falcor84

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by falcor84 10mo ago
I really enjoyed Lex Fridman's interview with Ezra Klein and Derek Thompson on this topic, as part of their book tour for Abundance. Even if I disagree with some of their proposals, I really liked their focus and clarification of the i
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by falcor84 10mo ago
Your question is really abstract. Maybe give an explanation of your domain, the tooling you're currently using and its particular limitations? Also worth saying that the priority given to metrics and dashboards over actual outcomes is
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by falcor84 10mo ago
Interesting. What would you say is best for Mars?
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by falcor84 10mo ago
Interesting - I found this quantitative historical study [0] showing that while a civil war does significantly increase the likelihood of inflation, only 36% of countries analyzed which had a civil war between 1975-1999 ended up in an infla
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by falcor84 10mo ago
http://archive.today/VBmN2
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'Star Wars' Boss [Kathleen Kennedy] Departs, Ending an Asteroid-Filled Reign(nytimes.com)
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by falcor84 10mo ago
I suppose you're alluding to his famous quote "I'd like to die on Mars, just not on impact"[0], so yes, having him stay there would be a win-win for everyone. https://www.cnet.com/culture/elon-musk-a
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by falcor84 10mo ago
Thinking about this some more now, I can imagine a future in which we'll see more and more software for which AI agents are the main users. For tech documentation, I suppose that AI agents would mainly benefit from Skills files managed
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by falcor84 10mo ago
> I don’t see AI doing either of those things well. I think I agree, at least in the current state of AI, but can't quite put my finger on what exactly it's missing. I did have some limited success with getting Claude Code to g
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by falcor84 10mo ago
A very good point too. Though I personally hope that we'll have enough of a warning to convince people that there is a problem and give us a fighting chance. I grew up on Terminator and would be really disappointed if the AI kills me i
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by falcor84 10mo ago
I love it! Now you just need to add some buttons to let me control things. In particular, I would like to toggle things to bring "Cost of computer memory" down, which I suppose would require a slowdown in "Compute used to tra
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by falcor84 10mo ago
> We should be afraid, they say, making very public comments about “P(Doom)” - the chance the technology somehow rises up and destroys us. > This has, of course, not happened. This is so incredibly shallow. I can't think of even
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by falcor84 10mo ago
I'm very curious about what's going on there. It's been in a "Major Outage" for over two hours now, with a previous fix rollout apparently not helping matters. I wonder if it has to do with the recent rollout of Cow
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by falcor84 10mo ago
Anyone here can recommend a modern tool for this?
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by falcor84 10mo ago
I agree with everything you said except for > the fears around having them probably are more irrational than rational My $0.02 is that if anything, the fears people have about how much their lives would be transformed are significantly l
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US gives green light to Nvidia H200 chip exports to China(reuters.com)
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by falcor84 10mo ago
Wait, HN has a leaderboard?
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by falcor84 10mo ago
Once upon a time, in the magical days of Windows 7, we had the Volume Shadow Copy Service (aka "Previous Versions") available by default, and it was so nice. I'm not using Windows anymore, and at least part of the reason is t
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by falcor84 10mo ago
Yes, getting the timelines right is near impossible, but the trajectory is clear to me, both on AI taking over pure knowledge work and on self-driving cars replacing human drivers. For the latter, there's a lot of inertia and legalitie
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by falcor84 10mo ago
That's the most non-article I've read in awhile. A bit ironic how reading through this waiting for an argument to appear is about as annoying as waiting for GTA 6 to come out.
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by falcor84 10mo ago
I agree with essentially everything you said, except for the final claim that managing context is incidental complexity. From what I know of cognitive science, I would argue that context management is a central facet of intelligence, and a
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by falcor84 10mo ago
But that's the thing: Claude Plays Pokemon is an experiment in having Claude work fully independently, so there's no "you" who would improve its onboarding docs or anything else, it has to do so on its own. And as long a
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by falcor84 10mo ago
The idea of Claude having "anterograde amnesia" and the top-rated comment there by Noosphere89 really resonated with me: "I would analogize this to a human with anterograde amnesia, who cannot form new memories, and who i
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by falcor84 10mo ago
> For me there’s no flow state possible with LLM “coding”. I would argue that it's the same question as whether it's possible to get into a flow state when being the "navigator" in a pair-programming session. I feel y
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by falcor84 10mo ago
Yes, absolutely willing to commit. I can't find a single reliable source, but from what I gather, over 70% of people in the West do "pure knowledge work", which doesn't include any embodied actuvities. I am happy to put
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by falcor84 10mo ago
> It requires constant feedback, critical evaluation, and checks. This is not AGI, its cognitive augmentation. To me that doesn't sound qualitatively different from a PhD student. Are they just cognitive augmentation for their mento
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by falcor84 10mo ago
Let me put it like this: I expect AI to replace much of human wage labor over the next 20 years and push many of us, and myself almost certainly included, into premature retirement. I'm personally concerned that in a few years, I'
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by falcor84 10mo ago
> Any talk of "AGI" is, as always, ridiculous. How did you arrive at "ridiculous"? What we're seeing here is incredible progress over what we had a year ago. Even ARC-AGI-2 is now at over 50%. Given that this sor
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by falcor84 10mo ago
It's really strange to me that they're comparing it to the nearly obsolete Hubble with its 2.4m mirror, but not mentioning JWST which has a 6.5m mirror, at over double the size of this proposed Lazuli telescope's 3.1m mirror.
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by falcor84 10mo ago
On a related note, I hate most UIs, and would really like to go back to the original idea of a User Agents. I'm far from an expert on Human-Machine interfaces, so take this with salt, but my vision is of software exposing only a very h

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