falcor84

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by falcor84 7mo ago
My clients have been burned before. Once you set up the battle royale with a trusted third party validating that there'll be an assured good job at the end, I promise I'll have enough candidates for you to fill up the first 10 com
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by falcor84 7mo ago
Nightmarish?! In comparison to the average person's actual job? I'm pretty sure that many people out there would sign up for a battle royale for a chance at such a job.
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by falcor84 7mo ago
I didn't imply it's a "foregone conclusion", but just said it's an indication - in the sense of increasing the likelihood. Just like a person asking an AI "what does it feel like to bleed out?" could be th
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by falcor84 7mo ago
That's a good point. If an AI respond to a "what should I get my boyfriend for Christmas?" with a "You should leave him", that's a very different issue.
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by falcor84 7mo ago
Maybe I'm too much of a hopeless romantic, but from my perspective and experience, when someone is good for you, you'll fight for that relationship regardless of what others say, and conversely when you're in a situation wher
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by falcor84 7mo ago
Isn't the fact that a person is asking an AI whether to leave their partner in its own an indication that they should? EDIT: typo
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by falcor84 7mo ago
Is there anything in that chain that actually requires petroleum and couldn't be replaced with alternative with similar properties and prices?
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by falcor84 7mo ago
Ah, it's based on this repo [0] and there's only 1 non-example submission there [1], from 2 weeks ago (so it only covers the preview games), and their schema doesn't a field to show that it's only the preview, nor does t
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by falcor84 7mo ago
I went through the technical paper again, and while they explain why they decided against the harness, I disagree with them - my take is that if harnesses are overfitting, then they should be penalized on the hidden test set. Anyway, search
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by falcor84 7mo ago
I for one think that harness development is perhaps the most interesting part at the moment and would love to have an alternative leaderboard with harnesses.
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by falcor84 7mo ago
Any source you can link to?
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by falcor84 7mo ago
War is about achieving political ends, which killing may or may not be instrumental towards. It's very unclear to me whether Iran's killing of Americans and Israelis, either directly via missiles or via their proxies, had realized
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by falcor84 7mo ago
I believe that the argument was that jihad is about wasting the lives of their own citizens; America and Israel generally manage to reduce that.
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by falcor84 7mo ago
It's a false dichotomy - something being "a simple cost/benefit analysis" doesn't remove the ethical dimension, and can absolutely be nefarious. A movie villain saying "it was just business" doesn't m
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by falcor84 7mo ago
> Logically for an Iranian the most rational response would be to always kill Americans or Israelis in this case. For what definition of rational? Do you believe their killing of Americans and Israelis has or will benefit Iranians?
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by falcor84 7mo ago
Yes. Absolutely. If there are invaders who are killing everybody around me and telling me that they'll stop and generally let me be if I surrender and agree to live in a democracy, I expect that I'll be very inclined to accept. Ma
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by falcor84 7mo ago
As an example of an Eastern country? Well touché, I suppose you're historically correct, but what I had in my mind for this distinction is not the line in the middle of Europe (between the First World and Second World), but that betwee
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by falcor84 7mo ago
As alluded to in the article, F-14s are the planes popularized by the original Top Gun, and if these were indeed the last operational ones in the world, this is quite the end of a symbolic era.
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by falcor84 7mo ago
> Without the helpful abstraction of files and folders, all we'd have are bytes stored at various addresses or sectors of the hardware. I agree with most everything else you said, but would slightly push back on that. I actually qui
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by falcor84 7mo ago
This is actually an interesting example. To me it sounds like it actually should be less confusing to a person who has no preconceived notion of what a file should be, and only wants to save their work and reopen it later, not worried about
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by falcor84 7mo ago
Well, yes (except that Civ isn't a board game). And no, it doesn't make it seem absurd to me. My argument is that Western strategic thought (with games being a codification thereof, rather than the source of) generally considers c
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by falcor84 7mo ago
I think that there's a more general issue here with the US and the West in general having a mindset built up on playing Risk and Civ, which considers the foreign country as a whole as their opponent, whereas in practice, the adversarie
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by falcor84 7mo ago
I don't get the idea of giving a claw access to your own mail account, but am now playing with the idea of it having its own email account that I selectively forward to - that offers almost the full benefit, with significantly less ris
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by falcor84 7mo ago
I disagree with the grandparent too, but still would argue that an OS's goal is to allow its users to manage their applications and work processes rather than their computer. It's a hard question to figure out what's the prop
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by falcor84 7mo ago
I know it's a bit ironic given TFA's focus on shoving Copilot and Recall down users' throats, but I really do believe that an OS-level AI agent could solve these usability issues. We need to solve a lot of trust issues, but t
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by falcor84 7mo ago
I would propose a new law of interaction design: Whenever something is promoted as a tool that you wouldn't need to learn, then it's actually designed to use you, and you are the tool.
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by falcor84 7mo ago
I read it in the same vein as saying that a sub's sonar enables "seeing" its surroundings. The focus is on having a spatial sensor rather than on the qualia of how that sensation is afterwards processed/felt.
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by falcor84 7mo ago
> You don't have to pay VAT on things you fix for yourself, because you don't pay yourself at all. Just to be clear, if you're a VAT-registered tradie doing a job for yourself, you are obligated to pay VAT for the material
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by falcor84 7mo ago
> my wallet Does it actually need direct access to your wallet? I haven't tried it yet, but assumed it would work with a separate wallet, fed through by top-ups.
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by falcor84 7mo ago
I've been carefully watching for more than a year, including 3 productive parallel Claude Code sessions today, and they absolutely have agency in any definition of the word I can think of. Can you try to define more clearly what it is

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