falcor84

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by falcor84 5d ago
I am not implying that skill loss does not happen in other situations, but I don't understand how someone would be able to calibrate a clock by the time a baker starts her work day, but not by the time the sun comes up. What am I missi
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by falcor84 5d ago
I assume this is satire, as obviously they could recalibrate by the sun itself, and the baker is superfluous here.
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by falcor84 5d ago
I for one read it as intentional sarcasm.
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by falcor84 8d ago
As evidence that they actually are living under a rock, there's still no proper way to mv a workspace and have it retain all its history and config.
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by falcor84 10d ago
Very good point. I would respond that I saw the deterioration several years before vibe coding became a thing, but maybe they did have a head start on the tech.
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by falcor84 10d ago
I personally work a lot with vibe coded software, both my own and of others. And I do encounter a lot of issues, but in general they annoy me less than the enterprise engineered ones.
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by falcor84 10d ago
> The code may work, but there’s no guarantee about its behavior (including error handling and edge cases). But the painful reality is that we never had any such guarantees in industry code to begin with; despite decades of writing on so
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by falcor84 12d ago
Oh, sorry, I of course mean to write math and autocomplete hit. To late to edit now, so I suppose it'll remain as a happy accident.
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by falcor84 15d ago
Exactly! What got me interested in memes as a kid is precisely the fact that mathematics is true in a way that is wholy independent of our understanding of it.
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by falcor84 15d ago
I love that as a goal! Perhaps indeed a better understanding of what intelligence really is would allow this sort of Uplift (as in Brin's books).
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by falcor84 18d ago
My understanding is that they already are, via Isomorphic Labs
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by falcor84 19d ago
Which part of that prompt is detail, and which the essence?
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by falcor84 19d ago
> Make as much money as you can, starting now. It's such an uninspired prompt. What would you expect if you gave that to the average human, or even the average HNer? What fraction of them would actually use it to set up a profitable
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by falcor84 19d ago
But the goal here is not to run 42km; to stay with the outdoors metaphor, it's more like deciding where and how to set up a bivouac - use whatever tools you have at your disposal to analyze the area you're in, and find the best si
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by falcor84 19d ago
But it's not "waiting on the output of an LLM for 40 hours" any more than a regular hackathon is "waiting for my damn teammates to finish their part for 40 hours". From my experience using agentic coding for hackath
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by falcor84 19d ago
Yes, but that sounds to me exactly the process vs. outcome distinction that the parent made, rather than a difference in the intent to communicate.
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by falcor84 19d ago
> droplets which travel back onto the floor and user I suppose this disproves Tufte's "There are only two industries that call their customers 'users': illegal drugs and software."
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by falcor84 19d ago
I think we are finally seeing the realization of https://xkcd.com/810/
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by falcor84 19d ago
> For AGI to benefit all of humanity, we believe it must be democratically governed. That's a very bold opening statement that they don't really come back to. What would that mean? Who would this demos include?
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by falcor84 19d ago
> somebody has an idea to express and they're trying to communicate it to me I don't see why that would exclude GenAI - you have an idea, you write a prompt, you get something that's sort of but not quite what you were goi
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by falcor84 20d ago
> If any nation in Europe that can start a new space frontier, that would be the Germans I apologise for the tactlessness, but it just made me think of Tom Lehrer's lyrics about Wernher von Braun: > "Once the rockets are up,
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by falcor84 21d ago
All of those charts seem to have a lot more noise than signal.
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by falcor84 22d ago
But what does it mean in practice? Obviously we humans also have a limited cognitive capacity. Let me offer a thought experiment: Let's say that tomorrow we discover Atlantis, with a treasure trove of books about their culture and scie
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by falcor84 24d ago
Yes, this, and we need to have this progressive tax be over the company's total assets, including subsidiaries.
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by falcor84 25d ago
Sorry, yes, I genuinely took a long time to understand, and this then took me on quite the rabbit hole, thanks, to you and the others on the thread.
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by falcor84 25d ago
Oh, I'm familiar with that; I thought that the parent meant that there are people who make money directly from the copyright on the patterns rather than the artifacts they sell. Are there?
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by falcor84 25d ago
Maybe not the strongest, but definitely a case. For example, it's my understanding that many scholars believe that The Odyssey is fan fiction by a separate author(s) to that/those of The Iliad.
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by falcor84 25d ago
> Knitters and crocheters who create patterns? Wow, is that a thing? If you're willing to share, I'd love to hear more about these vocations and how they make money.
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by falcor84 25d ago
I can assure you that people had original ideas before the invention of copyright 300 years ago.
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by falcor84 25d ago
From my perspective from reading and watching fan fiction, these unofficial derived works are typically significantly more distinct and interesting than the official sequels, and I'd be cool with these getting bigger budgets.

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