coldtea

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by coldtea 4mo ago
It's not about the author trying to "win an argument against AI". It's about AI turning the discussion into an argument and being compative, and it's especially about the AI doing that in later versions more so that
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by coldtea 4mo ago
Only here the thing it informs its worldview is 100000000000000000 to 1 the actual user vs generic internet/books stuff and it's actual owner's (Anthropic's) default prompts and allignment training.
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by coldtea 4mo ago
A program can be configured to behave smarter (better settings can improve apparent smartness in the sense of fit for purpose of behavior), which is kind of "prompting" an LLM to behave smarter, isn't it?
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by coldtea 4mo ago
> There is nothing counterintuitive about this. It takes just as much work to delete a row as it takes to insert a row. Why wouldn't it? Because e.g. DROP also effectively deletes the rows but takes way way less work.
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by coldtea 4mo ago
> A truthful, nuanced, well reasoned answer will be well received by an employer with a culture you want to work in. If you're into long shot betting AND your savings aren't running out while waiting to land a new job, that mi
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by coldtea 4mo ago
> Have you considered just answering truthfully? It's a job interview, you're not supposed to do that, and they don't appreciate it when you do. Try something like: - Where do you see yourself in 5 years? - Working
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by coldtea 4mo ago
> This is impossible as the things the government does will happen it would just be under a different label. Nope, we could just do 1/10th of the things "the government does". Not all them are needed, and a lot of them ar
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by coldtea 4mo ago
> They’re in UEFA because half of the countries in Asia (AFC) and Africa (CAF) wouldn’t play them. And how's that a problem of UEFA?
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by coldtea 4mo ago
For the first, I'd say modern societies didn't scale well themselves, which is what causes many of our issues. We need to scale them down, split them into thousands of smaller communities, with more autonomy. For the other, that&#
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by coldtea 4mo ago
> Which run, I must add, on effectively infallible hardware. Keyword: effective. Hardware is also built on top of components with error tolerances. What do you think ECC memory is for? Or why chips have "yields" and parts that
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by coldtea 4mo ago
> It also includes the person who knows that their app is full of bugs, but thinks it's not a problem because they can have the AI fix the bugs as they show up. People in this class haven't encountered security breaches or data
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by coldtea 4mo ago
> Trump was never ever going to drain the swamp. Doesn't matter for the point of the argument, he was elected on that promise, and others, that he eventually broke.
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by coldtea 4mo ago
Then you're fucked :)
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by coldtea 4mo ago
> I feel like I must have plateued and don't know what to do next to level up. Why do you need to "level up"? To have it shit out slop faster? Just use it rationally for what you need to do.
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by coldtea 4mo ago
> Excluding Israeli citizens from it hurts their moderates more than it hurts the hardliners. Nah, it hurts their public image and thus hardliners. Like similar actions against South Africa did.
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by coldtea 4mo ago
The problem is not that MAGA "ate them, chew them and spit them", but that the traditional neoliberal shit GOP circles "ate, chew and spit" the MAGA movement and what people voted Trump for. Instead Trump was fully assi
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by coldtea 4mo ago
> If that were dominantly true nothing would function at all And yet it is, and most things still function. Now what? > You trust and rely on thousands of people and services every day And I, and everybody else, distrusts and tries
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by coldtea 4mo ago
Oh, yes, typo aside (which is the lowest form of critique) it was. It's not about why this or that person would want to install the MS Office on their Mac (millions do after all). So the pointed flew above their head. It's about t
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by coldtea 4mo ago
> Like “the UX of HTTP is horrible”? Still doesn’t make any sense Sure it does, when all browsers have more or less the same, and the context makes clear we're not talking about the mere programmatic consumption of HTTP (like throu
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by coldtea 4mo ago
There are two common uses of the term anarchy (and likely more, your definition appears to be the fourth in that dictionary). Anarchy as in political/social chaos, where "everything goes" Mad Max style, and anarchy as in a vo
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by coldtea 4mo ago
> You've skipped a few steps, until you overthrow the government all you have a broken society with a system of governance that's deemed to be illegitimate, therefore its rules and actions are illegitimate. Sure, so? We did th
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by coldtea 4mo ago
The argument was correct then (Google/social did make us more stupid) and correct now regarding AI. So not sure why pointing out it was said before is relevant. Except as an example of its prescience. > "Claude, be my subordina
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by coldtea 4mo ago
> It feels like we're living a century into the future. The WALL-E chair-people future.
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by coldtea 4mo ago
Electricians are no celebrities for people in general to know what they fixed or didn't fix. The person / building owner who comissioned them to do the check, will know what they fixed or what they didn't fix, from the report
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by coldtea 4mo ago
>No government at all implies anarchy* No government at all can just imply anarchism, ie. a kind of self-governing that doesn't ascribe to our conventional ideas about government, presidents, pms, members of parliament, senators, et
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by coldtea 4mo ago
> That's the constitutional bedrock of our societies. That doesn't mean it's always true but if you denounce that as a legitimate and achievable goal then you don't have a society anymore. Sure you do. You just don&#
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by coldtea 4mo ago
> You can be critical of the policy of export controls and the meaning of them in modern day but saying it is a problem with the government in general is nonsensical. Hardly non-sensical. You just have a different default.
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by coldtea 4mo ago
Each government just adds shit on the previous, with small optics differences, anyway. Like, in the US, Trump might do the ICE show for his voters, but Obama's deportated 3 million just fine in his time.
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by coldtea 5mo ago
Yeah, because email as a family of protocols never developed different capabilities /s
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by coldtea 5mo ago
> As someone who pushed ~4x the median PRs on my team before LLMs were a thing, I kind of think the problem here is PRs as a concept. Code review doesn't scale to prolific humans Prolific humans should scale to the review/test

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