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by godelski 2mo ago
Isn't that kinda the point though?
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by godelski 2mo ago
My favorite is Claude finding .git/index.lock, asking to remove it, finding out it no longer exists, and then hitting a lock again that it itself created. Poor little robot, stop shooting yourself in the foot.
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by godelski 2mo ago
> I think minority do Let's be real, the minority of people understand bash. It is a terrible language with tons of footguns[0], albeit a very useful language and still worth learning. The number of ~/.claude/setti
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by godelski 2mo ago
No, but I can tell you which is faster by looking at the color
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by godelski 2mo ago
> USB-A has many variants > especially when they aren’t even labeled period What are you talking about? USB-A is color coded. You'll frequently see white and blue. Admittedly this is harder with USB-C because the size,
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by godelski 3mo ago
> Reviewers know what venues they are reviewing for, and attentive ones will adapt their review based on the prestige of the venue. Works that way in theory but I've seen people be stricter in an ICML workshop than CVPR. I d
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by godelski 3mo ago
> because there are just so many papers at leading AI conferences Ironically a big reason there's so many papers to review is because so many are rejected. A low acceptance rate is unhealthy, especially in conferences (1 rou
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by godelski 3mo ago
> you’re handing the power to The user?
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by godelski 3mo ago
The search engine is a lot more than the index. And they have their own index
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by godelski 3mo ago
> What a world we live in. It's a really interesting world. You can spam GPT to get novel math results but here I am trying to scroll up to the beginning of the conversation and 5 minutes in I still don't know if I&#x27
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by godelski 3mo ago
For people who don't have instagram: https://imginn.com/theguardrailguy
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by godelski 3mo ago
> But what is the alternative, and why is it better? Is this a legitimate question? There's hundreds of projects working on alternatives[0]. There's also... you know... the internet before Google took over. So I'm
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by godelski 3mo ago
Your telecom company can triangulate you through their towers, but they don't have access to your phone's WiFi antenna, bluetooth, NFC, nor GPS. Google and Apple have all of that. Snoop on what they're sniffing and I doubt
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by godelski 3mo ago
> Serve ads without selling data? They sell data. Why do you think they don't? > CC companies sell your data. Your telecom provider sells your data. Banks sell your data. You're over simplifying. WHAT data b
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by godelski 3mo ago
> to every human who uses the internet FTFY Google has a lot of control over the internet. They also track and profile people even if they never created a Google account. It's one thing to do that to people who are users, it
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by godelski 3mo ago
> I know people are itching to call false-dichotomy, but lets be real, nothing in 25 years that isn't money-based or ad-based has gained meaningful VC money i.e. VCs dont buy into "donation based" models There&#x27
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by godelski 3mo ago
> What's fascinating is that Google gets virtually zero recognition for this, and beyond that, Google is one of the most hated corporations for it. The hate it's about what they did with the power they gained. You can b
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by godelski 3mo ago
While I agree with you, a large number of people use the term to mean that something was engineered to a complexity they have difficulty understanding. Abstraction is also treated as a dirty word, with people focusing on only one interpreta
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by godelski 3mo ago
There is no such thing as perfect. Anyone saying "don't make perfection the enemy of good" is using a thought terminating cliché, avoiding the conversation of what is good enough. Worse, it is often used by people to drag qua
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by godelski 3mo ago
Because it's still informative
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by godelski 3mo ago
Fair but there's two things I think need to be added 1) predictions are usually made assuming either constant effort or continued growth. They will be extremely conservative when the environment changes and you start dumping trillions
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by godelski 3mo ago
> solving multiple previously unsolved Erdős problems. So what? Machines have solved tons of unsolved problems in mathematics. That's not a proof of intelligence. If you brute force a solution, we congratulate you on your ef
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by godelski 3mo ago
You're ignoring a lot of important factors. I'll give you most obvious ones. We often do genetics testing on fruit flies because they reproduce quickly and the initial population is large. Your claim ignores this fact. The base po
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by godelski 3mo ago
Which has created all sorts of other problems even if we exclude climate change. I'm not arguing we shouldn't live in a modern world, but rather that complexity increases
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by godelski 3mo ago
> It seems the rate of advancement has increased over time though. Effort and expenditures are not fixed. You cannot hand wave away these variables. Here's an example let's compare two investment strategies: - Alice
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by godelski 3mo ago
The problem is in cases of the singularity it's being treated like reality rather than fiction
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by godelski 3mo ago
I'm conflicted. On one hand I think we should more openly call people idiots and push back. On the other hand there's Descartes argument for idiots in good company. I just wish all the people that claimed to care only about truth
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by godelski 3mo ago
> But our models make it clear that such an [intelligence] explosion may not follow if there are diminishing returns (“ideas become harder to find”) or if feedback loops become bottlenecked. How is this not obvious to everyone? A
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by godelski 3mo ago
That's awesome. Thanks for letting me know. It's a great start
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by godelski 3mo ago
Honestly, if anything the library of congress should be operating a system similar to the way back machine. Isn't preserving historical information one of its objectives? And what libraries do in general? But I'm very in favor of

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