josh-sematic

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by josh-sematic 12d ago
Seconded. I truly consider that podcast a gem of our culture. I know of no comparable resource for generally curious people willing to try and think deeply about things.
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by josh-sematic 20d ago
The “recursive” part comes from the fact that you have an AI which was developed by an AI (that was developed by an AI (that was developed by an AI (…)))
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by josh-sematic 1mo ago
Less bad, yes. But still bad. There will definitely be demand for the compute, the question is whether it will be enough to keep the value of it at the levels you’d expect if the tenants were in a monopoly/duopoly world. Competition pu
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by josh-sematic 1mo ago
100%. I have sometimes wondered if China is playing the long game with the open weight models trying to tank the margins of the US labs so these profits don’t materialize and the US economy (currently predicated on the net that they will) s
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by josh-sematic 1mo ago
I think the point is probably to help convince people that the watermarking doesn’t perceptibly impact quality, which is a concern some people have (whether well founded or not).
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by josh-sematic 1mo ago
Yeah, I hated all those Quora users that would just spew out semantically meaningless slop like increasing an important bound for the Riemann hypothesis. https://www-cdn.anthropic.com/564f962e60643842f5fcb4a17c9dbc...
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by josh-sematic 2mo ago
They need him to continue evangelizing how to get a single individual to burn $87k/month so the corporations who have to actually pay usage pricing will actually make them bank :)
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by josh-sematic 2mo ago
I don’t know that I’d call it that much of an outlier position. Compatibilists, functionalists, and plenty of physicalists in general would deny that qualia exist or that they’re a well-defined notion.
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by josh-sematic 3mo ago
If you buy the argument “If A can do X but B can’t, then B is less intelligent than A”, then you have just as strong of an argument that LLMs are more intelligent than cockroaches. When’s the last time you saw a cockroach solve an Erdös pro
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by josh-sematic 3mo ago
If I ask my kid (early elementary) what he learned last school year, I can watch him apparently genuinely trying to think of some examples and not being very successful. If I ask him something I know he learned he’ll gladly say “oh yeah!”
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by josh-sematic 3mo ago
> Transformer ANNs are dramatically dumber than cockroaches Source?
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Codex Seraphinianus(en.wikipedia.org)
3 points by josh-sematic 3mo ago|1 comments
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by josh-sematic 3mo ago
In terms of whether they’re overvalued: probably. But any valuation should also take into account the value they have to x.ai (also under SpaceX) as a source of training data for coding models.
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by josh-sematic 3mo ago
This piece made me kind of fall in love with mechanical watches. The Orient Bambino I’m currently rocking on my wrist probably wouldn’t be there without it!
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by josh-sematic 3mo ago
FWIW I think “total supply chain collapse by 2030” is highly unlikely, but this kind of constrained technical thinking is pretty cool.
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by josh-sematic 4mo ago
Not fiction but you might find this interesting: https://collapseos.org/why.html
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by josh-sematic 4mo ago
You are describing where I want to be when my kid graduates (years from now), mandolin and all! Low cost of living, contributing to the community, enough time for passions… Not able to get there yet but it’s what I’m working towards. I just
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Reticulum Network(reticulum.network)
4 points by josh-sematic 4mo ago|0 comments
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by josh-sematic 4mo ago
Divide both by 12 then and you have monthly revenues. The ratio between them remains the same and remains rather astonishing.
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by josh-sematic 4mo ago
Chess is a game where we play and observe for the sheer joy of mastery. Mathematics has some of that “done for its own sake” aspect but not as cleanly. There’s always the chance that some applied mathematics might help something in science
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by josh-sematic 4mo ago
I’m not saying they should stop building things (I doubt any argument in that direction would land anyway). But more that they should follow through on the whole picture of the future they’re working on. Anthropic’s brand leans a lot more
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by josh-sematic 4mo ago
Anthropic employees: I believe many of you actually do think your work is for the betterment of humanity. That’s great! If you truly do believe that, it’s time to start demanding your leadership lobby for real, structural solutions to unemp
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by josh-sematic 4mo ago
Sadly this won’t happen for the same reasons that the median salary hasn’t increased with increases in productivity over the past few decades. You are compensated (or given time off) based on what your employer can get away with, not based
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by josh-sematic 4mo ago
You should not be asking Elon if you can work 4 days a week; he believes you should already be working 7.
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by josh-sematic 4mo ago
I’m guessing you wouldn’t really rather be managed by a bot..,
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by josh-sematic 4mo ago
I’ve also heard on the engineering side performance is judged by heavily favoring launching products over keeping existing ones healthy and growing. You get what you incentivize…
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by josh-sematic 4mo ago
Love to see it. Unlike tangled.org this is local-first and has a solid story around private repos. I’m bullish on distributed forges in general, but I’m all for experimentation in figuring out exactly what that looks like.
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by josh-sematic 4mo ago
Weird article. “Our annualized revenue as of March 2026 is $19b” is not “telling the public we’ve made $19b.” And the discrepancy the author points at is actually more like revenue to date “exceeds $5b” vs revenue to date looking like $6.7b
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by josh-sematic 5mo ago
What peers are speaking Mojo? I’m not aware of any place it’s penetrated enough to be a “lingua Franca”
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We Need to Rewild the Internet(noemamag.com)
4 points by josh-sematic 5mo ago|0 comments

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