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by fasterik 4mo ago
Under the hood, uBlock works by filtering DOM elements. The "ad blocking" part of it is the set of curated filter lists built on top of that. But it also allows you to right-click on any element and create a custom filter, or writ
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by fasterik 4mo ago
It's interesting that your first guess is hunting, and not self-defense. As a pacifist, do you believe in letting violent people do whatever they want to you without resisting or fighting back?
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It's worth remembering that the American founders considered an armed population an essential part of a free society capable of standing up against federal overreach. James Madison, Federalist 46: >Let a regular army, fully equal t
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by fasterik 4mo ago
I don't think there's anything inherently bad about Anthropic making a profit. Red Hat makes a profit off of Linux. I'm interested in the democratization of the underlying technology.
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We should be skeptical of any major player that advocates for regulating their own industry. In practice, this just means increasing barriers to entry and making it harder to compete with them. In my mind we should be trying to push AI alon
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by fasterik 4mo ago
It seems to me that when you have a tool that automates part of the work, it doesn't make the curiosity go away, it changes the landscape of what problems humans find interesting. Maybe Erdos problems are no longer a good entry-level b
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by fasterik 4mo ago
Why is there a distinction between software and art? Can't you make the same argument on both sides, either that artists should make their work freely available, or that programmers should retain the rights to their work?
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by fasterik 4mo ago
It depends on how you define intelligence. There's a straightforward functional definition: if a system can solve a range of problems that require complex reasoning and it meets objective standards of success across multiple discipline
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by fasterik 4mo ago
This interview is full of gems. Just below that: >Of course, California is also where some of humanity’s most astonishing stupidities started, like the hippie movement, New Age babble, stretch limos, pyramid energy, plastic surgery, yog
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by fasterik 4mo ago
Spot on. There's something about his approach to documentaries that really resonates with me. I'll admit I'm not super well-versed in documentaries so maybe his style isn't that unique, but I suspect it is. The only othe
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by fasterik 4mo ago
Private capital is good at funding research that is likely to provide a short-term return on investment. It's not so good at funding basic research, where most of the paradigm-shifting breakthroughs come from. These provide a huge retu
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by fasterik 4mo ago
There's nothing wrong with having a moral stance on something. It only becomes a problem when the stance is disproportionate and detached from empirical reality.
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by fasterik 5mo ago
I hope this means that Fabien is working on another Game Engine Black Book. I really love these deep dives and historical preservation of 1990's game tech. https://fabiensanglard.net/gebbwolf3d/ https:/&#x2F
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by fasterik 5mo ago
Great quote. Thanks for reminding me I need to check out Neal Stephenson!
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by fasterik 5mo ago
Re: the anxiety of parents about the future: the people who best handle rapidly changing circumstances are the ones who are comfortable with ambiguity and uncertainty. I think it's far less important to teach young people specific skil
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I agree that it's out of the developer's control in some organizations . I'm also skeptical the degree to which this is happening across the industry. If I were running a software team, I would give team members autonomy ove
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by fasterik 5mo ago
It seems to me that the article is creating a false dichotomy where either you don't use AI at all, or you delegate every aspect of the work to AI. This simply isn't how it works in practice. You get to choose how much of the work
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by fasterik 5mo ago
Information aggregation is the theoretical upside of prediction markets. Granted, their effectiveness in that role is an empirical question. For gambling in general, the upside is that people obviously enjoy it, not to mention the right&#x2
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by fasterik 5mo ago
There's value in making more people aware of something, even if it appears obvious to you. It's possible that someone who doesn't share your views on Disney, or corporations more broadly, might have been familiar with FiveThi
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It's not controversial to say that democracy is a more ethical form of government than autocracy. It's also not controversial to say that violence is sometimes justified when it's in self-defence or to prevent a greater injus
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by fasterik 5mo ago
Hard agree about the intrinsic motivation. The intrinsic/extrinsic distinction is an unspoken assumption in a lot of conversations about AI and work in general. Not everyone is motivated by money and status. I do believe you can use LL
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by fasterik 5mo ago
It probably makes economic sense for a company on the scale of Google/Alphabet to spend something like $100M per year on the technology. There's relatively little downside (that amount is a rounding error compared to annual spendi
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by fasterik 5mo ago
Why did it make you sad? I can see why it would make training researchers harder, but once someone attains a postdoc-level skill in mathematics research, wouldn't having a PhD-level AI assistant just boost one's ability to do mo
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by fasterik 5mo ago
> But today I imagine you visiting my hometown and spending a day with the locals. You’d probably end up watching reality TV, ordering some ‘New American’ food on Doordash (it’s a cheeseburger with Korean Kimchi Glaze™), and sports bett
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by fasterik 5mo ago
> I swear that people have said the same thing with effectively every new model That is definitely true, and at the same time, we can measure progress by who is making that claim. When Timothy Gowers, a Fields Medalist, says that mod
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Isn't that a subjective value judgment? That's great that you enjoy gardening and building things with your hands. I don't really enjoy those activities and would rather sit down and read a book or play the piano in my free t
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For the same reason that we should teach people how to use a library, or a search engine, or an academic database. The tools for information retrieval are constantly evolving, and in a democratic society it's important that people lear
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I agree with your general point, but if people are going to use AI regardless, the question is whether we should teach young people how to use it effectively. If they don't learn this, they're more likely to use it a way that hamp
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by fasterik 5mo ago
"Useless for learning" is just wrong. I've found LLMs immensely useful for directing my learning projects. Of course, a lot of the actual learning must come from doing things and puzzling through them myself. But I now find L
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by fasterik 5mo ago
The culprit is using web technologies where they don't belong, which Electron is also guilty of. Claude Code is 400k lines of JavaScript for a TUI where a sane implementation in C would be two orders of magnitude less code.

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