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by alwa 6mo ago
In its wave-making announcement post: https://steve-yegge.medium.com/welcome-to-gas-town-4f25ee16d... ”But first, before we get into Gas Town’s operation, I need to get rid of you real quick. WARNING DANGER CAUTION GET THE
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by alwa 6mo ago
(From Socrates’ dialog with Phaedrus) https://classics.mit.edu/Plato/phaedrus.html#:~:text=there%2...
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by alwa 6mo ago
That assumes “more model” is the part that differentiates successful ideas from unsuccessful ones. Governments and corporations controlled enormous mainframes far beyond the compute available to the hacker kid we were waxing nostalgic about
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by alwa 6mo ago
I mean—depending how much methanol was in the mix to begin with… It’s been a long time, but I thought there was a whole Raoult’s Law thing, about partial pressures in the vapor coming off the solution combining in proportion to each compone
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by alwa 6mo ago
Same here—I tolerated the linguistic tics, I found enough meat to keep going, but it’s the conclusions that confuse me. And that feels like the intellectually dangerous part with this sort of LLM writing. For example: > Convergent evolu
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by alwa 6mo ago
If you want to make an apple pie from scratch, first you must invent the universe…
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by alwa 6mo ago
Sigh. It's one thing to plop out 7500 words of fluffed-out LLM-staccatto, but then to demand that I: > Read the whole piece. Not the first section. Not the first section and a skim. The whole thing. ...boy. Sure seems in tension w
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by alwa 6mo ago
“Their support problem” is a regular person’s problem getting the software to work how they want. That frustrated them enough to complain about. I don’t follow how it’s necessarily selfish for the developer to reduce that. There certainly
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by alwa 6mo ago
Not GP, but I’m pretty “con” too. Because it’s meaningless for what it’s being marketed for. It’s conceptually inverted. It’s a detector that will detect 100% of the stuff that doesn’t mind being detected, and only the dumbest fraction of s
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by alwa 6mo ago
I read “the math” there as doing something a little more figurative. It seemed to me like they led with circulation figures less because they care about their CPM efficiency or whatever, and more to use “views” as a kind of synechdoche for
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by alwa 6mo ago
All 12,000 words. Kept expecting it to take a turn toward something beyond pre-judgment and insinuation. Instead it unfolded as a cautionary tale, of the power of a premature conclusion to close an investigator’s mind to reasonable alternat
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by alwa 6mo ago
The interests and writing style differentiate Mr. (Dr.?) Back from the general public, sure. But from what I’m reading, they don’t do a great job of distinguishing between 90s hackers. “Get this, his PhD thesis dealt with a computer langu
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by alwa 6mo ago
And if, as OP says, it’s necessity and sufficiency we’re testing—whether or not there were also other reasons contributing to your exam failure, wouldn’t failing that one necessary condition be sufficient to fail the outcome?
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by alwa 6mo ago
I’d hate for the “government-name” verification to become a requirement , but I’ve long wished services would at least offer that as an optional add-on. For certain important accounts, I’d be eager to place my government identity on file w
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by alwa 6mo ago
And, to put a charitable gloss on it—many of your clients who protest their innocence did actually have something true-positive on them. TFA cites manufacturers claiming a 4% false positive rate in lab conditions, and protesters claiming
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by alwa 7mo ago
I take your point, the way I used “abuse” there probably carries more charge than I’d meant it to. It’s a totally valid way to use the technology, it’s “abusive” only of the subscription program. And I agree: Anthropic clearly want people t
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by alwa 7mo ago
When you can’t enforce everything at once, you go where the most acute problems are. I imagine when your MCP avenue of abuse catches on—like this other category of harnesses did—to such a scale as to become a problem impacting us folk tryin
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by alwa 7mo ago
It sure changes the incentives though. It’s much less attractive to leak recordings as a PR move—or realize any benefit that cranky humorless judges can trace back to the recording—if that, in and of itself, constitutes a whole new crime (a
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by alwa 7mo ago
Even better if we could somehow trunk my space’s 3500W of panels with the ones covering the combustion-driven car next to me. And the empty space to my other side…
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by alwa 7mo ago
If I read it correctly, this line was quoting the main victim, who described it that way (incorrectly, apparently based on a mangled secondhand interpretation of how these things work). The thing that really stood out to me in the article w
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by alwa 7mo ago
Responsible (directly or indirectly) for quite a few of them, mostly oldish and wheezy; I’m not myself mechanical; and we use the shop mostly for routine maintenance—rotate the tires every few thousand miles, swap the brake pads, deal with
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by alwa 7mo ago
Generally, by whether they know what’s going on at the shop. Usually if I’m calling on the phone, it’s for a specific answer that’s not gettable through a computer. “Hey can you look out and see if Joe’s almost done with the blue Chrysler?”
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by alwa 7mo ago
> the friction is part of the joy of creation for them I’d extend that to suggest—based on conversations with the artists in my life, anyway—that for many, the friction along the path from an idea to a work is where the art happens in
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by alwa 7mo ago
In the spirit you propose—Did you verify this? I notice that your comment history is all rapid-fire three-paragraph LLM responses. You do appear knowledgeable and respond quickly, but I've just dumped 10 minutes of my life into your at
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by alwa 7mo ago
Not OP, and I’ve been looking at more meta-analyses than RCTs, but: * Lei et al 2024 metaanalysis, generally positive associations but no causal evidence for psychosocial effects, especially when the social media use is family-directed - h
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by alwa 7mo ago
If anybody wants to do something with instagran.org, I know somebody who would be willing to part with it for a good cause…
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by alwa 7mo ago
The last time I chose to watch a movie in a theater instead of the comfort of my home, I went for the raucous audience aspect of the experience.
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by alwa 7mo ago
I love, love that. And if even one of my weird little side projects—including the ones I build with AI-powered tools—connects with a young person like that, I’ll be satisfied. To me it’s not the “how” so much as the “what,” though. I can on
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by alwa 7mo ago
Is that viable given the proliferation of open-weight LLMs that don't apply that sort of watermarking? If somebody with malign intent can skip the attestation, presumably they will, right?
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by alwa 7mo ago
I agree that it feels like the tiny window of opportunity hasn't quite shut yet, and it's a problem space I know I should take more interest in. What do you see as the viable technical directions? Something along the lines of what

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