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by joquarky 8mo ago
> overly specific I have a hypothesis that people who have patience and reasonably well-developed written language skills will scratch their heads at why everyone else is having so much difficulty.
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by joquarky 8mo ago
And it fits well with the $20 plans for each since Codex seems to provide about 7-8x more usage than Claude.
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by joquarky 8mo ago
I compact myself by having it write out to a file, I prune what's no longer relevant, and then start a new session with that file. But I'm mostly working on personal projects so my time is cheap. I might experiment with having the
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by joquarky 8mo ago
I was watching a film from 1959 where the main character just swaps headlights and tires from completely different cars like they were just nominally interchangeable. It feels like the era of standardization already came and went. It seems
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by joquarky 8mo ago
In my experience, it's the highest point you can reach before you have to deal with politics on a daily basis.
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by joquarky 8mo ago
Reminds me of "forever minus a day"
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by joquarky 8mo ago
Software is now disposable.
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by joquarky 8mo ago
You can always distribute a prompt instead of the product.
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by joquarky 8mo ago
This is precisely why copyright is practically obsolete. You can't legally forbid someone from paraphrasing, and now we can easily automate it to just within the threshold set by legal cases.
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by joquarky 8mo ago
> would have effectively open-sourced those codebases, and other companies could have openly and legally used them. It's actually better if we keep re-creating the wheel. Keeps more people employed.
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by joquarky 8mo ago
I wonder how things were invented before patents.
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by joquarky 8mo ago
The main reason this is getting really complicated is because copyright inherently goes against the flow of how nature works. It's irrational at its core. It requires increasing amounts of maintenance to sustain. It doesn't even
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by joquarky 8mo ago
This is like saying a dwarf planet is still a planet.
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by joquarky 8mo ago
As someone with a default mode network that is stuck in the "on' position, that game is the only one that I had to quit playing for my mental health.
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by joquarky 8mo ago
Measuring the behavior of non-deterministic systems requires more than one sample.
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by joquarky 8mo ago
"steal" is semantically incorrect here.
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by joquarky 8mo ago
I would question the judgment of anyone who thought they would maintain "don't be evil" beyond IPO.
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by joquarky 8mo ago
> not compensated for the value they are now producing "To promote the Progress of Science and useful Arts" is the basis for this right. Does the old way still promote the Progress of Science and useful Arts sufficiently to sti
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by joquarky 8mo ago
Psychopaths don't feel. Are they conscious?
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by joquarky 8mo ago
If you make up a word, nobody will know what it means.
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by joquarky 8mo ago
Alan Watts talks about this. If a tree falls, does it make a sound? It depends on whether there is somebody to ultimately perceive the vibrations that the falling tree made (either directly or via recording).
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by joquarky 8mo ago
Even if it gets the output wrong, it always seems to provide some output that indicates that it got the input right. This is the first thing that really surprised me about this tech.
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by joquarky 8mo ago
Ever practiced meditation of the form where you just witness your thoughts? It seems just like LLM generated words, both factual and confabulated nonsense.
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by joquarky 8mo ago
I've seen all of these from human teammates in my 30+ years in tech.
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by joquarky 8mo ago
Alignment scrubs the underlying raw output to be socially acceptable. It's an artificial superego.
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by joquarky 8mo ago
Most humans can't force themselves to come up with something novel immediately upon demand.
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by joquarky 8mo ago
The links on this site are low contrast.
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by joquarky 8mo ago
Even if AGI is stalled beyond our lifetime, people still have no idea of what's ahead in the next few years.
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by joquarky 8mo ago
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by joquarky 8mo ago
I wouldn't trust myself to always remember to sanitize it, and in a company with more than one person, it becomes impossible to ensure it is properly handled.

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