andrewla

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by andrewla 2y ago
What are the "objectively harmful externalities" you're referring to?
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by andrewla 2y ago
If you are arguing that phone use inside the classroom is a distraction then we're already on the same page. If you're arguing for a total ban even outside the classroom, then I need a little more clarity on how it is a distractio
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by andrewla 2y ago
You are using "Social Media" in the vague and scary sense that I am specifically arguing against here. One reason that I haven't dug deeper into Haidt's work other than listening to him argue for it on podcasts is that h
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by andrewla 2y ago
Phones in the classroom are clearly a distraction and should be disallowed. Phones in school seem mostly harmless and provide clear benefits. I'm not saying "do nothing", I'm just not seeing a case anywhere of why phones
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by andrewla 2y ago
Yes, you were fine. But you were also fine meeting up with friends, giving up when people are late, making plans, etc. Society has moved on -- plans are dynamic and people keep each other updated. If you're running late you let them kn
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by andrewla 2y ago
Well said! This is the same problem I have [1] with the messaging around this sort of thing and I don't know why people can't back up and figure out a more consistent approach to these separate issues. One thing I hear a lot from
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by andrewla 2y ago
I agree with this measure on general principles. At the very least phones should not be used in class unless on explicit instruction of the teacher. But I do have that this is phrased as moral panic around "social media". In gener
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by andrewla 2y ago
If anything the opposite -- the lower court had ruled that the organization _did_ have standing to challenge the approval of mifepristone, and the Supreme Court overruled that. If they had done nothing then that would have _reduced_ access
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by andrewla 2y ago
Link to decision: https://www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/23pdf/23-235_n7ip.pdf
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by andrewla 2y ago
There are a bunch of minimalist session persistence solutions, including now shpool. If you want layout, there's a minimalist program called `dvtm` that provides those capabilities. The suggestion usually is to run dvtm inside of dtach
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by andrewla 2y ago
dtach, abduco, and diss are all mentioned in comparison at the bottom of the page. I've never used diss before, but the other two are good products, but for some reason the ergonomics never quite seem to work out for me and I revert b
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by andrewla 2y ago
I mean, obviously so that we can create a new chat without them and ostracize them from all future social interactions. Duh.
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by andrewla 2y ago
> Messages from Android phones show up as green bubbles in iMessage chats, and chaos ensues. This is not true -- messages from Android users show up as grey, the same as messages from iMessage. Messages from you *TO* Android users show u
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by andrewla 2y ago
For what it's worth, I don't think there's a lot of value in these. I hate the MacOS environment as much as anyone, but all the attempts to create tiling managers have resulted in strange unusable quirky behavior. You're
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by andrewla 2y ago
I'm reluctant to try this -- my experience with other attempts to try out tiling window managers on MacOS is that the just don't play nice. Windows get repositioned by normal interactions and the window manager is not able to wran
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by andrewla 2y ago
This has been a consistent problem for me as well; Nix is way too concerned about purity. I think it comes from a desire to make package installation fast by using prebuilt binaries. I personally could give or take the prebuilt binary conce
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by andrewla 2y ago
I'm very excited by all the attempts to replace Nix, but I don't think I'll be exploring this much deeper. In my opinion the issue with Nix is that the data model is not crisply defined -- it's there, but hidden under a
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by andrewla 2y ago
True -- I let nostalgia get in the way of reality here. For a long time Google didn't even try to monetize maps, and then they did a bunch of unsuccessful tweak to try to squeeze some money out of it. Last time I checked Maps was still
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by andrewla 2y ago
The idea that Google gets value from gmail user data is simply false. The pushback from when Google first tried to do ads on gmail was enough to kill the idea permanently. Gmail is a legacy of Old Google, like Maps -- it serves no profit mo
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by andrewla 2y ago
I agree about the surprise -- LLMs can do many surprising things that frankly are astonishing given their architecture. The fact that they can produce output that is difficult to distinguish from the output of an actor that we "know&qu
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by andrewla 2y ago
My argument here is that the discussion of LLMs reasoning is a semantic question, not a technical or scientific one. I specifically didn't use "flying" because both airplanes and birds fly, and "fly" generally means
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by andrewla 2y ago
> That's not the same. > One is a mimic the other is actually applying the laws of physics in both cases. You are arguing based on utility and similarities with actual reasoning. But can it really reason when presented with novel
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by andrewla 2y ago
I mean, since you're a human and can, by assumption, perform new reasoning that hasn't been done before, let's fire up the old noggin and come up with some examples and we'll see how the old LLM does compared to humans.
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by andrewla 2y ago
Agreed on the turd aspect. It's really amazingly poorly done, everything from the bad charger to the incoherent interface to the badly designed and operating app. But what's nice is that it is a limited capability device. I'd
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by andrewla 2y ago
This is just a variation on the "can submarines swim" question. Unask the question. Can an LLM produce output that matches the written aspect of what humans call reasoning? Obviously yes. Are there limits? Yes, but individual huma
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by andrewla 2y ago
Very specifically -- the idea that you can use selective breeding and culling of undesirables to speed up evolution towards a superior human is incorrect. These processes, however they are enacted, will result in a more specialized, less ro
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by andrewla 2y ago
There are really only two situations where it matters. One is in developing tooling; you have to understand how all this works together so that the user can do things like call `summary` or `plot` on your objects. The other is when you are
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by andrewla 2y ago
Quite possibly I am not the target demographic -- I never really got the tomagotchi thing either, so maybe I'm just a soulless monster. My kids have access to other electronic devices, but don't yet have a smartphone. The Gizmo is
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by andrewla 2y ago
We've been happily using the Verizon Gizmo watch for a while now. It's a deliberately crippled smart watch. No games, no apps (it has a step counter and a stopwatch, but that's about it) -- some calling functionality, some m
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by andrewla 2y ago
When I say that quantum computing is not possible, I mean in general. It's a dead end. Note that this belief is subject to being falsified by progress in the field or a demonstration of error correction at scale. There are companies se

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