falcor84

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by falcor84 6mo ago
I don't think that this is about being "dumb", but rather about being able to support oneself. Becoming a parent and taking on the responsibility to support a child financially and emotionally for 18 years as you gradually pr
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by falcor84 6mo ago
http://archive.today/NuHjs
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You Can Soon Buy a $4,370 Humanoid Robot [Unitree R1] on AliExpress(wired.com)
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by falcor84 6mo ago
Candycrush? I suppose you mean Crunchyroll, right?
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by falcor84 6mo ago
> you randomly sample letters from the alphabet and those letters make up actual words, then actual sentences That sounds like a decently apt description of how I (a human) communicate. The only thing is that I suppose you implied a unif
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by falcor84 6mo ago
Yes, what's your point? That is literally what it does - it adds relevant knowledge to the prompt before generating a response, in order to ground it me effectively.
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by falcor84 6mo ago
I'm in absolute agreement that the AI coordination problem exists today when the AI is at junior level. I'm just saying that the mathematical argument is silly to apply to arbitrary future AIs, if and when they reach human capabil
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by falcor84 6mo ago
The thing that TFA doesn't seem to go into is that these mathematical results apply to human agents in exactly the same way as they do to AI agents, and nevertheless we have massive codebases like Linux. If people can figure out how to
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by falcor84 6mo ago
Well, yes, agreed - that is the essential domain complexity. But my argument is that we can work to minimize the time we spend on verifying the code-level accidental complexity.
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by falcor84 6mo ago
I somewhat agree, but even then would argue that the proper level at which this understanding should reside is at the architecture and data flow invariants levels, rather than the code itself. And these can actually be enforced quite well a
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by falcor84 6mo ago
As I see it, the focus should not be about the coding, but about the testing, and particularly the security evaluation. Particularly for critical infrastructure, I would want us to have a testing approach that is so reliable that it wouldn&
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by falcor84 6mo ago
Maybe it's my memory issues, but I personally could never remember basic boilerplate. 30 years ago I would spend half of my time in Borland's help menu coupled with grepping through man pages. These days I use LLMs, including olla
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by falcor84 6mo ago
s/Linux/Unix/
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by falcor84 6mo ago
What lower turtles were there? My impression was that teletypes were the first proper keyboard-based interfaces.
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by falcor84 6mo ago
Well, yes, the number of entrepreneurs in America (~30M) is a different "few" than the number of frontier labs (~3).
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by falcor84 6mo ago
> But are you expecting 360m Americans to start their own businesses? I do not. I grew up on post-scarcity utopias like Star Trek, coupled with social capitalism, and believe that when there is a market need, people with the interest to
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by falcor84 6mo ago
I can't think of any period in time where it was so easy to go into business yourself and to generally have access to the same "means of production" as the biggest companies have. If you want to use LLMs, you can either use c
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by falcor84 6mo ago
That's why I said "regular police". My understanding is that generally no one (including the police) is allowed to carry a gun in public unless someone already illegally introduced them into play. That's the world I want
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by falcor84 6mo ago
It definitely hasn't, but my argument would be in favor of making regular police forces be unarmed as well, like in the UK.
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by falcor84 6mo ago
Look, I don't think people should have access to these at all, but at the same time, I think that the average Joe would be a better custodian of these than Trump and Netanyahu. My hope is that equal access might make us stop treating t
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by falcor84 6mo ago
You make it sound bad, but I personally am very much in favor of regular people having access to the same bad things that the people in charge have.
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by falcor84 6mo ago
I was sure you're going to take it in the direction of the relevant xkcd [0], so was taken aback that you didn't end it with something like "but today the pattern of divs is all wrong". [0] https://xkcd.com&#x
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by falcor84 6mo ago
I actually love the idea of opening the game and then not playing resulting in a negative score. To quote Garfunkel & Oates, "It's better to be a loser than a spectator."
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by falcor84 6mo ago
I would be very much in favor of an amendment that says that whenever there's a single person in a public role that isn't being paid in a given month, then no other public employee above them in the chain, going up to the governor
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by falcor84 6mo ago
Sorry for being that person, but wouldn't situations like this be better resolved by replacing the pilot with full automation too? I mean, I've seen quite a few cases where inordinate amounts of effort are expended to create autom
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by falcor84 6mo ago
Sounds almost like a turtle's exoskeleton
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by falcor84 6mo ago
That's speceist. The whole idea with good science is that you don't need to trust the person. You can evaluate the penguins' study's results and reasoning on its own merits.
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by falcor84 6mo ago
I'm actually constantly surprised by the diversity of experiences I'm seeing here. It's very much not a small bubble, at least not in comparison to any other social network/activity in my life.
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by falcor84 6mo ago
I've been out of the powerpoint loop myself for almost 20 years too; does it actually have any valuable functionality that you can't get on the free alternatives?
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by falcor84 6mo ago
I think that both perspectives are right. We should celebrate diversity, but there's also power in consensus. There needs to be some competition between ideas, but if every bit of disagreement about direction ends in "I'm goi

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