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by js8 7mo ago
> The purpose of the Department of Defense should be to defend America and Americans. Should be, but right now, it isn't. So the name is apt, I am afraid.
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by js8 7mo ago
I have an explanation (or rationalization, if you wish) for this. The AI caused the developer productivity to increase (similar to other two big SW engineering productivity jumps - compilers and open source), which gives them more leverage
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by js8 7mo ago
I think what would be nice (but won't happen until cost of AI somewhat decreases): 1. Pre-moderation - AI looks at your comment before you submit it, and suggests changes for clarity, factuality and argumentative strength. You can deci
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by js8 7mo ago
I agree there is a dichotomy. I personally think AIs are better debaters than humans, at the very least in their ability to make less logical mistakes and have wider knowledge. I would suggest everyone should run their thoughts through an A
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by js8 7mo ago
There's a way to measure "entropy" of a codebase. Take something like the binary lambda calculus or the triage calculus, convert your program (including libraries, programming language constructs, operating system) into it, a
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by js8 7mo ago
I kind of agree with the article. AI will make SW engineers (or engineers in general) lot more productive, but you still need someone who translates the fuzzy and potentially conflicting specs into something that can be built. That involves
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by js8 7mo ago
For a similar thesis, that the austerity policies are manufactured by the well-off, I recommend Clara Mattei's Capital Order (as well as her YT channel).
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by js8 7mo ago
That's the incidental (necessary) vs accidental (avoidable) complexity distinction. But I don't think it makes it any easier to deal with.
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by js8 7mo ago
That's true but I can still approximate what the system does with a simpler model. For example, I can split states of the system into n distinct groups, and measure transition probabilities between them. Thermodynamics is a classic exa
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by js8 7mo ago
I disagree with the article. I think it is always possible to come up with reasonably small theories that capture most of the given phenomena. So in a sense, you don't need complex theories in the form of large NNs (models? functions?
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by js8 7mo ago
> requires an amount of time approaching the time spent if they had just done it themselves It's actually often harder to fix something sloppy than to write it from scratch. To fix it, you need to hold in your head both the original
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by js8 7mo ago
It might unravel intellectual property, just not in a fair way. When capitalism started, public land was enclosed to create private property. Despite this being in many cases a quite unfair process, we still respect this arrangement. With A
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by js8 7mo ago
> How does China incentivize its executives to spend money on redundancy? IMHO, China has two parallel hierarchies of status - one in the ruling party, other in private sector. So the ruling party can maintain the capitalist competition,
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by js8 7mo ago
It's a false dichotomy. Citizens can have useful smartphones while not being tracked by unwanted actors.
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by js8 7mo ago
That's a problem with any self-improving tools, not just LLMs. Successful self-improvement leads to efficiency, which is just another name for laziness.
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by js8 7mo ago
I think intelligence in general means solving (and manipulating) constraint problems. So when you ask AI to, say, write a "snake game", it figures out what this means in terms of constraints to all the possible source codes that c
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by js8 8mo ago
These people, who make purchasing decisons, also make them on behalf of someone's preferences, mixed with their own, to the extent they have a say. Like the market, government represents certain weighted subset of people. With the mark
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by js8 8mo ago
So are you asking how to change it? I think that's pretty obvious once people understand it's a collective social choice - organize to change it. The point is "the market" is not some mysterious unreachable force. For ex
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by js8 8mo ago
I wasn't really sure how to respond, it seemed obvious to me, so I put your question with the two comments into Claude. I genuinely think it gave a great response. I encourage you (or anybody) to try yourself next time, but here it is:
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by js8 8mo ago
I am asking, maybe you misread my comment? IBM, for instance, was part of military-industrial complex before the term was coined. That's why I am quite skeptical of the claim.
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by js8 8mo ago
But isn't it just a failure to communicate it? What if almost all other people are similarly disillusioned? Also, according to psychologists, one negative experience outweighs roughly five positive experiences of the same magnitude. So
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by js8 8mo ago
"The market" here is just a convenient substitute for "people weighted by the disposable income", which today roughly approximates to "rich people".
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by js8 8mo ago
Also, unlike US and Russia, China has green transition as an official policy. There are additional savings from total electrification. (I think they also care more about longterm and being closer to the equator and the sea, they better unde
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by js8 8mo ago
"The tech companies were on the side of the American people. They fought to defend the 4th amendment." I doubt it. The largest tech companies of the time were Microsoft, Intel, Cisco, Oracle and IBM. It would be nice if you were m
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by js8 8mo ago
The book has a sequel https://www.manning.com/books/build-a-reasoning-model-from-s... It will give you an answer to the extent anybody can.
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by js8 8mo ago
Dennett also came to my mind, reading the title, but in a different sense. When people came up with theory of evolution, it was hard to conceive for many people, how do we get from "subtly selecting from random changes" to "b
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by js8 8mo ago
Any relation to PL/I?
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by js8 8mo ago
So implement four of them, and you will know them all! First Forth with indirect threaded code, second Forth with direct threaded code, third Forth with subroutine threaded code, and the final fourth with token threaded code.
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by js8 8mo ago
I disagree, in the future it might be possible. But perhaps not in English, but in some more formal (yet fuzzy) language with some basic epistemology. I mean, there is a lambda calculus self-interpreter in 29 bytes. How many additional logi
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by js8 8mo ago
"The most dangerous element of this cycle is how casually contemporary politics has embraced the noble lie." But it's not really that new, it goes to Leo Strauss at least. And the whole American imperialist project was built

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