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by dguest 8d ago
It sounds like it's not conceptually different from a MR, the main difference is preserving the rationale for all the changes by bolting the "threads" (a log of agent interactions) on top. I can see how the discussion logs ar
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by dguest 8d ago
I'm wondering if the bottom is going to fall out of frontier models when people start to realize this. Sure, as an experienced programmer you can tell the difference between a compact free model and the ones that are 100x bigger and co
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by dguest 10d ago
We should keep open to the option that they might both loose.
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by dguest 11d ago
I oversimplified this, and actually it's a lot closer to what happens with any digital service. Rather than saying "give us 1$ and we'll sell you a customer's data" it was more like "provide the navigation soft
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by dguest 12d ago
arXiv link: https://arxiv.org/abs/2606.11045
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by dguest 12d ago
Accountability is key here. Anthropomorphism is actually useful in this case: If you hire an idiot to do a job it's also your fault, especially if it's an idiot you bread, raised, educated, and who's job description you wro
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by dguest 12d ago
There's still plenty of time for a successor!
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by dguest 12d ago
Makes me feel better as a guy who tries to get O(1000) times smaller models working for scientific applications. Writing a backend that works for all the models people train is quite a chore, so the common refrain is "why don't we
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by dguest 12d ago
Sim City was already a "you are the bad guys" game! The creator of Sim City was working on a game called Raid on Bungeling Bay" [1] where your job was to bomb a fully functional civilization into the stone age. He had so mu
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by dguest 12d ago
There are less questionable things they can do with all that data: I'm sure it's really useful to figure out how electrical and mechanical faults correlate with driving conditions / weather / region etc. The result from
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by dguest 12d ago
Wouldn't a payment of about $0.05 do the trick? My understanding of most kinds of spam is that it relies on being able to deploy hundreds of thousands of bot accounts just to get a few hits.
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by dguest 12d ago
Sim City: you're the disasters.
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by dguest 15d ago
Claude seems to follow robots.txt by default. Actually at my organization our theory is that this is why no one is finding our public results any more.
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by dguest 15d ago
The article is all about people in positions of power, not lower class people.
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by dguest 15d ago
In my experience it's dominantly teen-aged kids who are just figuring the world out, or in more unfortunate but very rare cases 30-somethings who never quite grew up. I was that shameless annoyance once too. It doesn't mean shame
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by dguest 15d ago
It's the same thing, and both are vulnerable to disingenuous applications of cultural relativism. You'll see similar arguments on this thread: "shame is just what you don't approve of", etc. Yes, it's just ab
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by dguest 15d ago
Football / Soccer had "flopping" [1], which anyone who watched it in the early 2000s would recognize: every foul was accompanied by a "victim" writhing on the field in agony, in excess of anything you'd see in
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by dguest 15d ago
> Evil genius is just a lack of shame. -- Cory Doctorow https://doctorow.medium.com/https-pluralistic-net-2026-04-11...
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by dguest 15d ago
It's exactly a sonic boom. You can release a party balloon and it will create pressure disturbances as it moves to the top of the room, which theoretically you could measure. It's just not very loud. Similarly, a charged particle
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by dguest 17d ago
I think a procedural generated space opera is a bit difficult to do. Space operas are closer to fantasy than hard science fiction: they are about extraordinary people and their extraordinary interactions, you aren't supposed to think h
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by dguest 17d ago
If that's true, either they both deserve credit or neither of them do. You don't just average 0 and 2 and decide that <n> = 1 person deserves credit.
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by dguest 17d ago
> [the Open AI rep] twice asserted that he wanted Levent removed from authorship, and said it would all be simple if only it were not the case that, and it was so annoying that, Levent works at Anthropic. Later on the author claims that
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by dguest 17d ago
Authorship is weird. Kind of a tangent, but in some fields authorship is actually more of a formal rank: once you're in the group you appear on every paper. A good fraction of the "authors" won't even know that a paper i
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by dguest 17d ago
The reality is also that most of your colleagues have no interest in stealing your work: they have their own work to do anyway, and having a colleague effervescing about whatever they are working on is kind of the norm in pure research. Jus
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by dguest 18d ago
I feel like it was for the next line: > But it is a much more exciting place than Ohio, and far more livable. Maybe just an excuse to make a joke about Ohio.
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by dguest 18d ago
IgNobel has evolved. Years ago their tag line was that they were for research "that cannot or should not be reproduced". Now it's to "honor achievements that first make people laugh, and then make them think". Over
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by dguest 19d ago
It's interesting how a lot of newer countries just put the right to water directly in the constitution. South Africa says some stuff about the government having an obligation toward "progressive realization" of the goal [1],
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by dguest 19d ago
Ig nobel prizes were just a few days ago: https://improbable.com/ig/winners/#ig2026 Edit: The splash free urinal was the winner for physics! I once joked that these do more for science than Nobel prizes. Now I d
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UN to move to Equal Earth Projection(en.wikipedia.org)
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by dguest 22d ago
As a pre-teen I had my first encounter with the law when they figured out that I was triggering the town traps to save the beavers. My parents had to haul me down to the station so the police chief could lecture me on vandalizing town prope

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