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by getnormality 7mo ago
> researchers found that ferrets that developed more severe tinnitus also showed disrupted sleep. Hold up. How do we know when ferrets have tinnitus???
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by getnormality 7mo ago
Everyone who is really into blogging about their AI use sounds exactly like this. Hmm, I wonder why!
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by getnormality 7mo ago
> Otherwise it doesn't make sense to put CO2 into the air with one hand and take it out with another. I agree that it doesn't make sense, but I also want to challenge the engineering assumption that an extremely relatively inef
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by getnormality 7mo ago
Yes, the post is evaluating a personal essay of subjective experiences as if it is an obscured mechanism for convincing people about factual claims.
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by getnormality 7mo ago
There is much less to this essay than meets the eye. It boils down to this: 1. The author thinks "it turns out" should only be used to express discovery of objectively surprising facts. 2. Paul Graham sometimes uses "it tur
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by getnormality 7mo ago
Patrick Collison sounds like a lovely, trusting, scientifically-minded man who needs to learn the constructive power of destruction. The power of rage and contempt for bad solutions and bad communication (regardless of intent). With a smile
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by getnormality 7mo ago
AxO prompt engineer: "pay no attention to the man behind the curtain!"
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by getnormality 7mo ago
So much AI moaning and groaning these days seems based on the idea that people have to be forced to do anything of value, even for themselves. It seems to imply a great deal of pessimism about human self-determination. Like, I can't be
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by getnormality 7mo ago
I think this author could consider thinking of the AI as more than just a task rabbit that allows us to not code, not think, not understand. If the LLM is indeed such a master at complex coding tasks that we don't understand, why not a
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by getnormality 7mo ago
I spend an unusually small proportion of my life in meetings, probably an idiosyncratic feature of my job. My impression is that the main reason most people have so many meetings is because meetings are equated to work. If you are in a meet
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by getnormality 7mo ago
So is the actual work of programming is mostly just sitting in meetings where business people and programmers slowly muddle through requirements?
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by getnormality 7mo ago
So are you saying that bad programmers play a dual role of attending meetings to get business requirements, in a way that AI cannot do?
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by getnormality 7mo ago
Or maybe people who like talking much more than they like code are now very excited about the possibility that talking has eaten software development. This is exactly backwards. For many tasks, formal languages are better, more real, more b
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by getnormality 7mo ago
This author is pointing out that the fraction of the tech dream du jour that is actually realized is consistently about 1%, so taking tech dreams du jour seriously is guaranteed to give you a false world model. Which is unhelpful and malada
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by getnormality 7mo ago
> So far it seems to me that self-attention really brought new capabilities to a network Do we have a layman explanation for what makes self-attention so uniquely powerful? Something more than "it lets you do self-attention".
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by getnormality 7mo ago
I find it so fundamentally unhinged that people think things will get fully automated to the point that humans no longer matter. We are centuries into the deep automation of certain things, like looms, but people with deep understanding of
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by getnormality 7mo ago
I agree. One way to sum up what you've said: love in any substantial sense is a commitment of effort, and all such commitments are economic in nature - that is, inherently limited and subject to tradeoffs. And these commitments will fo
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by getnormality 7mo ago
The vectors containing the weights of each ingredient live in the positive orthant (x >= 0). When you divide by x by sum(x), the resulting vector p has p >= 0 and sum(p) = 1. That new sum constraint is how you get the simplex.
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by getnormality 7mo ago
Yeah, that's why I'm not really resentful or disappointed, exactly. Life is still good without it. You have your actual family, maybe some other people you really share life with, and everyone else is just doing their own thing, a
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by getnormality 7mo ago
I grew up with a very strong sentimental sense of moral universalism. I loved Beethoven's Ode to Joy and the romantic idea of universal brotherhood. But as I bank years in the adult world, as a worker and a neighbor, I've been pro
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by getnormality 7mo ago
So if you were overwhelmingly wrong about technology fads in your lifetime by saying yes to everything, you can comfort yourself by saying that if you had gone back a century and said yes to everything, you would have been right about some
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by getnormality 7mo ago
I wonder what folks on 2009 Hacker News would have said if a company announced layoffs. Would the top comments have been questioning it, telling the CEO what he should have done instead, worrying about how hard it would be for those people
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by getnormality 8mo ago
This looks like an important post. What makes it special is that it operationalizes Polya's classic problem-solving recipe for the age of AI-assisted coding. 1. Understand the problem (research.md) 2. Make a plan (plan.md) 3. Execute t
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by getnormality 8mo ago
"Obsolete" is an incomplete characterization of the state of play. LLMs put the information from StackOverflow into an arguably more helpful format, but they're still heavily dependent on human input. The LLM must periodicall
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by getnormality 8mo ago
Blog posts by authors claiming AI has transformed them into godlike engines of productivity: 103728369129 Interviews by celebrities predicting AI will revolutionize the economy: 2837191001747 Software and online things I've used that s
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by getnormality 8mo ago
Why would anyone get sick of it if people have been happily doing it to each other for so many years prior? Does the fact that a machine can ape it so easily somehow reveal its vacuousness in a way that wasn't obvious already? I keep h
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by getnormality 8mo ago
Yeah, the vibe of this post is that of a 2000 Viagra spam king coming forward and telling the world "yes, but... what are good and bad, really? Who's to say what's right and wrong?" Maybe we can't stop you today, bu
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by getnormality 8mo ago
What does it have to do with privilege? This person's need for grammar seems to be self-imposed. I don't see where anyone judged him for bad grammar while a privileged person was given a get-out-of-jail-free card for the grammar p
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by getnormality 8mo ago
In my experience, AI enables smart people to do their best work while automating zero-quality work like SEO spam that no humans should have been doing in the first place. I have yet to see anything that I would remotely call tragic.
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by getnormality 8mo ago
I believe it continues, but I don't know if the rate is that favorable. Today's gigawatt-hungry models that can cost $10-100 per task or more to run... still can't beat Pokémon without a harness. And Pokémon is far from one t

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