally in this case LLM would be translating your intent into a series of invocations of specific APIs or scripts to do the transformations, and correcting for unexpected failures or realizations. Because it's often not just
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by TeMPOraL 5mo ago
This. And it's even starting to be a problem with LLMs - noticed that with Claude and Gemini this week. Yes, I am specifically asking if it's possible to do X with Y. No, I'm not interested in how to do ${unrelated except for
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by TeMPOraL 5mo ago
> Against some volunteer who's encountering their fourteenth clear XY problem of the day. Fourteenth clear as imagined in their head XY problem of the day. By far most of the "XY problems" I saw, on SO or elsewhere, we
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by TeMPOraL 5mo ago
That might be true on general-population social media, but the opposite is the case in niche groups, and in particular, this very industry we're in - software - was largely built on terminally online hobbyists.
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by TeMPOraL 5mo ago
(I'm not a Catholic though most people around me are.) I have a similar perspective. Plus, I'll be frank: in the last few years, these occasional keynote publications from Vaticans are pretty much the most sane, deep, balanced a
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by TeMPOraL 5mo ago
> yet the trade off seems to be clear and a lot of people are just ignoring it. There's plenty of focus on the negative side of the tradeoff. Less so on why we're making it anyway, or why it somehow works out even if "th
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by TeMPOraL 5mo ago
Update: I just vibe coded myself one, gave me an excuse to play with Antigravity (and then cleaned up/improved with Claude Code). Not posting a link yet because it serves 12MB worth of geo JSON up to the client on first page load, and
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by TeMPOraL 5mo ago
Won't stop people from trying to make Truecaller, et al. prove that, though. The problem here is that the correct security posture of the bank against third-party scams also protects the customers from first-party scams . Telling peop
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by TeMPOraL 5mo ago
> They are not scam calls What are they, then? Sales/marketing calls? Or some security notifications ("we noticed some suspicious operations in the last 3 days...")? If it's the former, that's still scam in my

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