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by nphardon 8mo ago
If you tell your doctor that a parent had polyps removed (say, recently), that will give you your best chance of getting one. Most likely, if you're in an even remotely progressive area, your doc wants you to have one, but their hands
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by nphardon 8mo ago
Unfortunately, one of the struggles in old high tech (thats the only thing i know, are you also experiencing this?) is that the C-level people don't look at Ai and say LLM's can make an individual 10x more productive therefore (an
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by nphardon 8mo ago
(In the semiconductor industry) We experienced brutal layoffs arguably due to over-investment into Ai products that produce no revenue. So we've had brutal job loss due to Ai, just not in the way people expected. Having said that, it&
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by nphardon 8mo ago
I think I'm finally realizing that my job probably won't exist in 3-5. Things are moving so fast now that the LLMs are basically writing themselves. I think the earlier iterations moved slower because they were limited by human
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by nphardon 8mo ago
That quip(?) on Attia is darrrrrrrk. It's saying you must exchange your soul.
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by nphardon 8mo ago
My Claude uses that exact phrase rather frequently. I actually like it too! Not saying it's bad.
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by nphardon 8mo ago
Got it. Amazing prescience by the Watchowski's. I'm blown away on rewatches how spot on they were for 1999.
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by nphardon 8mo ago
Kind of, I mean you have to verify things experimentally but thought can go a very long way, no? And we're not talking about humans thinking about things, we're talking about an agent with internet access existing in a digital sp
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by nphardon 8mo ago
Iirc in the Matrix Morpheus says something like "... no one knows when exactly the singularity occurred, we think some time in the 2020s". I always loved that little line. I think that when the singularity occurs all of the pro
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by nphardon 8mo ago
What are people doing with OpenClaw? Seems like some bleeding edge stuff will come out of this sort of experimentation.
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by nphardon 8mo ago
> It (Software Engineering) satisfied The Builder (feeling productive and pragmatic by creating useful things) and The Thinker (solving really hard problems). I think this is the issue, who associates really hard problems with Software E
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by nphardon 9mo ago
Yea, the title too is click bait, and based on the abstract, the whole study is click bait. "Ai = Bad". If I use an llm to do things, then it frees up time for me to use my brain in other ways, or if I outsource jobs to my llm, th
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by nphardon 9mo ago
Interesting finding: not using the brain leads to a whack brain. Or: we had 10 people play tennis and ten watch a robot play tennis. The people who played tennis stimulated more muscles in their arm while playing tennis than the people wh
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by nphardon 9mo ago
We have also seen the Boomer's cannibalize themselves, even my 7 year old can see that her grandma's screen addiction is a very scary thing and something to be avoided; very cautionary. The Boomer's inability to defend thems
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by nphardon 9mo ago
This seems ubiquitous (in baby steps) in my social circles. I think there's a big difference between general ai (LLMs) and the troubling implementations of ai like flock, and other surveillance implementations, spotify and their disto
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by nphardon 9mo ago
There's levels, for some, no-phone is the safest only route, for others, this could be a good solution. There's vids on her site showing how it works, it's very nice.
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by nphardon 9mo ago
M.I.A.'s clothing brand is looking real good now. There are others but hers was the first I heard about. Seems like the waist bag would be critical for activists. From the Ohmni website: "...fabric's work by utilizing the pr
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by nphardon 9mo ago
Sonnet 4.5 did it for me. Cant imagine coding without it now, and if you look at my comments from three months ago, you'll see I'm eating crow now. I easily hit >10x productivity with Sonnet 4.5 and Opus. I use Opus for my i
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by nphardon 10mo ago
The republican party is explicitly anti-science. One of the ripple effects of the anti-science agenda is an anti-education mentality among republican civilians. An educated populace is the enemy of the U.S. right wing.
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by nphardon 10mo ago
Thats wild! I have had nothing but consistent, stable experiences. It's possible they just take on the personalities of whoever theyre working with. So for me, it's become this like idealized version of a scientific collaborato
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by nphardon 10mo ago
I don't have illusions about whats going on on the other end, but we've done some deep collaborating and I 90% anthropomorphize it; much like how people on Star Trek TNG interact with Data.
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by nphardon 10mo ago
I'm a scientist and I mostly agree with the scientist part, but I am definitely collaborating with my bot, I don't view it as "just a tool". I know this because this morning I had to do a forced reboot and my VsCode was
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by nphardon 10mo ago
This seems wild to me; would lovvvvve to peak at your codebase. I'm in old school tech in the semiconductor industry. I do a heavy hybrid of pair-coding / vibe coding with my LLM in VsCode, 8 hours a day, across a wide spectrum of
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by nphardon 10mo ago
Ship fast, let customer do the QA, is that the idea?
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by nphardon 10mo ago
Looking at the Data from 2024 (I don't see the 2025 data) it's hard for me to see how they combine to form a metric for happiness, but it's interesting still. I spent 3 summer months in Helsinki doing a research internship a
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by nphardon 10mo ago
ive been vibe coding (i think it's vibe coding) in C for the past three weeks and it's been super fun. i was tasked with trying to improve our highly optimized hyper-graph partitioning algorithm. One of the fun things i like to
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by nphardon 11mo ago
The right has reduced left-ish values to like the basics of humanity; essentially if schools are not actively teaching hate then they are leftist. I don't think the U.S. really has a liberal / leftist culture at all compared to E
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by nphardon 11mo ago
My guess is that this is related to the conservative attacks on education in the U.S., and it's especially insidious because, again I'm guessing, it's mostly liberal minded people who are buying into home schooling in part du
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by nphardon 1y ago
That adds to the dissonance for sure.
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by nphardon 1y ago
The ai use mandates are odd. My guess is that the c-level execs have very little practical technical skills at this point, probably haven't written a line of code in 20 years. And they believe ALL the ai hype. They think LLM's

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