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by ctoth 8mo ago
Sure sure -- I can't tell you what I ate for dinner on an arbitrary Tuesday or something but a routine thing from 12 years? Knowing whether or not you did that routine at least? Seems like something you should probably remember? I donn
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by ctoth 8mo ago
Wow, that doesn't terrify you? We're talking about a thing that, if you did it, you would have done at least ~2000 times in a typical 12 years of school. Every morning. Do you remember other school events?
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by ctoth 8mo ago
So they sent this little warning, they're prepared to do their worst And they stuck it in your mailbox hoping you could be coerced I can think of quite another place they should have stuck it first
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by ctoth 8mo ago
Entity identity can be intrinsic. Why not consistency contracts?
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Empiricists vs. Extrapolators(secondbest.ca)
4 points by ctoth 8mo ago|0 comments
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by ctoth 8mo ago
Hanson's Grabby Aliens actually fits really well here if you're looking for some math to base off of.
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by ctoth 8mo ago
No, it's imagination, same as it ever was. Software to most of this discussion is a web app with a landing page, a pricing tier, and MRR. That's it. The frame is "product," the metric is "traction," and the can
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by ctoth 8mo ago
> And sadly everyone has the same ideas, everyone ends up working on the same things This is someone telling you they have never had an idea that surprised them. Or more charitably, they've never been around people whose ideas surpr
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by ctoth 8mo ago
Here's the part where you don't leave us all hanging? What did you figure out!!!
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by ctoth 8mo ago
For me it's the ... unearned confidence that 4.5 absolutely did not have? I have a protocol called "foreman protocol" where the main agent only dispatches other agents with prompt files and reads report files from the agents
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by ctoth 8mo ago
A small child's cognition is also "just" electrochemical signals propagating through neural tissue according to physical laws! The "just" is doing all the lifting. You can reductively describe any information proces
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by ctoth 8mo ago
Ah yes, NPR who famously doesn't advertise but just tells us about new products! That sponsor programs!
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by ctoth 8mo ago
Please go read how the Anthropic max plan works. IF I USE LESS TOKENS, ANTHROPIC GETS MORE MONEY! You are blindly pattern matching to "corporation bad!" without actually considering the underlying structure of the situation. I bel
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by ctoth 8mo ago
Sometimes I will go out and I will plant a pepper plant and take care of it all summer long and obsessively ensure it has precisely the right amount of water and compost and so on... and ... for some reason (maybe I was on vacation and it g
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by ctoth 8mo ago
The gambling analogy completely falls apart on inspection. Slot machines have variable reward schedules by design — every element is optimized to maximize time on device. Social media optimizes for engagement, and compulsive behavior is t
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by ctoth 8mo ago
> And Matt Shumer is saying that AI is currently like Covid in January 2020—as in, "kind of under the radar, but about to kill millions of people" This is where the misrepresentation... no, the lie comes in. It always does in t
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by ctoth 8mo ago
In my experience humans can make new things when they are some linear combination of existing things but I haven’t been able to get them to do something totally out of distribution yet from first principles[0]. [0]: https://slate
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by ctoth 8mo ago
Give it a rest. What's happening is that AI has become an identity-sorting mechanism faster than any technology in recent memory. Faster than social media, faster than smartphones. Within about two years, "what do you think about
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by ctoth 8mo ago
> If Gemini 3 DT was better we would have falling prices of electricity and everything else at least Man, I've seen some maintenance folks down on the field before working on them goalposts but I'm pretty sure this is the first
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by ctoth 8mo ago
> we take accessibility seriously Do you guys have a screen reader user on the dev team? Is verbose mode the same as the old mode, where only file paths are spoken? Or does it have other text in it? Because I tried to articulate, and may
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by ctoth 8mo ago
I do love my subagents and I wrote an entire Claude Code audio hook system for a11y but this would be still rather compelling if Codex weren't also somewhat of an a11y nightmare. It does some weird thing with ... maybe terminal repaint
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by ctoth 8mo ago
I'm a screen reader user and CTO of an accessibility company. This change doesn't reduce noise for me. It removes functionality. Sighted users lost convenience. I lost the ability to trust the tool. There is no "glancing&quot
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by ctoth 8mo ago
What you've done here is called a fully-general counterargument. You should be suspicious of these! If capital inevitably follows destructive local maxima and defectors get eaten, then no coordination problem has ever been solved, righ
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by ctoth 8mo ago
The concern about climate is well placed. Ripple et al. lay out a serious case that we may be closer to tipping cascades than models predict, with the Greenland Ice Sheet potentially vulnerable to tipping below 2°C warming, well before 2050
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My journey to the microwave alternate timeline(malmesbury.substack.com)
6 points by ctoth 8mo ago|0 comments
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by ctoth 8mo ago
Nope, I meant what I originally said. The problem is technical: too many low-quality PRs hitting an endpoint. Vouch's solution is social: maintain trust graphs of humans. But the PRs are increasingly from autonomous agents. Agents don&
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A Metal-Detection Objection at the Reception(aribrin.substack.com)
1 points by ctoth 8mo ago|0 comments
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by ctoth 8mo ago
I'm working on a paper connecting articulatory phonology to soliton physics. Speech gestures survive coarticulatory overlap the same way solitons survive collision. The nonlinear dynamics already in the phonetics literature are structu
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by ctoth 8mo ago
Everything is amazing. Even better if you set a shortcut key (I use ctrl+shift+/) and it's just so fast. You can even query (I just recently learned this) like: *.txt size:>1024kb
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by ctoth 8mo ago
Ah, we have converted a technical problem into a social problem. Historically those are vastly easier to solve, right? Spam filters exist. Why do we need to bring politics into it? Reminds me of the whole CoC mess a few years back. Every ti

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