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by ctoth 11mo ago
> instead of gambling, you can choose to treat having a genetic disease like being infertile ... I'm totally comfortable if we decide that this sort of thing is going to be criminal, I was born with retinoblastoma. You want the stat
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Peter Thiel: Capitalism Isn't Working for Young People(thefp.com)
15 points by ctoth 11mo ago|16 comments
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by ctoth 11mo ago
You gonna at least gesture at one of these Cognitohazards that are so poisonous we can't even discuss them? Because I admit to being curious!
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by ctoth 11mo ago
And this is generically true and always has been about every aspect of GMail? What would you suggest people do. Self-host? I'm just trying to understand why you posted this. It's generically true. Any company can change anything a
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by ctoth 11mo ago
Unless you're programming a racing sim or maybe a CRUD app for a local Kennel Club, perhaps? I actually find that things which make me a better programmer are often those things which have the least overlap with it. Like gardening!
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by ctoth 11mo ago
I keep seeing this problem more and more with humans. What should we call it? Maybe Hallucinations? Where there is an accurate true thing and then it just gets altered by these guys who call themselves journalists and reporters and the like
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Deep DIVE: AI progress continues, as IQ scores rise linearly(maximumtruth.org)
5 points by ctoth 11mo ago|0 comments
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by ctoth 1y ago
I appreciate what you're trying to say here, but this was more an infovore glorying in how weird everything is than someone who has too much screen time (I don't, in fact, even use a screen.) But also sometimes monitoring the worl
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by ctoth 1y ago
Anybody else feel like there're just ... too many active plotlines? It is/isn't the Singularity while we are going and not going into WW III, while Rama is maybe zooming by, while Modern Rome does the whole fall of the Republ
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by ctoth 1y ago
Layoffs will continue until uptime improves!
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by ctoth 1y ago
You should be able to do it all on-device, check out SAM, the Software Automatic Mouth. The actual data in the *_tabs files: https://github.com/ctoth/SAM/tree/master/src
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by ctoth 1y ago
Type error: why do you need an expert on consciousness to weigh in on if something is AGI or not? I don't care what it feels like to be a paperclip maximizer I just care to not have my paperclips maximized tnx.
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by ctoth 1y ago
I'm not going to downvote. But if the world actually looks like that to you - people as disposable biomass, everything rigged, nothing matters - that's not how reality works, that's depression. And I mean that straightforward
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Thoughts on the AI Buildout(dwarkesh.com)
5 points by ctoth 1y ago|0 comments
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Navy loses two aircraft from USS Nimitz aircraft carrier within 30 minutes(bostonherald.com)
16 points by ctoth 1y ago|3 comments
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by ctoth 1y ago
An organization with zero technical capability charging publishers recurring fees to certify something they can't actually verify? So this is the thing that Zitron and Doctorow are always talking about? Naked grifting in the AI industr
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Tell HN: Claude's weekly limits don't reset every 7 days
3 points by ctoth 1y ago|1 comments
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by ctoth 1y ago
Construct?
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by ctoth 1y ago
Once builds are "fast enough," there's no business case for the painful work of making the codebase comprehensible. We're going to 1 billion LoC codebases and there's nothing stopping us!
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by ctoth 1y ago
This article is doing precisely what it is supposed to do, though. It is giving a headline for people to cite later. Expect to see links to it, or even just vague references similar to the whole "95% of AI projects fail" misinfor
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by ctoth 1y ago
You're describing increased spending while calling it increased cost. These aren't the same thing. A task that cost me $5 to accomplish with GPT-4 last year might cost $1 with Sonnet today, even though I'm now spending $100&#
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Bubble, Bubble, Toil and Trouble(thezvi.substack.com)
1 points by ctoth 1y ago|0 comments
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by ctoth 1y ago
> There are certain bullsh*t jobs out there — some parts of management, consultancy, jobs where people don’t check if you’re getting it right or don’t know if you’ve got it right. Market Analyst, perhaps?
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by ctoth 1y ago
> From the outside the US has shifted to a oligarchy where money buys elections. The data simply doesn't support that narrative. Looking at the last 4 presidential elections: 2024: Trump won, Harris outspent him ($1.9B vs $1.6B) 202
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by ctoth 1y ago
If you're genuinely modeling complex systems with butterfly effects and uncertainty, you should sometimes be wrong in both directions. Sometimes things should be worse than predicted, sometimes better. If you're consistently wrong
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by ctoth 1y ago
Wait, are you saying we ... enslaved oil? Type Error! I'm reading that wrong, right?
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by ctoth 1y ago
Jonas & Kording showed that neuroscience methods couldn't reverse-engineer a simple 6502 processor [0]. If the tools can't crack a system we built and fully documented, our inability to simulate brains just means we're ig
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by ctoth 1y ago
The hubris here isn't CS people making comparisons, it's assuming biological substrate matters. Your brain is doing computation with neurotransmitters instead of transistors. So what? The "chemicals not electricity" dist
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by ctoth 1y ago
You want a "core kernel" with "general language parsing" but no training on real-world concepts. Read that sentence again. Slowly. What do you think "general language parsing" IS if not learned patterns from re
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by ctoth 1y ago
His "$400B in next 12 months" claim treats OpenAI as paying construction costs upfront. But OpenAI is leasing capacity as operating expense - Oracle finances and builds the data centers [1]. This is like saying a tenant needs $5M

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