ben_w

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by ben_w 2mo ago
What would the US government have realistically been able to know or expect in 1974 with only one major oil shock big enough to warrant the creation of the system?
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by ben_w 2mo ago
A "reliable supply" is fundamentally not possible with all the vagaries of the natural world. Even the Code of Hammurabi makes reference to this*, and we still have "acts of god" in modern parlance. Futures significantly
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by ben_w 2mo ago
> What a sad analogy. IKEA furniture is mostly cheap particle board crap The first time I saw GenAI compared to IKEA, it was for this reason, ~"particle board is fine for furniture, but you really don't want it to be a load-bea
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by ben_w 2mo ago
Depends on the business. I can easily see Generic Local Späti being fine to replace a mediocre hand-made spreadsheet of what products they've got in stock with a vibe-coded database that can OCR all the business copy of receipts from
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by ben_w 2mo ago
> I will ignore the insane comparison between neurons and LLMs. But Please don't. I mean, you yourself specifically said to "Look at octopi with their insane nervous system", and that's exactly what I'm doing and
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by ben_w 2mo ago
> But we also have recent history demonstrating that this will not be allowed to happen, no matter how much starvation there is in poorer countries, we WILL have our steaks. Not negotiable. Indeed, though given Trump's behaviour I h
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by ben_w 2mo ago
> Adding arms and 360 vision is not free. Vision is hard regardless of the angle, but scaling it from a normal camera to 360° doesn't add much cost or difficulty once you've done the hard part of turning pixels into a suitable
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by ben_w 2mo ago
> It would be just easier to not wage war by the way. Wars do not start by mutual agreement of all belligerents. If anything, usually the opposite.
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by ben_w 2mo ago
> Ideally that someone who is very, very motivated to get it right and make it happen. Those big corporations charging extra are going to keep people fed. Governments are also actors in this, and have incentivises on a different scale th
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by ben_w 2mo ago
I think banning requires severe and repeated personal attacks directed at another user? Mostly what I see is low-grade responses that are handled just fine with downvotes, and mostly categorical rather than personal attacks, with the attemp
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by ben_w 2mo ago
Many farmers are subsidised specifically so that food is over-produced in most years, specifically to ensure than in bad years people don't go hungry. Corporations may indeed be taking advantage of this, demanding prices so low that th
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by ben_w 2mo ago
"Here's a case study where it worked once" != "the end of human code review". Don't get me wrong, this is impressive and capabilities do still seem to be on a generally upward trend with nothing "hitting a
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by ben_w 2mo ago
One of the times I worked with code written by juniors, the entire FAQ was Bob Ross quotes. The rest of the app was in German, and had nothing to do with painting. It also crashed a lot. LLMs, while mediocre, are better than that. One of th
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by ben_w 2mo ago
I don't see how this adds much to either a pro or con argument. An inner monologue isn't something all humans have[0]. It is unclear to me how well (or poorly) Chain of Thought mimics intrapersonal communication. J-space probes (a
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by ben_w 2mo ago
> The entirety of human civilization is human shaped. That's the marketing pitch. A plumbing robot doesn't need to be humanoid, an octopus shape may well be better for all the awkward corners. A robot police officer could be th
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by ben_w 2mo ago
I suspect so, but I wouldn't want to bet on it. Enough humans seem to be repelled by the idea of transhumanism that they may well insist on doing it the hard way.
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by ben_w 2mo ago
There's definitely a lot missing from the current state of the art in machine learning that all brains manage to beat, and we can observe this just because an animal that needs as many examples as an AI to learn motor functions would s
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by ben_w 2mo ago
> Juniors turn to seniors. AI has gone from "codes like a student" to "fresh hire junior" to "nearly ready for next step in career" at about the same, tiny bit faster, calendar pace as humans. > You can n
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by ben_w 2mo ago
> Developers that killed their sysadmins just got a 2nd job as sysadmins. Typically they'd be in prison. Remember, the book title isn't a metaphor , when they (both authors work at the linked institute) wrote the title "I
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by ben_w 2mo ago
> LLMs don't have conscious processes that perform that kind of reasoning. If only we could tell either way, we'd have made a huge breakthrough in the philosophy of consciousness.
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by ben_w 2mo ago
> unlike earth there's no magnetic field or enough atmosphere on Mars to deflect them These are solvable with known methods. They make the whole thing rather less romantic. If you're going to the trouble of e.g. burying your ba
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by ben_w 2mo ago
> Absurd. AI needs humanity like developers needs sysadmins. Cancer cells need their host. Doesn't stop them killing the host. Present AI is not smart enough to be a direct threat, but still seems to be enabling delusions with its s
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by ben_w 2mo ago
This is the kind of thing that would be relatively easy to convince nations to sign up to*; actually enforcing, I suspect you're right. * there's not an obvious benefit to being the one nation that says "you know what? We wa
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by ben_w 2mo ago
An EUV factory is a moderately sized building in its own right[0]; on the other hand, DNA is manufactured separately inside most of the cells in your body[1], the plant on your windowsill, the mould on your bread… [0] "43 freight conta
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by ben_w 2mo ago
Indeed. But also, this moves so fast it's only 80 days between Mythos and GLM-5.3*, so the former getting blocked even for just 18 days wiped out 22.5% of the potential head-start advantage of picking the US. That said, article seems t
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by ben_w 2mo ago
> But, again, you cannot consider flawed human perception to be the ground truth! Irrelevant. The entire point I'm making here is that I think the criticism isn't about objective ground truth, but subjective: users want the cam
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by ben_w 2mo ago
> But why would Hollywood be screwed? I'm sorry, you're asking "why would Hollywood be screwed?" with regards to a tech that lets you write a short prompt and get an artefact out? One where it already does this for st
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by ben_w 2mo ago
*rolls the random number generator* What has Senegal done?
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by ben_w 2mo ago
> If you replace flash-induced red eyes with a more plausible (yet inaccurate) eye color, people are perfectly happy with that, even though the camera indeed saw red photons. I believe this is already covered by: what the human origi
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by ben_w 2mo ago
> The cuts mark a shift for US AI groups that make proprietary “closed” models that have, until now, competed heavily on performance. They've been competing on price and performance since the early days. I remember when the GPT-3 mo

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