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by elliotto 1y ago
Technofeudalism by Varoufakis is about this N% cooperation. Growing wealth concentration means this collusion becomes possible with smaller and smaller N% cooperating. If it's game theory optimal to cooperate I have no doubt Thiel wil
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by elliotto 1y ago
The Grapes of Wrath by Steinbeck is largely about this concept. If these social transitions were as rosy as you paint them I think the book would be called Grapes of Pleasant Improvements in Living Standards.
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by elliotto 1y ago
GPT-5 can't handle 2 things: an esoteric quine or an aquatic equine
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by elliotto 1y ago
Very neat! A lot of small LLM's have a similar failure mode where they get stuck and repeat a token / get stuck in a 2-3 token loop until they hit the max message size cutoff. Very ironic that it's about a quine.
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by elliotto 1y ago
I tried it with thinking mode and it seems like it spiraled wildly internally, then did a web search and worked it out. https://chatgpt.com/share/68e3674f-c220-800f-888c-81760e161d...
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by elliotto 1y ago
https://chatgpt.com/share/68e3674f-c220-800f-888c-81760e161d... With thinking it spirals internally, runs a google search and then works it out.
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by elliotto 1y ago
https://chatgpt.com/share/68e366b2-0fdc-800f-9bf3-86974703b6... GPT-5 Instant (no thinking) spirals wildly. Poor bot
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by elliotto 1y ago
I do this all the time. I start writing a comment then think about it some more and realize halfway through that I don't know what I'm saying I have the luxury of a delete button - the LLM doesn't get that privilege.
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by elliotto 1y ago
These sort of experiments and results are really important for language model implementation. This has a tangible implication for my AI startup and how we approach tool design. Much more important than citation farming a paper on 1 % improv
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by elliotto 1y ago
In my experience restrictive and developer hostile API structures are indicative of exploiting a monopoly position rather than some provided excuse like 'countering spam'
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by elliotto 1y ago
The author approaches the topic from a libertarian perspective with some prior beliefs about the futility of regulation. These restrictions are not permitted within their ontology, which in my opinion makes the damning conclusion more power
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by elliotto 1y ago
I keep a few long running chats for important things and then just keep the random questions as individual chats. There's not a lot of structure but it works. For example at the moment I have 1 long chat about some health stuff, 1 long
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by elliotto 1y ago
You can manage the memories in settings. I have to go through every now and then and purge weird stuff that it's latched onto
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by elliotto 1y ago
https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/tHiB8jLocbPLagYDZ/the-online... This less wrong piece by a libertarian who examines the numbers and struggles to reconcile them with his beliefs is one of the best indictments on sp
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by elliotto 1y ago
I've often thought about building a messaging platform aggregator that takes conversations from Whatsapp/messenger/discord/Instagram DMs/etc and provides a unified interface for them. I suspect there's a bunch
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by elliotto 1y ago
https://archive.md/0jytv
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by elliotto 1y ago
it might be slightly adjacent, but Stephen wolfram's blog posts are one of few sources I can find about the relationship between computation and philosophy. His entropy blogpost is one of my favourite pieces
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by elliotto 1y ago
I work at an AI startup, and we've explored a solution where we preprocess documents to make a short summary of each document, then provide these summaries with a tool call instruction to the bot so it can decide which document is rele
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by elliotto 1y ago
Your example of firms setting up in the desert or wilderness assumes there is some desert or wilderness left to expand into. This is Marx's concepts of the expansion of capital. Marx argues that with nowhere to expand it begins to eat
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by elliotto 1y ago
If a multi-agent game is played in which each agent grows proportionally to its current size, isn't the end result that small agents are eaten by big agents, and at the end you have one big agent? Ie the end state of Monopoly? In pract
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by elliotto 1y ago
I agree with you, I live in Sydney Australia and there are plenty of small orgs and communities to participate in. I wonder whether this post is just a reflection of Terry living in California, which from where I sit looks like an end-stage
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by elliotto 1y ago
because the original is paywalled. despite being an ad
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by elliotto 1y ago
Food production is largely nationalised due to heavy subsidies provided to farmers. Different countries have different policies here, but in my country of Australia it meets the definition of a nationalised industry by everything but name.
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by elliotto 1y ago
There's perhaps another war going on right now that's a bit less popular, and a lot more profitable, that these guys are making bank on. I hope you sleep well knowing you support this team
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by elliotto 1y ago
The optimal strategy in a resource acquisition game with no rules is usually just to kill all the other players. This results in really bad nash equilibria where everyone is dead. I think about this as entropic decay - the lowest energy sta
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by elliotto 1y ago
Possibly, I mean in the book there's a hard number survey that says 37% of their sample described their job as not making a meaningful difference. It's a great book. https://inthesetimes.com/article/capitalism
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by elliotto 1y ago
Do you reckon the KPI's and performance indicators used in big tech count as meaningful ways to measure performance? Wouldn't someone implementing a complex resume-driven project score highly on these measurements, despite a simpl
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by elliotto 1y ago
I'd recommend reading bullshit jobs by David graeber. Most jobs in most organisations have an incentive structure for an individual to keep themselves employed rather than to actually solve problems.
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by elliotto 1y ago
https://openai.com/index/chatgpt-study-mode/ Openai released study mode. I don't think it's anything special beyond a custom prompt that tells it to act as a teacher. But it's a good example of what
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by elliotto 1y ago
As part of my role I watch a lot of people use LLMs and it's fascinating to see their different mental models for what the LLM can do. I suspect it's far easier to explore functionality with a chirpy assistant than an emotionless

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