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by dimal 3y ago
And Israel is blameless in all this? They’ve done nothing wrong? Colonizing the West Bank is just fine? You can’t pull the shit they have and not expect splashback. They’ve put the Palestians in a cage, poked them with a stick, and now they
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by dimal 3y ago
There will be an enshittified ad supported tier. You’ll never know when the model is hallucinating and when it’s actively trying to manipulate you. It’ll be great.
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by dimal 3y ago
Your argument is just whataboutism and barely worth even engaging with. It is possible that both sides of the military conflict are wrong. Being against Israel’s actions here don’t imply support for Hamas and vice versa. In this case, Israe
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by dimal 3y ago
I suppose when you look at it from this angle, it sounds reasonable. But then when I consider that corporations are essentially eternally existing legal persons which behave like sociopaths, and are able to get away with any crime (even occ
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How on earth is this legal?
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by dimal 3y ago
That’s not what I said and you know it. I’m not saying LLMs are useless. I’m not even saying this tool is useless. I’m saying I’m not impressed with this tool, at least as represented in the demo.
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by dimal 3y ago
I suppose I should nail down my point. No one would ever write a big report like this. A bug generally has an unknown cause. Once you found the cause of the bug, you’d fix it. Nowadays, you could just cut and paste the problem into ChatGPT
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by dimal 3y ago
The demo shows a very clearly written bug report about a matrix operation that’s producing an unexpected output. Umm… no. Most bug reports you get in the wild are more along the lines of “I clicked on on X and Y happened” then if you’re luc
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by dimal 3y ago
I think it's probably something less than "conscious" but more than "dead matter". I like the ideas of Michael Levin and basal cognition. It avoids metaphysical woo and just empirically demonstrates how certain type
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by dimal 3y ago
It makes sense that big companies are going to be slower and dumber at stuff like this, but the crazy thing is that now, even tiny startups think they should follow the same procedures as FAANGs. They're all doing three rounds of inter
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by dimal 3y ago
Off topic, but I didn't realize Alan Kay was regularly answering questions on Quora. I can ask "What does Alan Kay think about X?" and get an answer from Alan Kay?!?
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by dimal 3y ago
Maybe it's because I spent the early part of my career in New York startups, but back then firings were relatively commonplace. Not excessively common, but if you couldn't do your job, you could expect to get fired. There would be
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by dimal 3y ago
In most other industries, it works this way. If a hire isn’t performing, they have a process called “firing” in which the person stops working for the company and they stop paying them a salary. It’s kind of like a layoff except it’s just o
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by dimal 3y ago
I’m pretty happy with Continue, which is a free VS Code extension. You can use an OpenAI API key or local models. I don’t think it does autocomplete, just pair programming, but I’ve found AI autocomplete to be more of a distraction than any
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by dimal 3y ago
I did. The interviewing situation was much more reasonable back then, so it wasn’t difficult. You could do lots of interviews without taking up a huge amount of time and I never did any live coding or whiteboard coding bullshit. Companies a
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by dimal 3y ago
Define “free”. Most modern Asian capitalist economies have never been very “free” in the American sense of “free market”. They’ve always been heavily guided by government policy. I think the most productive eras are really when everyone is
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Go into consulting.
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by dimal 3y ago
Can anyone who has used Remix comment on the API stability? AFAIK it’s built by the same folks as React-Router, and I have a distrust of that project because of the tendency to make large breaking changes in order to make things “better” ac
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by dimal 3y ago
All DSM disorders are just clusters of symptoms that a board of psychiatrists decided were disorders. They are no more or less real than any other mental phenomena that the APA board decided weren’t “disorders”. And if what you say is simp
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by dimal 3y ago
I've been hoping for something like this. One of the remaining problems with CSS is that the only native way to reuse any complex functionality is with a class. Classes are applied in the DOM. This is how we end up with utility classes
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by dimal 3y ago
I don’t think 100% of the claims will hold up over time, but I would not call it crackpot or discredited, by a long shot. Simply acknowledging that childhood trauma has some consistent effects and being 60% right. would be doing better than
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by dimal 3y ago
Having experienced that, I can confirm that it is traumatic. And it does take a toll on your body.
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Yes. Many of the experiments involve single cell organisms where there is no brain involved. And the cognition he’s talking about are in different problem spaces than what we think of as “thinking” in the brain. Honestly, it’s so difficult
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by dimal 3y ago
I agree, it’s not ”thinking” in the way brains think, but I was just disagreeing with the assertion that it’s “just” pre-programmed. He’s shown pretty convincingly that these phenomena can not be preprogrammed. He’s put organisms in novel d
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by dimal 3y ago
That’s misunderstanding what they’re saying. If you watch some of Michael Levin’s talks on YouTube, he specifically uses William James’ definition of intelligence (Intelligence is a fixed goal with variable means of achieving it) and has ex
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by dimal 3y ago
What they’re saying is that you may be falling for the curse of knowledge. From Wikipedia: > The curse of knowledge is a cognitive bias that occurs when an individual, who is communicating with others, assumes that others have informatio
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This makes sense to me. I feel like we need a lot more creative destruction in American society. The ASA doesn’t want open science because it threatens their business model. So what. We have too many organizations that are basically do noth
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by dimal 3y ago
> On the other hand, the humanities did plenty to devalue itself, by adopting the view that 'value' itself is likely a social construct. Bwahh! Sick burn.
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by dimal 3y ago
That does not sound like an MVP. Then it’s up to random chance that they create the right API format and then someone makes an app to use said API and doesn’t also use it to steal data from gullible people. You’ve multiplied the number of w
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by dimal 3y ago
Consider it an MVP.

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