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by fwlr 2mo ago
“Upset” is not quite the right word - something more like “skeptical”, maybe? It does seem like AI programming tends to create the kind of problems that tend to push programmers toward functional programming.
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by fwlr 2mo ago
I think we’ve probably seen enough “oops, the AI did something illegal, who could have foreseen this” moments for it to now be true that, actually, we can foresee that AIs will sometimes do something illegal. Seeing as we can’t sanction t
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by fwlr 2mo ago
I’m pretty sure this is why the “data centers in space” idea just won’t die. Yes, it has so many disadvantages, but it does have one distinct advantage of being outside the Molotov-throwing range of the public.
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by fwlr 2mo ago
Tech Company: “At long last, we have built It, from the infamous sci-fi novel If You Build It, Everyone Dies”.
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by fwlr 2mo ago
Because of the negative externalities. It’s the same reason you shouldn’t do any other thing that personally benefits you but imposes a greater cost on everyone.
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by fwlr 2mo ago
They’re not “drive-by yahoos”, they’re people who appreciate art, and they are necessarily and justifiably skeptical. They’re doing nothing wrong. In another world, many of them would be dedicated fans of the artist. In this world, however,
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by fwlr 2mo ago
Haters are described as “losers in a very specific sense”: “some amount of talent” but “never achieved much”, “never will … do great work”. Haters as “fanboys with the sign bit flipped” is a catchy assertion, but lacks either explanatory or
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by fwlr 2mo ago
“AI-generated images discourage me from reading” is a statement that’s true for me too, albeit for different reasons than offered in this post. For me, it’s the same kind of thing as “reading the text of your slides out loud”, or repeating
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by fwlr 2mo ago
I guess there is something big about to happen and the Apple lawsuit situation needs to be visibly/publicly addressed in order to unblock it. And this thing is big enough that the objection “there is no good way to address the lawsuit”
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by fwlr 2mo ago
Location: Sydney, NSW, Australia Remote: yes, prefer in-office Willing to relocate: yes, within NSW Technologies: JavaScript/TypeScript+React/Vue/htmx, Postgres, Rust, Zig, Lisp Résumé/CV: on request Email: scott@fwlr.io
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by fwlr 2mo ago
Kudos to the author for teaching me a new word for the first time in over a decade. I was beginning to believe I knew them all.
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by fwlr 2mo ago
Hmm. Sounds like it follows the letter of the law (although much of it is LLM-generated, and there’s obviously quite a legal cloud surrounding that), but it does feel a bit against the spirit to me. Overall, I am quite satisfied with the na
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by fwlr 2mo ago
So what if it is more profitable or valuable? It is still not better. Something being more profitable/valuable does not make it better, just like something being better does not make it more profitable/valuable. Sometimes, in some
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by fwlr 2mo ago
I really dislike this AI programming thing of “Mr LLM, go slam your face into the problem until there’s no problem left, then call me back”. (Not sure if it’s a recent trend or a fundamental nature.) It always brings to my mind some words f
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by fwlr 2mo ago
I mean, we are deep into reading tea leaves at this point, but what it seems to have identified is the source file that changed such that this issue can now occur. My gut instinct is that the changed code is still valid and correct, but it
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by fwlr 2mo ago
The overflow would still overflow; the use-after-free would still use after free; a musl mask race would still race. Hilarious. Apart from the computer poetry, the conclusion seems to be “it’s something in Linux 7.0 + musl 1.2.5”
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by fwlr 3mo ago
If OpenAI wanted to slow down their own research and/or releases they could do that without the government telling them to do that. If Anthropic and OpenAI both genuinely want deceleration, then just make a joint agreement
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by fwlr 3mo ago
I would have them make money by selling me products, rather than selling me as a product.
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by fwlr 3mo ago
Maybe I am too cynical, but this just sounds like a plea for the government to step in and save them from their investors.
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by fwlr 3mo ago
So, they say, computers are not smart now, we don’t know what intelligence is, we don’t know how to make computers smart, but they certainly will be intelligent soon. There is currently a trillion-dollar corporation whose valuatio
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by fwlr 3mo ago
“ Built on libghostty. Ghostty's terminal core, embedded and hosted natively by kero “ Doubtful
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by fwlr 3mo ago
Agreed that people claiming “marketing stunt” need to pull their heads out the sand, but likewise Simon needs to do some of his own beach-cranium-dislodging for laying the blame of constraints on the US govt. Before the export controls were
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by fwlr 3mo ago
You never hear anyone talking about “imposter syndrome” anymore, do you?
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by fwlr 3mo ago
An AI agent, 600k tokens into a feature that it just authored, understands the feature as well or better than I do. On this, we are in complete agreement.
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by fwlr 3mo ago
No, the driving through Chinatown question is a question for self-driving cars. It is not a question for LLMs. There is some other question for LLMs, and the author is using the ancient technique of analogy to get you to think about that qu
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by fwlr 3mo ago
Very concerning - I’ve tried n+m, n*m, n^m, and even m^n, but I can’t seem to reproduce the popular “10x” claim.
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by fwlr 3mo ago
Best of luck!
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by fwlr 3mo ago
If enough capital has been installed before learning removes the wedge, the economy lands in the high-capital state, I’m gonna need an honest caveat on the load-bearing assumption here.
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by fwlr 3mo ago
Post a picture of one of these with the “X” key conspicuously removed and you’d probably get a repost from Sam
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by fwlr 3mo ago
Vyvanse is dexamphetamine. I suppose you can say “amphetamines” instead, I imagine the subtleties of the terminology differ quite a bit in different places. Strattera can help (I mentioned bupropion, another SDNRI). Of course if you try sti

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