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by lukev 1y ago
Actual comprehensive high speed rail networks would reduce the overall carbon footprint of travel by a huge factor, while still permitting a high overall degree of affordable mobility.
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by lukev 2y ago
This kind of news should be a death-knell for OpenAI. If you've built your value on promising imminent AGI then this sort of thing is purely a distraction, and you wouldn't even be considering it... unless you knew you weren'
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by lukev 2y ago
To agree and extend, that's actually how human language works too. The cultural connotations of "dog" in english might be quite different from "perro". And it gets even more complex because the connotations of &quot
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by lukev 2y ago
It's not even about the communication! Just having more insight into the brains and communication of other mammals has a ton of scientific value in its own right. Sometimes it's good just to know things. If we needed to find a pra
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by lukev 2y ago
Tangential, but this brings up a really interesting question for me. LLMs are multi-lingual without really trying assuming the languages in question are sufficiently well-represented in their training corpus. I presume their ability to tran
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by lukev 2y ago
Time to start moving back to Java & Spring. 100% backwards compatibility and well represented in 15 years worth of training data, hah.
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by lukev 2y ago
I think it's not clear that AI is driving significant revenue _anywhere_ outside its own ecosystem. The only companies with real AI-driven revenue are selling to people investing in the hype, not their own realized revenue.
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by lukev 2y ago
That's why I said "arguably", cause you're about to get argued with. I won't, though. I tend to agree (under current idioms, I DO think it holds promise for software development when used properly.)
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by lukev 2y ago
So AI is in this interesting place because while it seems obvious that it's an amazing, powerful, transformative technology... that actually hasn't materialized at an economic level, yet. Arguably the only place where it has a pro
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by lukev 2y ago
A) The historical position of the US is that human rights (freedom of belief and speech among them) are inalienable. It plays out different for non-citizens but up until the current administration, largely the same constitutional and due pr
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by lukev 2y ago
This is a weird argument because Bluesky doesn't have a "feed"... by default you see only the people you follow unless you subscribe to specific other feeds. So you followed a bunch of people you didn't like? That says m
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by lukev 2y ago
Here's the thing. What you're doing when you're vibe coding is iteratively creating specifications for software, which the LLM is capable of converting to runnable code. Insufficient specs will lead to code that doesn't
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by lukev 2y ago
I've had quite my fill of "real time" and "interactive" web pages. Slow, bloated, terrible UX as often as not. Even Datastar/HTMX might be too much. Server-side HTML can get you very, very far in most applicati
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by lukev 2y ago
Ah, cool, didn't read close enough. Yeah, I do think that LLMs acting as compilers for super high-level specs (the new "code") is a much better approach than chatting with a bot to try to get the right code written. LLM-deriv
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by lukev 2y ago
This is the way LLM-enhanced coding should (and I believe will) go. Treating the LLM like a compiler is a much more scalable, extensible and composable mental model than treating it like a junior dev.
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by lukev 2y ago
As a follow-up, this is true not only at the level of individual experience but at the societal level. "AI" is supposed to make our lives better . Proponents want it to replace soul-crushing, boring clerical work, to free us up f
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by lukev 2y ago
Longform creative writing is possibly the least valid or interesting use case for LLMs. Why should I be bothered to read what nobody could be bothered to write? The point of writing is communication and creative writing is specifically ab
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by lukev 2y ago
Make things painful enough that one of the players decides to change their strategy (e.g, by changing who has been delegated decision-making authority. Hopefully.)
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by lukev 2y ago
Unless one of the parties involved cares more about "winning" than the actual value function.
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by lukev 2y ago
Neither of those are "big problems." The US was going gangbusters, from an economic perspective.
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by lukev 2y ago
Some Americans may wish the US had better relative industrial capabilities, but that isn't what this is about. This is a direct effect of electing a president who deeply, firmly believes that having a trade deficit means we're get
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by lukev 2y ago
Pix is super interesting. I have two questions to which Google wasn't able to provide quick answers: 1. Is there an easy way for a US resident to sign up for a Pix-enabled account (e.g. at a Brazilian bank?) 2. Can Pix be used easily f
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by lukev 2y ago
So this is interesting because it's anecdotal (I presume you're a high-token user who believes it's revolutionary), but it's actually a measurable, falsifiable hypothesis in principle. I'd love to see a survey from
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by lukev 2y ago
Invalid expression: value of type "probability distribution" cannot be cast to type "boolean".
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by lukev 2y ago
Objectively speaking a chess engine is artificially intelligent. Just because it's not human level doesn't mean it's not intelligent. Repeat for any N of 100s of different technologies we've built. We've been callin
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by lukev 2y ago
Zoning needs to be a little more nuanced than "build whatever you want." I'd be happy to see multi-family dwellings in my neighborhood but there's a few steps between that and buying out my neighbors to build an ammonia
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by lukev 2y ago
This seems like a probable end state, but we're going to have to stop calling LLMs "artificial intelligence" in order to get there.
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by lukev 2y ago
This is a bit of a meta-comment, but reading through the responses to a post like this is really interesting because it demonstrates how our collective response to this stuff is (a) wildly divergent and (b) entirely anecdote-driven. I have
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by lukev 2y ago
Nobody is saying there wouldn't be catalogs and "new release" feeds... they would just have to be dedicated and voluntary and not polluting everything else I'm trying to do.
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by lukev 2y ago
I'd happily exchange that discoverability for control of my own informational environment. Even if you're right, think about the positive effect that'd have on society. The people with cool, interesting products would be the

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