bigmadshoe

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by bigmadshoe 4mo ago
Two things: 1) we have abundant training data for humanoid embodiments (watch humans do things), and 2) the world is already designed for humans.
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by bigmadshoe 4mo ago
I agree, but since we're talking about imagine understanding with text output, clearly a CNN is unsuitable. My previous comment was overly reductive and CNNs can still be SoTA depending on your performance metrics. I spent the earlier
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by bigmadshoe 4mo ago
CNNs are not SoTA anymore when it comes to large models, and also are not used to provide interpretations of images as text, but rather to classify, do semantic segmentation, etc.
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by bigmadshoe 4mo ago
You put it perfectly. And all these AI math startups don't actually care about mathematics. They are just using it as a proxy for general reasoning, with the VC pitch being some kind of world domination after they crack these problems.
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by bigmadshoe 5mo ago
I think it’s a part of official Claude code.
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by bigmadshoe 5mo ago
So it seems to go in capitalism sadly. If we could maintain healthy competition and avoid collusion, maybe we would be allowed to vote with our wallets. But right now that seems like a distant fantasy.
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by bigmadshoe 5mo ago
This is true. But they would at least design the app around maximizing user satisfaction with the service (to keep you paying), vs maximizing time spent on the app (i.e. through making it addictive) in order to increase ad revenue. The curr
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by bigmadshoe 5mo ago
The amount of money you spend doesn’t affect your disposable income, just your savings (beyond calculating interest). Unless we have different definitions of income or disposable.
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by bigmadshoe 5mo ago
Exactly, so hacker news readers are not necessarily the people who would need to be charged the most to remove advertisements. I barely shop.
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by bigmadshoe 5mo ago
Fair point. I think it depends on the person. I know plenty of people without much disposable income who still pay for several subscriptions.
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by bigmadshoe 5mo ago
I don’t watch enough YouTube to warrant that. My elderly father on the other hand, who watches several hours of YouTube per day on his television, finally got YouTube premium and has found it to be life changing. The TV YouTube app regularl
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by bigmadshoe 5mo ago
You can actually look this information up! For example, Instagram makes approx $2-50 ad revenue per user per year, depending on the region. Apparently it’s highest in North America. So <$5 per month for someone in the developed world to
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by bigmadshoe 5mo ago
I’m not convinced at all that the model won’t just get stuck in a loop where it doesn’t understand how to fix the broken rocket. I see similar failure modes in far simpler projects strictly confined to coding. This feels closer to “make me
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by bigmadshoe 5mo ago
Can you give an example of such a problem?
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by bigmadshoe 5mo ago
In the case of crunch in the video game industry, an 80 hour week is compensated the same as one 40 hour week
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by bigmadshoe 5mo ago
Yes but you are missing the point: our time can now make the company way more money. Can’t we demand a piece of this?
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by bigmadshoe 5mo ago
The real problem is that there is so much money in politics now that the freedom of choice through elections is often an illusion. Money decides what we do with our planet and resources more than we do.
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by bigmadshoe 5mo ago
Sure, we agree on that. Everything has a cost. I’m a lifetime vegetarian also. Just because “progress has a cost” doesn’t mean I have to support whatever the owner class decides is progress. They are explicitly telling us their plan for AI:
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by bigmadshoe 5mo ago
Ironically it feels like that site was itself written by AI.
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by bigmadshoe 5mo ago
I don’t want to go back to the past, I want to go toward a future that looks good and fair for regular people. Technology doesn’t provide some divine mandate to build whatever will make the owners more money with no regard for people or the
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by bigmadshoe 5mo ago
The hyper-scaler rhetoric absolutely applies here. The proposed Utah data center project will use more energy than the entire state. Do we really need this? The heads of labs have been very clear that the explicit intention is to take away
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by bigmadshoe 5mo ago
How many people become permanent residents of the US through these visas, as opposed to the others?
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by bigmadshoe 6mo ago
Did anyone find it weird that the author uses AI itself to perform the calculations? Seems like a very poor quality piece
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by bigmadshoe 6mo ago
By that argument water use is never a bad thing since all water comes back as rain. The problem is that data centers need to use clean water, which has to be treated. On a local scale, a large data center could starve a community of potable
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by bigmadshoe 6mo ago
I had this exact app idea back in 2019, but never got around to building it. Nice work!
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by bigmadshoe 6mo ago
I think the world really sucks in developed countries right now in a way that's hard to put your finger on. Optimism and enthusiasm is very low in young people right now. People's attention spans are shot. Kids in high school and
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by bigmadshoe 6mo ago
Btw it may be obvious but afaik claude by default only reads CLAUDE.md and not AGENTS.md
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by bigmadshoe 6mo ago
They do. Think of it like a very intelligent but somewhat unreliable engineer you can hire to look at your code. They have no context about the codebase beyond what’s written in the source code, or any docs you give them. What I meant was t
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by bigmadshoe 6mo ago
LLMs can tell you what the code does but not why the developer chose to do it that way. Also, large codebases are harder to understand. But projects like these are simple to discuss with an LLM.
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by bigmadshoe 7mo ago
There is no way for you to know that you aren't slightly less sharp having offloaded the memorization of those phone numbers. Who is the judge? It's a nonsensical question from a scientific perspective because it's impossible

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