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coldtea
4mo ago
> But, then Gemma 4 proved to be extraordinarily good for its size (better than Qwen), and kinda disproved that US models are any weaker at small sizes. Did it "disprove" it retroactively or just changed what the situation is,
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> By acknowledging that nobody considers these objective truths, there’s nothing interesting to say on the topic On the contrary, that's where most interesting things to say happen in the real social world. From relationships all t
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4mo ago
Most songs in streaming platforms (pre-AI even) sat there with no listeners. Most of the flood of cable and streaming series had people over-saturated and bored. Media consumption in general has resulted in a depressed population that tries
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4mo ago
> It's not guaranteed, but why wouldn't it? It's digital entertainment and art, and the market is not saturated, there's still tons of ideas unexplored. Because there's only so much "digital entertainment a
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4mo ago
It's not the era of the superman coming. It's the era of the sewers man.
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4mo ago
> So hypothetically one person can do a work of five. Note of that erases those people and their skills. It just doesn't magically take them out of the universe or turns them into unskilled persons. But it does magically erases tho
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4mo ago
> While plagiarism is not a crime, for those caught at it, it is a disgrace. As Posner writes, “The stigma of plagiarism seems never to fade completely, not because it is an especially heinous offense but because it is embarrassingly sec
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4mo ago
> “sincerity in action, character, and utterance” is different than “the body of real things, events, and facts” So? I didn't refer to truth in the former sense. I said there are several kinds of meanings of the term "truth&qu
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4mo ago
> Because someone who knows something about pixels needs to make a judgement. It is rare to see a machine-generated artifact (picture, video, text or code) that's good on the first try. Not if nobody cares for the end product that
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4mo ago
> Using a technology employers want you to use is not betraying your friends. If it means helping the employers erase their jobs and their dreams for a career in the industry, then it is.
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4mo ago
What's addressed as truth is not some holy artifact handed out for us by God, or what some theory of Logic defines as such. It's what people consider and call a truth. Language terms are defined by use. And people absolutely argue
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4mo ago
"Objective reality" is only the source for the least interesting truth. The truths that really get people fighting over concern best courses of action, moral matters, aesthetic issues, and things like that, where there isn't
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4mo ago
A brain itself might be a guessing machine it's an established and actively studied research model of the human thought and the human brain. Nor does knee jerk accusation of "anthropomorphizing" negate the fact that procedure
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4mo ago
Scared why?
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4mo ago
> if you ever dared to use cowork, only once, will run a 2GB VM on app start, no f's given. at all. Of all the issues, this seems like the most tame. I mean, there are single Chrome tabs that can use 300MB or even 700MB. A 2GB VM f
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4mo ago
A few years ago vibe-coded crap apps like that didn't exist on macOS.
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You might not. But the Claude Code team has ONE job. And they have full access to a platform that they advertise as "humanity-threat" level good, and claim that it can automate everything code related...
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4mo ago
In other words it's an ever moving vibe fest, with random bugs and misbehaviors each time they roll the dice...
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4mo ago
> Like anything, you have to decide between polish vs switch to any other task in the queue Why do you "have to decide"? Let some agents go at both of those, isn't that what they claim people can just do? > Also, Codex
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> I might be missing out on something but I never had to explain my project. Just give it a task, or if you really want to, type it quickly, then you are good to go. This means its changes will either be out of alignment with the overal
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> Right now i believe the LLM is more just the output of those weights. It has no way to inspect the strength of the signal. Eg it doesn't know if blue in "The sky is <blue>" is a strong or weak signal, it just predi
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> So... If I run a bbs, I can't delete spam or porn, or kick people off my platform? That's an infringement of free speech? Question: What if ...contrived example... Answer: you can do the contrived example. Porn is porn, spam
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> 're-architecting the whole system to remove a bad abstraction' sounds fear mongering. That never happens. Oh, it happens all the time.
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Doesn't matter, the neutrality part still applies: just provide the same damn service to customers, regardless of who they are.
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4mo ago
> OpenAI has notoriously terrible engineering. Wasn't AI supposed to solve this? /s
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> That’s totally unclear. Being unclear is enough for people to steer clear of it...
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> will hit on something that has never been written before in that specific combination That's a very low bar. The skill of an artist is not in writing something that "has never been written before in that specific combination
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4mo ago
> Never awful (anymore), never fantastic Don't know about that, I always found average awful in itself, even in human output (like most pop), and even more so in AI output. Something actually awful can be better than average - more
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> Write everything twice quickly becomes write everything 4 times once a new change appears, just as quickly as it becomes write everything 8 times, and so on. That's a good problem to have. Getting to 4 or 8 or 12, and then prunin
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4mo ago
Duplication is just code doing the same thing in several places, and as such it's much easier to make DRY (and much easier after you have N copies to see what should be shared and what should not), compared to re-architecting the whole
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