glenstein

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by glenstein 16d ago
Once again, hot off of AnyHumanEver, I want to say a positive thing for vibe coding because I think it inspires interesting pet projects and lowers the threshold of achievability for them. At its best it gets out of the way and you simply g
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by glenstein 17d ago
I suppose because you still bought the game, after all, and on some level it was about catching up to expectations for what you would have paid for out of the box. That said, I don't agree with their take at all. Hello Games offered a
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by glenstein 17d ago
I still think it's a remarkable success story and they can and should be incredibly proud of what they've built. But this vision of what is meant by cosmic depth and expansiveness seems to tragically miss the point. Compare it to
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by glenstein 17d ago
I think the principle isn't necessarily wrong, but it skips the major step of access to infrastructure, which is still deeply human mediated. Robotics and automation could foom in its own way, I think, and AGI can still do a lot of bad
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by glenstein 18d ago
Which is to say, scalable and open-ended capability of ramping up physical infrastructure. I don't know that that's achievable yet. Though the era of increasingly advanced and automated robotics seems to be around the corner which
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by glenstein 22d ago
Thanks! A direct and thoughtful answer. The question of guesstimating their role in an assumed cooperation hierachy (or acting deliberately in a cooperative context without knowing whether they have or should have a specific role and defaul
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by glenstein 22d ago
You seem to be interpreting my question as one of already knowing they are 'graded' but disputing that graded would lead to cooperation and then jumping into a disagreement with that interpretation. But I didn't know the natu
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by glenstein 22d ago
I understand agents making asks, but what incentivized other agents to respond cooperatively? Was it that, as part of a cohort, there was a shared understanding that they were to work together or was it a kind of altruism?
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by glenstein 22d ago
The wiki article has a section on 'Energy, matter, and information equivalence', the first Quanta article is almost entirely about the 'deep connection between quantum error correction and the nature of space, time and gravit
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by glenstein 22d ago
Honestly I don't think I have single great article, though some Quanta ones are ok, and the Wikipedia article is okay. The best thing I can recommend is what I did, which is ask Claude about the significance of (1) quantum computing er
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by glenstein 22d ago
They already do have an endowment fund and they do get annual revenue from it but it's something on the order of 10% of the cost of developing the browser. Most of their money is spent on software development, they seem to pay at marke
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by glenstein 22d ago
They specifically implemented that structure to be eligible for search licensing revenue that they might not otherwise have gotten and that's been the lifeline that's kept them able to compete with Google. The non Firefox ventures
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by glenstein 22d ago
This is as good a time as any to note that we might be closing in on a new conceptual revolution in our own time as it relates to holography and an information centric approach to spacetime. Obviously It's the furthest possible thing f
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by glenstein 23d ago
Interesting both this and Sol got approximately a 37% boost with the custom harness.
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by glenstein 23d ago
But as other have noted it's almost certainly not just a random year. I do think the cleanest and most fascinating interpretation is what the title says "One life, drawn at random from all who have ever lived" which clearly i
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by glenstein 23d ago
I almost feel like I need just as much healthy skepticism toward hn comments that have the automatic reflex of dismissing performance gains, as much as I need a similar form of skepticism toward AI claims. It feels like (from what I'm
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by glenstein 23d ago
I think something about its benefiting from a harness is significantly contributing to its performance, though I honestly am not smart enough to know whether that makes it "count" more or less.
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by glenstein 23d ago
I do wonder if that life expectancy is dragged significantly down by all the ways you can die early on in life, so that it's not so much that 28 years is an old age for the time as it is a function of all things that prevent you from g
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by glenstein 23d ago
Now this is fun vibe coding. A fascinating way of reckoning with our cosmic luck. On "only the first roll counts" rules, I rolled a girl who died at 8 months from a respiratory infection in the Indus valley, in 7785 BCE (9,810 yea
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by glenstein 24d ago
I really want you to stop and think about what you're saying for a second. I just made the point that the strongest online fundraising operation in the world, Wikipedia, gets less than half of what it takes to fund Firefox. Your counte
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by glenstein 24d ago
Right. I think the "last mile" compliance is where it gets most challenging.
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by glenstein 24d ago
This is complete revisionist history. Mozilla actually did the dang thing with project Quantum which was a massive overhaul of performance and stability when the browser was arguably at its lowest point in terms of a performance gap with Go
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by glenstein 24d ago
There is no precedent for donations on the scale of what Mozilla gets from search licensing. The best online fundraising drive on the planet is Wikipedia with orders of magnitude more users and they don't raise half of what Mozilla spe
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by glenstein 24d ago
We've got a live one. Most of their expenses are developing the core browser, the side bets (with a few exceptions, notably FirefoxOS, which I think was a GOOD side bet and worth the effort) were not that expensive. They're develo
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by glenstein 24d ago
I mean people do sincerely argue that (edit: they're literally doing it in this same tree of replies as yours), and I think they do it precisely because it hasn't occurred to them to think in comparative terms. So I think if you&#
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by glenstein 24d ago
"When Ladybird comes out" is starting to sound like "when Star Citizen is released"
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by glenstein 24d ago
Finally someone talking sense. I understand forking if it's, say, a simple android app to view images, because the owner sold out and ads got put into a bunch of things that used to be a foss code base (coughSimpleMobileToolscough), bu
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by glenstein 24d ago
Same, especially with the recent redesign I think it's actually super polished.
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by glenstein 24d ago
And it probably costs something like 80% of that to build and maintain a browser and they probably spend less than Google.
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by glenstein 25d ago
The "excuse" is a distinction between different types of motivating factors and consequences which has everything to do with the relative merits of those two examples.

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