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by bee_rider 1mo ago
This sort of thing was called “smartgrid” but it doesn’t seem to have caught on. Maybe we could lean into modern buzzwords. The electricity distribution system is a big sparse graph. If they are allowed to pass signals back and forth, don’t
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by bee_rider 1mo ago
There should be a penalty for having less flexibility in consuming electricity. That’s how the market incentivizes us to figure out how to be flexible in our consumption. We should probably also subsidize the conversion, for people who look
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by bee_rider 1mo ago
I don’t know if experience has just damaged my brain or what, but I really like matlab’s syntax for what it is. Nice for writing 100 line experiments or using in the REPL. Sort of like the Python of linear algebra, haha. It also has a nice
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by bee_rider 1mo ago
For all we know LLMs might be conscious in the same way that any other inanimate object might be.
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by bee_rider 1mo ago
They are made of sand. For all we know the sand was conscious before we smashed it up and arranged it into computer chips.
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by bee_rider 1mo ago
Actually, how does chain of thought work? Is the LLM actually creating the tokens and then re-reading them, or is the there still a full hidden state under the hood and then the UI just prints that projection?
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by bee_rider 1mo ago
I kind of assumed all the K2 names were puns. K2 is quite tall, so to get to the top of it you have to be really good at hill climbing. Anyway it’s a pretty well known mountain so I don’t think anyone can call dibs on it.
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by bee_rider 1mo ago
How will that bet be resolved concretely, will you base it on a NYT headline? In some grim way it will be interesting to see the how this evolves. I mean, in a way betting markets are parasitic on news agencies that have a reputation for ob
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by bee_rider 1mo ago
It is a fun story. Not everything needs to have a point! If the guy was incredibly charismatic and managed to sort of join the group despite lacking a properly developed backstory, maybe he was a DMPC (dungeon master player character).
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by bee_rider 1mo ago
I really don’t understand why the LLM web chat clients have all converged on this UI where one character appears at a time. It is kind of fun the first time (like you are watching some Harry Potter special effects where an enchanted book wr
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by bee_rider 1mo ago
I think when people use NPC as an insult (it is a dumb insult in my opinion), they are looking at it from the point of view of a player, someone outside the game who understands that the NPC is scripted (this is a silly and egotistical way
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by bee_rider 1mo ago
Seems like something that should be user-configurable (like DNS servers). While the recent annoying renamings have drawn attention to the issue, landmark names have basically always been political.
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by bee_rider 1mo ago
It is kinda funny that “smart” is the branding we’ve converged on for these devices that have unnecessary computer features. Most engineers would, I guess, call it pretty stupid to add a computer to the BoM of your toilet.
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by bee_rider 1mo ago
I 100% agree that “opt-in by default” is bad and that “opted” in that sense is a bullshit incoherent phrase. Unfortunately this “opting as a thing that happens to you instead of a choice” idea has evidently been promoted well, so we have to
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by bee_rider 1mo ago
Sure. Just, raising prices in line with inflation is not really raising them in a real sense. You are trying to give people a discount. :)
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by bee_rider 1mo ago
FWIW I don’t find what you wrote confusing, but I do think it is following a sort of… bad convention that some companies have been pushing. Opt-in and opt-out describe the nature of the choice that you make. “Opt” means to choose (apparent
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by bee_rider 1mo ago
> There are few things we like less than raising prices, which is why we have done it so rarely. It would be far better to keep LWN as inexpensive as possible and make it up in volume. Subscriber growth has stalled, though, in recent yea
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by bee_rider 1mo ago
It is fairly Linux-focused fwiw
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by bee_rider 1mo ago
Oh, that’s an interesting thought. Nice way to increase GDP without doing anything actually useful, right?
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by bee_rider 1mo ago
Further question—the model produces an answer to the question, it sends the answer, and then gets graded. Does it get to know immediately how it did, or does it get the grade back at the end after answering all the questions? If it is the f
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by bee_rider 1mo ago
It seems like an interesting strategy. Based on the author’s comment, they haven’t been at it for very long. So, I guess the folks who run the private test haven’t had a chance to get to it? It’d be interesting to hear how it does.
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by bee_rider 1mo ago
I think(?) you’ve already probably done a good job of explaining this criticism for semi-informed people. But can you dumb it down even more for those of us who are almost entirely out-of-the-loop? > Training on the eval puzzles is cheat
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by bee_rider 1mo ago
I think it doesn’t really need much explaining anyway. Just from their example, 2/3 of those tasks (keeping the fire going and protecting from predators) required just… being awake and reasonably alert. I mean you could spend the time
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by bee_rider 1mo ago
Not every game can be for everyone, and Dwarf Fortress is not a game for people who want onramps. “Shitty game design” is subjective, I guess. Maybe the Steam page is too slick? I can’t imagine somebody going to the old dwarf fortress page
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by bee_rider 1mo ago
On one hand, LLMs aren’t people and attributing code to them is incorrect. On the other, what they output is ultimately a (complicated) modification of the training data they’ve ingested, so people should made sure to attribute any code tha
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by bee_rider 2mo ago
The article says > These amendments redefine the term “operating system provider” to exclude any person or entity that distributes an OS or application “under license terms that permit a recipient to copy, redistribute, and modify the so
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by bee_rider 2mo ago
From a bird’s point of view, large mammals must be interesting. You are just doing a little digging in the garden, but it’s an absolutely tremendous amount of earth you’ve moved compared to their ability to dig. I’m always curious about ani
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by bee_rider 2mo ago
A good marketing business model would probably be “I’ll only show your marketing material to my other customers, since they are evidently likely to fall for marketing material.” I wonder if it is just the first internet-native generation ge
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by bee_rider 2mo ago
I’d be more interested to see a collection of independent guild, unions, and co-ops that voluntarily coordinate through an AI intermediary. Because the AI can’t really own things or be held responsible, the idea of a skeuomorphic AI seems q
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by bee_rider 2mo ago
What’s the expected behavior of a good genie if you wish for it to act capriciously?

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