mpalmer

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by mpalmer 8mo ago
> No hardcoded behaviours, no reward functions. - they could evolve in any direction. If they can hack their reward functions won't this always converge on some kind of agentic opium den?
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by mpalmer 8mo ago
Kind of odd it doesn't lead with the Anthropic statement predicting they were about be designated a risk because they'd refused to move past their red lines.
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by mpalmer 8mo ago
Those of us whose intelligence is unaffected by reading a single extra letter are keeping you in our thoughts.
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by mpalmer 8mo ago
I don't think you do? Who said that any of it is legal? Keeping in mind that when the government does something, it usually takes more than 24h for there to be an official determination on whether they broke the law.
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by mpalmer 8mo ago
"OAI wins by playing the government's game" is such a catastrophically bad take. > anthropic has ruined their relationship with the US govt, giving oai a good negotiating hand You want to try defending this ridiculous stat
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by mpalmer 8mo ago
Yes, I was thinking of the watchman integration. And I also really love the DSLs it gives you for selecting change sets and assembling log formats.
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by mpalmer 8mo ago
This is so cool to have made yourself. How would you compare this to the functionality offered by jujutsu? I love the histogram, it was the first sort of thing I wanted out of jujutsu that its UI doesn't make very easy. But with jj the
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by mpalmer 8mo ago
Not sure what the stuttering issues are... For my part, I don't need an app that's faster than Handy, and I do like that Handy is Tauri (Rust + web), which means it could be fully cross-platform eventually. It's mostly that t
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by mpalmer 8mo ago
Life can be a dream if you don't treat everything as a pitch
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by mpalmer 8mo ago
What evidence have you seen that even the best available tooling powered by LLMs saves money?
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by mpalmer 8mo ago
I don't understand how you don't see your second "real question" as a personal judgment
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by mpalmer 8mo ago
"Will this reduce bureaucracy and save taxpayer money" is just as much political nonsense as the other stuff. Taxpayer money unspent is not an unalloyed good. Nor is government logistics (bureaucracy being quite the loaded term) a
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by mpalmer 8mo ago
I enjoyed this! Thank you for taking the time to write it. I like it because I identify with your experiences way more than I do with the standard AI braggy boilerplate. Cheers. And I deserve and accept the gentle snark at the beginning. I
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by mpalmer 8mo ago
And thanks for taking the criticism. In all honesty, "would have written it myself but I was too eager to get it out the door" doesn't really make sense to me. You're acknowledging that you took a shortcut to get it out
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by mpalmer 8mo ago
Has the author (not OP) written anything on this topic themselves ? This is a blunt comment, because I am fed up with being asked to read LLM content that the prompter thinks is novel and worthwhile because they don't know better. I c
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by mpalmer 8mo ago
I have not seen many of these hypothetical "intrinsically interesting" Show HN posts generated by unskilled users. The single one I can think of is someone who (I quote) "accidentally created the fastest CSV parser ever using
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by mpalmer 8mo ago
> At the code level it's still rehashing the same ideas over and over again. I agree that rehashing the same ideas over and over again is sufficient - for some strange, complacent definition of the word. It's not the only way
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by mpalmer 8mo ago
By "patched", you can't mean they added something to the internal prompt to show it how to answer this one specific question?!
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by mpalmer 8mo ago
> Because virtually all software is not novel. That isn't true, not by a long shot. Improvements happen because someone is inspired to do something differently. How will that ever happen if we're obsessed with proving we can re
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by mpalmer 8mo ago
Originally called Retriever, based on the domain. Trademark issues? So it's a bunch of tools that Gemini can call, but the tools involve low-level interactions with the page structure in the end-user's browser. What is the moat? W
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by mpalmer 8mo ago
Maybe they don't want the idiots' money.
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by mpalmer 8mo ago
Gemini Flash Lite 3 preview within 10 days now, surely
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by mpalmer 8mo ago
Incredibly tricky topic, but seriously, if no child is actually harmed or victimized, this is thought crime.
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by mpalmer 8mo ago
I'm very puzzled at the positive comments it's getting. It's insanely, discourteously long for the number of distinct ideas in it. There's banal LLM-ish smirking quips, very little personality and a lot of repetition. Th
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by mpalmer 8mo ago
You read a series of solid bullet points fleshed out semi-competently using AI, and given a slight human touch. It should be a quarter of this length at least.
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by mpalmer 8mo ago
I got the impression he tweaked bits of it. It's still extremely apparent though.
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by mpalmer 8mo ago
Slow media or die! The particular niche of television Vince Gilligan has carved out for himself is endlessly fascinating to me. With three shows over the course of 20 years, each more detached from the sensationalism of its predecessor, he
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by mpalmer 9mo ago
I'm sure Microsoft is and has been host to some incredibly smart technologists and designers over the years, OP included. But this only serves to reduce my confidence that much more in the ELTs which have sired the modern incoherent sh
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by mpalmer 9mo ago
To be honest I don't see anything egregious here.
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by mpalmer 9mo ago
This is inane. Someone posing as a freelance dev trying to con Anthropic out of money they themselves would be incapable of making on their own. Can't even write their own impassioned write-up. Whoever prompted Claude to write this: fi

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