lordnacho

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by lordnacho 3mo ago
But that's purely a matter of having sensors? Stick a camera and a touch sensor on the machine, now it is experiencing the world. Besides that, there is a lot of value in redigested experience. Quite a lot of history is only really exa
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by lordnacho 3mo ago
But how could something be a cultural trend without some sort of anchoring in history? I don't see why a computer (or a person) couldn't make up a plausible sounding story about a NYC artist of the present day? You would just refe
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by lordnacho 3mo ago
So now we'll have to investigate what "original" means? From what I can see, AI is absolutely able to create new work. Things that are not in the dataset, but look like they could be. This is pretty much what generalising mea
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by lordnacho 3mo ago
That's what we all did in school, didn't we? Nobody did any original research, you didn't discover gravity, and you didn't participate in any historically significant events. Yet we say that people who have been through
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by lordnacho 3mo ago
To settle on a price, you need smart investors to be able to push it either way, which they need shorting and leverage for. Plus there's option traders who naturally need to go short sometimes.
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by lordnacho 3mo ago
> Such problems may seem trivial to someone trained in modern elementary-school algebra I've often wondered about how school curricula evolve over time. Presumably people were doing _something_ in 13th century math classes? What wer
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by lordnacho 3mo ago
It's just naive to say you are always going for quality. Everyone has constraints in money and time that they need to think about. > Are you not running and testing your code? Why would you think that?
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by lordnacho 3mo ago
Most countries we are discussing are richer now than a few decades ago, yet still have domestic servants. Those servants will be richer in a few decades but will still be in that situation.
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by lordnacho 3mo ago
But the attraction of LLM code is not that you get quality. The selling point is that you know have a quality Vs time tradeoff that is a lot better than you used to have. I can spend 10 seconds typing out a prompt that will generate ok code
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by lordnacho 3mo ago
But that's LinkedIn working as intended. Nobody thinks they are about to read an actual analysis of some industry relevant development. People aren't there to provide advice about how to "connect to your true self" eithe
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by lordnacho 4mo ago
It's not population. Yes, everyone will point at population, but it's not population that's the explanation. People imagine that you have to have a bunch of talents born, so the more people, the more talent. Phenomena that ar
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by lordnacho 4mo ago
For me it was gradual, then sudden. I liked using the early models to do autocompletion. It could do a leetcode style thing, pretty nice, but only useful for small things. Then I sought out Cursor because that seemed to be able to do multi-
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by lordnacho 4mo ago
It's because modern AI promises to relieve you of the tedium, leaving you to consider the important things like higher structure. It actually does deliver on this, but in contrast to older tools, it is unlimited in scope. A calculator
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by lordnacho 5mo ago
And the natural end point of this logic is called the lemon problem. It's been written about extensively and is in every undergraduate economics course. How have dots not been connected?
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by lordnacho 5mo ago
It's common, most of the people I know from the UK system did their PhD in 3-4 years. In Europe you just study what it says as well. You happy to do a bachelor's in physics, your classes are all physics. You don't read shakes
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by lordnacho 5mo ago
I met a guy this happened to. He got a special award within the company, asked for a bit of equity, didn't get it, in fact got blacklisted and booted out. Luckily for him it worked out very very nicely.
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by lordnacho 5mo ago
If you want to make friends, water your friend seeds. Everybody knows a bunch of people by name, and nothing else, from various contexts. You go to matriculation, there's a bunch of people introducing themselves, too many to get to kno
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by lordnacho 6mo ago
Could it be that what we called flow state was actually a sort of high level thinking time afforded by doing low level routine work? For instance I'm the old world, if you wanted to change an interface, you might have to edit 5 or 6 fi
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by lordnacho 6mo ago
> How do you value people who learnt to code in the 80's, 90's or 2000's today? Personally I rate them really really highly. They are always fascinating to talk to. But they also compete with newer cohorts who mature. >
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by lordnacho 6mo ago
I was wondering if there's anything behind the idea that people who learned how to code before AI will become the human capital version of low-background steel. Everyone who starts to code after AI has a problem: it's hard to beli
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by lordnacho 6mo ago
For every bucket of probability, what is the chance it resolves correctly? For example, for markets that are between 60 and 70, is it the case that around 65% of them resolve to yes? I guess you want to take a certain time before out finish
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by lordnacho 6mo ago
What would the interest be in India? I don't think it figures much in the American consciousness, contrary to Iran or Cuba.
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by lordnacho 6mo ago
Superficially, the article is right, intelligence services didn't get this wrong, and the administration made a bad decision despite having a good appraisal to hand. But really, it's a values failure. Wanting to make decisions tha
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by lordnacho 7mo ago
What I took from the video game thing is that he thought he could fool people. It's very obvious to gamers when someone hasn't played, it actually doesn't matter whether you have high level gear. There's things you can&#
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by lordnacho 7mo ago
This is why I was wondering what the point was. Surely most countries will claim taxes from you if you work there, so having an Estonian entity will do little? Can someone explain the actual benefit of sitting in a developed country and cha
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by lordnacho 7mo ago
Isn't that more or less how it works? You pay tax where you live, with the justification being, as you say, that you are benefitting from the social structure there? The big country that is an exception is the US. Their citizens have t
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by lordnacho 7mo ago
Not Polymatket, but there's a humorous case of the Sutton FC goalkeeper eating a pork pie on TV, thus resolving a bet on whether he would do so.
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by lordnacho 7mo ago
I guess the next step in this evolution is to set up controlled news sources. You get people who have an official press card to report on things as you need as part of the reporting manipulation business. "Hey there's this newspap
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by lordnacho 7mo ago
Banning it sends it underground into the hands of organised crime, which will still have access to modern technology. There's going to be a net loss, but it's probably better to regulate it than have another war on drugs.
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by lordnacho 7mo ago
Adam Smith mentions something similar as well. He talks about how the worker's attachment to the work is different when he's working in a super specialised part of a production process rather than making the whole product like an

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