abathologist

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by abathologist 12d ago
People are also being trained/acculturated to LLM speak, so even if they are trained on human output, they could be getting reinforcement for their LLM-tinged crap-speak.
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by abathologist 12d ago
I appreciate this line of questioning. It's really interesting to see how many excuses people need to reach for to avoid the conclusion that the "secret unheard of power" is B.S...
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by abathologist 13d ago
> We are going from the era of manual, line-by-line mental model transcription to one where software engineers can focus on data structures, software architecture and algorithms. This is what declarative programming gives us, not what LL
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How Modern Fascism Works – End Times Fascism – Naomi Klein and Astra Taylor(youtube.com)
2 points by abathologist 13d ago|0 comments
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by abathologist 15d ago
During the crypto bubble, it was common for "crypto insiders" to talk about how it was poised to transform the entire economy, on the cusp of making all finance distributed, about to revolutionize ownership, etc., etc. . The peopl
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by abathologist 16d ago
Yes. Maybe much more: > Such intensive use of AI doesn't come cheap. In a post on X, LisanBench, an LLM benchmark evaluator, estimated that the output tokens alone would cost about $6.5 million at OpenAI's average consumer pric
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by abathologist 18d ago
> The retail price is not the cost. True. The cost is probably much higher, since they are still subsidizing as part of the first phase of the enshitification playbook.
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by abathologist 18d ago
This could fund 10 top income mathematicians for 8 years (based on https://careers.usnews.com/best-jobs/mathematician/salary ). Imagine what kinds of results we'd have to transform the foundations of science
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by abathologist 18d ago
Our market economies are based on competition, and most people more than the fun of making things to secure food and shelter.
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by abathologist 18d ago
"Software Engineering" in 2026.
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by abathologist 2mo ago
I wonder! I do think that that the systematic rewriting realized by computation complicates the nature of writing in ways that radically deepen the problematic. But in fact, the development of literary culture more generally already deepene
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by abathologist 2mo ago
Reading a book is a form of communication between the writers the readers, and literary culture enriches this with the ongoing interactions around texts. The argument voiced by Socrates in the Phaedrus is not primarily that it removes or st
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by abathologist 3mo ago
The inevitable march of progress.
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by abathologist 3mo ago
All the ones trying to do that, yes.
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by abathologist 3mo ago
Generally interesting reflections here, yet I see the same kind of myopia and fatalism that is rampant in our (fashion) industry: > yet I have no doubts that this looping future is going to be our future despite the fact that I presently
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by abathologist 4mo ago
Would be interested in a comparison with https://sourcehut.org/ (which has a comparable minimal aesthetic, but also has the deep benefit of being FOSS.
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by abathologist 4mo ago
Good point. We mustn't forget the magical money box: that's where the real value is delivered!
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by abathologist 4mo ago
'Long', as in 1-3 years? ( https://www.tomshardware.com/pc-components/gpus/datacenter-g... )
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by abathologist 4mo ago
Oh really? A 195% cost to revenue ratio isn't bad at all? I'm not a biz expert, but I spent a few minutes looking this up (e.g., what are usual cost-to-revenue ratios for new lines of business), and this sounds like BS to me.
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by abathologist 4mo ago
It's not weird if you consider the details and the many ways that the situations are very different. But also, people cared about that other kind of BS too, e.g., https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39438372 or https
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by abathologist 5mo ago
Rogue looks like this: https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/0/0c/Rogue_Sc... Brogue looks like this: https://syltefar.com/screenshot/?id=624
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"Letter to Alan Turing" – Giuseppe Longo (2018) [pdf](di.ens.fr)
1 points by abathologist 6mo ago|1 comments
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by abathologist 6mo ago
> Dear Alan, > > It is with great joy that I have accepted the invitation to write you a personal letter. Even in your scientific writings your presence as a person is very strong, which is unusual for a mathematician. The traces o
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by abathologist 7mo ago
The LLMs are training "us" now. First we develop the machines, then we contort the entire social and psychic order to serve their rhythms and facilitate their operation.
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Epstein Sought to Establish Behavioral Engineering Institute at Stanford(stanfordreview.org)
10 points by abathologist 7mo ago|1 comments
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by abathologist 7mo ago
I did a few days of AoC in 2020 in λProlog (as a non-expert in the language), using the Elpi implementation. It provides a decent source of relatively digestable toy examples: https://github.com/shonfeder/aoc-2020 (Cav
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by abathologist 8mo ago
I find that if I have my rabbit's foot and lucky socks on, I win working code ~1.2x more often.
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by abathologist 8mo ago
This will soon be happening with our parents' social security checks, our friend's cancer treatment plan, our international flights logistics, our ISPs routing configurations, ... Fun times are coming.
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by abathologist 10mo ago
Search should be a public service, open and transparent, funded by tax revenue, and maintained for the public good. It is too important a service these days to leave it up to profiteers (who have repeatedly demonstrated they are not respons
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by abathologist 10mo ago
For example "cites a different person as an author, who happened to have done all the substantive work on a related code base". ;)

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