mw888

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by mw888 5d ago
Those most-intelligent of humans who carefully memorized verbally the most important civilizational facts known had the same reaction to the invention of writing. You are clearly a wizard of a prior era. But it is a new era.
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by mw888 5d ago
Tangential: I have no issue with it, but this seems by README writing style to be AI-assisted. As time goes on, whether AI was used or not will become far less a point of interest - if the project is good it is good. The unceremonious use o
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by mw888 6d ago
I'm not convinced a problem is actually here. I certainly wouldn't believe LLMs, an optional tool, make any part of this fundamentally worse. Maybe superficially for people who can't adapt.
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by mw888 9d ago
That's the type of moral stance which doesn't encode well into reality. I don't even agree with it, but it is surely consistent enough from your end. The real issue is that it crosses so many practical legal boundaries, mainl
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by mw888 9d ago
You've conceded your point and picked another. > they'll raze the ground to ashes before anyone can use it for legitimate means. You were so cynical you thought this one category of people would literally prevent any fruitful u
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by mw888 10d ago
> I can't wait to see Apple Verified™ photos of UFOs flying over the Golden Gate Bridge. While I'm on board with you about the inabsolute security of this (relative to what's typically expected of cryptographic systems), t
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by mw888 12d ago
Certainly not always. There's a hedonic adjustment which happens however, where some tasks go very smoothly without much specification and a lot of "you know what I mean" to the LLM, while others then require you to get painf
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by mw888 12d ago
> In my work with LLM-included software, I built a tool that evaluates text output relative to a baseline of what's expected. It helps to ensure things don't drift over time. Is that hotel example real? Curious how exactly you
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by mw888 12d ago
Part of the boon of this will just be dealing with less employees. Not so much reducing cost by reducing headcount, but reducing liability; it's the legal labyrinth which is the barrier to entry to scale business. While it is present e
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by mw888 12d ago
Oh please. Not only is this needlessly cynical but it demonstrates no ability to think for yourself. "Broad categories I don't like are excited about this, therefore it won't work." Of course you'd feel no need to j
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by mw888 12d ago
So are you, dear reader, for intellectual property laws or not. I see a lot of "anti-this" sentiment confused with "anti-AI [data collection]." The consistent view is one regarding IP in general - not reverse engineering
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by mw888 21d ago
'Prediction' gets overloaded with optimization. Predictions are binary, optimizations are fuzzy. If you're saying it's predicting, then each result should be falsifiable. The result of an LLM output should be able to be
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by mw888 28d ago
Your argument of course sounds nice and fails under your inability to define "gambling." I view favored house-odds, on arbitrary games or not, as unethical and predatory. This is the classic casino slot machine and related. Howeve
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by mw888 29d ago
It does have to be said that if LLMs keep becoming better coders at some point the bottleneck on quality is prompting. Good ideas have many hidden assumptions you think are procedural but often are pivotal to your broader vision. I find tha
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by mw888 1mo ago
The intent was to collapse this meaning. In the context of 'decentralized tech' I've come to believe literal 'decentralization' has unavoidably poor network effects, while 'accountability' gives what peop
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by mw888 1mo ago
You can choose relays, and everyone using one (centralized) relay avoids the issues. And network effects push everyone to the same one.
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by mw888 1mo ago
Email requires a message to reach a specific, limited set of participants. Nostr is a public forum, which means an unbounded number of participants who can engage. Ordering a conversation between an unbounded set across independent nodes le
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by mw888 1mo ago
Nostr breaks down along the longstanding ambiguity around what 'decentralization' means. In the literal sense, centralization leads to economies of scale and the alleviation of coordination issues. Those coordination issues are wh
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by mw888 1mo ago
ChatGPT subscriptions do the same weekly allowance, which the discounts apply to.
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by mw888 1mo ago
Culture us already far more ironic and appreciative of irreverent and absurdist humor, and open-minded to ideology- than it was prior generations. Why would it tend this way before AI? Something to do with the creative potential where tech
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by mw888 1mo ago
There's an amortization aspect as well. If I'm going to be iterating on one document or idea in an extended manner with feedback from the chatbot, I will make an effort to setup the decorum it should follow, because it's a sm
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by mw888 1mo ago
The article reads like AI, which is a shame because the topic is at least in-theory compelling. 'Crypto' adopts to some extent a principle of being 'decentralized' and now has to square what it means for that type of har
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by mw888 1mo ago
Generally constraining scope and providing enough existing material until the LLM is productive. The common counter-argument is that specifying to the sufficient level is more work than just not using an LLM at all. I find that is not a uni
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by mw888 1mo ago
Paraphrasing: > Advertisement serves to increase purchase of the inferior product. > The best product, which previously didn't require ads [on Amazon] now must pay Amazon to compete for eyeballs. Advertisement, when successful, i
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by mw888 1mo ago
Consider also the utility of a weaker technology: Succinct Non-interactive Arguments of Knowledge. Theses can be ZK, but even if not they can take an expensive verification, like a hundreds-wide multisignature, and make it cheap.
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by mw888 1mo ago
I won't overclaim but look at "Binius" which uses fields, instead of prime orders, of orders of powers of two. The very intuitive notion is that computers are good at 2s, thus explaining their massive performance gains.
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by mw888 1mo ago
You're appealing to ambiguity. All you've said is you have failed—how is anyone supposed to know what went wrong?
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by mw888 1mo ago
Predict multiple outcomes, induct across them, refine.
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by mw888 2mo ago
Software developers are famous for lamenting the high time preferences of business forcing them to make poor engineering decisions. The dynamic is common. Therefore one should not expect higher quality out of many businesses using AI, but y
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by mw888 2mo ago
This could allow a very opinionated and tailored translation, which I think is the appeal. That said, I'd like to see the prompt(s) having such an effect on the subjective choices for a project like this.

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