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by brookst 2mo ago
From TFA: > Rather than dramatically changing the route of a flight, the trial will mostly involve changing an aircraft's altitude by around 2,000ft.
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by brookst 2mo ago
Ok, say we somehow cut air travel by 50% overnight. Seems unlikely, but we did it. Would you advocate to not pursue this approach to mitigating the remaining 50%?
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by brookst 2mo ago
Yeah I am, building large software with a vision - requirements - architecture - plan - code workflow. One Claude max account is enough to work on one, maybe two of those at a time (call it 15B tokens/month per project)
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by brookst 2mo ago
Sure. But two things can be pure exploitation and not be the same thing, with the same incentives and same implications. Cancer and heart disease are both pure health problems, but insisting on handling them similarly would be a mistake. No
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by brookst 2mo ago
But is that really an alternative? Same resources, same effort to implement? I’m all for major reform, but I am suspicious of “instead of the small fix, do the big fix”.
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by brookst 2mo ago
What's wrong with "says"? Why all the innuendo and implication? Unless you're prepared to admit the sky is blue?
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by brookst 2mo ago
Yes this is disingenuous to the extreme. My neighbor self-published a book, printed I think 100 copies at his own expense. It's literally a rare book. I can't imagine he nor anyone would care if an AI company bought a copy, no mat
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by brookst 2mo ago
I can't get a single PR or issue to work. Maybe it's "20% globally, 100% anywhere people are awake".
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by brookst 2mo ago
Sounds like Mr. Njuguna hasn't made a a decision recently, but I certainly have, and I use AI a lot . But I would never ask it "should I take this job." That does seem odd and sad. I would ask it to help me map the considera
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by brookst 2mo ago
I really hate the use of "admit" when there was no previous denial "Bob admits he ate a hamburger for lunch"
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by brookst 2mo ago
It's getting to where we should just post when it's working fine, to reduce noise.
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by brookst 2mo ago
It didn’t take, apparently.
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by brookst 2mo ago
How do you know you picked the singular “best” set of tokens in your comment here? Could it have been equal or better with slight variations in wording? The slipper slop argument is too lazy to address directly. Argue A is bad because A, no
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by brookst 2mo ago
Chain of thought attempts to guide a single forward pass. Reasoning tokens with tool calling tell the model to loop on a one phase of a question and call a tool to indications completion when done. Related, but not the same thing.
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by brookst 2mo ago
This is the classic misunderstanding that LLMs only pick the next token at a time. Really, they are coalescing the probabilities of a range of tokens at a time. There is no “oops, I wrote ‘th’ but I should have written ‘tw’ so I guess I’m s
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by brookst 2mo ago
I think he’s still generally good on business, UX, and hardware design. That’s all subjective and taste I suppose, but his taste works for me. On deeper tech stuff, like this utterly nonsensical misunderstanding of watermarks… yeah, classic
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by brookst 2mo ago
Or maybe everyone’s paying proportionately to value received?
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by brookst 2mo ago
Scratching my head too. Why? Spend a lot of money and effort, to share info you don’t have to, which can only create liability?
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by brookst 2mo ago
> LLMs, even frontier models by major providers, still have no reliable internalised way to assess the accuracy of their output This is false. Perhaps you meant they have insufficient methods, or imperfect methods, but asserting none at
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by brookst 2mo ago
Oh you should see the Musk-adjacent subreddits. Not to mention MAGA. Billionaires are still worshipped on the “wealth == success” basis by many, many people.
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by brookst 2mo ago
They subtracted the subtraction exclusion in the name of simplicity?
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by brookst 2mo ago
Climate change is science: there is evidence, prediction, measurement, all of that. Oligarchy and regulatory capture are undeniably real , but they are not scientific. They’re social phenomena, and much harder to theorize about and model t
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by brookst 2mo ago
Any preferred sources you get these from? Prepping for winter in a dark place and it sounds like CRI should no longer be my guide.
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by brookst 2mo ago
Nah, I’m downvoting for the ludicrous claim that government paying a private company to provide a service is necessarily fascism.
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by brookst 2mo ago
Or, less conspiratorially, if correlation can be proven and causation is plausible but unproven, there may be benefits. Proving correlation but not causation does NOT rule out causation.
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by brookst 2mo ago
The meaningful comparison is that technologies are not industries. What even is the internet industry? There was a brief time in the 1990’s when that was a thing, just like AI will be subsumed as a technology in actual industries in the ne
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by brookst 2mo ago
What do you think happens to all of the extra copies libraries buy of popular books? Are you out there rescuing them? Books get thrown in the trash every day. It may be offensive but then you should be collecting them I guess.
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by brookst 2mo ago
You should look at the first decade of other capital-intensive companies, like FedEx or spacex. The whole point of investment in private companies is to subsidize u profitable operations. If companies came out the gate being profitable they
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Show HN: Hallucinote, integrating Ableton and Claude Code(github.com)
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by brookst 2mo ago
There are, what, about 50 million developers worldwide? So instead of AI that pretty much everyone can use, we could have had 3 or 4 weeks of business as usual?

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