ben_w

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by ben_w 3mo ago
Muskiest
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by ben_w 3mo ago
I believe they mean Claude does the work directly, rather than writing software to do it.
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"thanks, you too"
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by ben_w 3mo ago
Yup. Been feeling the same for several years now, on all points. The performance is bad; the developer experience is bad (it's a moving target, not a stable point); it was done to chase a trend (reactive) and to boost other Apple platf
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by ben_w 3mo ago
If I were to make YouTube videos of the camera-to-face variety, I would cloak my face and voice both to avoid stalkers and to avoid deepfakes of each. But against the flood of videos even before all the AI-generated content churned out by p
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by ben_w 3mo ago
Likewise. I think it's a real pity that of the "four boxes of liberty", Musk has interfered with the first three: soap, Twitter; ballot, the lawsuits about million dollar rewards for voting; jury, selecting his jurisdiction,
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It's much easier to focus on yesterday's threats than tomorrow's. A drunk looking under a lampost because that's where the light is, even though the keys were lost somewhere else. That said, the AI companies are one of t
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Singapore, I'm told, from someone who lives there. I don't really follow their politics so take this with a pinch of salt appropriate for hearing things on the grapevine.
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> France also has four times the land area compared to the UK. This is not by itself of great importance. There's several different meanings of "built on", but even with the most expansive definition for this purpose, the
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by ben_w 3mo ago
Baumol effect is my best guess. Nursing tracks the cost of labour, the tech is (so far) making a small fraction of the worldload a lot more efficient, but the bulk of the workload is not (yet) amenable to automation. That said, I do hear pe
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> The problem with changing the 'free at the point of use' principle is that under any likely replacement it would continue to be free for expectant mothers, children, the disabled, and the elderly - precisely the people who co
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by ben_w 3mo ago
I'm not sure what you're arguing here. Upthread, the point about it not mattering what China stole but what they can do? That "Made in China" has gone from a sign of low quality to being the default as it became the fac
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Probably sooner, IMO. Absent radical life extension, even 200 years from now there'll be nobody's left who remembers the time before deepfakes, and history will be brought into doubt. Though bluntly we've always had nationali
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Disagree, I think it's analogous to how we today use "fire" to describe the action of loosing an arrow or whatever the technical term is for a trebuchet, even though neither has gunpowder.
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Mainly βωμολόχος, I think? But also ἀλαζών in some episodes?
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by ben_w 4mo ago
I think it may be cheaper to use Starship as a point-to-point delivery system to put solar panels and compute modules in a desert, than to put the same compute performance into space. Mainly depends on how much of a mess Starship makes taki
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by ben_w 4mo ago
> and they're probably going to be the only company with a fully re-usable launch vehicle. Nobody else except maybe for some chinese companies and kind of RocketLab is even close. They basically have a monopoly... Back in 2018 when
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> If you ever listen to Russian propaganda, there's a similar theme: every big idea, everything good, all of it was definitely first developed in Russia - only Russians could ever have thought of it. Of course, Russia isn't act
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> I do think a lot about what the AI analogy will be. I suspect improved power supplies and some downloadable weights.
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> There are billions more of "us" than of "them", people don't respond well en masse to a drastic worsening of their societal status and "they" are lagging very far behind on building their robot armies
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I think you linked to the wrong URL, from the title you meant this: https://blog.webb.page/WM-025
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> If you think that running your local “artisanal” LLM for software development will be able to compete with the massive data centers that are lining the pockets of small-town politicians all over the world, convince me. I cannot current
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Or indeed 20 years ago when "press 1 for foo, press 2 for bar" was already a thing.
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You've not seen how they react to noobs asking physics questions, I think. Even when you've got an interesting idea, if you're an enthusiastic amateur who don't yet know enough to phrase the question right but does actua
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The infinite monkey theorem assumes random distribution of symbols*. Given the tokenizers have a vocabulary in the 10k-100k range, "a million attempts" will generally still only get the first token of the answer correct. Even real
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Famously, all of maths is axioms and tautologies, so I'm not sure this will assuage any professional mathematicians currently having an existential crisis. Maths was already infinite, it's still infinite, but who wants to spend al
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by ben_w 4mo ago
Although this feels so LLM-generated I can't bring myself to read more than a quarter of it, I have been wondering about the general premise for quite some time now. • New language bad when humans need to learn to write it • AI o
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by ben_w 4mo ago
> he Neither did Musk. Not fully at least. But while both are famous for their reality distortion bubbles, Jobs made sure the iPhone and before it the iPod and before it the iMac were products worth wanting, as well as getting investment
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I'm old enough to remember Deep Blue.
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Indeed; As I recall, I mentioned GOFAI in the interview and got amused agreement.

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