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by aerhardt 1y ago
We’ve been thinking about reaching the singularity from one end, by making computers like humans, but too little thought has been given to approaching the problem from the other end: by making babies build their world model by reading Stack
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by aerhardt 1y ago
I’m currently experimenting with prompts of ~300k tokens for a certain classification task and I think I might be able to make it work. GPT5 chokes but Gemini 2.5 Pro is showing promise. Jury’s still out and I might change my tune in a co
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by aerhardt 1y ago
The first level argument is that old horse, burden of proof.
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by aerhardt 1y ago
Yeah, I'm extremely loyal to ChatGPT Plus and Codex, but is't because OpenAI has a native Mac app that I like, and Codex included with Plus and has served me well enough to not look at Claude. I like GPT-5 quite a bit as a user. I
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by aerhardt 1y ago
Very cool to see Ortega on the frontpage. He was a fine thinker - phenomenally erudite and connected to his contemporary philosophers, but also eminently readable. He is not technical, rarely uses neologisms, and writes in an easy to digest
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by aerhardt 1y ago
There are plenty of benefits to studying it, and plenty of downsides to not studying it. I recommend “The Neuroscience of Intelligence” by Richard Haier from Cambridge Fundamentals of Neuroscience in Psychology for a comprehensive, accessib
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by aerhardt 1y ago
Why bother with substance in the era of vibes?
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by aerhardt 1y ago
Where I live (Spain) there’s a massive intergenerational gap between how our parents ate and how we eat and exercise. A huge number of people around me go to great lengths to control what they eat and make an effort to move. I see it at the
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by aerhardt 1y ago
Exabytes of code are being written in Python and JS though… I don’t think that fits with your narrative that everything is being pushed to compile-time. C#, Java and Go remain popular sure but have they grown that much relative to other lan
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by aerhardt 1y ago
At least there is more credible competition, so there could be a variety of business models to pick - ad-backed or paid. The search engine wars truly ended up being winner-take-all.
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by aerhardt 1y ago
I use o3, openAI API and Claude Code. Genuinely curious what about Gemini 2.5 is so far behind?
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by aerhardt 1y ago
The entire boat is hidden, we see nothing but a projected shadow, but we are to be blamed for missing it?
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by aerhardt 1y ago
Is the conclusion that elite models are being withheld from the public, or that general models are not that general?
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by aerhardt 1y ago
Too hyperbolic for, against, or either way?
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by aerhardt 1y ago
I do data work in domains that are closely related to LinkedIn (sales and recruitment), and let me tell you, the chances that LinkedIn lets any data get out of the platform are very slim. They have some of the strongest anti-bot measures
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by aerhardt 1y ago
I am speaking out of intuition, but I think that part will be the quickest to be optimized. The current capabilities will cost pennies in a few years. I base this on the past trajectory but also on hearing very authorized people say that th
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by aerhardt 1y ago
But what about producing actual code?
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by aerhardt 1y ago
I have added it in the guidelines doc for Junie and that won't stop it. It can't help itself - it needs to write a comment every three lines, no matter the language it's writing in.
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by aerhardt 1y ago
I just puked in my mouth a little. Sorry to hear you're being subjected to that.
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by aerhardt 1y ago
OpenAI are second in the race to Anthropic in some benchmarks (maybe?), but OpenAI still dwarves Anthropic in distribution and popularity.
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by aerhardt 1y ago
I use Obsidian with very few plugins, most of which only affect rendering. The UI is clean, minimalistic, beautiful. I came to it because I was looking for a text editor with a Vim plugin. All in all it's the best text editor I have ev
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by aerhardt 1y ago
Then go full Walden and live your best life out in the woods!
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by aerhardt 1y ago
Human society is limited in the antidotes to human nature that it can code through law, institutions or culture. It’s the same species throughout 1930’s Germany and today. We shouldn’t give up on law, institutions or culture, but accepting
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by aerhardt 1y ago
I've been running a few experiments, the longest one has been creating a simulation app in Qt and Python. It has showed promise, enough to quell my FOMO about other IDEs, since I am extremely happy with the Jetbrains suite otherwise.
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by aerhardt 1y ago
I buy Enterprise software too and unless there is a good reason (there are no other alternatives, or I have complex requirements), I'll also quite often negatively factor being dropped into a sales funnel, with all it entails.
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by aerhardt 1y ago
OK, but in my defense "hogwash" is literally defined as "nonsense" by Oxford dictionary, I didn't call a person names and only criticized the idea. It's softer than "idiotic" which while also an attri
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by aerhardt 1y ago
Someone has mentioned in another thread that there is an increasing divide between "discourse skeptics" and fundamental skeptics, more like luddites.
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by aerhardt 1y ago
> I do think vibe coding can be really useful in low-stakes environments, though. I vibe-coded an Android app to use as a baby monitor (it just streams audio from a Unifi camera in the kid's room). I had no previous Android experien
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by aerhardt 1y ago
> I deeply resent the notion that we engineers should let non-engineers tell us how to achieve agreed-upon objectives This is not how it works. The technology will prevail or not based on whether people using it are noticeably more effic
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by aerhardt 1y ago
> This is misleading. The job of blacksmith wasn't automated away. There's just no demand for their services anymore, because we no longer have knights wearing armor, brandishing swords, and riding horses. In contrast, computer

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