Waterluvian

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by Waterluvian 5d ago
Using a variety of models feels similar to the benefit of having a team of individuals from different backgrounds.
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by Waterluvian 5d ago
I have no hard data but I have a strong feeling this morning that something's wrong with Fable 5 compared to Friday evening. Just an hour ago I had Fable correctly identify an unused method that could be deleted. I then immediately g
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by Waterluvian 5d ago
The Americans simply will not reject their broken for-profit medical system wholesale. What I see is one more attempt at chipping away at it in hopes that maybe they can succeed piecemeal.
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by Waterluvian 6d ago
Sure they do. Just with extra steps. Remember that thing Carl Sagan told us: “if you want to complain about AI from scratch you must first invent the universe.”
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by Waterluvian 6d ago
There’s clearly decision-making going on because it’s not listing most HN posts. How is it deciding what not to show?
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by Waterluvian 8d ago
I might! Thanks for a thread to pull. I’ve never heard of the concept.
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by Waterluvian 8d ago
Sounds like climate change induced disasters, and why it’s so easy to not take responsibility.
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by Waterluvian 8d ago
Maybe you just feel like your brain and its dominance over the other organs. What does your heart say? Or your spleen?
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by Waterluvian 8d ago
> it is definitely not a cricket bat. My son has empirically disproven this when he was four. He's also disproven that it's not a cookie.
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by Waterluvian 8d ago
Yeah, exactly my thoughts. I wish these kinds of structures in science had been taught to me with a lesson on, "models are useful metaphors, not cosmic truths." Because they often got taught alongside the things that are much cl
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by Waterluvian 8d ago
I wonder if there's a survivorship bias there: those who can and do reject the status quo.
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by Waterluvian 8d ago
An onotlogical pivot I experienced in my late teens was recognizing that the taxonomy of life is not some immutable fact that we're uncovering. It's this Sisyphean task of providing structure to something that is everchanging. It&
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by Waterluvian 8d ago
Most of them seemingly have control problems where even if they do, it is in the form of a giant money pile still under their control that they give away the returns of, usually also completely under their control.
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by Waterluvian 8d ago
Does this actually work or is this just the best option he's got given he cannot live forever?
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by Waterluvian 8d ago
I have this weird vision of an alternate reality where governments (say, National Archives) are the ones creating the models as a public service and then the rest of the industry is just commoditized pricing of hosting them, competing with
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by Waterluvian 8d ago
The other reason is car seats. I can’t fit more than two and I’ll be damned if I trade in for a minivan!
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by Waterluvian 8d ago
The socialized cost of protecting your castle is massive. It makes for a very popular and very lazy target for this kind of “think of the children” (or centenarians) style rhetoric. Something I keep in mind when reading these kinds of opini
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by Waterluvian 9d ago
Isn’t it the very first thing just after the title?
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by Waterluvian 10d ago
To pivot a bit from the point above: I'm not sold on the core premise of the need for "hypergrowth." I think the American economy has been an incredible engine for productivity and I mostly agree that there's a lot of th
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by Waterluvian 10d ago
What alternative is there? The Americans are not an option anymore. It seems sensible to me that we want to get very close to one major power, and more close to everything else. Diversification.
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by Waterluvian 10d ago
We don’t do trade with Trump. We don’t get attacked by Trump.
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by Waterluvian 11d ago
Joking aside, I don’t believe you can and I’m fine with that. It’s still so much simpler and predictable.
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by Waterluvian 11d ago
Yeah but can your tooltip render in neon brown?
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by Waterluvian 11d ago
Darn. My iPhone 12 still works great but doesn’t get most of this. I’ve been waiting for an AI interface that doesn’t suck and I think Apple stands a chance at nailing it, given that’s what they’ve historically been good at.
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by Waterluvian 12d ago
Not trying to proselytize an opinion here, but every time I think about VR Goggles + a virtual flat screen, I think about how entire industries exist to make us comfortable while we watch our real flat screens. A VR option would allow me to
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by Waterluvian 12d ago
As an amateur student of history and a professional watcher of television, I think one possible conclusion I've drawn is that the happy state is tiptoeing around your enemy forever. Or rather, tiptoeing with your enemy. That there
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by Waterluvian 12d ago
They clearly realize it and are doing something to stop it. I understand the idea of imagining this as an underserved market they could do something about. Twitter worked that way. X intentionally doesn't want to, and wants to guard i
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by Waterluvian 12d ago
> thinking I could have Claude solve some random unproven OEIS sequence before breakfast I've been wondering what exactly the point is for being the meat proxy who pays for these things. I mean, obviously there's personal satis
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by Waterluvian 13d ago
I don’t think they want to nor is it good for them to long term. But I bet they’re institutionally incapable of avoiding it given the KPIs that drive the entire employment ambitions of many managers.
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by Waterluvian 13d ago
My pitbull is a good dog. Sure, it's been carefully designed to be an incredibly dangerous and violent pit fighter, but I didn't actually ask it to eat any faces.

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