getnormality

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by getnormality 8d ago
Congratulations. You are one of those leading the way, showing how we will adapt and how the world will get better from AI.
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by getnormality 8d ago
I gotta hand it to programmers (or whatever we call ourselves now) for sticking to principle on something this trivial. It was either this or Claude had to become a generic term like sheetrock.
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by getnormality 12d ago
I think upweighting the live components of academia is inevitable in the age of automatically produced writing, but I also find it depressing that people think so little of writing that they imagine it obsolete because of AI. AI writing is
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by getnormality 18d ago
> the problem may be less about knowing a particular technique and more about the agent’s ability to keep its actual goal as the primary constraint. I think the limiting factor is often the human's ability to articulate the goal and
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by getnormality 19d ago
> Makes sense. The kids can see that education isn't really going to be a sellable skill when AI ends up coming into full force. If true, this is a disastrously foolish thing to believe. Education is only going to become more import
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by getnormality 19d ago
Strong resonance with the famous essay "The Rise of Worse is Better" [1], which contrasted the (better) "MIT/Stanford style of design" with the (worse) "New Jersey approach". MIT/Stanford: > Simpli
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by getnormality 21d ago
This is a great technique if your workplace is fussy about what's allowed on GitHub. We have used it for many years.
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by getnormality 22d ago
This is much better than the AI version, just post this next time
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by getnormality 22d ago
System Prompt: "Claude, call yourself Bob"
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by getnormality 24d ago
Why believe it's worth your time? Upfront it reads like: > Claude, generate a 500 word blog post about how people don't refactor anymore because of AI. Just send me the prompt!
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by getnormality 25d ago
So, you don't see how someone could both be "credibly earnest" and misrepresenting what they're up to? Do you think misrepresentation has to be consciously deceptive? That it feels insincere to the person doing it?
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by getnormality 25d ago
Bullshitting is where you don't care about whether what you say is true. Your goal is to influence a certain way of thinking or feeling, and you just say stuff that you think will cause that in other people. Appearing to care about t
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by getnormality 25d ago
Altman and Zitron are like pro wrestlers. Their speech acts aren't for truth, they're for some spectacular effect on your feelings and your imagination that keeps you coming back for more. I encourage anyone interested in this to
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by getnormality 26d ago
And yet we are only hearing of this now, whereas botulism risk for example is a widely known reason to avoid honey for infants. It must end up being rare for some other reason.
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by getnormality 1mo ago
Doesn't feel realistic. The comic version at least makes sense at some level; the real-world one doesn't. The real world version is "they're ripping us off by giving us cheap stuff that our producers can't compete w
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by getnormality 1mo ago
> Conventional accounting measures portray large health insurers such as UnitedHealth Group (UHG) as earning relatively low profit margins because they treat premium dollars that are subsequently paid out in medical claims as revenue. Ho
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by getnormality 1mo ago
On the other hand, if you let in-house devs own your enterprise software, in many places it's going to be months of meetings to get the smallest change implemented. Plenty of companies run most of their internal operations on Excel and
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by getnormality 1mo ago
I would never tell an agent to write "what does the code do" comments. Their default comments are already way too fluffy.
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by getnormality 1mo ago
This is a problem that people mostly have to solve themselves. Like, I've been working with Claude for almost a year now and I have never once seen it write "Arrow Anti-Pattern" code. That, and much of the rest, would be fluf
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by getnormality 1mo ago
I find that typical human content has about 5% information density, while typical AI content is about 1%. AI is much worse, but the same extreme skimming techniques apply to both. In both cases I'm like "I have no idea why you had
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by getnormality 1mo ago
It isn't a person, I know from years of interaction how not-a-person these agents are, so when it says stuff like "I'm so tired, so many people have asked me this" (or a stilted Claudese version of the same) it really do
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by getnormality 1mo ago
IMO Gemini's is better than all the others, including the original.
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by getnormality 2mo ago
This is an important problem, and the response can go in starkly different ways. While many in the West wring hands and call for degrowth, China is scaling up aquaculture to create abundance without overfishing, and solving aquaculture&#x27
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by getnormality 2mo ago
I wonder what happens when you give Claude the old version and the logs and ask it to find the bug.
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by getnormality 2mo ago
Maybe the real reason that small sample sizes don't tell you anything is because there's tons of small samples in the world, and the particular one you're looking at has almost certainly been selected for unusualness. It&#x27
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by getnormality 2mo ago
From a life spent on count statistics, one thing I think is interesting is how definitively you can reject perfect randomness from a very small sample like this. The expected event count from 17,000 people exposed to a month of constant uni
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by getnormality 2mo ago
One could say the same about the train.
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by getnormality 2mo ago
This is a strong benchmark! None of these could be remotely mistaken for human art. Opus 5 comes closest.
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Natural experiments prove phytoplankton carbon removal works(onepercentbrighter.com)
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by getnormality 2mo ago
Germany trading nuclear for coal in 2022, and the role of the Greens supporting it, was widely reported by credible outlets; see for example [1]: > With little natural gas supplies of the country’s own, and its heavily supported renewabl

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