crabmusket

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by crabmusket 6mo ago
Yes. The creator has said he didn't have AI in mind while writing the show, but I think it's still a very stimulating AI parable despite that. The sycophancy, the grinding inevitablity of assimilation, the homogeneous entity that
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by crabmusket 7mo ago
Patient: doctor, my app loses data when I deploy twice during a 10 minute interval! Doctor: simply do not do that
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by crabmusket 7mo ago
Does it bother anyone else that the capability tags in their example seem to follow different noun:verb conventions? capabilities: ["read:content", "email:send"],
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by crabmusket 7mo ago
So, here is a case where AI was a technical fix to a social problem: that as a global society, funding is skewed away from things which benefit people. Google can find the budget for as many ad-touchers as it wants, but nonprofits have to s
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by crabmusket 7mo ago
While we're all here - share your actual sandboxing tips! I've been running Claude Code inside VS Code devcontainers. Claude's docs have a suggested setup for this which even includes locking down outgoing internet access t
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by crabmusket 7mo ago
With your push-pull algorithm, were you considering that the graph had already been built up, e.g. by an earlier pull phase? And the push-pull bit is just for subsequent updates? If so, then I think I'm following :). I've been wor
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by crabmusket 7mo ago
Not the author, but when I want to make diagrams like this, I usually use tldraw! It has a nice nearly-hand-drawn feel that's casual and approachable for these kinds of sketches.
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by crabmusket 7mo ago
Something I rarely see addressed in articles about reactivity systems is how the desired syntax/developer experience affects the algorithms. For example, I think all the algorithms discussed in this article require knowing the graph to
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by crabmusket 8mo ago
> (The use of such cottagecore terminology for a process that requires being an ongoing client of a hundred-gigabuck, planet-burning megacorporation rubs me in many wrong ways.) I hadn't noticed this - great point. To be fair the &q
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by crabmusket 8mo ago
Oh that's wild. I guess the system is just on autopilot and nobody knew how to actually act on their policy change.
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by crabmusket 8mo ago
Not just a decent API, but fully open-source and self-hostable.
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by crabmusket 8mo ago
This. Zulip's topics map exactly to AI chats - you can have the whole team and the bot focused on one thing. The Zulip team has been admirably cautious with their own approach to AI in the product - which I am so thankful for! - but I
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by crabmusket 8mo ago
Here's an example https://help.abc.net.au/hc/en-us/articles/6147104938383-Why-...
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by crabmusket 8mo ago
"smart answering machine" seems like a very apt use case for LLMs, provided the rest of the system works - that a human actually received and acts on the feedback.
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by crabmusket 8mo ago
Couldn't you Ender's Game a model? Models will play video games like Pokemon, why not Call of Duty? Sorry if this is a naive question, but a model can only know what you feed it as input... how would it know if it were killing som
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by crabmusket 8mo ago
> feels a bit tragedy-of-the-commons ... I can't quite get the analogy straight in my head I have a personal theory that "tragedy of the commons" has a very specific meaning, and beyond this meaning it just adds confusion.
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by crabmusket 8mo ago
> Do you want a tech company to say “the military can never use our stuff for autonomous systems forever, the end”? Yes. Absolutely.
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by crabmusket 8mo ago
"We have a million pieces of content to show you, but are not allowed to editorialize" sounds like a constraint that might just spark some interesting UI innovations. Not being allowed to use the "feed" pattern to shovel
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by crabmusket 8mo ago
It reminds me of that Apple ad where a guy just rocks up to a meeting completely unprepared and spits out an AI summary to all his coworkers. Great job Apple, thanks for proving Graeber right all along.
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by crabmusket 8mo ago
Hrm. Mitchell has been very level-headed about AI tools, but this seems like a rare overstep into hype territory. "This new thing that hasn't been shipped, tested, proven, in a public capacity on real projects should be the defau
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by crabmusket 8mo ago
For those who haven't seen it yet, this Wiki page also has what I think is very good advice about writing: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Signs_of_AI_writing While the page's purpose is to help edito
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by crabmusket 8mo ago
Arcade Fire's song Deep Blue fits this mood well. And the album it's on, The Suburbs, is a story of civil war in suburban America.
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by crabmusket 8mo ago
Zulip was first released in 2012, Slack in 2013. Definitely not a clone.
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by crabmusket 8mo ago
Society is not telling her that - the labour market is. I guess she should get off her lazy ass and learn how to become a high frequency trader.
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by crabmusket 8mo ago
This has been my experience even before AI. We are a small bootstrapped company, and we have major competitors with free offerings and much more resources than we have (due to VC funding or other backing). While they've achieved some s
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by crabmusket 8mo ago
Addendum: turns out, there is a design for lighter-weight headers, which I prefer. But they haven't gotten to it yet. https://chat.zulip.org/#narrow/channel/101-design/topic/UI.2...
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by crabmusket 8mo ago
I have in fact done that before several years ago, though when I looked at it again late last year it seemed more complicated.
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by crabmusket 8mo ago
Sure, but I think this article makes a good point: there's a demographic that uses voice chat as more of a space, not an event: https://sporks.space/2026/02/10/a-few-design-decisions-for-a...
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by crabmusket 8mo ago
Yeah even as someone who prefers topics, I find the group header quite heavyweight.
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by crabmusket 8mo ago
Being a cooperative seems (having never run one) harder than being a regular private company. It seems like it would constrain a business from being able to do what it would otherwise want to do. So I think of it as doing business "on

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