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by lich_king 7mo ago
Since the discussion here focuses mostly on child prodigies in general, I'd note that there are many studies showing that the usual outcomes for gifted kids are not all that great. I think the issue is that it's just harder to fit
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by lich_king 7mo ago
Funnily enough, I think it was also one of the early warnings of what's coming. The problem with the Flickr algorithm was that it ended up promoting a very predictable style of photos - mostly HDR landscapes - which in turn encouraged
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by lich_king 8mo ago
Is this your experience? Do you think 30% of your friends or family members can't answer this question? If not, do you think your friends or family are all better than the general population? I'd look for explanations elsewhere. T
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by lich_king 8mo ago
> spending 5 hours writing a tool to automate 5 minutes of work Hey, that's a legitimate engineering activity.
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by lich_king 8mo ago
> Is it actually being sold at a steep discount? Anthropic CEO has stated they have high margins on inference, so training is the big cost center. They're spending more than they're making. For the foreseeable future, saying &q
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by lich_king 8mo ago
Most hardware drivers are simpler than people expect. The hardware is usually designed to do the sensible thing in a straightforward way, and you're just translating what the OS wants into a bunch of bits you need to write to the right
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by lich_king 8mo ago
OP, I don't want to be a jerk, but I can't help but wonder why for every other AI promoter, the workflow here extends to using AI to write articles about AI?... I don't get it. If I wanted to know what ChatGPT / Claude &
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by lich_king 8mo ago
Nah. Wikipedia is popular because it is the #1 search result for a lot of stuff. Most of people going there just want to look up something for a homework assignment, online argument, or whatever. If Grokipedia has an error rate 5%, compared
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by lich_king 8mo ago
Stick-frame single-family construction is pretty inexpensive. For a single-story structure, rough framing and roof can be done by a couple of low-wage laborers with simple tools in a week. Prefabrication doesn't save all that much mone
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by lich_king 8mo ago
Right, but the reason that Conservapedia fizzled out is that you can't really build a critical mass of human editors if the only reason your site exists is that you have a very specific view on dinosaurs and homosexuality (even among
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by lich_king 8mo ago
"A real number in which each decimal digit at position n is equal to the first digit of BB(n)." Since you asserted that individual BB(n) numbers are computable, I think you will have no difficulty writing an algorithm that outputs
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by lich_king 8mo ago
I see some folks here defending Altman because it was an off-the-cuff remark in front of a receptive audience. But why does this make the comment acceptable? Would you give me if I talked about eating babies, but defended myself by saying t
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by lich_king 8mo ago
> Would armed resistance be more effective? I mean, with dictators, that's usually what it comes down to. But it often takes years or decades of unrest and repression before someone with enough guns decides they want to be on the ri
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by lich_king 8mo ago
Busy beavers are a classic example. They're mostly-hypothetical numbers that tell you "if any Turing machine of size s runs for longer than this, it doesn't halt." There's a link to that in the sentence you quoted.
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by lich_king 8mo ago
Why are tech specs relevant here? The problem with Flock is that once the data is collected, and once it's made accessible to law enforcement without any legal review, it's going to be used for solving heinous crimes, for keeping
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by lich_king 8mo ago
Vulnerability research is exciting and profitable, but it has three problems. First, it's mentally exhausting. Second, the income it generates is very unpredictable. Third, it's sort of... futile. You can find 1,000 vulnerabilitie
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by lich_king 8mo ago
> There's an undertone of self-soothing "AI will leverage me, not replace me", Which is especially hilarious given that this article is largely or entirely LLM-generated.
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by lich_king 8mo ago
I can sympathize with this take, but I think it misses the point: the platform is not broken. It's delivering people precisely what they want. If you look at the version of this for young people - TikTok, Snapchat stories - it's
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by lich_king 8mo ago
> The one huge advantage of C is its ubiquity - you can use it on the latest shiny computer / OS / compiler as well as some obscure embedded platform with a compiler that hasn't been updated since 2002. First, for all plat
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by lich_king 8mo ago
I really want to support open-source CAD, but it's so hard to take FreeCAD seriously. It reminds me of POV-Ray, which was (and still is) a parametric raytracer. An impressive feat of engineering completely derailed by the choice of a &
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by lich_king 8mo ago
> I still stay with C89 because I know it will be portable anywhere With respect, that sounds a bit nuts. It's been 37 years since C89; unless you're targeting computers that still have floppy drives, why give up on so many con
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by lich_king 8mo ago
> Today's AI can basically compete with the low quality stuff that makes up most of social media, it can't really compete with higher quality stuff But compete in what sense? It already wins on volume alone , because LLM writi
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by lich_king 8mo ago
I can only assume the grandparent means Google+
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by lich_king 8mo ago
This is AI slop. It's LLM-generated text. It says nothing of consequence and doesn't address the thesis in the title at all. It's also illustrated with generated images, complete with smeared / nonsensical text. I don&#x
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by lich_king 8mo ago
The LLM that wrote this nearly content-free story doesn't know what it's talking about. The basic distinction in the infosec industry is that advisories are what you publish to tell customers that you had a bug in your product tha
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by lich_king 8mo ago
> making slides/decks to communicate those thoughts, That use case is definitely delegated to LLMs by many people. That said, I don't think it translates into linear productivity gains. Most white collar work isn't so fast
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by lich_king 8mo ago
> "NEVER use generic AI-generated aesthetics like overused font families (Inter, Roboto, Arial, system fonts), cliched color schemes (particularly purple gradients on white backgrounds), ... Now, imagine what happens when this promp
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by lich_king 8mo ago
> I am of the opinion that incarceration should be "for the benefit of society"; that the person should be behind bars because because they are a threat to society. If they're done with thing because, they may do it again.
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by lich_king 8mo ago
I am really conflicted about this because yes, I think that an LLM can be an OK writing aid in utilitarian settings. It's probably not going to teach you to write better, but if the goal is just to communicate an idea, an LLM can usual
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by lich_king 8mo ago
It's dark outside. I'm sitting in my living room with reasonable indoor lighting. I point my "Pro" phone camera on the tele setting (but no digital zoom) at the wall and take a photo. I zoom in on the capture and there i

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