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by digging 2y ago
Yes, it is an enormous mistake to equate learning with surprise. I'd ask you to consider answering my above question directly, as I think it will resolve this issue.
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by digging 2y ago
Of course, my response as a human to those rules and that prompt would be, "Hey - don't harm anyone." I do not know if it breaks rule 2 or not; as a human I don't have to figure that out before responding. But all my sub
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by digging 2y ago
> if nobody's surprised, then nobody has learned anything Really? You're saying that as long as you assume something is true, there's no value in finding out if it's actually true or not?
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by digging 2y ago
"The model should ..." Well, that's the actual issue, isn't it? If we can't get a model to refuse to give dangerous information, how are we going to get it to refuse to give dangerous information without a warning
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by digging 2y ago
Yes, I did. What's the correct denominator that makes the daily effort worthwhile for you? Would you do x/5? x/10? x/50? After 50 days of continuously spending more effort than necessary, do you make the trade or just ac
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by digging 2y ago
This has been a sticking point for me since my workplace told us all to start using the new copilot licenses they bought. The ideal workflow for me is usually inline question-and-answer but it tends to insist on editing the code, often in w
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by digging 2y ago
It's always difficult to notice features you don't know are missing. I'm a near-exclusive user of VSCode (or Codium, at home) and like to think of myself as moderately advanced. I continually update my configurations and plug
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by digging 2y ago
I'm out of my depth here, but a high-level response: First, I don't think the "unconscious" part is a single process, but myriad processes, and I'd bet they wax and wane. Second, the "conscious" part is th
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by digging 2y ago
Yes, it's a classic example of the power and skill of your "unconscious" mind - your consciousness is freed up to do novel work because the drive home is so routine that your unconscious mind can do almost all of the work. Sh
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by digging 2y ago
The eternal question of spending "x hours upfront" vs "x/2 hours every single day"...
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by digging 2y ago
Even if that's true (maybe your team is really careful about documentation and data structures even when they don't have types?) - the majority of the "bugs" TS catches are those that would be caught manually anyway, dur
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by digging 2y ago
But murder and manslaughter aren't simply "kill a person with intention", "kill a person without intention", that's why we have different degrees of each. Because you have to define what intention means. Savage
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by digging 2y ago
> more advanced thinking does not imply > vague, unspecified notion of "the real creative work" or "the things only humans are good it". It's just true that increasingly advanced tools enable increasingly adva
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by digging 2y ago
I'll look into it, but, it's not true that energy was not used to grow food. Farming is labor, it takes human effort; food has to be eaten to grow more food.
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by digging 2y ago
I'd agree with that, because refactoring is hard , especially if you don't intimately understand the domain, and I think "effective government" is much less understood than "high quality software" as a whole,
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by digging 2y ago
No, math can describe programming, but that's also true of everything . You wouldn't say "Playing basketball without math is impossible" even though it's technically true because you don't need to know or us
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by digging 2y ago
Energy is used to grow food, so, no. Keep in mind the context of my first comment.
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by digging 2y ago
Context is indeed what narrows the meaning of a word with various or broad meanings.
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by digging 2y ago
> they demonstrate that substantive rather than incremental changes are possible at all. Substantive-not-incremental change has always been possible, but it's mostly avoided for being a bad idea. Only when we identify an opportunity
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by digging 2y ago
Well, all of the conceptual elements it used are in the training set; it just combined them in ways that don't even make syntactic sense . Yes, I know we "just" combine ideas too when we're creating. My point is that
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by digging 2y ago
Well, yeah. I avoided the subject of trust because it wasn't the subject of the comment I was responding to. It's a different component of money. Money depends entirely on trust which is a form of belief. But it only matters b
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by digging 2y ago
> Down votes are interesting when applied to a comment that's an answer to a direct question. I suspect it's because your answer was indirect and had a fairly proselytizing tone. I found the information interesting, but it wa
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by digging 2y ago
Or, they won't say anything about it at all, because they (choose all that apply): a) are not good communicators, b) do not respect you, c) are afraid to admit they don't understand (even if your doc is clearly shit), d) do not ca
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by digging 2y ago
Very interesting! Is "tree-house building" a reference to something specific or did you make it up? It strikes me that engineering is either a spectrum, or it's a segment of a larger spectrum (the name of which I don't k
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by digging 2y ago
The crypto industry is extremely untrustworthy, but for me, I don't think "there's no actual value creation at the bottom of it" is more true of e.g. Bitcoin than USD. Assume USD is somehow attached to food, shelter, and
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by digging 2y ago
I think that's actually not unusual or even wildly unreasonable shopping behavior in a market where: 1. Many if not most "customers" (JS devs) don't understand how to evaluate quality deeply (thus, quality signals aren&#
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by digging 2y ago
...that pitch is a mess. The majority of it is nonsense and it doesn't sound like a good story to me (I think. I can hardly parse it.)
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by digging 2y ago
They're different because they're trying to find the most likely output, and humans usually. You can ask and LLM to make weird combinations and use unusual framings, but it's only going to do so once you've already c
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by digging 2y ago
But the narrators aren't narrators; they're just different settings for the relative frequencies of events. Dwarf Fortress is still a more robust "story generator", as the vast majority of what occurs in Rimworld is stil
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by digging 2y ago
Hm, I mostly agree, but I think that's a bit tangential. It's not like people really get to make that choice and still have a good chance at success. In order to meet any definition of success[1], you need to get hired. And also,

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