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by dsign 5d ago
> To take Coxon's argument seriously, you have to believe frontier models are hypercapable, and not just hype objects. It's harder and harder to make the point that frontier objects are just hype objects though. And, even if
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by dsign 5d ago
This is the tech at Cloudflare of course, but I swear that my first interpretation of the title was "We have replaced all our python coders with AI and they (the coders) are out and generally available" :-)
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by dsign 6d ago
Your statement piked out my interest and I went searching for what Rubisco was. My prediction is that this particular one will be cracked out soon, and at around 2045, creating disgustingly efficient variants of RuBisCO along with other pho
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by dsign 6d ago
Roughly, there are two types of code in a user application: logic and media related. There are many exceptions, but logic code generally doesn’t need a lot of CPU. Media algorithms on the other hand are all CPU hogs, and SIMD helps there qu
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by dsign 6d ago
> In your first draft, most of your paragraphs are bad, your topic flow is incoherent, and you’ve got at least 750 words you don’t need. I stopped reading at this point. All of the above may have been correct five years ago, when there w
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by dsign 8d ago
Great article. I often think of what we are buying ourselves with AI. Five years ago, when this wave started, my conclusion was that either humanity or humanism is scheduled for extinction. I love my species enough to prefer the lesser evil
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by dsign 10d ago
> The moment someone figures out a new modality for LLMs is when we’ll see the next hockey stick. Honestly, that fills me with fear. LLMs exist to make money to their companies, and said companies are not gonna turn around and say, &quot
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by dsign 10d ago
Though, on second thought, "government X could force Apple to disable feature for members of group Y" seems possible. I'm sure you can come with "Y" quite easily, heard anything about Ed Sheeran's tour?
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by dsign 10d ago
I think this is really good and kudos to Apple for implementing it. The first question that popped into my mind was "what new scenarios of government X forcing Apple to do 'terrible thing' to 'individual' this enabl
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by dsign 11d ago
Hmm, this doesn’t make sense. You simply don’t replace utilities with many decades of maturity and that “just work” with something that is not as mature. It will open all users of the distro to all sorts of subtle and not so subtle bugs. I
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by dsign 12d ago
> Nobody wants to work for an AI A lot of people here have noted the “problem with language” of Claude. I don’t see an issue. Claude is not harder than old English, Shakespeare, El Quijote, the Iliad, or Nature papers. What makes it all
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by dsign 17d ago
Here's a scoop from inside writing circles (pre-AI era): we were a lot into "good writing techniques". Not into communication. We wanted to produce a "marketable product". On the way, we (writers, literature profess
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by dsign 17d ago
That was funny :-) I use Opus and Sonnet 5 all the time and I find their language grating. But honest, I prefer to put up with it and get the results than to put up with my own human limitations and not get the results.
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by dsign 17d ago
> In most cases you don’t even need them. Correct. It's like believing in a particular religion, or having a certain fashion sense. When I was younger, I had a particularly handsome friend who spent as much time as possible half-nak
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by dsign 19d ago
It's a funny read if you pull together "AI 2027" and what we all know is going on. Essentially, open AI employee or model is writing "things are going exactly as bad as AI 2027 predicted, but my (golden/RL-) cuffs a
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by dsign 22d ago
> but they would also have expected much more disruptive changes to society as a result than what is happening. > I figure that's because we have abstract intelligence without physical/grounded intelligence, I put the cause
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by dsign 23d ago
There's something to this argument. I for one use an API proxy (Kagi Assistant) when I'm submitting anything remotely sensitive to an LLM. But for coding in my hobby project, I have marked "use my conversations for training&q
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by dsign 23d ago
> What can we say about this with hindsight? > While the ideas of diagonalization and self-reference of course played a central role in the birth of modern mathematical logic and computer science, the most famous uses were negative. T
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by dsign 24d ago
Though your statements are generally true today, I wonder if I can put a bet somewhere about how long it takes until somebody "fixes that problem."
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by dsign 24d ago
Hmm. You are making a good point, and I wouldn’t give the benefit of the doubt to this post’s author. But you can’t just unsee “this is twice load bearing”. Some people will wonder if it’s a training, self-reinforcing feedback artifact. For
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by dsign 27d ago
There is a persistent point that this article makes really well: numbers. And here, bigger seems to be worse. More people equals feebler interactions, worse social life, more alienation between citizens and government. It's not the ful
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by dsign 1mo ago
> That's not really the same as it having actual consciousness, It's trivially easy to come up with definitions of consciousness that support your point. But there isn't one of them that it is trivially singular and above
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by dsign 1mo ago
Your teddy bear, alas, is not cared for in a socially determined way. But you could create a church of your teddy bear and, with some grit, you could get people to widely assign consciousness to it. We have done that sort of thing for thous
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by dsign 1mo ago
Anecdotally, I find AIs, and the doom and gloom they will cause, are great water cooler conversation topics that engages most of the team. However, ever since the advent of LLMs developers have stopped speaking of programming languages and
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by dsign 1mo ago
> > The cynic in me bemoans that we brought this upon ourselves, in more than one way. > I enjoy working with other employees and people need human contact to become fully self-actualized. Isolating people to maximize productivity
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by dsign 1mo ago
> The subscription models have so many more perverse incentives baked in Yes. But, as your "so many more" implies, there are also perverse incentives in pay-per-token. And now, for the first time, the companies with the perver
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by dsign 1mo ago
You have great colleagues. I wasn’t comparing frame of mind of my colleagues and LLMs, which is a loaded notion anyway, but now that you mention it…
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by dsign 1mo ago
I don't like AI-generated text at work, at all. It feels lifeless and unfocused. But what I hate the most is that it is objectively better than what I had before. No typos, clear structure, and, regrettably, the verbosity and autistic
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by dsign 1mo ago
My take is that "sovereign computing" will go from something 0.001% of the population cares about to over 1% in the coming three decades, i.e. three orders of magnitude. It will depend on how long we continue in the current survte
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by dsign 1mo ago
> if this software is ethical? IMO, it absolutely is. First, if fruit flies could suffer existential anguish the same way humans do, they would breathe in relief that digital upload is in sight. Second, even if the fruit flies don'

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