overgard

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by overgard 5mo ago
It doesn't make it less of slop. I'm sorry, rewriting a story with AI that already makes your point to be a worse less-subtle version of it is like the definition of slop. Slop might be too nice, it's plagiarism. Also the poi
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by overgard 5mo ago
One thing I'll point out is the attention thing might be more of a lack of motivation on my part. It used to be banging out features quickly gave me a nice dopamine rush and the satisfaction of having built something I'm proud of.
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by overgard 5mo ago
Maybe we can use software engineers as batteries
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by overgard 5mo ago
Well, if tokens = cost, and verbosity = more tokens, then smaller code is a financial (and human!) win. Although I'm worried vibe coders are just going to have LLMs modify minified code in caveman mode so they can have 100 agents in a
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by overgard 5mo ago
In my case, where I see it most often is when the LLM has to rework something multiple times, and the feedback loop is vague (especially when all I have to give it is "no error messages, but it's still broken"). It seems like
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by overgard 5mo ago
Missed opportunity! I obviously have skill issues.
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by overgard 5mo ago
Yeah, my switch to Linux and Mac for most things is more about just finding Microsoft's policies so obnoxious and hostile that I just won't deal with them anymore, even if I have to deal with more technological hassles. The only r
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by overgard 5mo ago
There will always be shitty linkedin posts.
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by overgard 5mo ago
I just watched copilot today turn a 8 line fix into 500 lines, so, yeah, verbosity is a big side effect
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by overgard 5mo ago
Look at how many data center projects are getting shut down by grassroots movements, or how the approval rating for AI is like worse than congress and it's geeting booed at commencement speeches. I don't need to start an insurgenc
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by overgard 5mo ago
I haven't tried to make a TUI admittedly, but double buffering is the oldest technique on the planet. A TUI doesn't even need to pay the cost of a lot of pixels since its effective resolution is much lower
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by overgard 5mo ago
Depends on if they're written with Claude
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by overgard 5mo ago
A gigabyte is a lot of memory. Even the largest context windows are a small fraction of that with any sane engineering discipline.
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by overgard 5mo ago
The thing about nukes is you can at least make an argument for why it'd be important to be the first country to have them. With AI, you create super intelligence and you're probably just the first one it takes out. There's no
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by overgard 5mo ago
And yet, nobody that writes game engines would do it this way because game engines need to be efficient..
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by overgard 5mo ago
Maybe John Conner succeeded afterall
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by overgard 5mo ago
Only if you think LLMs are the horse (I don't think they are). If they're not, then we should be building a brick wall in front of that door and hiring a full time security guard to watch it. I realize he's saying it for hype
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by overgard 5mo ago
Step 1: Wait for scary doomsday AI to be leaked, Step 2: ???, Step 3: Profit!!
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by overgard 5mo ago
So, regardless of whether or not Anthropic CAN create a self improving AI.. does anyone else feel like they shouldn't be allowed to? Or it at least needs to be strictly supervised..? Like, I don't actually think Anthropic can make
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by overgard 5mo ago
True, I guess I try to have some objective measures like my chess elo and maybe some canaries like what books I'm reading. But it would be really hard to tell.
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by overgard 5mo ago
It's a really underrated problem. I don't think my actual cognitive skills have declined by using AI, but I do notice that my patience and attention span are a lot lower. I'm learning a new code base for a new job right now,
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by overgard 5mo ago
I was trying to find it, but I read it a long time ago and I have a bad feeling I might have mashed a few different stories together in my head. That is a good story though!
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by overgard 5mo ago
You're basing that on..?
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by overgard 5mo ago
People shouldn't need to make an argument against consciousness. The responsibility is on the people claiming there is consciousness. Nobody can actually give a decent "why" for why it should be conscious, it's just pseu
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by overgard 5mo ago
I don't think skepticism should be called chauvinism. I imagine that artificial consciousness could be made. But I don't think this is it. Also I don't see why intelligence not being consciousness is scary? My cats are very c
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by overgard 5mo ago
You still have to pay for power and water. Those are not insignificant costs.
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by overgard 5mo ago
I imagine that the big incentive for remote gaming would be massive price increases in gaming hardware driven by the AI industry... If the AI industry collapses, it would seem like the price of DDR etc. would dramatically decrease and lower
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by overgard 5mo ago
I imagine the trend for AI usage will go up over the very long term (5-10yrs etc.), but short term how much usage is being propped up by employer's forcing their employees to use it? Or by user's being curious about the novelty bu
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by overgard 5mo ago
This is a famous short story just rewritten sloppily by an AI. Although it does amusingly do what annoys critics of AI: take something good written by a person, steal it and slop it up while overall misunderstanding it.
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by overgard 5mo ago
Here's what makes meat special over LLMs: locality and stable identity. Imagine two identical twins for a moment. They have roughly the same hardware and software. They've probably had a lot of the same thoughts. And yet we'd

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