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by _dwt 5d ago
It's wild to watch speciation in real time. (Quick, interpret that according to your chosen side.) I do not know who will "win", but the real-time divergence between the commentary here and, say, other "programmer news&q
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by _dwt 13d ago
Ah yes, the infamous Houthi hypersonic glide vehicles. Only lacking in guidance software.
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by _dwt 16d ago
The kids are alright! This list gives me great hope and it’s amusing to see the usual TESCREAL crowd lose it over at LessWrong over how they should be more worried about post-singularity runaway basilisks and less worried about enshittifica
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by _dwt 22d ago
Ah, but what if one of your "clones" is actually the wicked and persuasive "All-Defector" in disguise? (No, really, I agree with your analysis but if you haven't read "The Quantum Thief" you might like it.
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by _dwt 22d ago
I don't know, I kind of admire this. I've always held a core value of "cooperate with all clones of myself in prisoner's dilemmas", and while I'll hopefully never have to put that to the test, I like seeing tha
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How Special Is Programming as a Token-Infall Attractor?(braddelong.substack.com)
1 points by _dwt 23d ago|0 comments
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by _dwt 24d ago
I… yes. That’s a reasonable interpretation of the current state of the world even if I reject the “no choice” framing. But you’re the one calling his stance “easy”?
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by _dwt 24d ago
I guess I'll say it unhedged (since nobody else has yet): I agree with the author. I don't 100% align with his particular assignment of threats and externalities to AI, but I think overall it sucks and I don't want to use it.
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by _dwt 24d ago
I'm sorry, but what on earth are you talking about? This guy appears to be a web designer. You think there's no competition in that space and no incentive to churn things out fast with AI? Agree or disagree but if he's honest
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by _dwt 1mo ago
I am reasonably confident I am not aphantasiac in the sense described here. My apple is red with some nice green mottling, dust, etc etc. I can see my wife and children in detail in my "mind's eye". As a child people told me
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by _dwt 1mo ago
I'm not really sure what the hostility is about. That's an interesting study albeit small: 42 non-aphantasiacs and 18 self-diagnosed phantasiacs. If one really wanted to quibble I'm sure there are other possible confounding v
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by _dwt 1mo ago
I'm very convinced this is what's going on. Qualia are super hard to convey with language! If I had to guess these self-reported instruments are also measuring, indirectly, conscientiousness (do I _really_ see it? it'd be wro
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by _dwt 1mo ago
You got it. You may well be right, but from my standpoint it's hard to see how you'd know if you weren't. Yeah, the models fill in vagueness with detail sourced from "what's likely and helpful". (In one of my p
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by _dwt 1mo ago
> without having much depth in either domain I don't mean to pick on you, but to present this in the service of this kind of fatalism... you know the inevitable follow-up question, right?
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by _dwt 1mo ago
I've been thinking about the Blight and [spoilers!] the skroderiders a lot lately. If you have read Fred Saberhagen's Berserker stories, I have also been thinking a lot about "goodlife" when I see some of the things that
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by _dwt 1mo ago
I see a lot of speculation that this is somehow due to the recently-announced "watermarking", but that seems really unlikely to me, because the watermarking is about nudging per-token output probabilities or the sampler in a detec
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by _dwt 1mo ago
I don't know about the top people but Anthropic has always been pretty deeply linked with the effective altruism/AI risk/TESCREAL memeplex. IIRC one of OpenAI's people who's pretty prolific on Twitter weighed in a w
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by _dwt 2mo ago
Pangram says 100% AI, for what it's worth.
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by _dwt 2mo ago
No, it felt too invasive and creepy so I abandoned the idea. Or my lack of follow-through is a sign that I’m actually on the other side of the “war”. Reader decides! But suffice it to say that it was, to me, a significant trend especially a
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by _dwt 2mo ago
I think we’re on opposite sides but this is the first time I’ve seen someone in the wild share my suspicions that the LLM conflict is part of some vast ADHD vs autism hyperwar. At one point I was collecting posts I found where LLM boosters
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by _dwt 2mo ago
I wondered the same but after running some previous entries through Pangram (and giving them the ol' Mark I Eyeball), I don't think this is satirical. How annoyingly ironic.
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by _dwt 2mo ago
I'm a little confused in that this post is either (partially?) AI-generated or deliberately written to appear so (including to Pangram). I'm a self-confessed AI hater and yet I agree with the "just write your thing" peop
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by _dwt 2mo ago
He's on to us, boys! Call in a code 43. (Sorry, I'm in a crappy mood, but what on Earth are we supposed to take away from this? Everyone who disagrees with you is secretly an idiot, or worse, they're smart enough to know they
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by _dwt 2mo ago
I've never read Howey's books but have them mentally filed next to, like, Dungeon Crawler Carl, the Bobiverse, whatever that long thing is with all the superheroes, thousand-chapter cultivation LitRPG blah blah blah as Reddit-belo
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by _dwt 2mo ago
HN consistently, IMO, underrates the degree to which technology adoption is “political” rather than inevitable. I was going to write a long jokey bit here but instead; counter examples - nuclear power, eugenics, the AC vs DC wars during ele
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by _dwt 2mo ago
I find that some of my friends and acquaintances have gotten obsessed with prompting style, "prompt engineering", which skills to use, which skills to build, "context engineering", and a billion other variations on &quot
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by _dwt 2mo ago
There is a lot of rehashing of LLM arguments in the comments here, but I'd love to read an actual distributed systems expert's take on the DNS architecture the author and/or Claude ended up with. One of my personal fears abou
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by _dwt 3mo ago
No, in my opinion as a parent this is lunacy. By the time my little kids "need" AI or the Internet in a meaningful way the AI labs will have either delivered the dream of "just talk to the computer" in which case there&#
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by _dwt 4mo ago
I don't buy the superintelligence package, but I think uncritical LLM adoption poses plenty of threats to things I care about, in a mundane human-scale way. Anyhow, I think you're (absolutely! ugh) right about the politics and I t
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Does It Mean? Gene Wolfe: Perverse Puzzle Maker(oasis.library.unlv.edu)
3 points by _dwt 4mo ago|0 comments

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