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The Terrarium(lesswrong.com)
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by johnfn 7mo ago
Even in this hypothetical future, I will continue to use frontier models until they become "orders of magnitude more expensive", at which point I'll just fall back to the best open source model, which will still only be about
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by johnfn 7mo ago
But I don't need to pay training costs to use GLM-5?
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by johnfn 7mo ago
The section on "artificially low costs" does not make a lot of sense to me. If anything I feel like the costs are inflated for the frontier models, not "artificially low". Easy proof: GLM-5 costs about 1/10 as much
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by johnfn 7mo ago
I understand that misinformation is a bad thing, and your point is taken that I was probably too quick to brush off the worst thing that Sora did as 'some funny memes'. But still. Photoshop is used to make a lot of misinformation,
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by johnfn 7mo ago
I think Sora is an excellent way to see how people's beliefs clash with reality. Even in this post, I see people likening Sora to unveiling "a weapon", it filling them with "bland dread", or comparing it to creating
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by johnfn 7mo ago
As someone who generally liked the products that OpenAI puts out, I think Sora was their first product that I really didn't like. I liked GPT primarily because I felt like it respected me: I never felt like it was trying to distract
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by johnfn 7mo ago
I am kind of joking, but I actually don't know where the flaw in my logic is. It's like one of those math proofs that 1 + 1 = 3. If I were to hazard a guess, I think that tokens spent thinking through hard math problems probably c
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by johnfn 7mo ago
I like to imagine that the number of consumed tokens before a solution is found is a proxy for how difficult a problem is, and it looks like Opus 4.6 consumed around 250k tokens. That means that a tricky React refactor I did earlier today a
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by johnfn 7mo ago
> This is arguably their defining HN characteristic: they are one of the most vocal, persistent AI optimists on the platform. They claim ~90-95% of their shipped code is AI-generated, report 5-10x productivity gains, and have built a de
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by johnfn 7mo ago
I mean, you are painting it as some moralistic judgement, but if you’re asking me for on one hand listening to some annoying music, and on the other hand having some chance (however slight) of bodily injury, knife wound, or whatever… I know
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by johnfn 7mo ago
It’s hard to imagine a slow, overworked, somewhat inept, bureaucratic school board, with a thousand other things it wants to care about, managing to stay ahead of thousands of crafty and highly motivated teens.
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by johnfn 7mo ago
The BSBench is such a fantastic resource - thank you for sharing. We should really be citing rather than anecdata every time someone brings up hallucinations.
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by johnfn 7mo ago
It is not "factual" to call these people pedophiles. Maybe you think they are bad for society. Maybe you think their websites are terrible. Maybe you don't like them. Those are all fine things, and you are free to say them! B
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by johnfn 7mo ago
The quote says "walled gardens owned by pedophilic fascist speed freaks". Not "owned by people close to", "owned by".
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by johnfn 7mo ago
You should tell me your interpretation of the quote I excerpted then.
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If you think that everyone who works on a website that is a walled garden is a "pedophile fascist", I don't know what to say to you -- I don't think we live in the same reality.
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by johnfn 7mo ago
> The concept of congregating in walled gardens owned by pedophilic fascist speed freaks Are we really calling everyone we don't like a pedophilic fascist now? I honestly had really hoped that this sort of polarized, low-quality con
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by johnfn 7mo ago
Rationalists were talking about AI decades before anyone else were talking about it. They were also early on COVID and crypto. They are only "aggressively wrong" about "everything" if you are, ironically, not thinking
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by johnfn 7mo ago
Kind of curious what everyone else sees in this? As far as I can tell it’s a fairly trivial wrapper around an LLM - you can get equivalent results (or honestly even better) with Opus 4.6. Maybe that just isn’t common knowledge yet?
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by johnfn 7mo ago
FWIW, I did a full modernization and redesign of a site (~50k loc) over a week with Claude - I was able to ensure quality by (ahead of time) writing a strong e2e test suite which I also drove with AI, then ensuring Claude ran the suite ever
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by johnfn 7mo ago
Eh, sorry, I may have been too quick to judge, but in the past when I have shared examples of AI-generated code to skeptics, the conversation rapidly devolves into personal attacks on my ability as an engineer, etc.
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by johnfn 7mo ago
This comment is written by an LLM, right? Edit: It's interesting how I am getting downvoted here when pangram confirms my suspicions that this is 100% AI generated.
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by johnfn 7mo ago
Why is this the attitude when it comes to AI? Can you imagine someone saying “please provide your code” when they claim that Rust sped up their work repo or typescript reduced errors in production?
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by johnfn 7mo ago
Vite 8 is pretty incredible. We saw around an 8x improvement (4m -> 30s) in our prod build, and it was nearly a drop-in replacement. Congrats (and thank you!) to the Vite team!
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by johnfn 7mo ago
> If you’re not writing or reading it, the language, by definition doesn’t matter. By what definition? It still matters if I write my app in Rust vs say Python because the Rust version still have better performance characteristics.
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by johnfn 7mo ago
Obsidian doesn't "just happen" to use Markdown - the entire point of the app is that it writes to markdown. The URL is literally http://obsidian.md . The "notes save to your filesystem" is a concept direc
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by johnfn 7mo ago
Being lonely is difficult. A lot of people will try to tell you that it is not or that you should be OK with it. Unfortunately, a lot of this advice is moralizing, the sort of "there must be something wrong with you if you can't
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by johnfn 7mo ago
I firmly disagree with this advice as well; it strikes me as the sort of advice one comes up with when sitting around one's room wondering why one doesn't have any friends. The worst part about it is that it will get you doing all
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by johnfn 7mo ago
This looks really nice, but I suppose I might ask the hard questions - how does this compare to Obsidian, which is my go-to "notes app which is just a bunch of markdown files stored to your computer"? I very much like Obsidian, an

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