anthonyrstevens

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by anthonyrstevens 4mo ago
This was a thing before those axes you're grinding even existed.
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by anthonyrstevens 4mo ago
I thought about this, and can not tell if you are being serious or not. I can see arguments for either.
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by anthonyrstevens 4mo ago
On a scale of zero to Elon Musk, consumers all have approximately equal amounts of money /s
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by anthonyrstevens 4mo ago
Your comment made me realize that it's also not hard to imagine we could be a few short years away from a benevolent AI tasked with setting the market and selectively selling to individuals who, as a group, embody some ideal distributi
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by anthonyrstevens 4mo ago
I agree, but Im trying to decide what "artificial restrictions...on the market" are and can't come up with anything other than "the problems and solutions occasioned by selling a limited number of items" i.e. distri
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by anthonyrstevens 4mo ago
>> But as I said, you don't like it "Truth in advertising" in your OP :)
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by anthonyrstevens 4mo ago
Good read. Thanks for sharing.
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by anthonyrstevens 4mo ago
"Other people may have it worse, so we should not use language that (in my opinion) devalues their struggle". This adds nothing to the discussion of the original or larger point(s).
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by anthonyrstevens 4mo ago
Based on the apparent quality of the scripts as seen in snippets in Murderbot, we are not too far away from that possibility. :)
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by anthonyrstevens 4mo ago
How do we know this?
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by anthonyrstevens 5mo ago
No it doesn't, at least not for me.
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by anthonyrstevens 5mo ago
Speaking of pyramid (shapes), this reminds me of an idea in Robert Silverberg's Majipoor series - there's a 30-mile high mountain with populated cities all the way up to the top whose weather and temperature is controlled by 8,000
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by anthonyrstevens 5mo ago
I'm not sure what your point is - can you expand?
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by anthonyrstevens 5mo ago
I don't think you need to wait long. Most of your post is already proven wrong in this very thread.
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by anthonyrstevens 5mo ago
>> It’s amazing how confident you are while being completely wrong Welcome to HN? :)
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by anthonyrstevens 5mo ago
You're missing the point that it's (conceivably, and probably) different people making the comments. Each model release has a few new converts, which is expected if the models are in fact getting better at agentic coding. You&#x27
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by anthonyrstevens 6mo ago
Possibly truth is a higher societal good than unfettered free expression? Reasonable people may debate that concept. Ref: X
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by anthonyrstevens 6mo ago
>> people who are incapable of anything except bikeshedding The amount of insulting language directed at people who actually have an open mind about AI and AI tooling is frustrating. Can you all just please address the merits of the t
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by anthonyrstevens 6mo ago
>> least capable people >> lack the ability to reason Oh, COME ON. What do you have to say about the Prompt API specifically?
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by anthonyrstevens 6mo ago
So is it reasonable and helpful to see the same comments over and over again any time Google/Microsoft/OpenAI/Meta is mentioned in a comment - "X is bad, money drives all their decisions, they are anti-user, etc. etc.&qu
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by anthonyrstevens 6mo ago
>> the level of damage they have done it's astounding. Tons of companies are still fixing the losses from vibe coding. This sounds like unsubstantiated hyperbole - can we keep HN grounded in reality, please? My alternative hypoth
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by anthonyrstevens 6mo ago
No, it's because certain people moved the goal posts. Nothing an LLM does or will do will make them belive that it's "intelligent" because they have a mental model of "intelligence" that is more religious than
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by anthonyrstevens 6mo ago
>> Number theory had no practical applications until the development of public-key cryptography This is so wrong I don't even know where to begin. Modular arithmetic, numerical integration, pseudorandom number generation, error-c
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by anthonyrstevens 6mo ago
The parent comment you refer to is part disclosure listing, part bad-faith conspiracy blatting
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by anthonyrstevens 6mo ago
>> that explains in a nutshell a lot of the problems we have in society What evidence do you have for this?
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by anthonyrstevens 6mo ago
Philosophy of consciousness is at least 2,500 years old.
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by anthonyrstevens 6mo ago
Smii
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by anthonyrstevens 6mo ago
+1 for the Ancillary series by Ann Leckie.
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by anthonyrstevens 6mo ago
J. G. Ballard's "High-Rise" and "The Drowned World" are both excellent reads with very interesting stuff going on.
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by anthonyrstevens 6mo ago
Blindsight was great. I had such high hopes for their follow up novel Echopraxia, but sadly it felt rushed and under-edited, but the ideas were spectacular.

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