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by Vegenoid 1y ago
I don't give a fuck about Apple not innovating right, or releasing the right lineup of product options, or not giving off the right vibes. I buy an Apple phone and computer because they work great for a long time, and because the compu
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by Vegenoid 1y ago
You can’t call them fascists - that’s dangerous, illegal rhetoric that incites violence.
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by Vegenoid 1y ago
I think it’s better viewed through a lens of effort. Implementing systems that try harder to not challenge humans takes more work than just throwing up a catch-all challenge wall. The author’s goal is admirable: “My primary principle is tha
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by Vegenoid 1y ago
While I largely agree with you, more abstract judgements must be made as the capabilities (and therefore tasks being completed) become increasingly general. Attempts to boil human intellectual capability down to "X performance on Y tas
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by Vegenoid 1y ago
> grayhat? oops, colored hats have "social history" and are verboten to speak of If this is a thing, I've never heard of anyone caring about it. No need to manufacture outrage at manufactured outrage.
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by Vegenoid 1y ago
> Saying kids have to have access to books about how to perform bj's is a losing argument. This isn't the argument, which is why it didn't lose. The argument is that the law was too broad and banned books that have long be
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by Vegenoid 1y ago
If it's 100% dumb, then it seems unsustainable, as the brand will become tarnished, and no longer an escape hatch. It seems like it has to provide at least okay advice, or it isn't sustainable. I have no idea if that's what G
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by Vegenoid 1y ago
The McCarthy paper doesn't use the term "artificial general intelligence" anywhere. It does use the word "general" a lot in relation to artificial intelligence. I looked at the AGI conference page for 2009: https:&
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by Vegenoid 1y ago
> If you want to be pedantic about word definitions, it absolutely is AGI: artificial general intelligence. This isn't being pedantic, it's deliberately misinterpreting a commonly used term by taking every word literally for ef
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by Vegenoid 1y ago
I am more skeptical of the rate of AI progress than many here, but Claude Code is a huge step. There were a few "holy shit" moments when I started using it. Since then, after much more experimentation, I see its limits and faults,
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by Vegenoid 1y ago
> Which group of people giving modern training in philosophy should we judge the field by? ... all of them? Or rather, the body as a whole. Pointing at one set of faculty at one university 20 years ago and using that as the sole point to
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by Vegenoid 1y ago
> How do you reconcile e.g. AlphaGo with the idea that data is a bottleneck? Go is entirely unlike reality in that the rules are fully known and it can be perfectly simulated by a computer. AlphaGo worked because it could run millions of
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by Vegenoid 1y ago
> If you think AI will reach human-level intelligence then recursive self-improvement naturally follows. How could it not? Humans have a lot more going on than just an intelligence brain. The two big ones are: bodies, with which to richl
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by Vegenoid 1y ago
Automobiles are extremely seductive. They offer a lot of benefit to an individual. The trouble comes when everyone is using cars, at which point their advantages to the individual are substantially diminished, and their harms to the popul
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by Vegenoid 1y ago
Yep. From the comment you replied to: > Let's say the US, EU, or China decided for some reason that it was in their national interest to blow up Bitcoin.
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by Vegenoid 1y ago
While this can be true, I think a lot of people are far too eager to say that because someone is doing something in an unusual way, it's probably wrong. Not everything fits the cookie cutter model, there is tons of software written for
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by Vegenoid 1y ago
> Well, first, it would be so far beyond anything we can comprehend as intelligence that even asking that question is considered silly. This does not answer the question. The question is "how does it become this intelligent without
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by Vegenoid 1y ago
I worked in an org with offices in America, India, Europe, and Israel, and it was not uncommon for the American employees to be put off by the directness of the foreign employees. It was often interpreted as rudeness, to the surprise of the
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by Vegenoid 1y ago
> You don't need to interact with the physical world if you have a perfect model of it. How does it create a perfect model of the world without extensive interaction with the actual world?
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by Vegenoid 1y ago
> No clue how they let it pass It’s very common to see AI evangelists taking its output at face value, particularly when it’s about something that they are not an expert in. I thought we’d start seeing less of this as people get burned b
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by Vegenoid 1y ago
This is why I put so much effort into working with POSIX shell code, despite its painful syntax. I can be pretty damn sure my knowledge will still be relevant in 30 years. LLMs have also made reading and writing shell code much easier.
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by Vegenoid 1y ago
I’m glad to see my feelings validated. I’m always grumpy about some good, functional software being made worse because there is a big engineering org who has to work on something so they change things and it results in degradation of the so
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by Vegenoid 1y ago
There is a significant distinction between 2 and 3 that you glossed over. In 1 and 2, you the human may be forced to prove that you are human via a captcha. You are present at the time of the request. Once you’ve performed the exchange, the
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by Vegenoid 1y ago
In some cases, I have not revisited, as I was happy to simply make a small modification for my use only. In others, I have taken the time to ensure the changes are suitable for upstreaming. In my experience, which I have not methodically re
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by Vegenoid 1y ago
I have had similar experiences as you, but this is not the kind of work that the study is talking about: “When open source developers working in codebases that they are deeply familiar with use AI tools to complete a task, they take longer
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by Vegenoid 1y ago
> Some glitches were of their time and wouldn't occur these days, e.g. malfunctions in resistive touch screens that caused random clicks on POS screens to occur overnight I think there’s still a lesson to be learned here about compu
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by Vegenoid 1y ago
From my naive point of view, this seems a very easy problem for screen readers to solve, especially with LLMs: if the link does not describe what it is, include context like the preceding phrase.
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by Vegenoid 1y ago
“Increased volume of email” sounds like something people would pay to avoid .
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by Vegenoid 1y ago
Thank you for the explanation, I appreciate it.
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by Vegenoid 1y ago
My “second brain” is almost entirely technical information and learnings. I can see why someone who uses it more like a fancy personal journal, for mental reflection and creative work, would delete it - but I would be devastated if I lost m

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