captainbland

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by captainbland 4mo ago
This kind of work continues to make me think that ultimately we're not going to do anything better than just declaring "being a human" is the thing we end up needing to care about, and that searching for abstract properties w
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by captainbland 4mo ago
> Models are becoming more agreeable, more conversational, more persistent, and more intimate This is actually not always true any more, e.g. ChatGPT 5.x can be described as snarky and condescending on a lot of topics now. It's inte
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by captainbland 4mo ago
I think the prevailing mindset amongst developers who use LLMs is that actually LLMs are more of an effective augmentation of programming tools in the same way that an IDE is, and the marketing angle comes from perceived demand for that aug
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by captainbland 5mo ago
I do try to search but often the results are pretty low quality.
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by captainbland 5mo ago
I get the metaphor but to be honest I'd much rather hear the details of someone's dream than whatever an AI produced for them most of the time. Edit: amusing LLM bloopers may be an exception
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by captainbland 5mo ago
Just prompt them back: "that's a lot of detail, could you please summarise as briefly as possible what differences concern our requirements specifically?"
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by captainbland 5mo ago
I think people focus a lot on the dangers of erasing consciousness as a moral entity, but it strikes me that something which is so loosely defined and for all intents and purposes unfalsifiable carries its own dangers too. Especially given
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by captainbland 5mo ago
Ah, well, nobody needs to buy them if the robots just provision everything for the people who would have otherwise had their businesses make cars.
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by captainbland 5mo ago
This is good, I hope they hurry up and do the same with health planning
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by captainbland 5mo ago
> and then leaving the civil service to become... an AWS employee. Today in things that the press isn't legally allowed to describe as corrupt but would probably reach the intuitive threshold for corruption for most people who this
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by captainbland 5mo ago
I mean it's not clear the current state of things was the ambition before the war, a while back they were talking about seizing Kharg island which indicates capturing oil resources was an objective
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by captainbland 5mo ago
They may well do but in practice if you want to embody the hacker spirit, the best thing is to hack rather than trying to get some clearly inadequate local LLM to do it.
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by captainbland 5mo ago
The page won't verify me as a human if I try to vote, I don't know why.
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by captainbland 5mo ago
In fairness I think these recent few iterations have done reasonably well considering it's largely optimising/fine tuning/enhancing multimodal integrations in existing foundation models rather than generating new ones but at
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by captainbland 5mo ago
Probably the difference is that extracting as many calories as possible from food was a guarantor of survival for the neanderthals whereas that's not so true with the level of calorie abundance we have in the western world, partly beca
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by captainbland 6mo ago
I will 100% ADHD it left open and it will sit there making it more cluttered than it needs to be
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by captainbland 6mo ago
Yeah I like the sound of the functionality but I don't like the idea of it taking up menu bar space. Console utility would be good or even a gui that can be quickly launched through spotlight
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by captainbland 6mo ago
No comparison with competitor models other than the previous granite version strongly implies that it does not compete well with other comparable models. At least this is the most reasonable assumption until data comes out to the contrary
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by captainbland 6mo ago
Wow that's a lot of hollow words that are backed by precisely fuck all.
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by captainbland 6mo ago
Yeah, honestly it feels like this came faster than I was expecting. I thought we'd see another few years of reeling in with too-good-to-be-true prices to really lock in dependency but it feels like most companies have kind of a lot of
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by captainbland 6mo ago
I'd say it looks pretty readable on android although I still wouldn't describe it as good. I wouldn't say I feel encouraged to squint. But possibly different antialiasing explains it.
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by captainbland 6mo ago
Well they don't attract nearly as much investment in the current market, I think that might be the problem people really want to solve
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by captainbland 6mo ago
Yeah but we're not talking about utility, we're talking about content and in this particular case content which basically just boils down to someone's slightly quirky taste in something.
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by captainbland 6mo ago
The attention economics are bad more than anything else. LLM articles ask us to put more time into reading it than the LLM put into writing it. Actually committing time to production is the minimum bar which suggests something is worth our
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by captainbland 6mo ago
78% autistic, 16% German. My ancestry is Dutch which as someone who grew up in the UK feels about 16% German.
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by captainbland 6mo ago
I think as a solo developer there's actually a good argument for increasing code density and coupling (things which in large multi developer projects are seen as spaghetti), as it can help you keep a lot of that code in mental and visu
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by captainbland 6mo ago
I think the overtures about things we care about more just provide plausible deniability and that when you dig down, people are more concerned about the risks of challenging the wealthy than they are about such window dressing.
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by captainbland 7mo ago
Almost certainly a drive to force upsells through product segmentation
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by captainbland 7mo ago
Depends what the political attitudes are where you live. The EU is unlikely to let it fly for example.
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by captainbland 7mo ago
It's been pretty clear for a while that companies who have developed foundation models have essentially unprecedented levels of investment to recoup. For all the talk of faster hardware and more efficient models, that spend hasn't

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