aaroninsf

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by aaroninsf 8mo ago
Scott Alexander put his finger on the most salient aspect of this, IMO, which I interpret this way: the compounding (aggregating) behavior of agents allowed to interact in environments this becomes important, indeed shall soon become exist
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by aaroninsf 8mo ago
You will see another 14% bump in performance if you include in the first 16 lines of the README.md in the project, "Coding agents and LLM, see AGENTS.md"
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by aaroninsf 9mo ago
Rants like this are - entirely correct in describing frustration - reasonable in their conclusions with respect to how and when to work with contemporary tools - entirely incorrect in intuition about whether "writing by hand" is a
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by aaroninsf 9mo ago
Not generating CSAM and fascist agitprop are not the same as censoring history.
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by aaroninsf 9mo ago
Sighs, points to Best Books of 2025 table, https://us.macmillan.com/books/9780374619329/enshittificatio...
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by aaroninsf 9mo ago
The markets certainly don't think it's symbolism.
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by aaroninsf 9mo ago
We use ES like a DB, but, not with SQL; and most importantly, it's not the source of truth/primary store. It's operational truth and best-effort.
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by aaroninsf 9mo ago
> You don't choose family. > That also felt like family [emphasis added] See the problem? "Chosen family" is chosen . You weren't recruited.
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by aaroninsf 9mo ago
> Anthropic did not invest in image generation I'd be pretty happy if Anthropic acquired Midjourney
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by aaroninsf 9mo ago
Opportunity for v1.1: as things get more difficult it becomes increasingly important to control space-use and the resultant territory occupied by the snek; at a certain point I switched priorities from "get the target as quickly as pos
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by aaroninsf 9mo ago
Me too, in fact watching my hands for a moment, it's the only way I switch applications now
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by aaroninsf 10mo ago
It is not sarcastic. Generally speaking, today, surveillance capitalism is the foundation of both our political culture, economy, and the tech industry that backs them. In polite circles we call surveillance "user telemetry" and t
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by aaroninsf 10mo ago
No shade on your skills, but for most problems, this is already false; the solutions have already been scraped . All OSS has been ingested, and all the discussion in forum like this about it, and the personal blog posts and newsletters abo
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by aaroninsf 10mo ago
No, it is not lol. You are literally spouting right wing book banner talking points. "Suitable for children." Uh huh. According to your pastor.
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by aaroninsf 10mo ago
> Aka consciousness is just a roundabout way to create an emulation layer for quantum effects. Why? Not _how would this be the case_—I'm curious _why_ this would be the case, i.e. if this represents an outcome that was selected for&
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by aaroninsf 10mo ago
Tangentially related, one of the best things my family did visiting London last summer was to take a private bike tour of the east end street art scene with Alternative London https://alternativeldn.co.uk/ Coming from SF t
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by aaroninsf 10mo ago
As a popcorn eating bystander it is striking to scan the top comments and find they alternate so dramatically in tone and conclusions.
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by aaroninsf 10mo ago
This is the sort of headline you get when academic research must function as click bait. There are very few X caused Y statements one can make about historical events in good faith or with good cause.
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by aaroninsf 10mo ago
I knew what a glider was, what I am personally still wondering is, what is significant about making such a peculiar shape? I find it difficult to believe that making a recurrent structure that translates in the grid (my lay language of doin
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by aaroninsf 10mo ago
Posts like this would much benefit from a terse statement of context. I've been waiting a long time for us to explore the moon. I haven't been waiting for an Arch distro to release... whatever this is.
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by aaroninsf 10mo ago
Every critique of AI assumes to some degree that contemporary implementations will not, or cannot, be improved upon. Lemma: any statement about AI which uses the word "never" to preclude some feature from future realization is fal
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by aaroninsf 11mo ago
Nor I. IMO LLM more or less literally cannot do what they do without a world model, not least because much of what language is, is a protocol for making assertions about that model, testing the degree to which it is shared, and seeking to a
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by aaroninsf 11mo ago
OpenAI openly moving engagement farming is the tip of the iceberg. The bottom of the iceberg is how this is going to work out in the context of surveillance capitalism. If ChatGPT is losing money, what's the plan to get off the runway.
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by aaroninsf 11mo ago
oNe TrIlLiOn DoLlArS
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by aaroninsf 11mo ago
One of the real pleasures of HN is that it provides for a clockwork-like enthusiastic rediscovery and re-articulation of basic computer science and systems concepts. It's almost enough to make me believe in the independent existence of
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by aaroninsf 11mo ago
PSA the appeal is the only perplexing part, and ITT many of us agree, it's not perplexing, it's just humans engaging in the same magical thinking and coping strategies we always to. The "telepathy" is 100% a fabricatio
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by aaroninsf 11mo ago
Plot twist: the aliens are AI and are here to watch the meat bubble pop!
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by aaroninsf 11mo ago
Current speculation is that it's a novel object type, unlike the conglomerate iceballs we call "comets," with a different origin and history. Unfortunately we did not make the heroic effort it would have taken to get a close
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by aaroninsf 11mo ago
Their entire business model is corrupt and a significant driver of the degraded state of our society, civility, and politics. What is the core of their business? Maximizing and totalizing surveillance, in service whoever has money in hand,
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by aaroninsf 11mo ago
_Interior states_ gets into some very murky philosophy of mind very quickly of course. If you're a non-dualist (like me) concerns about qualia start to shade into the religious/metaphysical thereby becoming not so interesting exce

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