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by ctoth 4mo ago
Treme, on externalities: > I think they should probably ignore you and continue working on it seeing as they got accepted into YC.
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by ctoth 4mo ago
Even if your core offering disappears you can do the same thing that every other SMS-sending thing can do? I also notice you answered the question, but not in the way anyone who needs to depend on this service would want to hear. So yeah yo
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by ctoth 4mo ago
So are you saying we should ... ... Put down the duckie[0]? [0]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=acBixR_JRuM
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by ctoth 4mo ago
The strange part is how moral responsibility somehow always lands on the builders... the people with the least leverage... while the funders get to ask the ethical questions. Weird!
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by ctoth 5mo ago
So is it that humans are inherently creative, machines could never do what we do? Or is it that humans will only replicate our training data, and so we have to ensure that machines don't bound our training data? Or are you going meta a
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by ctoth 5mo ago
> are we not essentially forcing something to live so it can gather data for us? Wait until you learn about what we do to chickens.
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by ctoth 5mo ago
A bug existing or not for a person is a statement about that person's knowledge of the bug. Is your assertion that, since you specifically didn't know about the bugs that nobody, not in Russia or anywhere else did? Obviously if bu
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by ctoth 5mo ago
It's a common trope, all through the training data, and all the modern AIs have read it, and would probably act similarly? Is that what we should take away from your comment? so we have nothing to worry about. Makes sense. Really, it&#
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by ctoth 5mo ago
Experiencing A Significant Gravity Shortfall
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by ctoth 5mo ago
There's something really interesting here with Goguen Institutions. Also sometimes an argument just "clicks" into place fully-formed, rather than being generated token-by-token? Is that "knowing like a steam engine?&quot
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by ctoth 5mo ago
If this many are public right now, what does that say about the dark matter of private ones? What's the typical public-private rate for this sort of thing/can someone help me calibrate my base rate expectations?
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by ctoth 5mo ago
If agents is what it finally takes to get good a11y I'll take it. I'll bitch about it, but I'll take it.
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by ctoth 5mo ago
I'm confused because I remember using Google News in 2006?
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by ctoth 5mo ago
What's gonna really be funny is the first time a state legislates that an AV company has to keep a bug in their software to maintain a municipal income flow.
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by ctoth 5mo ago
Here' I'll do the needful: Twin Cities, 2010-2014: 95 pedestrians killed in 3,069 crashes. 28 drivers were charged and convicted of a crime, most often a misdemeanor ranging from speeding to careless driving. ~70% of pedestrian-ki
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by ctoth 5mo ago
Well, if the law treats them differently when it comes to punishment, then maybe it should treat them differently when it comes to being able to drive in the first place?
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by ctoth 5mo ago
You noticed that too huh? It's weird ... It's not like they have to do this? They aren't forced to go full evil company mode by any extrinsic thing but even the way they frame it "welfare trap" trap? for whom? Anthr
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by ctoth 5mo ago
Everybody's arguing about how silly this paper is (it is) and not grappling with the purpose of the paper. The purpose of the paper is what it does. This particular paper is perfectly-produced to show up when people type in AI consciou
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by ctoth 5mo ago
The mechanism being simple is the interesting part. If one large complex goal can be split into subgoals and the subgoals completed without you, then you need a lot fewer humans to do a lot more work. The OP says AI requires human interacti
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by ctoth 5mo ago
Does your Linux server decide what processes it should launch at what time with a theory of what will happen next in order to complete a goal you specified in natural language? If so yes, I reckon you sure have!
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by ctoth 5mo ago
> doesn't change the fact that it's software that requires human interaction to work. Have you ever seen Claude Code launch a subagent? You've used it, right? You've seen it launch a subagent to do work? You understan
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by ctoth 5mo ago
I remember this old thing called Bugs Everywhere -- it was a bug/issue tracker which actually lived inside your hg repository. I wonder if we could standardize on something like that? or git notes with an issues ref? or something magic
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by ctoth 5mo ago
The thing is we're in a new Cold War, and most of our adversaries have gotten the memo and most of us ... haven't. Yes, becoming a new Halliburton is a rational move if you see the board right now. I don't like it even one ti
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by ctoth 5mo ago
Huh. I never realized the T-800 runs on Android. Makes sense, I guess.
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by ctoth 5mo ago
It has been years now of reading this same comment... Surely people can't keep typing it forever.
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by ctoth 5mo ago
Yups... Mythos is the smallest possible leap. Not a standard model generation advance, not even a version point advance. Just the smallest possible quanta of a change. We are absolutely hitting a plateau any day now. Any day. Any time. Any
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by ctoth 5mo ago
A useful(ish) trick I've found is adding a persona block to my CLAUDE.md. When it stops addressing me as 'meatbag' I know the HK-47 persona instructions are not being followed, which means other instructions are not being fol
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by ctoth 6mo ago
> As of April 23, we’re resetting usage limits for all subscribers. Wait, didn't they just reset everybody's usage last Thursday, thereby syncing everybody's windows up? (Mine should have reset at 13:00 MDT) ? So this is j
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by ctoth 6mo ago
> If you dont have analytics you are flying blind. We... we are talking about a CLI tool. A CLI tool that directly uses the API. A tool which already identifies itself with a User-Agent[0]. A tool which obviously knows who is using it. W
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by ctoth 6mo ago
Who is we? Which we opted to push the planet to carrying capacity? Is it? What is the capacity? Are the decreasing birthrates across the world really the Earth's theoretical maximum? What does it mean to have fewer products, which thin

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