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by Vegenoid 1y ago
Can you elaborate on what makes this “software 3.0”? I didn’t really understand what the distinction was in Karpathy’s talk, and felt like I needed a more concrete example. What you describe sounds cool, but I still feel like I’m not unders
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by Vegenoid 1y ago
If you limit the definition of “disobey” to mean “use lethal force against law enforcers”, then yes. However, I think that is a narrow and inaccurate definition.
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by Vegenoid 1y ago
Take this too far and you run into a major existential crisis. What is the goal of life? Most people would say something along the lines of bringing joy to others, experiencing joy yourself, accomplishing things that you are proud of, and c
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by Vegenoid 1y ago
Do we have examples of LLMs being used successfully in these scenarios? I’m skeptical that the insufferable users will actually be satisfied and able to be helped by an LLM, unless the LLM is actually presented as a human, which seems uneth
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by Vegenoid 1y ago
This is by far my most common usage of LLMs, and they’re good at it. Sometimes you have to be intentional about preventing it from being sycophantic and just telling you that you’re right, through a system prompt or by phrasing the question
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by Vegenoid 1y ago
Maybe this is a failure of my imagination, but I still don’t understand how “replace an API with an LLM” makes sense. LLMs just generate text, the only way they have of interacting with software is by generating text that the software can
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by Vegenoid 1y ago
If a criminal uses violence to escape the law, then yes, violence is usually permitted against them (and they have now committed a violent crime). Physical force is permitted against nonviolent criminals so they can be apprehended, but leth
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by Vegenoid 1y ago
I do not believe that police are permitted to shoot a nonviolent criminal simply because they might escape (in most circumstances). They do have to actually physically apprehend them.
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by Vegenoid 1y ago
> people interface with LLMs directly rather than software at all What does this mean? An LLM is used via a software interface. I don’t understand how “take software out of the loop” makes any sense when we are using reprogrammable compu
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by Vegenoid 1y ago
I feel like the sentiment of “we can train a competent dev in our language and stack” has given way to “we want a dev with proven experience in our language/stack” over the last few years. I suspect this has something to do with more n
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by Vegenoid 1y ago
Wow. That is really bad. Apple already does the transparency thing with the control center menu, but it blurs the background so much that you don’t notice it. Why they’d want to lessen the blur and make it more transparent is beyond me.
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by Vegenoid 1y ago
Can you provide an example or two demonstrating this?
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by Vegenoid 1y ago
Up next: the judges use LLMs to evaluate arguments.
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by Vegenoid 1y ago
The way this worked in my mathematical education is that you can't have a computer solve the equations at the level of the thing you are learning, but you can let the computer do all the stuff that's a level below what you're
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by Vegenoid 1y ago
As a student, you can make "getting the diploma" the only goal, and so it rests entirely on the educators and the institution to ensure that the only way you can do that is by learning the material and becoming competent in its ap
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by Vegenoid 1y ago
It’s a result of people disliking the system. Personally thriving by gaming the system is seen as the enlightened thing to do, because people don’t respect or appreciate the system, often viewing it as actually harmful and malicious.
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by Vegenoid 1y ago
They are currently failing, yes. We can only hope that people look at the rest of the world and history, see how much worse it can get, and find their resolve.
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by Vegenoid 1y ago
Well, it’s an opportunity for the system to prove that it can prevent even a president with a large support base from making America fascist. I gather from your comment that you are pessimistic, but regardless of likelihoods, this is the ki
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by Vegenoid 1y ago
Declining absolutely does not mean “clear trend to zero”. There are a great many things which decline for a long time, but have a lower limit.
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by Vegenoid 1y ago
Agree that these tools are enormously useful for non-programmers to automate things. I think the biggest area where all visual programming languages is in scalability, flexibility, and speed compared to a skilled (text) programmer. There is
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by Vegenoid 1y ago
Their plan? “We hear you loud and clear and are going to make sure we improve our processes to help us be better stewards in the open-source community”? That’s not a plan. It’s PR fluff. Nobody is expecting this one incident to make Microso
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by Vegenoid 1y ago
To an end user those programs may be the same, but to a software engineer working on the programs they are very different. It’s not a great metric. But it does communicate something about the scale and complexity of a codebase.
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by Vegenoid 1y ago
The evidence can be suppressed without punishing the police.
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by Vegenoid 1y ago
I think I see what you’re getting at. Thank you for the explanation!
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by Vegenoid 2y ago
What package managers do you use, and what does npm do differently that makes you unwilling to use it?
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by Vegenoid 2y ago
I think it is pretty useful to be able to distinguish between jobs that don't require much education/training, and jobs that do. "Unskilled" and "skilled" are how we do that. Do you have alternative words you&#
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by Vegenoid 2y ago
Isn't identity the entire point of certificates? Why use certificates if you only care about encryption?
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by Vegenoid 2y ago
> When two incompatible views exist on a subject, at least one of them must be wrong. Rarely can any significant argument be boiled down to something so simple that this is the case. What if there are two incompatible views on the course
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by Vegenoid 2y ago
> If you end up using the legal system to remediate undesired transactions, what's the point of cryptocurrencies in the first place? Agreed, but there is already a very similar case where "code is law" was tested, and fail
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by Vegenoid 2y ago
I appreciate your time and explanation. I'm really trying to understand the POV here, and I feel like we're veering away from my original confusion, which was around "Try defining data in C. Try extracting data from that data

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