jstanley

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by jstanley 3mo ago
> if the government fines oil companies for flaring off the natural gas, suddenly it's economically viable to capture it instead of wasting it. If the government fines individuals for not digging holes in their back garden every day
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by jstanley 3mo ago
Agreed
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by jstanley 3mo ago
> there is less money remaining. In what sense? This may be related to the commonly-held fallacy of "cash on the sidelines". Cash is always on the sidelines. Cash is not created or destroyed by buying and selling stocks or bo
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by jstanley 3mo ago
Sure, try it. It's harder than you think. It's not just imports, it's the entire program. > you're suggesting there's some kind of information flow from the anticipated body of the script back up to the imports Y
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by jstanley 3mo ago
You can't become a pro footballer just by wishing your leg wasn't broken, but you can pay close attention to the difference between pain and suffering, and acknowledge the pain without accepting any unnecessary suffering. Pain is
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by jstanley 3mo ago
It makes intuitive sense. How else could you write a 500-line script top-to-bottom with no backspace key and no arrow keys and get all the imports etc. right upfront?
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by jstanley 3mo ago
It's because I live in the UK
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by jstanley 3mo ago
Interestingly web.archive.org is blocked for me but TFA isn't.
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by jstanley 3mo ago
The Tesla one talks about solar panels.
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by jstanley 3mo ago
Really interesting list, thanks. The link to the original for Scion Capital is a 404 FYI: https://billiondollarpdf.com/entry/burry-scion-subprime/ - the original seems to be included towards the end in the PDF at
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by jstanley 3mo ago
Conversely, https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/fzeoYhKoYPR3tDYFT/beware-iso...
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by jstanley 3mo ago
I bet when hot and cold running water first came out you would have questioned whether people "needed" that as well. Plainly it was not a "need" since people managed for thousands of years without it. This is what progre
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by jstanley 3mo ago
Isn't that the same hand?
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by jstanley 3mo ago
Right but given that the agent only outputs text, and agents are perfectly happy writing python, the supposed benefit of Lisp is completely irrelevant here.
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by jstanley 3mo ago
It's fine, if you don't want to read it you don't have to read it, nobody's forcing you.
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by jstanley 3mo ago
Possibly, but people were worried about this with cloud hosting when it first came out, and it turned out to be a total nonissue.
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by jstanley 3mo ago
One reason to want to upload the entire codebase is that it allows them to have the model inspect the codebase during "thinking" without going back to the client to do real tool calls. It's not a really great reason, because
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by jstanley 3mo ago
In what way?
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by jstanley 3mo ago
The standard argument is: Assume H(P,i) to be a program that tells you whether the program P will halt on input i. Returns true if it halts and false if it doesn't. Define a new program G(x) that halts if x does not halt on itself as i
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by jstanley 3mo ago
In principle you can instantaneously set the throttle opening to some position and set the RPM to whatever you want. In time the RPM will rise or fall until the engine is at equilibrium, but throttle position and RPM aren't like mechan
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by jstanley 3mo ago
Found it now, thanks, I had to scroll down. This is like a much cooler version of a thing I made a few years ago for simulating model oscillating engines: https://incoherency.co.uk/oscillating-engine/
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by jstanley 3mo ago
How do you tell how much power it is making?
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by jstanley 3mo ago
I think the distinction is that you think a life is only worth living if it is a sufficiently enjoyable life, and I think life is worth living intrinsically.
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by jstanley 3mo ago
I did skim the Wikipedia article but it didn't seem to engage with anything I was thinking about. Almost everybody's revealed preference is to stay alive rather than to not be alive, otherwise we'd see a lot more suicide. &gt
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by jstanley 3mo ago
> I've had a suspicion there is something unethical about this. Why? As a human being who was once born, I am extremely grateful for my existence, and how much thought my parents put into it beforehand is of practically no consequen
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by jstanley 3mo ago
Yeah self writing. If you can show me a comparable project from 5 years ago I'll eat my hat. You can't because LLMs that can hold a conversation didn't even exist 5 years ago, let alone automatically hooking themselves up to
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by jstanley 3mo ago
How have we so rapidly got to the point where a self-writing tablet is no longer impressive technology?
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by jstanley 3mo ago
Here's one: I was working on an SDF-based CAD tool. One of the things I want to be able to do is select a pair of surfaces (which are identified by a "surface id" propagated up the expression tree) and add a blend between tho
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by jstanley 3mo ago
Why aren't photo cells already manufactured to be like 90% mirrors then?
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by jstanley 3mo ago
Really interesting stuff, thanks for sharing. > Opus 4.8 references being monitored, which isn’t the case. It kind of plainly is the case that they are being monitored? "I think someone's listening to my thoughts" ... &quo

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