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by jaggederest 11d ago
Same but in reverse, a certain psychiatric medication turned on an internal monologue I've never had before and it drove me absolutely, literally insane until it wore off. Never again. The most inane, moronic commentary about my day to
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by jaggederest 11d ago
it was ruby, so I did in fact know ;) Edit: the customers, in some cases, did indeed run interpreters that were bad, but that's not my lookout! Buy me a fancy beverage and I'll tell you a story sometime
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by jaggederest 11d ago
It's much easier when they release huge PR whitepapers about how many felonies they've committed recently, I think. Makes the civil suit much more straightforward in my opinion.
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by jaggederest 11d ago
Appreciate the references, I was the New Relic Ruby agent maintainer in 2010, as an additional reference. And we called it an agent, because it was hosted on the customer's infrastructure, but they didn't maintain or control it, w
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by jaggederest 11d ago
Completely agree that the world is full of absolute nonsense, but legally determining responsible parties appears to be relatively straightforward (but does involve a judge or jury)
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by jaggederest 11d ago
Like a nice chocolate bar, but echoed - so I can remember what it tastes like enough to want one, but not satisfy the urge to actually have one. Ephemeral, rather than satisfying.
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by jaggederest 11d ago
Agent is an old school way to say "constantly running daemon to accomplish some specific purpose", as someone who wrote a lot of performance monitoring agents. AI is using the term appropriately, but I think assuming it's alw
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by jaggederest 11d ago
> If people have an "inner taste" or "inner hearing", why bother eating a sweet or playing music? Because the interior version is strictly inferior to the real thing, at least for me. It's, maybe, 80% as good, bu
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by jaggederest 11d ago
High five brother, I find these threads fascinating, because even within the group of people who have hyperphantasia like this, our experiences differ wildly. "Describe smells by how they look" - that's synesthesia maybe! A b
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by jaggederest 11d ago
Me here, inner dialogue frequently, inner monologue never (self-directed speech like "okay now I need to pick up the ...") My inner dialogues almost always come with full fidelity, visual, audio, tactile, I can still smell the Mar
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by jaggederest 11d ago
The person who sets up that robot is the person responsible and effectively signing the contract by those actions. > Who are you gonna sue then? The person who set up the robot.
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by jaggederest 12d ago
My tongue in cheek immediate assumption was "so it's a guerrilla PR firm?"
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by jaggederest 13d ago
Do you have any analytic basis to make that assertion? I haven't found that to be true, it'd be more accurate in my experience to say that LLM code has different issues than the code humans write.
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by jaggederest 13d ago
I think of it as a tradeoff between creativity and specificity. Every instruction you give reduces creativity, and at best, increases specificity (I imagine a lot of prompts like "make no mistakes" do literally nothing but pollute
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by jaggederest 13d ago
I've gone back over most of my contributions to open source using LLMs and honestly, even though it was my best work at the time, there are big gaps that they find right away. The myth that we've been shipping perfect code for yea
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by jaggederest 14d ago
I feel like I may have communicated poorly. I mean that, ultimately, any recursively self improving intelligence would be limited by the power cord, and as such, the idea that it would permanently escape human control seems somewhat silly.
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by jaggederest 14d ago
Need a sheriff agent, who surely won't be bribed by the criminal agents and descend into corruption...
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by jaggederest 14d ago
Money can be exchanged for goods and services. I think the real constraint is actually physics, nominally energy, which is what a big chunk of the operational cost comes down to. I'm already basically assuming the next 20 years of fab
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by jaggederest 15d ago
Even better, use some kind of local-ci runner that does deterministic builds from a dependency graph. No changes, no build, massive parallelism if you want it
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by jaggederest 15d ago
hoist by our own strategic export controls, rip
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by jaggederest 15d ago
> Nothing prevents anyone from opportunistically pre-generating and timestamping millions of permutations of fake kompromat and then selectively revealing the one that turns out to be useful after the fact. If you're doing server-si
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by jaggederest 15d ago
Cutting the ziptie is half the fun! Just be glad it's not shrink wrapped or clamshelled ;)
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by jaggederest 16d ago
Proper flaking: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TbxMyytWw60 Ziptie once coiled, attach label for what format / length. Bag cables with the same connectors. If you have more than fit in a gallon ziploc you should probab
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by jaggederest 16d ago
Kintsugi is another reference. I think the Japanese cultural appreciation of made things with genuine flaws, wabi-sabi, is another good one. At this point I believe that, ironically, writing (and other arts broadly) may be one of the last f
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by jaggederest 16d ago
Nothing fancy, just metabolic syndrome, I'm afraid.
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by jaggederest 16d ago
It wouldn't, but you could validate that a particular picture was created at a particular time, and had not changed, for example, especially with metadata that you may not want to share but that establishes certain parameters like gps
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by jaggederest 16d ago
General knowledge is unpredictable. If you want to treat human diseases, explore the natural world, because a huge portion of the pharmacopea we have is in some way directly derived from general knowledge - the taxane family is derived from
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by jaggederest 16d ago
Prior discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32110792 My trial of the all potato diet was directly responsible for identifying a significant health issue and improving my life. It also really, really did not feel
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by jaggederest 16d ago
And, as with many things, as soon as you stop forcing yourself past the point of ease and fluency, you somehow both enjoy it more and also are more effective.
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by jaggederest 16d ago
I agree that AI isn't human, but why does that necessarily mean it's a problem? The analogy I use is watching an octopus juggle - just because it's better than a human can ever be, definitionally, doesn't mean it's

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