falcor84

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by falcor84 5mo ago
https://archive.ph/WHPa3
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by falcor84 5mo ago
Seeing how it's hard to identify sarcasm on the internet, I'll just clarify that it of course is the same person - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marshall_Brain And I'll also link to the HN thread followi
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by falcor84 5mo ago
> As a human, I have many stupid and wrong ideas all day long - most of those don't bubble up to my conscious awareness I'm sorry to nitpick, but isn't an unconscious idea an oxymoron?
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by falcor84 5mo ago
It is most likely significantly driven by both
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OpenClaw leads official ARC-AGI-3 community leaderboard(arcprize.org)
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by falcor84 5mo ago
Well, it really depends on your definitions, but I'll probably put the biggest theft in history on European imperialism in the 14-19th centuries, seizing unfathomable amounts of land, resources and slave labor from other civilizations.
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by falcor84 5mo ago
If anything, I would argue that the whole Intellectual Property bubble is The Emperor's New Clothes. It never made real sense to me to treat ideas as property, and I for one would absolutely prefer to live in a future society where it&
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by falcor84 5mo ago
> how would one enforce a copyright claim if the creator is amorphous and all-knowing? I love it! There's a great seed here for a short story about God being sued by a peer of his for copying some of her physical constants and not p
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by falcor84 5mo ago
I think you're right, the ease in which AI can do task that we previously considered unique to human creativity does force us to further rethink and acknowledge how creativity is in a large part about "remixing" prior works,
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by falcor84 5mo ago
Ironically this phrase was said by Jafar in Disney's 2019 live action remake of Aladdin, but wasn't part of the original 1992 version. And I personally would argue that this corporate remake is a worse creative "theft" t
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by falcor84 5mo ago
A software system can be fully interoperable without any part of it (other than the interface) being open. In my definition, an Open Shell software solution is one in which a company makes it clear that they're focusing on building and
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by falcor84 5mo ago
I'll just put the Willy Wonka tunnel clip here - https://youtu.be/Xkg7dp1QY9k
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by falcor84 5mo ago
I'm wondering why this was posted now, seeing how the latest actual code commit there is from 2 years ago, and the documentation section of the readme is literally a blank header: > ## Documentation
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by falcor84 5mo ago
> That reminds me of the short scifi/horror story "Valuable Humans in Transit" ... I think you're probably referring to "Lena", from the same story collection - https://qntm.org/mmacevedo
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by falcor84 5mo ago
Just extracting the awesome result (with minor simplification): > To evaluate c = sqrt(a^2+b^2), assuming a is the larger number (if it is not, swap them): > Compute c = max(a, 0.9a+0.5b) > Done! That’s the result. This is an estim
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by falcor84 5mo ago
Willison chose this task because (unlike actual images of pelicans) is was clearly not in training data, but could be reasoned about and composed from what's there. But just like those "how many golf balls can you fit in a 747?&qu
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by falcor84 5mo ago
Thanks for clarifying, I suppose I mostly agree, and also hope that misbehaving companies will be punished. With that said, I'm very concerned that the coming decade will be a bumpy ride for all of us.
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by falcor84 5mo ago
> I've always viewed Obsidian as the inverse of an open core product. I'd like to hereby propose the "open shell" development model.
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by falcor84 5mo ago
I suppose that's not what you meant, but I love the idea of "Lars Von Trier" as a persona being good cinema. At the very least, it made me understand that I need him to appear as himself in the next Death Stranding game.
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by falcor84 5mo ago
I don't get it. How is knowing that AI itself will not take responsibility or that it will not indemnify its users make your decade any better? Is your line of reasoning that using AI will very likely prove to be a bad idea in the long
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by falcor84 5mo ago
Where is the "cannot" coming from? The only underlying rule that I see is: the more complex a task is, the lower the probability of success. That's it. And it's the same exact rule that applies to humans. The difference
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by falcor84 5mo ago
Agreed. Very firmly in level 2, and going well into level 3 too. For example, I've had quite a few situations when I asked Claude Code to do some manual work for me, assuming it would do manual edits across several files, but it instea
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by falcor84 5mo ago
Wait, why? This is exactly what I as a human would have said in this situation. Or if you're referring to how the OP still decided to go ahead, I've seen AIs go ahead on impractical courses of action many times, and surprisingly s
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by falcor84 5mo ago
No, not yet astronomically richer. I'm working on it, but a part of the reason why I haven't yet broken all my bones from repeatedly diving into a pool of money is The Red Queen's Race. With how much easier it is to write cod
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by falcor84 5mo ago
I don't know what frustrations you have, but the impact of Claude (and particularly Claude Code) on my productivity over the last year has been astronomical. If there wasn't this fierce competition, and I had to pay 10 times as mu
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by falcor84 5mo ago
Yeah, no, I absolutely agree with you that TFA is not an examplar of good writing. But would just argue that the problem has little to do with these snowclone patterns or the rule of 3, and a lot more with the actual substance not fitting t
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by falcor84 5mo ago
But LLMs were literally evolved via RLHF to write in a way that humans find agreeable. Can't we just move past this aversion and accept "writing like an LLM" as generally good writing style advice?
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by falcor84 5mo ago
There's the classic article by Matt Ringel and Tom Limoncelli back from 1999: https://www.usenix.org/legacy/event/lisa99/full_papers/ringe...
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by falcor84 5mo ago
Why is it a red flag? How is it different from any other purely stylistic rules such as Strunk and White's prohibitions against split infinitives and the passive voice, which we've left far behind us? Why shouldn't people jus
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by falcor84 5mo ago
Ah, thanks for clarifying. But still, my understanding is that military personal are generally aware of their nationalistic-mortality (for lack of a better term) when they are in active duty, but expect to relinquish that mortality risk aft

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