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by ben_w 4mo ago
> ChatGPT does not know more than you. The fallacy is always that you compare AI to a human without literature references and a database. If the human needs a literature references and a database to answer a question, can they be said to
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by ben_w 4mo ago
> Is brain stimulation just not a good domain for GD? The largest LLMs right now are at best 1% the number of parameters of a human brain. "At best" if synapses are one parameter each, real ones are probably more than that, but
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by ben_w 4mo ago
That assumes no new material is being created. "But the call was coming from inside the house": https://www.robertkinglawfirm.com/mass-torts/grok-lawsuit/
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> Don't you think modern image analysis tools such as llms will be easily defeated by measures such as adding colored rings? The LLMs think one specific mystery plant in my garden hiding behind the hedge is velvetleaf; no, wild cott
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by ben_w 4mo ago
Lots of people have very strong opinions about how code should look, often mutually incompatible with each other. Sometimes it's closer to cargo-culting a design pattern or other "best practice" than anything else, doing what
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Bright lights in particular, I'm thinking: yes, normal people do find sunbathing relaxing.
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by ben_w 4mo ago
As others on Telegram have said: automated search for visual superstimuli likely leads to bad outcomes. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Supernormal_stimulus https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BLIT_(short_
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by ben_w 4mo ago
Yeah, there's definitely a lot of people in the same boat as you. I was already getting annoyed with the profession and its CV-driven development, and mostly saw code as a means to an end rather than an end in itself, but that only mea
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by ben_w 4mo ago
My guess is the OS. People who want a server often enough want to choose the OS, Apple wants to supply the OS and the hardware together so they're not blamed every time the two turn out to be incompatible, as happened the other way rou
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Ugh. Isn't this illegal under GDPR? Definitely hoping all the fines (thinking of the $1.4T lawsuit also in the news) add up to more than the company is worth.
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by ben_w 4mo ago
Or Dunning Kruger. I like messing around with Suno, but I know I don't have much musical taste, yet even so when I try to push it to be even a little weird it fails utterly: a call for "one minute" of animal noises is rendere
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by ben_w 4mo ago
> but the solution can’t be one with the potential to kick off a 2008-style financial crisis. I don't think it would cause that much damage. If I understand right about floats and stuff, Meta is 2.13% of the S&P500, so NVIDIA
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by ben_w 4mo ago
As someone who had been making iPhone apps since the retina iPod touch… I agree completely.
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> England has lost all dignity. That ship sailed so long ago it's in a museum.
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Same person they'd sue if they used any other power tool themselves and it didn't work out right. Plus, this is software "Engineering" we're talking about, which famously gets scare quotes in comparison to all the
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by ben_w 4mo ago
I think you're probably wildly overoptimistic about the ratio of police officers to private nudes. No government really wants to be fully enforcing all their own laws, just because it's way too expensive to hire that many cops. I
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By asking the user to explain what they want whenever there's ambiguity. Plus all the other things that software engineers generally have not learned to a professional level even if they picked up the basics on the job by osmosis, beca
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by ben_w 4mo ago
> No wonder we still can’t get climate change under control This is was historically a money issue, being green used to be wildly more expensive. Now being green is cheaper, the limiting factor is how fast PV and batteries can be made or
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by ben_w 4mo ago
Likewise, though I figured they'd solved the "engines are a bit explode-y" with the Falcon 9 and Heavy. Turned out not, and also that handling re-entry was much much harder than the Space Shuttle (and Buran) had made it seem.
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by ben_w 4mo ago
Yes, indeed. In principle "for anything 3rd party want" would be illegal in the EU. However, Big Tech clearly doesn't care what's illegal in the EU. Pertinent to this case: https://stateofsurveillance.org&#x
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My experience is also that they're very different from writing code myself. There are ways to use the tool better and worse, the worst is to blindly fire off the agent and commit the changes without reading them: This *only* works for
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(Based on https://www.euronews.com/my-europe/2026/07/07/eu-to-extend-t... and https://www.euractiv.com/news/how-the-epp-pushed-the-chat-sc... as well as the stuff in the link). Here
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by ben_w 4mo ago
Here's my current draft; I expect perhaps 20-30% of it will need rewriting, not counting anything I've yet to add: https://github.com/BenWheatley/blog/blob/main/2026/06/22-23....
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by ben_w 4mo ago
I can think of one, but it was awful: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/East_India_Company Could be relevant if that whole "robot army" happens.
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by ben_w 4mo ago
Perhaps, and good suggestion regardless, but the Soviet leadership was so adverse to negative publicity that it's hard to be sure how happy they were with hardware-rich testing. Throwing cheap rockets into the air until they don't
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by ben_w 4mo ago
> BYD is a subsidised financial basket case, I can say that about Tesla. Like, 1/3rd of their total lifetime net profit has been subsidies of one kind or another, mostly government-created regulatory credit programs. > What is Te
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by ben_w 4mo ago
Nobody has to actually know the secret of their own success, especially not relative success to equally-secretive near-peers. Same as with rich person autobiographies: even when they tell you what they think it is, they can't see the p
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Given how many users there are, I can easily believe it happened to at least one person who would then repeat it as an anecdote.
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by ben_w 4mo ago
I guess I'll be skipping two major releases of iOS (etc.) then, not just iOS 26.
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by ben_w 4mo ago
> I did report a fun bug with it though: it was interrupting me and laughing at my (not really intended as) jokes while I was still talking! They seem to have clamped that behavior down thankfully, it felt a bit rude and condescending. S

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