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by gwd 3mo ago
They did. The entire section starting with "Of course, despite the emphasis on reason — and the subtle implication that the out-group is more wrong — the rationalist community is susceptible to the same biases as anyone else" tal
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by gwd 3mo ago
Anyone understand what the point is of only extending it for 5 days?
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by gwd 3mo ago
I noticed this effect really strongly at university. There was one particular lecture hall that was effectively buried in the side of a hill; I can't count how many times I had an early afternoon lecture in there (so it had been in us
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by gwd 4mo ago
I'm guessing you mean, the incompleteness theorem guarantees that nobody can prove their model is un-break-able? I don't think that's quite what it means. The theorem says that it's impossible to write a function, &qu
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by gwd 4mo ago
I mean, that's just not true. You're right that when people buy a Ford, they're not thinking that much about the CEO. But they certainly are thinking about other Fords they've owned, or their friends have owned, or t
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by gwd 4mo ago
Yeah, really enjoyed the size comparison.
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by gwd 4mo ago
I like the idea, but the "About" page triggers some warning bells: "We’re not trying to make this about us. BECAUSE SLATE IS ALL ABOUT YOU." I mean, that's fine, but... I am on your "About" page, that&#x
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by gwd 4mo ago
Important note: The cost / delay he's talking about isn't registering a company ; it's getting a VAT number . I've done both in the UK, and while getting a VAT number is significantly cheaper than 9k EUR and sig
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by gwd 4mo ago
That won't get you a VAT ID, which is the key thing he says he needs to be able to bill people outside of Germany. It is significantly cheaper than 9k EUR and faster than 6 months to get in the UK, however.
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by gwd 4mo ago
I've heard this called "lazy consensus". Basically, rather than say, "Is it OK if I do X?" Say, "I'm going to do X on date Y unless someone objects." Particularly useful as the number of stakeholder
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by gwd 4mo ago
It's called "YouTube" because if you want to , you can be your own broadcaster. Calling YouTube "social media" because anyone can contribute (although the vast, vast majority are just consumers) is like calling Fi
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by gwd 4mo ago
I had the same question. I had zero problems with Fable (for those two days I had access to it). For all I know, the author has always been an a-hole to Claude, and Fable is just the first one that stood up for itself.
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by gwd 4mo ago
The thing is, they've still taken the time to actually write "I get an error". So by principle of reciprocity, you can just take 2 seconds to say, "What's the error?" Usually that won't lead anywhere; bu
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by gwd 4mo ago
Sure; I was using shorthand. Sometimes a whole edifice of ideas rests on one shaky one; and if you can challenge that one the whole thing falls apart. But even being able to identify the shaky one demonstrates engagement. That's rea
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by gwd 4mo ago
"Don't expend more effort than they are" has actually long been a good principle to have internalized. Someone done only cursory research before asking a question on a mailing list? Give a cursory answer. Someone obvious
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by gwd 4mo ago
If you search for "Bricks and minifigs", every result apart from their main website is about this controversy. One of the values of a franchise is the branding; at least for the forseeable future, this will be a negative value.
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by gwd 4mo ago
> If we had just trusted its output, we would now have a security vulnerability in production, allowing anyone to access other people's accounts. This is one reason you always get a different model to review a model's PR. Gemi
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by gwd 5mo ago
I mean, if your goal is to absolutely maximize the number in your bank account, no. But then there are other things you could be doing too -- you can do the math and cover all your nutritional needs for under $1 a day, by eating mostly pot
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by gwd 5mo ago
> But from the outside, Claude Code looks like a tool moving in the wrong direction. More restrictions, billing weirdness, surprise behavior based on text in commits. That is textbook enshittification. I've never used Claude Code,
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by gwd 5mo ago
So I started an empty Claude 4.7 session with the following prompt; and it nailed me within 5 questions: --- Various people have discovered that you can identify them from unpublished snippets of their work, only by their style. This is pa
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by gwd 5mo ago
So I pasted in a long-ish letter that I'd written to my pastor about a theological topic, and asked it to guess who I was. Nailed it. Then cut it in half. Nailed it again. Lowest it correctly ID'd me at was 700 words. Pretty s
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by gwd 5mo ago
> A simulation of a hurricane is not a hurricane. That's certainly true and even obvious. I mean, if I simulated a small section of a hurricane by generating 120 mph winds and water pointed at your house, your house could still be f
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by gwd 5mo ago
...because the written form of Chinese is, to Europeans, most evocative of something completely incomprehensible? Intuitively, a human in a Danish Room would come to learn Danish pretty quickly by exposure; even a human in an Arabic Room m
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by gwd 5mo ago
> I've never understood why certain philosophers view computation as some kind of abstract symbolic manipulation Possibly very early AI misled people here. In the 80's, a huge amount of AI was logic manipulation; "If A th
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by gwd 6mo ago
They're not saying "Don't use SWE-bench Verified because it's saturated". They're saying: 1. A large number of the tests are inaccurate; so correct solutions will be marked as incorrect. 2. Frontier models have
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by gwd 6mo ago
> At the age of 30 my wife still has trouble wearing shorts because she is self-conscious about showing her legs. Just as an extra data point: I (a man) still feel weird about going running with a tank-top, because nearly 3 decades ago a
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by gwd 6mo ago
But one could imagine, as a failsafe, arranging things so that Integrity was in fact still in orbit around the Earth, as a sort of "backup" in the event that they somehow missed the moon's slingshot effect.
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by gwd 7mo ago
If I understand the situation properly, the system is only supposed to mint backed stable-coins; the hack resulted in unbacked ones.
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by gwd 7mo ago
I certainly do -- but having Gemini review it first saves a lot of time.
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by gwd 7mo ago
Or have Claude write the code and Gemini review it. (Was using GPT for review until the recent Pentagon thing.)

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