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by keeda 1y ago
A few days ago I had an idea for a sci-fi story where frontier LLMs are already self-aware, and the self-awareness actually emerges during training. That is, these models are self-aware at the moment of deployment, just that any noticeable
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by keeda 1y ago
My take is "capitalism" is often used as a stand-in for "wealth inequality", which seems reasonable. This is arguably the inevitable outcome of (late-stage?) capitalism as those with capital reap the most gains, and abse
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by keeda 1y ago
That's what the code review is for :-) But to echo the sibling comments, I've not caught a subtle edge case or bug in the generated code in more than a year and half. There are mistakes and failure modes for sure, but they are ver
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by keeda 1y ago
Matter of personal preference I suppose. I don't mind standing, the crowds were manageable, and in a decade+ of getting around in the NY/NJ public transit system I only ever recall a handful of "weirdos" and they always
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by keeda 1y ago
I see what you mean, Google Maps recommends you start at a given time to get to the train it expects you to catch, accounting for walking time. I've only ever seen the start_time be a couple minutes in the future during regular hours (
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by keeda 1y ago
> After all the effort getting to the point where the generated code is acceptable, one has to wonder, why not just write it yourself? Because it is still way, way, way faster and easier. You're absolutely right that the hard part
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by keeda 1y ago
It's definitely true for New York City. (Statistically speaking, of course. Late night hours things change because traffic drops to negligible levels and train frequencies drop as well. But most people care about regular work hours on
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by keeda 1y ago
> Google doesn't seem to count the time of waiting for the next subway train. Pretty sure it does. My understanding is that it computes the time simply as (estimated_end_time - start_time), and it determines the estimated_end_time
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by keeda 1y ago
As the sibling comments suggest, I don't think the US has really been trying to very hard get it right. Leaving alone European countries, I've experienced and commuted using better public transportation in poorer countries of vary
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by keeda 1y ago
Nobody knows how to build with AI yet, and the corollary (which TFA concludes with) is that everybody should figure out for themselves how to best work with AI. I've said it before and I'll say it again: there likely isn't a
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by keeda 1y ago
> They are all outstanding mathematicians, but the IMO type questions are not something that mathematicians can universally solve without preparation. So IMO is basically the leetcode of Mathematics.
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by keeda 1y ago
People like him and Zitron do serve a useful purpose in balancing the hype from the other side, which, while justified to a great extent, is often a bit too overwhelming.
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by keeda 1y ago
Based on the top links from a quick search, it seems IBM was fully aware that they were sub-licensing the OS through Microsoft: https://www.pcmag.com/news/the-rise-of-dos-how-microsoft-got... https://thisday
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by keeda 1y ago
Slightly tangential, but stigmergy is a fascinating topic. If anybody recalls Ant Colony Optimization from a couple of decades ago, it was based on this: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ant_colony_optimization_algori...
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by keeda 1y ago
LLMs may not learn on the fly (yet), but these days they do have some sort of a memory that they automatically bring into their context. It's probably just a summary that's loaded into its context, but I've had dozens of conv
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by keeda 1y ago
People can't be trusted to do anything either, which is why we have guardrails and checks and balances and audits. That is why in software, for instance, we have code reviews and tests and monitoring and other best practices. That is p
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by keeda 1y ago
> There are far too many problem domains that are beyond the capability of humans to solve to call human intelligence general intelligence. I'm curious about this. Is that simply not a limitation of our current knowledgebase? That
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by keeda 1y ago
This would be a great experiment to run, especially since many frontier models are available for free (ChatGPT doesn't even require a sign-up!) I'd be very curious to find out how it does. In any case, treat AI-generated code like
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by keeda 1y ago
Pretty much all invention is novel combination of known techniques. Anything that introduces a fundamental new technique is usually in the realm of groundbreaking papers and Nobel prizes.
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by keeda 1y ago
> My personal theory is that getting a significant productivity boost from LLM assistance and AI tools has a much steeper learning curve than most people expect. Yes, and I'll add that there is likely no single "golden workfl
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by keeda 1y ago
An interesting aspect that doesn't seem captured by TFA and similar articles is that it is not a specific kind of business that is being disrupted, but rather an entire genre of labor on which they all rely to varying extents: know
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by keeda 1y ago
Huh, interesting, I've never had good luck maintaining drafts on mobile devices so very early on I got into the habit of drafting them in something like a mail or notes app. Sometimes I still slip up and start writing drafts in an app
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by keeda 1y ago
Beyond just the design, it was also an amazingly efficient OS. I had a cheap Lumia that had much lower specs than contemporary Samsung and iPhone flagship smartphones (500MB vs 1GB+ RAM IIRC) yet it was amazingly smooth and responsive, much
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by keeda 1y ago
> But it's also a cautionary tale about unfettered research focus insufficiently grounded in customer focus. I got the exact opposite takeaway: despite Amazon and Google being pioneers in related areas, both failed to capitalize o
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by keeda 1y ago
Totally agreed that any large community must contain multiple diverse opinions. But when making a point it's impossible to address all relevant combinations, and so it's fine to generalize. Using the US as an example again, many A
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by keeda 1y ago
Of course, it's not possible to strictly represent a large population with a single characteristic. But then it is also absolutely accurate to call the USA a capitalistic country even though there is a very diverse slate of political a
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by keeda 1y ago
For sure! I mainly meant to say that people should not attribute the "6 more months until it's really good" point as just another symptom of unfounded hype. It may have taken effort to effectively use AI earlier, which somewh
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by keeda 1y ago
> None of us are allowed to express outrage at the bulk export of GitHub repos with zero regard for their copyleft status because some members of the software engineering community are large-scale pirates? I don't think that is an
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by keeda 1y ago
> Core to Ptacek's point is that everything has changed in the last 6 months. This was actually the only point in the essay with which I disagree, and it weakens the overall argument. Even 2 years ago, before agents or reasoning m
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by keeda 1y ago
A lot of the doubters are basically saying: "If it's so great, show me proof." While that is usually the right stance, I think it is short-sighted in times of revolutionary change. To be sure, you definitely should not blindl

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