carodgers

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by carodgers 11d ago
> Claude Fable would destroy any human at chess by coding a strong enough engine on the fly. A bash script can clone and build stockfish, feed in human moves, and reply. By your standard, this bash script would "destroy any human at
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by carodgers 11d ago
This April 2026 paper is a fun and related read. https://arxiv.org/html/2509.24239v4 Researchers asked frontier models to play chess. Have a look at the MAR rates in Table 3. When not explicitly told which moves were l
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by carodgers 11d ago
"It just can't play it on a master level." Technically correct. Losing to random play is definitely not master level.
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by carodgers 11d ago
"Chess is not an interesting target for AI Research and not for AGI." I don't care if it's interesting or not. A bot too stupid to play chess is too stupid to be a threat to me. So I reject Dario's fearmongering and
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by carodgers 11d ago
"Do you really think if you would get unlimited tokens and a compute cluster that something like a fable or astra frontier model setup couldn't build a better chess engine?" Disconnect it from the internet, where it cannot co
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by carodgers 12d ago
I am happy. AI is great. I use it. I'm glad that the U.S. is building datacenters. I work for a company involved in siting and building datacenters. But AI is not as scary or dangerous as Dario claims.
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by carodgers 12d ago
I am an American taxpayer. The money to pay the regulators that Dario wants to permanently hire will come out of my paycheck and will take from me time I could spend interacting with family, traveling, or pursuing hobbies. Dario and others
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by carodgers 12d ago
"You picked a piss poor metric and you are getting piss poor results." Well, we agree that the results are piss poor, at least.
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by carodgers 12d ago
Chess ELO is not a proxy for general intelligence because many intelligent people choose to learn things other than chess. But any intelligent person can, if they choose, learn chess and play it well. LLMs cannot do this. They still play ve
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by carodgers 12d ago
"And an LLM can easily, today, just rebuild a chess engine and beat whatever they need to beat." Always claims and promises about what they "can" do. This pattern is constant across AI hype. No one can prove that an LLM
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by carodgers 12d ago
There's been substantial effort put into designing and running benchmarks for these models. You know which one they don't report any more? Chess ELO. Watt for watt, every one of these models loses to stockfish. There is no possibl
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by carodgers 27d ago
"Delivers something they wanted" is the most bizarre way possible to phrase "followed through with the majority of a reprehensible agenda and were forced to carve out an exception due to technical constraints and massive blow
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by carodgers 2mo ago
Also the screen sizes they are showing have got to be exceedingly heavy.
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by carodgers 2mo ago
Even before LLMs, proving that a specific human wrote some piece of text was difficult or imprecise due to coauthoring, editing, plagiarism, etc. The important question then, as now, is rather to determine whether a specific human approved
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by carodgers 2mo ago
I would just like to say that with this page open I have ~15% utilization on my GPU. XD
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by carodgers 3mo ago
This is wrong, given only the text of the article. The two books explicitly listed are not banned in Portugal or anywhere else. They are simply not subsidized with public money in some libraries.
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by carodgers 3mo ago
Only two books are explicitly listed by the article, neither of which have been banned anywhere. Unsubsidized is the more accurate word here. Some governments have chosen not to pay public money to stock these books in libraries, but no gov
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by carodgers 3mo ago
It behooves every company working on some form of actual AI to immediately switch branding to distance themselves from the slop bots. Call it image recognition, automated translate, inventory automation, what have you. I tried to use claude
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Claim made that Fable one-shots a watch movement CAD model, but geometry invalid(twitter.com)
3 points by carodgers 4mo ago|1 comments
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by carodgers 4mo ago
Another day, another breathless claim about the abilities of LLMs based on output that looks valid to underinformed user but is actually defunct.
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by carodgers 4mo ago
On other topics I imagine the conversation would flow better and, I hope, be just as lively and engaging. But to be direct, no, I'm not eager to continue when universes that admit contradictions are on the table. A conversation that pe
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by carodgers 4mo ago
No, again, I have made no assumptions. I have made the observation (as others may, just as easily) that no one will ever succeed in describing a scenario or a universe where modus ponens is violated.
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by carodgers 4mo ago
Modus ponens holds regardless of whether it is assumed correct or not. By that, I mean that excepting contradictions, not only are no counterexamples known, but it is known that none will ever be found. So I decline to adopt your convention
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by carodgers 4mo ago
"We’ve established that the truth or falsity of a statement depends on its context — that is, on the assumptions we take as true or false in order to justify it." I am inexplicably and disproportionately irritated by people like t
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Qwench is a terminal typing game for Linux, Windows, Mac. Built with Crossterm.(github.com)
1 points by carodgers 5mo ago|1 comments
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by carodgers 5mo ago
A hobby project I've been working on for a few weekends. Picked it up because I've been wanting to learn Rust by writing something simple. I've found a lot to enjoy about programming with Rust. Some minor complaints: - The sy
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by carodgers 6mo ago
I've hit this problem multiple times. The approach which finally eased this pain point for me was to take care to not overwrite any tmux defaults with my config, and only add non-conflicting configs (new shortcuts, styling changes, etc
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by carodgers 6mo ago
They ejected the man responsible for "The Net interprets censorship as damage and routes around it." Sweet mother earth.
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by carodgers 6mo ago
I don't use Windows at home. What happens if you don't have Outlook but your personal local files still fill up OneDrive storage? Do you get error messages that files aren't being backed up? Are you unable to save files?
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by carodgers 6mo ago
Lots of examples of anti-Elon pols giving nazi salutes and no one cares. People are done pretending that your concerns are genuine. Move on.

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