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by fnordsensei 1y ago
Claude Garden Path Sentence
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by fnordsensei 1y ago
So to do true UBI, you’d also have to raise taxes quite a bit. If US GDP is ~30 trillion, the program would have to capture ~20% of that to achieve your target. Do check my math, I’m not sure I’ve got this right.
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by fnordsensei 1y ago
Gaming seems to have been improving massively as well, in no small part due to Valves efforts if I’m to understand correctly. Other than that, there’s literally nothing I need from Microsoft currently. MS is little more than a rent seeker t
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by fnordsensei 1y ago
I don't disagree exactly, it's just that it smells weird. LLMs are incredibly good at social engineering when we let them, whereas I could write the code to emit "you're right" or "that's not quite right&q
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by fnordsensei 1y ago
I’ve had the opposite experience with GPT-5, where it’s utterly convinced that its own (incorrect) solution is the way to go that it turns me down and preemptively launches tools to implement what it has in mind. I get that it’s tradeoffs,
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by fnordsensei 1y ago
That doesn’t seem plausible to me. Not that LLMs can’t be sycophantic, but I don’t think this phrase in particular is part of it. It’s a canned phrase in a place where an LLM could be much more creative to much greater efficacy.
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by fnordsensei 1y ago
That’s not the purpose of it, as I understand it; it’s a token phrase generated to cajole it down a particular path.[1] An alignment mechanism. The complement appears to be, “actually, that’s not right.”, a correction mechanism. 1: https:&
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by fnordsensei 1y ago
As someone who gets useful Clojure out of Claude quite consistently, I’m not sure that volume is the only reason for output quality.
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by fnordsensei 1y ago
I personally enjoy the “You’re absolutely right!” exclamation. It signals alignment with my feedback in a consistent manner.
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by fnordsensei 1y ago
Next week is next month.
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by fnordsensei 1y ago
If you don’t mind a tangent, this is close to my way of working out thoughts as well, including with code. When I write code, it’s as much a cognitive tool as it is a tool to make things happen in the system. It develops thoughts as much as
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by fnordsensei 1y ago
Alright, then my analogy holds. He can’t criticize Apple unless he first makes a really pretty website. You can’t criticize the movie unless you first direct a better one.
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by fnordsensei 1y ago
Sorry, but what does one have to do with the other? Are you one of those people who think you can’t criticize a movie unless you’re a director yourself?
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by fnordsensei 1y ago
The brain can literally not process any piece of information without being changed by the act of processing it. Neuronal pathways are constantly being reinforced or weakened. Even remembering alters the memory being recalled, entirely unlik
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by fnordsensei 1y ago
> By being particularly bad at anything outside of the most popular languages and frameworks, LLMs force you to pick a very mainstream stack if you want to be efficient. Do they? I’ve found Clojure-MCP[1] to be very useful. OTOH, I’m not
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by fnordsensei 1y ago
No, you've got it wrong. If US models are suddenly required to praise their monarch, or hide his past affiliations or whatever, that warrants them more critique. Chinese models aren't don't become exempt "because the US
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by fnordsensei 1y ago
Just because it’s open source doesn’t mean it’s well tested, or well pen tested, or whatever the applicable security aspect is. It could also mean that attacks against it are high value (because of high distribution). Point is, license isn’
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by fnordsensei 1y ago
Inline on the component itself. Then reach for the button component when you need to make a button.
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by fnordsensei 1y ago
On the one hand, it’s their future. On the other hand, a fully developed prefrontal cortex is handy in order to make it a good future. On the third hand, that’s still no guarantee against people voting against their own self-interest.
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by fnordsensei 1y ago
We should be eating more ants, it seems like a largely untapped source of protein then.
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by fnordsensei 1y ago
For a novice, could you elaborate the difference that GC does? Naively, it seems like the only difference would be whether you pay the deallocation fee immediately or later on. Is there less of a problem when done in bulk if the volume of t
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by fnordsensei 1y ago
With the Embraer partnership[1] and the additional production capacity _and_ demand it generates, a hotcake situation is looking increasingly more realistic for Saab. 1: https://embraer.com/global/en/news?slug=1207
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Saab achieves AI milestone with Gripen E(saab.com)
77 points by fnordsensei 1y ago|57 comments
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by fnordsensei 1y ago
I was disappointed that I had to upgrade to Steam Launcher 11, since it provided no benefits in launching Steam over Steam Launcher 10, or 7.
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by fnordsensei 1y ago
Relying on icons alone is never entirely without risk, no matter how conventional the icon. if you Value accessibility don’t substitute text for imagery. Use imagery to provide a visual anchor for text.
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by fnordsensei 2y ago
In EDN[1], which is to Clojure as JSON is to JS, commas are whitespace (as it is in Clojure itself). 1: https://github.com/edn-format/edn
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by fnordsensei 2y ago
I always thought it was because where you to deny in the Apple popup, that decision is “final”, whereas if they can gauge your mood before that, they can keep pestering you about it in the future. I’ve seen confirm (app) -> confirm (Appl
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by fnordsensei 2y ago
Yeah, seeing this one too. Is it an Orion or Safari thing though?
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by fnordsensei 2y ago
They seem popular enough that they could be leveraged to influence opinion and twist perception, as has been done with social media. Or, as is already being done, use them to influence opinion and twist perception within tools and services
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by fnordsensei 2y ago
Yeah, it wouldn’t surprise me if the vast majority are more moderate than the two-party system can account for. And that consequently, the White House might be overestimating what they have popular mandate to do.

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