falcor84

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by falcor84 6mo ago
Exactly! Our argument shouldn't be about the device's capabilities, but about its ownership. And increasingly, as this enshittification progresses, the person buying the device is becoming less and less its owner.
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by falcor84 6mo ago
I don't think refusal is the right approach. I would much prefer that it respond with something like: > There is not enough information to make an accurate estimate, but if you'd like, I can take a stab at it. If so, how much e
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by falcor84 6mo ago
Even more news at randint(1, 12)
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by falcor84 6mo ago
Let me ask you this - can a company be held accountable? I.e. are you ok with the legal manner in which when I hire a company to provide me a service and they fail to provide it, or cause harm in the process, I can sue them, potentially in
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by falcor84 6mo ago
"A lot of people" never could do simple calculations, regardless of calculators. But if you're interested in actual figures over time, this data from nationsreportcard.gov would probably be the best longitudinal data source w
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by falcor84 6mo ago
A small example is doing NPV (Net Present Value) calculations to compare the benefits from alternative projects/investments. It's just basic arithmetic, but is annoying to do by hand. I'm sure that if we had to do them with j
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by falcor84 6mo ago
> WRT logic, there a multiple occasions of LLMs answering incorrectly to trivial logic puzzles. There are multiple occasions of me answering incorrectly to trivial logic puzzles. Is that enough for you to deduce that I am "lack&quot
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by falcor84 6mo ago
But on the flip side of the coin, I've been traveling so much more since I got access to map software on my phone. Especially when vacationing abroad, remembering the days before smart phones, we would need to carefully plan specific a
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by falcor84 6mo ago
> Augmentation always leads to atrophy. That's a very bold claim. As a small example let's look at calculators - I remember a lot of claims that having access to calculators would make people's brains atrophy and they&#x27
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by falcor84 6mo ago
> This requires logic, which LLMs lack. What? I've heard many takes on what AI lacks, but never this one. We had ChatGPT being able to solve an Erdős problem on its own yesterday [0]; how could you explain that if it cannot do logic
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by falcor84 6mo ago
But humans aren't just a "reasoning component"; our nervous system (and body in general) provides us with significant capabilities that would be considered a "harness" for our frontal lobe. It just seems silly to me
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by falcor84 6mo ago
I remember a particularly nice lesson in my high school physics class whereby the teacher introduced us to the idea of statistical mechanics by saying that there's a probability, which we could calculate if we wanted to, of this chair
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by falcor84 6mo ago
It's not common, but I've personally built APIs where requests for dangerous modifications like this perform a dry run, giving in the response the resources that would be deleted/changed and a random token, which then needs t
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by falcor84 6mo ago
They focus on minimizing the number of moves and don't allow any harness whatsoever, putting the bar extremely high. The current top verified contender (Claude Opus 4.6) is at only 0.45%. But with how new it is, I expect a lot of impro
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by falcor84 6mo ago
I haven't tried it myself, but, I would assume that this sort of instruction in CLAUDE.md would indeed make it a bit more careful, to the detriment of its development velocity, which for my use-case would be bad. I generally prefer for
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by falcor84 6mo ago
Well, that is what's in the ellipsis in the parent's quote: "Hard times create strong men, strong men create good times, good times create weak men, and weak men create hard times" G. Michael Hopf
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by falcor84 6mo ago
While we're doing historical quotes: "People just submitted it. I don't know why. They 'trust me'. Dumb fucks." -Mark Zuckerberg
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by falcor84 6mo ago
If the bar is that people will continue reading their books in 200 years, than which fiction writers of the last few decades would go into your list of "good"?
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by falcor84 6mo ago
That's an extremely high bar. But to the extent that critics and awards are the metric we have, he is an objectively good writer.
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by falcor84 6mo ago
I think you just need to define "Consciousness" and "Divine", and the answer will pop right out.
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by falcor84 6mo ago
Seeing how annoying their website interfaces are, I'd actually be open to paying for API/CLI access to porn.
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by falcor84 6mo ago
I like his reasoning about feedback, but found his rejection of this funny: > I was afraid then that I had consigned myself to writing stories about children in jeopardy. But in fact I was writing character stories rather than idea stori
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by falcor84 6mo ago
Interesting - do you have a link about the financial accounting around this?
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by falcor84 6mo ago
> Nothing can stop us now that we’re in charge of a website. I love that. Like a familiar smell, it triggered in me a long lost memory of the old hacker ethos.
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by falcor84 6mo ago
"No Such Agency"
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by falcor84 6mo ago
Indeed, and if we accept the argument of this tech approaching AGI, we should expect that within x years, the subscription cost may exceed the salary cost of a junior dev. To be clear, I'm not saying that it's a good thing, but it
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by falcor84 6mo ago
I don't think that sama was arguing that ChatGPT actually passed a PhD thesis defense. But arguably, it could make for an interesting benchmark.
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by falcor84 6mo ago
What of it? For me too, it was around that time last year, with GPT-5, Claude Sonnet 4.5 and then Gemini 3 that I started feeling that these models are clearly becoming great at reasoning. I'm not at all opposed to saying that they are
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by falcor84 6mo ago
> We want to make these capabilities available to the scientists and research organizations best positioned to advance human health, while maintaining strong safeguards against biological misuse. The Life Sciences model is launching thro
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by falcor84 6mo ago
Any particular evidence for this other than the conjecture that it might be related? To me it seems like just a natural evolution of Codex and a direct response to Claude Cowork, rather than something fully claw-like.

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