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by bbor 5mo ago
I… ok. I can see that I engaged with a conversation that inevitably invites common political disagreements — apologies!
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by bbor 5mo ago
These LLMs are prediction machines. They are text generators that are ultimately a bunch of fancy statistics, Always a shame to see good meaning, smart humans let their anxieties and fears drive them into empirical falsehoods. Anyon
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by bbor 5mo ago
Well, give StackOverflow's survey team grief, not me...
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by bbor 5mo ago
A) Well, it's you vs. the Pope and I! B) Fine, drop communism altogether -- it's evil and disgusting and bit my finger and should never be tried again. Can we work on a society where the means of production are owned by groups of
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by bbor 5mo ago
I'm glad he published it of course, but I was disappointed on two counts: 1. He's not at all careful with his argumentation. Frequently he'll colocate two points that aren't really connected, not bothering to justify one
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by bbor 5mo ago
> It wasn't a pedophilia scandal, as around 80% of victims were post-pubescent male teenagers. It was a homosexual ephebophilia scandal. Honestly pretty unreal to come face to face with someone from a history book.
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by bbor 5mo ago
The term doesn't change its meaning because something new comes along. ...you're gonna flip when you hear about how language works :)
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by bbor 5mo ago
You're just using a different definition of "scientific". If Math isn't a science, then it cannot follow logical rigor. Math and philosophy are both sciences, even if they differ qualitatively from the natural and human
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by bbor 5mo ago
10% of developers use Sublime Text
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by bbor 5mo ago
I am so, so stressed about Sublime Text... It feels like a massive disaster just waiting to happen. They don't even run their own package marketplace :(
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by bbor 5mo ago
Does that correction matter, tho…? Discovered or created, it would be new to us, and is clearly not easy to reach!
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by bbor 5mo ago
math more like an art than a science. That’s a fun turn of phrase, but hopefully we can all agree that math without scientific rigor is no math at all. we likely need some new kind of math. Imo, it's unlikely that an LLM wi
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by bbor 5mo ago
To keep my usual rant short: I think you’re assuming a categorical distinction between those two types of innovations that just doesn’t exist. Calculus certainly required some fundamental paradigm shifts, but there’s a reason that they didn
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by bbor 5mo ago
Eh, I’d prefer they get punished. Imagine if you misconfigured a service and then had to pay out the fee for breaking your company’s reliability contract… And to say the least, I doubt the officer has $800K.
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by bbor 5mo ago
Pretty hilarious how many of these comments are responding to their own headcannon of something vaguely related to AI… thems the times, I supppse!
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by bbor 5mo ago
I’m glad you didn’t comment on the book no one has laid eyes upon, written in a language none of us speak! Re:the rest, meh. People will continue to enjoy good literature — no need to performatively try to prove the unprovable. To say the l
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by bbor 5mo ago
It does feel like that sometimes, but alcohol use plummeted during US prohibition.
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by bbor 5mo ago
Funny what HN randomly misses sometimes -- this is huge news! Congrats to you and the team.
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by bbor 5mo ago
I feel like LLMs will help solve this problem they've created, TBH -- any human expert can tell in seconds when a repo has this problem, so it should be doable by a system that's tweaked over. The tricky part is writing a legal
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by bbor 5mo ago
IDK, it's hard to criticize the community too much given how wildly, absurdly successful it is. If I arrived on Earth yesterday and you tried to tell me how much software is Free/free in an otherwise-capitalist economy, I wouldn&#
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by bbor 5mo ago
I mean, 'mentions Claude while asking it about AI consciousness at the end of long post about consciousness'**. Seems fair? Apologies if I'm misreading 'incentive' and missing some jargon usage, ofc! Or if this just
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by bbor 5mo ago
Yeah but that bad design was state of the art not even a decade ago! We are truly in a pregallilean era of cognitive science, tho not for much longer…
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by bbor 5mo ago
Well said! I don't think either party is really at fault here, but if Anthropic wanted to contribute non-negligible amounts of code over time then it's an absolute dealbreaker. Sucks for people who were invested in contributing to
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by bbor 5mo ago
A) these aren’t “medical people”, they’re neuroscientists and psychologists. Comparing them to a nutritionist seems especially cruel! B) “some people have been wrong before” is not a reason to think you know better than the authors of an up
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by bbor 5mo ago
The point isn’t that they found subgroups, the point is the method they used to find them — namely, analyzing individual brain scans rather than averaging them out first.
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by bbor 5mo ago
Yup, to no one’s surprise (least of all the investigators), doing neuroscience by correlating cortex regions with cognitive activities is extremely clunky at best. Very robust finding confirming this tho, thanks for sharing! Now that we’re
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by bbor 5mo ago
Nothing wrong at all with separating out Claude’s work with commits! In fact, it’s preferable IMO — it lets people browsing the history identify code that was primarily written by AI.
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by bbor 5mo ago
Looks great, and I love the `zsh` support! Took a note to whip up a Sublime plugin for this when I get a chance. Congrats on shipping something, seriously. Out of curiosity: how in the name of the good lord above did you end up with 1,163 c
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by bbor 5mo ago
I'm really not worried about `uv` and `cpython` -- their processes are robust, their response times fast, and (now) their funding significant I'm worried about, say, `mdformat` (a widely used formatter mostly maintained by one per
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by bbor 5mo ago
With HN ettiquette in mind, I must make an exception: this is a case where skimming the first parts of the article would help a lot! The public repo path is just one of four parallel paths, with the goal of getting around any barriers:

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