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by lelanthran 25d ago
> So it is not like we will ever be left without things to think about. None of what you wrote, especially this line, makes me think you know what "eating the seed corn" means.
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by lelanthran 25d ago
> So if you really believe AI is gonna devalue your skills, you'd rather want data centers to be built in your country This makes no sense. It's just as true for the reverse assertion "If you really believe that AI won&#x2
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by lelanthran 25d ago
> If you still believe LLMs are "autocomplete", your cache of understanding about them needs invalidating and regenerating. Autocomplete in a feedback loop is still autocomplete, no? Doesn't the process look like this:
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by lelanthran 26d ago
> Data center opposition is one of the rare areas that has bipartisan support. This is true. Although, I think resistance to datacenters is just a symptom of the majority of people being anti-AI. You have to be really dumb not to view a
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by lelanthran 26d ago
> You cannot still read and understand an AI written proof at the current skill level of the AI being applied, because they're orders of magnitude longer than human written proofs even when they don't need to be, and spend most
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by lelanthran 26d ago
> How? Coding capabilities keep improving, there is no break So? The upper end of the S-curve is also a line that still rises.
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by lelanthran 26d ago
Odd. I (and many others) have been saying for months that we don't know which part of the s-curve we are on. I guess now we do.
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by lelanthran 26d ago
> They’re doing it as a way to undermine the industry leaders and attract people to their brands. I'm not seeing a problem here; don't all companies have this goal?
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by lelanthran 26d ago
> left to its own devices it does produce less than optimal code, but if I just spend a few minutes explaining how some pattern will improve the code, But that requires actually reading the output, which I am pretty certain only a roundi
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by lelanthran 26d ago
> People keep saying that "models are just compilers, and I don't see you complsining about compilers". Which is such a bullshit argument At what point do we normalise the message "This is a stupid line of reasoning a
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by lelanthran 26d ago
> But for me, I'm switching to the weaving loom for speed and efficiency. Poor analogy - the loom was deterministic. LLMs are not, they are probabilistic. I made a page I can point anyone to because I keep seeing this "LLMs ar
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by lelanthran 26d ago
> The harness instructs them to behave this way. Also this approach saves tokens. The scripts allow to edit files in bulk, and most of the session cost is in cache reads (e.g. for 300K context each command costs the same as 30K input tok
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by lelanthran 26d ago
> Even on personal projects, if I go through a few major features without reviewing the code, I always end up doing massive revisions that steal hours of my time and fill me with rage in the process. Where LLMs excel is in code-level bug
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by lelanthran 27d ago
It was unintentionally funny then :-) If I'd accidentally written a comment asking whether the intellectual skills I am losing are worth keeping, and make 2x spelling errors in a single short sentence, I'd find the unintended iron
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by lelanthran 27d ago
> I struggled a little bit reading this. but I think your point is valid. if we are actually advancing the field then we should just be unconditionally happy. If advancement comes at the expense of having fewer (or no) humans left in the
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by lelanthran 27d ago
> Try, but what skills are work keeping? We need something cogntive, but not everything. Are you trying to be funny?
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by lelanthran 27d ago
I do. For compare-and-swap I have even got a lock less queue that I implemented with it.
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by lelanthran 28d ago
> The most likely scenario at this point it: > - autonomous cars cause fewer accidents > - so either insurance will be cheaper for them > - AND/OR human driving car insurance goes up If they were going to do that, they woul
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by lelanthran 28d ago
Agreed. I didn't even take the insurance monitor they offered because the difference in cost turned out to be something stupidly low (like a saving of $1/month, or similar). I don't want my car monitored, I don't want my
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by lelanthran 28d ago
> If autonomous cars result in less damage than humans, their insurance price will be cheaper than human drivers, but there's no reason to raise the human rate at the same time, their accident rate should stay the same. Wouldn'
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by lelanthran 28d ago
> The absolute danger of a space shuttle is much greater than a bike. But the absolute danger of C++ versus C is… equivalent. Okay, let's pretend, for the sake of this conversation, that the absolute danger in the event of failure f
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by lelanthran 28d ago
> That's just your claim about how LLMs "should" work, based on ... your subjective preference? Nothing subjective at all. Given 2 unknown races with no data on either, the result of hiring should be equally split between
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by lelanthran 28d ago
> The results show 51% mimblewort / 49% bafflewick. Fable based it on nothing! I've demonstrated Fable has bias and is unsuited for use in software engineering. Actually... if that happened (with a delta outside the margin for
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by lelanthran 28d ago
> It seems much more interesting to look for biases that appear robustly across different realistic scenarios that would actually be influenced by the training data Difficult to do when you're following a scientific process: you wan
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by lelanthran 28d ago
> Rather than solve the problem of "why does LLM output slightly stratify between Tufa and Weki like this", I would just not conduct my hiring using this paper's methodology. You might be missing the point of the paper. It
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by lelanthran 28d ago
> This seems to be one of the core alignment problems to me. See also: Gastown, the agent management project that could only end up working on Gastown, unceremoniously and quietly set aside. I did not know this! Any link to an announcem
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by lelanthran 28d ago
> What’s the most dangerous thing that’s happened with an LLM so far? It's basically 4 years in now, so that's the wrong question. I mean, if you're raising an apex predator that has a lifetime measured in centuries, at 4
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by lelanthran 29d ago
> The analogy I use is to physical tools. A screwdriver is simple, but building a house with only a screwdriver is complex. A suite of power tools is complex, but building a house with them is simple. The analogy I prefer is that it&#x27
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by lelanthran 29d ago
> You're correct in principle, but in reality... ... It's never been tried. Look, I was actually joking when I initially replied, but now that I think about it, it's never been tried! So now I am left wondering exactly w
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by lelanthran 29d ago
You really should have read the rest of that extremely short comment.

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