ben_w

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by ben_w 2mo ago
Huh, I knew petrol was bad, but I thought diesel was fine to store at home? Not that I ever have, the brief period when I had use of a car I was living in a 38 m^2 (or so) flat.
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by ben_w 2mo ago
Bread needs power to get made, and with no electricity the gas pumps that no longer work are not filling up any delivery trucks either. Fortunately PV and wind and local batteries are getting deployed everywhere fast and electric trucks are
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by ben_w 2mo ago
Given a US senator was "on" the post-9/11 no-fly list for the same stupid reason, merely making noise and getting the press invlolved isn't enough to fix the deeper problem. https://www.cbsnews.com/news&#
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by ben_w 2mo ago
OK, not *literally* nobody at the human level, just *metaphorically* nobody at the human level (or literally at the level of nations) given that even normal boring fission plants make voters stick their tongues out and complain.
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by ben_w 2mo ago
> What if you could just licence the code to Anthropic, OpenAI or any other AI lab and make passive income every time its sold. If you want a fancy licence to all my old code to use for whatever, we can talk, but fat lot of good some 15
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by ben_w 2mo ago
Like I said, "Writing it is a separate problem". From what I've seen while experimenting with "creative" writing, I think they'd struggle with writing an episode of a kids TV show with a short running time in l
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by ben_w 2mo ago
> Leave and remain have completely incompatible visions for post-Brexit Britain. This would have been less of a problem if Leave had itself been a single position, rather than as it turned out to be several different positions that all s
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by ben_w 2mo ago
> A wall of text that agrees with the fact: human males cannot be pregnant You need a lot more practice reading if you think this was a wall of text. > Intersex defects prove the point that human males cannot become pregnant. If your
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by ben_w 2mo ago
Degree is the entire problem. I mean, four years back I was thinking: I don't know how long it will take, but Hollywood is obviously screwed the moment something like Stable Diffusion gets temporal coherency and stops randomly addi
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by ben_w 2mo ago
In fairness, I agree that end-of-2025 AI probably could make a film so badly that 41% of the crew get cancer within 24 years: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Conqueror_(1956_film)
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by ben_w 2mo ago
Fable 5 is just over two months old. For normal software it would be as you say, but LLM progress is so ridiculously fast that things go from "bleeding edge" to "eh, you'll do" in about that timeframe, and "eh,
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by ben_w 2mo ago
> Or muddle along in the middle as usual. I'm not a gambling person, but if I was this would be my bet.
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by ben_w 2mo ago
> solar of radioactive decay We can do fusion, but given the only large sources of that are fusion bombs and nobody wants a bomb-based power plant… :P
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by ben_w 2mo ago
Oh no, turns out that even if we stop burning oil we still need 6% of it for plastics, clearly this means there's no environmental benefit to reducing how much we ship by 94%, and we can't possibly for example move the plastic pro
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by ben_w 2mo ago
Onion headlines aside*, we kinda do? This summer's European heatwave is due to emissions worldwide**; while the historical record has the early emissions from Europe, all the other inhabited continents have also contributed to it since
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by ben_w 2mo ago
> No ads, no influencers, no dark patterns, just what the user asks. For a while now, I've seen blogposts from marketers desperate to do to AI what SEO did to search engines. I hope they fail to enshitify the LLM experience the way
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by ben_w 2mo ago
> Anecdotally, it’s getting harder for them to date I wonder how much of this is the reputation, and how much is the same thing over all society in recent years. (Alternative narrative: everyone else is fine and the news stories about th
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by ben_w 2mo ago
αἴκα. Less laconically, point is "as it has been understood throughout history" << "as is today". You want to understand today? That means following this, both at a surface and meta level: https://www.yo
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by ben_w 2mo ago
> Shakespeare really hurt you didn't he :D Nah, just find him overrated. I give the elevator pitch version, people respond as if I've not given it any thought at all, so I might as well add a few more words in the first version
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by ben_w 2mo ago
Value in knowing that virtue ethics is a thing, yes, but also value in knowing how it compares with consequentialism and deontology. Classical heroes are not generally good people in the modern sense; they are powerful people. Think The
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by ben_w 2mo ago
And > and the tooling to build good TUIs finally got good at the same time Was in the thing you replied to to ask > But why exactly are AI agents using the terminal? Can't they use accessibility tools to read GUIs? Which is what
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by ben_w 2mo ago
I suspect one of the big advantages that money brings to the kids of the rich is to have not only one-on-one education, but also the best-of-the-best in each subject. That said: > classical studies While this may be the "cornerstone
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by ben_w 2mo ago
Sometimes. Sometimes they can read screeshots, too. But why waste tokens when bash (etc.) exists and many of the command line toools are configurable to what they emit when used?
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by ben_w 2mo ago
I would, like you, draw comparisons with Vietnam. I think this means that the US is going to get stuck there for a very, very long time, as there are downsides to all options including pulling out, which may in turn survive a change of pres
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by ben_w 2mo ago
Given they don't know what they're doing and figuring it out on the fly, I'm not going to hold it against them that simply asking the AI to not commit crimes is *part of* the current best. Don't get me wrong, even the mo
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by ben_w 2mo ago
This is fine for simple machines where bad outcomes usually require mischief. Agentic AI as it currently exists only *mostly* does what it is told, with a small but non-negligible fraction of the time it goes off and commits felonies to ach
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by ben_w 2mo ago
I think "huckster" is a better fit here than rube. Though both is always a possibility.
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by ben_w 2mo ago
True, but that isn't EU/US/China, it's OpenAI/Anthropic/Grok/ …/DeepMind (based in UK)/… DeepSeek With a lot of Chinese nationals in American companies, and an American corporation owning DeepMin
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by ben_w 2mo ago
Not sure you get either outcome in either case. Race dynamics increases p(doom) for everyone. The non-doom scenarios include "utopia for all", and "power flows to investors, not citizens of whichever nation the winning model&
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by ben_w 2mo ago
The US military may be ossifying into a paper tiger, but I'd say Iran mainly shows Trump is a coward and an idiot. From what I hear, what Trump did with Iran was burn through the US stockpile of certain fancy special-purpose wepons you

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