godelski

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by godelski 5mo ago
There are very few things in the world that are 100% good or 100% bad. Everything is a billion shades of gray. Even that is too simple because there's so many dimensions to every problem. I think you're simplifying beyond the stat
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by godelski 5mo ago
They're also telling everyone that it is going to kill everybody and take all the jobs. They also say that it'll fix all the problems. And I'm not saying "they" as in a disorganized group of people (e.g. "HN&qu
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by godelski 5mo ago
> You're now spending $3 billion per year on crisis response Honestly? That's really affordable[0]. That would be cheap if these were just for the US but it looks like these are global numbers. We spend $2bn/yr a
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by godelski 6mo ago
> move slow and fix things I'm not opposed to "move fast and break things" but our problem is that's the only lever we pull. For every "... and break things" there needs to be a phase of "clean
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by godelski 6mo ago
> It's patently insane to demand that humans alter their behavior to accommodate the foibles of mere machines I don't think it's insane, we do it all the time. Most tools require training to use properly. Including
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by godelski 6mo ago
There's a lot of definitions of bodies. Though I'm unconvinced one is needed. A brain in a box is capable of interacting with its environment far more than such a thing could even a decade ago. Is it the body or the interaction? A
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by godelski 6mo ago
> Way to subdue discussion If you want to be dismissive and with quick quips that's not a discussion. There's plenty to respond to without relying on "there's no definition of intelligence" and definitely
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by godelski 6mo ago
> After all, medicine is all about knowledge, experience and intelligence So is... everything? LLMs are really really good at knowledge. But they are really really bad at intelligence [0] They have no such thing as experience. Do
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by godelski 6mo ago
180, not 360
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by godelski 6mo ago
> I often think that maybe I'm just crazy. Everyone is crazy, just most people are afraid to admit it to others. A lot of people are even afraid to admit it to themselves. Some people pretend so long they forget they're
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by godelski 6mo ago
Having taught at a university I'll say that the general reason is because there's already too much to teach, so you do your best. It's extra hard since there's a million people saying "why don't they teach X?&q
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by godelski 6mo ago
I think the real question is "are we just hearing about it more now or has the actual rate of attack increased?"
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by godelski 6mo ago
Is that true? I think for it to he true we'd have to overly abstract the definition of technology to the point of uselessness. You can draw images in the sand. Is a stick "technology"? What about using your finger? Do we need
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by godelski 6mo ago
You should name shame! Those are dark patterns and people are not aware of them. It is an external actor trying to take control of your agent. I don't think it's necessarily wrong to have those prompts, but it is if it's hidd
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by godelski 6mo ago
Fun fact, the author admits to using a LLM. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47963465
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by godelski 6mo ago
A lot of people believe a lot of things are true. Plenty of things that are provably false too. People will have strong convictions. People will drink deadly Koolaid because they believe in things so much. I don't care what people bel
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by godelski 6mo ago
> writing code is now fast, it's getting cheaper, and quality is going up to the right I'm unconvinced... https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47939579
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by godelski 6mo ago
I'm not convinced. To me it looks like the bulls are throwing money and priding themselves on the bits that land back on it (or come from the next table over). It looks very chaotic and wasteful to me
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by godelski 6mo ago
The problem is that from the outside it seems like Microsoft no longer cares about the product. So much so that "the product" has become "shareholders"[0]. We've just been moving into a world where metric hacking is
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by godelski 6mo ago
https://archive.is/xSv3M
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by godelski 6mo ago
I'm glad you did it that way. I hope, my comment works well as an addendum to your type of comment. I don't think would have worked well on its own, nor prior to yours. Especially since nothing I said is an absolute rule that allo
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by godelski 6mo ago
> Save us the patronizing tone. If you come out swinging you can't get mad when others swing back. You're not a victim, you're an instigator. You called danny_codes flippant for suggesting there are different biase
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by godelski 6mo ago
I think mass and momentum are appropriate. I use them when talking about this too. Given your username and the topic, I think you'll enjoy this read: https://www.cs.utexas.edu/~EWD/transcriptions/EWD02xx/
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by godelski 6mo ago
> It's messy, subject to commercial pressures, to a hierarchy of values that doesn't place "refactoring" at the top of the list. And why would it? Probably because it's a good way to be more profitable. C
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by godelski 6mo ago
> Who is going to read your carefully crafted documentation lol? Everyone that uses or works in your codebase. Look at how people use LLMs these days. People frequently use it on new codebases to get up to speed on the code. Fran
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by godelski 6mo ago
I'm really unfamiliar with this playbook and how America has used it. Do you have any examples? I can't seem to find any
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by godelski 6mo ago
There's no point in getting things done if there's nothing that ends up being done. You can still get shit done without risking losing it all. Don't outsource your thinking to the machine. You can't even evaluate if wh
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by godelski 6mo ago
I think the occasional joke is fine but when you have too many then the comments get diluted. It's exactly that kind of thing that makes me hate Reddit and so many other places: spam.
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by godelski 6mo ago
> Claude Code used bash to make edits anyway. If you had the former rule why would you ever whitelist bash commands? That's full access to everything you can do. Same goes for `find`, `xargs`, `awk`, `sed`, `tar`, `rsync`,
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by godelski 6mo ago
> FaceID only unlocks if you actually look at the screen. You need "Require Attention for Face ID" turned on for this

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