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by jmull 7mo ago
You can observe patterns of behavior, develop theories understanding, attempt/experiment with interactions, and refine based on the results. That's communication (and doesn't assume anything about the other alien civilization
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by jmull 7mo ago
I really liked those books, for all the creative ideas... it's fine that they don't all work, but the Dark Forest has to be among the worst of them. It was unfortunate it was highlighted. Some rebuttals, going point by point... 1.
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by jmull 7mo ago
Hate is too strong a word, but it’s junk.
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by jmull 7mo ago
> unless you believe in magic, it's only a matter of time until we reach the point at which machine intelligence is indistinguishable from human intelligence. I'm sure it will be possible, but it may well be very expensive. If
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by jmull 7mo ago
> or the boilerplate, libraries, build-tools, and refactoring If your dev group is spending 90% of their time on these... well, you'd probably be right to fire someone. Not most of the developers but whoever put in place a system wh
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by jmull 7mo ago
> its going to take Microsoft a long time to row back They won't actually move back to a user-focused OS at all. It's nice for them to declare they will, but their culture and business pressures will prevent any kind of sustain
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by jmull 7mo ago
“improve customer tech support” That’s corporate-speak. They say improve, but it’s perfectly well understood internally to mean drive costs down. There’s no problem with doing that at the expense of the customer as long as you can get away
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by jmull 7mo ago
They should’ve gone with “Matrix”. That way they could transition from vr world (the old hype) to AI controlled dystopia (the new hype) with just a cool reveal, no name change needed.
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by jmull 7mo ago
"for many years political manipulation of economic data has screwed things up" That's quite a claim. A "whopper" one might say.
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by jmull 7mo ago
It seems like some companies may be unaware that not only are they interviewing prospective employees, but candidates are interviewing prospective employers. I guess if your goal is just to hire desperate people who currently have no better
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by jmull 7mo ago
How is it not better, in your third scenario, if you described what you think are the important and interesting aspects of your idea/demo? And what motivated you to make it -- probably the most interesting thing to readers, and not
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by jmull 7mo ago
If the goal is to read what actual humans think, it's hard to see how an LLM filter can do anything but obscure and degrade the content. LLMs, as we know them, express things using the patterns they've been developed to prefer. Th
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by jmull 7mo ago
Never mind that the previous poster’s insight about caches is correct. Zig has had caching bugs/issues/limitations that could be worked around by clearing the cache. (Has had, and more that likely still has, and will have.)
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by jmull 7mo ago
I think you need to relate this to the case here to establish the objective correctness the previous comment claims, in terms of the screen shots we're looking at. Ridiculous, of course, but that's my point -- we're arguing a
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by jmull 7mo ago
If you want to claim an objective difference, then you need to be the one to substantiate that. Anyway, we know people read symbols by shape/lines/pattern just fine without color because that's how reading works. > What
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by jmull 7mo ago
Of these all, I prefer the Big Sur design language, which this article calls an “atrocious regression”. Arguing aesthetics is pretty pointless (it’s a decided question to me: my taste is great; most others have very poor taste). What bother
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by jmull 7mo ago
The precedents around TOS law is so clearly and obviously wrong. Here, the court applied an “objective-reasonableness standard” to find there was “unambiguously manifested assent”. Which could only be true if we give new, contrarian definit
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by jmull 7mo ago
Interestingly, the "ultra" Mac Studio released a year ago was based on the older M3, not M4. Apparently, the work to "ultra-fy" a CPU is significant (which makes sense) so there can be a lag. Not that they have to follow
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by jmull 7mo ago
Doesn't seem to be an equivalency there.
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by jmull 7mo ago
Autofill seems like a better solution.
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by jmull 7mo ago
> They just write code that is (semantically) similar to code (clusters) seen in its training data, and which haven't been fenced off by RLHF / RLVR. "Plausible" sounds like the right word to me. (It would be a mistak
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by jmull 7mo ago
Don't kid yourself. You're missing the part where the heads of departments who deliver bad or embarrassing news get publicly vilified and/or fired. That's direct pressure now to fudge/push the numbers before they co
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by jmull 7mo ago
Don't ignore the context here. These are people hired to develop software for a company. They have an obligation to do so efficiently, with sufficient quality, and while balancing the company's short term and longer term business
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by jmull 7mo ago
It might be fine if they presented an honest choice. They are lying straight off though... police and safety team don't read messages only "if they needed to" to keep people safe. They do so for a large variety of other reaso
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by jmull 8mo ago
> My immediate reaction was, "Only 7?" Anyone could ship thousands of projects, depending on the definition of "ship" and if you don't care what value the project has beyond notionally increasing your tally.
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by jmull 8mo ago
It seems odd to me to put this much effort into misunderstanding what people are saying. You just end up talking past everyone, essentially talking to no one about nothing.
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by jmull 8mo ago
> Being so absolutist is silly but their counter argument is very weak. The entire point is that being so absolutist is silly. The comment reflects the previous poster's logic back at them so they (or others) can hopefully see how
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by jmull 8mo ago
> The consequence should have been for all insurrectionists and Trump himself to be tried for treason and be imprisoned indefinitely. People have this intuitive sense that there's some kind of authority of truth or justice, an avail
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by jmull 8mo ago
> Not sure what your point is I’m not the previous poster but it seems pretty clear the point is to show how silly that absolutist pronouncement is.
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by jmull 8mo ago
Interop.

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