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by empath75 10mo ago
> The author doesn't talk at all about the hardware aspect of this stuff such as the surprisingly short lifetime of the GPUs that are being rolled out at a break-neck pace. I am not sure why that is interesting. Nobody thinks of th
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by empath75 10mo ago
Because wind, solar and battery tech have given us most of the benefits of fusion power and it actually works today.
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I also think the collapse of the byzantine empire and the rise of the mongols would have lead to direct trade between the mongols and italians anyway.
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Apple is probably going to be an AI consumer and not an AI producer and that is fine. Not everyone needs to be openai or anthropic.
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It's a 28 part series. If you start from the beginning, everything is explained in detail.
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by empath75 11mo ago
This is one of the best Rust articles I've ever read. It's obviously from experience and covers a lot of _business logic_ foot guns that Rust doesn't typically protect you against without a little bit of careful coding that
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by empath75 11mo ago
Two things can be true: 1) We have barely scratched the surface of what is possible to do with existing AI technology. 2) Almost all of the money we are spending on AI now is ineffectual and wasted. --- If you go back to the late 1990s, tha
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by empath75 11mo ago
It's not "fundamentally flawed". It is brilliant at what it does. What is flawed is how people are applying it to solve specific problems. It isn't a "do anything" button that you can just push. Every probl
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by empath75 11mo ago
This is such a weirdly antagonistic take. Javascript was out there first, and it was good enough, and a vast improvement over both flash and java in the browser. There's no guarantee that some committee designed language would have e
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I think the reason this is interesting to mathematicians is that he was working with an axiomatic system that is fairly new, and _in particular_ is thought not to be strong enough to be able to prove the pigeon hole principle. Since he pro
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by empath75 11mo ago
> How will the Google/Anthropic/OpenAI's of the world make money on AI if open models are competitive with their models? So a couple of things. There are going to be a handful of companies in the world with the infrastruc
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by empath75 11mo ago
I am not 100% sure this is wrong? I frequently ask chatgpt about researching products or looking at reviews, etc and it is pretty obvious that I want to buy something, and the bridge right now from 'researching products' to '
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by empath75 11mo ago
I think what is more accurate to say is that the broad crisis in foundations of mathematics was initially resolved by formalizing set theory.
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by empath75 11mo ago
I think this is good, but I doubt it'll actually impact rental prices as much as people think, because the problem is fundamentally a housing shortage.
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by empath75 11mo ago
The biggest change in my career was when I got promoted to be a linux sysadmin at a large tech company that was moving to AWS. It was my first sysadmin job and I barely knew what I was doing, but I knew some bash and python. I had a chanc
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by empath75 11mo ago
I have been laid off 4 times. Tech has a lot of churn, there are a lot of high risk high reward companies.
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by empath75 11mo ago
Over the course of my career, probably 2/3rds of the roles I have had (as in my day to day work, not necessarily the title) just no longer exist, because people like me eliminated them. I personally was the last person that had a few
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by empath75 11mo ago
Cursor does this too.
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by empath75 11mo ago
That's a great paper, but I don't think it calls into question anything about post-hoc rationalizations, and it might actually put that idea on more solid ground.
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ChatGPT's voice is absolutely amazing and I prefer it to text for brainstorming.
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1 ∈ 2 is operating at a _different layer of abstraction_ than peano arithmetic is. It's like doing bitwise operations on integers in a computer program. You can do it, but at that point you aren't really working with integers as
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by empath75 11mo ago
> So we currently associate consciousness with the right to life and dignity right? I think the actual answer in practice is that the right to life and dignity are conferred to people that are capable of fighting for it, whether that be
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by empath75 11mo ago
i think it's still an open question how "conscious" that infants and newborns are. It really depends on how you define it and it is probably a continuum of some kind.
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by empath75 11mo ago
Peoples interior model of the world is very tenuously related to reality. We don't have a direct experience of waves, quantum mechanics, the vast majority of the electromagnetic spectrum, etc. The whole thing is a bunch of shortcuts
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> Consciousness is the only thing we can be absolutely certain does actually exist. A lot of philosophers would disagree with this.
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What I love about this paper is that it is moving away from very fuzzily-defined and emotionally weighted terms like 'intelligence' and 'consciousness' and focusing on specific, measurable architectural features.
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by empath75 11mo ago
If anyone wants an example of actual jailbreak in the wild that uses this technique (NSFW): https://www.reddit.com/r/persona_AI/comments/1nu3ej7/the_spi... This doesn't work with gpt5 or 4o or reall
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by empath75 11mo ago
Unwrap _is_ explicitly handling an error at the point of occurrence. You have explicitly decided to panic, which is sometimes a valid choice. I use it (on startup only) when server configs are missing or invalid or in CLI tools when the o
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We flag unwrap/expect usage in lints and have limited it to just server startup where we want the server to crash if a file is missing...
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by empath75 11mo ago
I have removed many 'unwraps' from copilot and cursor generated code, but cursor is a lot better at it than copilot was.

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