falcor84

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by falcor84 1y ago
I would think that it's more like a general codebase - even if after 2.5 years, 95% percent of the lines were rewritten, and even if the whole thing was rewritten in a different language, there is no point in time at which its value di
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by falcor84 1y ago
For what it's worth, collecting new problems to solve is actually the main fuel for improving the AIs, so if GenAI becomes good at creating problems, which it can iterate on tackling, then there's a flywheel going.
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by falcor84 1y ago
What does this have to do with devs? Isn't all writing personal at its core?
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by falcor84 1y ago
> never looked back Obviously there are very many Amish people who leave their communities to join the modern world - according to various sources this attrition seems to be between 15-25%. And even amongst those who stay, it's like
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by falcor84 1y ago
> AIs don't buy products As of the last couple of weeks, AIs can buy products[0][1]. Obviously for now these are intended to function on a short leash, but I wouldn't bet against agents with long-term horizon goals becoming act
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by falcor84 1y ago
> is a hot dog a sandwich Just for those unfamiliar with the relevant research, the proper classification of a hot dog is as a Taco - https://cuberule.com/
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by falcor84 1y ago
I've seen unions do many things that don't seem to make sense at first sight (and often not subsequently either). But in this case, it does make perfect sense to me - unions like SAG-AFTRA could claim that AI-generated "actor
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by falcor84 1y ago
I wonder what it says about me that the only counterexample that came to me is the use of Nuka Cola bottle caps in the Fallout games. But that only works in a post-apocalyotic setting, when there's no longer any manufacturing capabilit
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by falcor84 1y ago
While mathematics "can" be reasoned about from first principles, the history of math is chock-full of examples of professional mathematicians convinced by unsound and wrong arguments. I prefer the clarity of performing math experi
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by falcor84 1y ago
I've perhaps been away from the scene for a bit, but I'm very impressed. To me this is absolutely "video generation", and I don't get your disdain for productization and monetization; last I checked this wasn't
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by falcor84 1y ago
Isn't this upriver/downriver/elevation terminology just a fancy/ignorant way of saying "topological ordering"?
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by falcor84 1y ago
I found it a bit ironic that the author introduced C code there as an aid, but didn't incorporate it into their argument. As I see it, code is exactly the bridge between abstract math and the empirical world - the process of writing co
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by falcor84 1y ago
This got me thinking - is there any reasonable metric we could use to measure the intellectual capabilities of the most capable species on Earth that had evolved at each point in time? I wonder what kind of growth function we'd see. Si
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by falcor84 1y ago
> comments as genre is almost useless. Writing a comment that categorizes comments as a literary genre and then immediately argues that comments are useless is some meta level deconstruction. Kudos.
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by falcor84 1y ago
Indeed, I believe that the singularity is actually the point in time when the number of shopping carts will tend to infinity. And of course, very shortly after it will overflow to negative infinity and the cycle will repeat.
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by falcor84 1y ago
Linear growth on a 0-100 benchmark is quite likely an exponential increase in capability.
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by falcor84 1y ago
Thanks for clarifying. I understand your perspective now, but just want to say that this is really different from mine, which might be influenced by my having a relatively strong Need for Closure[0]. I've been a life-long gamer, and ha
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by falcor84 1y ago
> I wonder whether LLMs are capable of doing more I don't see how that is a question. I come up with new ideas to improve the LLM-based tools I'm using at least once a day, and the vast majority of these are plain engineering c
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by falcor84 1y ago
I agree that Google were too slow to move, but entirely disagree with the first part. ChatGPT is very much not a "search engine". Arguably it is an "Answer engine", but more so, it is a conversational partner - I almost
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by falcor84 1y ago
Interesting - how do you imagine that he would use the likes of CoD to shape global perspective?
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by falcor84 1y ago
Would you mind saying more about this? Why does promoting games as if they were movies is an issue? Is this just about the rising development costs of AAA games, or is there something else here that you're alluding to?
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by falcor84 1y ago
>This too shall pass > Things will eventually settle down into a new normal While I accept the former as a wise axiom, I don't think we can derive the latter in regards to the tech industry. Things have been accelerating, and I&#
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President Trump Renews Threat of 100% Tariffs on Films Made Outside the U.S.(variety.com)
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by falcor84 1y ago
The word "easily" is doing some work here, as your scenario is already in the area of "rubber-hose cryptanalysis", where passcodes don't stay private for long either.
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by falcor84 1y ago
The typical political axis is liberty/freedom on one end vs. safety/security on the other end. And this is exactly one of those cases where having the liberty to bear arms reduces safety.
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by falcor84 1y ago
On a side note, I still can't get used to how wanting to restrict access to guns is considered a "liberal" stance.
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by falcor84 1y ago
Early intervention is generally significantly cheaper, so insurers have an interest in doing sufficiently good diagnosis to avoid unnecessary late and costly interventions.
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by falcor84 1y ago
Oh, I don't recall seeing anyone sharing Pirate Bay links; why not share just the magnet uri? Or is it about sharing the domains of mirrors?
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by falcor84 1y ago
What are peanut butter links?
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by falcor84 1y ago
How does nerd-sniping with Waymo work? Is it about nerd-sniping a person so they get hit by a Waymo, or is it about nerd-sniping the Waymo itself, distracting it before having a human hit it? D'oh, I think I got nerd-sniped there for a

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