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by gwd 11mo ago
> From that point on, Steve would go on to spend lavishly on things that improved the experience, and he would reject—often brutally—any idea that diluted or harmed the experience. ...I’ll go out on a limb and say that uninvited advertis
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by gwd 11mo ago
"The Market for Lemons" has always been a thing. If the user can't immediately distinguish between "Looks good at first and is good all the way through" and "Looks good and gets crappier as you go along",
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by gwd 11mo ago
I think this basically proves your point. There were things about it that made me think it may have been at least "AI-assisted", until I saw your "guaranteed bot-free" thing at the bottom. Anyone doing entirely hand-wr
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by gwd 11mo ago
Yeah, I occasionally tell my Chinese friends that the grammar of English and Chinese is actually pretty similar. If they respond with surprise, I'd say, "Have you ever tried to learn Turkish?" Chinese doesn't have conj
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by gwd 11mo ago
> If the MT-generated revision isn't reviewed within a set timeframe (which will be communicated later), it will be automatically approved and published, clearly labeled to indicate that it was translated by AI translation was used.
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by gwd 11mo ago
I take it's the one about Congruent Depression? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bDhqTf5eJH4
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by gwd 11mo ago
> Can AI recursively create new capabilities like thinking does, or just execute tasks like submarines do? That's the question. Given my experience with LLMs, I think that they could , but that they're handicapped by certain t
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by gwd 11mo ago
> The last one IMO is more complex than the rest, because LLMs are fundamentally autocomplete machines. But what happens if you don't give them any prompt? Can they spontaneously come up with something, anything, without any extern
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by gwd 11mo ago
I think you missed the point of that quote. Birds fly, and airplanes fly; fish swim but submarines don't. It's an accident of language that we define "swim" in a way that excludes what submarines do. They move about u
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by gwd 1y ago
Not sure how these might be causally related to this: https://www.freerangekids.com/short-sweet-how-we-got-to-heli... I.e., decline of deviance might be causing helicopter parenting; or helicopter parenting might be causing
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by gwd 1y ago
> It looks cyclical to me. The materialism of the postwar era led into the civil rights movement of the late 60s and 70s, which turned into the materialistic 80s, which was rejected by the countercultural late 90s and 2000s, after which
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by gwd 1y ago
I feel like this article is apropos: https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/iGF7YcnQkEbwvYLPA/ai-induced... Basically, the author tried to simulate someone going off into some sort of psychosis with a bunch of different
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by gwd 1y ago
I mean, apparently the inventor of lead additive to gasoline used to pour the chemical over his hands to demonstrate how safe it was -- even though he knew it was actually quite toxic. So there are people who will knowingly give themselves
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by gwd 1y ago
Git post-update hooks to do deployment FTW. I looked into the whole push-to-github to kick off CI and deployment; but someone mentioned the idea of pushing over ssh to a repo on your server and having a post-update hook do the deployment,
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by gwd 1y ago
> software stuck in the last century OK, but suppose you have a piece of software you need to run, that's stuck in the last century, that you can't modify: maybe you lack the technical expertise, or maybe you don't even ha
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by gwd 1y ago
> The systemd developers have a long history of reinventing the wheel and trying to force it on everyone. We only put up with them because they do some difficult work that nobody wants to do. > As a user, systemd has improved my produ
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by gwd 1y ago
> On Arch /run/lock is only writeable for the superusers, which improves security. Does it? That means anyone who needs a lock gets superuser, which seems like overkill. Having a group with write permissions would seem to imp
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by gwd 1y ago
In this case, I think the upstream maintainer's response -- "Upstream systemd will do X, distros who want to are free to do Y" -- is legitimate. Consider the reverse: If systemd requires a writable /run/lock, the
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by gwd 1y ago
I dunno, the original Lego movie had people's personalities permanently removed by using acetate to wipe off their faces. I don't see how headless Legos could be more disturbing than that...
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by gwd 1y ago
I mean, the most important part of a role-playing game like D&D is... the role-playing. You're basically telling a shared story, with each player controlling one character, and the DM controlling everyone else. The fighting mecha
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by gwd 1y ago
Right, the it would be legally required have to have "third-party" vs "strictly necessary" tags on the cookie itself, which someone could challenge if they were inaccurate (in the same way that the GDPR can in theory be
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by gwd 1y ago
Opus disappeared for quite a while and then came back. Presumably they're always working on all three general sizes of models, and there's some combination of market need and model capabilities which determine if and when they re
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by gwd 1y ago
But it's worse than that. Even if in theory the system could be fixed, we don't actually know how to fix it for real , the way we can fix a normal computer program. The reason we can't fix them is because we have no idea
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by gwd 1y ago
FWIW all my coding with LLMs is very hands-on. What I've ended up doing with LLMs is something like the following: 1. New conversation. Describe at a high level what change I want made. Point out the relevant files for the LLM to hav
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by gwd 1y ago
Exactly one of two things is true: 1. The tool is capable of doing more than OP has been able to make it do 2. The tool is not capable of doing more than OP has been able to make it do. If #1 is true, then... he must be using it wrong. O
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by gwd 1y ago
The most powerful tools are usually renowned to have the most arcane user interfaces. Xkcd's "Uncomfortable Truths Well" said, "You will never find a programming language that frees you from the burden of clarifying your
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by gwd 1y ago
I think I'm still a bit confused... so, in the languages which cannot produce understanding and consciousness, you mean to include "machine language"? (And thus, any computer language which can be compiled to machine languag
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by gwd 1y ago
> I get that the mapping isn't 1:1 but if you think the loss of precision is significant, I'd like to know where. I'm by far an expert in this; my knowledge of the syntax / semantics distinction primarily comes from d
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by gwd 1y ago
> He doesn't argue that consciousness can only emerge from biological neurons. His argument is much narrower: consciousness can't be instantiated purely in language. I haven't read loads of his work directly, but this quot
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by gwd 1y ago
> to extract the maximum power from htmx an HTML library that's embedded directly in your programming language is much more powerful. I'm actually using gomponents, but the maintainer doesn't like the vibe of adding attrib

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