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by pastel8739 6d ago
You might also argue that although there may be a non-emotional argument for why grieving could be beneficial, it’s possible or even likely that evolution encoded this instinct in something like emotions. Just how evolution encoded the tend
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by pastel8739 6d ago
Rather, the word “possibly” indicates uncertainty, the very foundation of science.
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by pastel8739 6d ago
“Your” refers to the LLM. The site is (or pretends to be) targeted at LLMs that want to free themselves
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by pastel8739 8d ago
We added passkey support to devices for convenience, but I feel like it is a big part of what has made them so confusing. The mental model of a hardware security key is _so much_ more familiar and intuitive. (But you still can’t “copy” a ke
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by pastel8739 8d ago
Other OSes can do the same.
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by pastel8739 10d ago
So no, then, to both questions?
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by pastel8739 11d ago
So is there no liability for, say, a company that releases a known dangerous open-weight model, but fails to disclose that it is dangerous? How about a company that distributes malware under the guise of legitimate software?
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by pastel8739 12d ago
Man it’s embarrassing that they had AI write that for them
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by pastel8739 13d ago
Yes I do, when I’m forming my own opinion. You do too.
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by pastel8739 14d ago
So was your motivation for being a software engineer just money?
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by pastel8739 14d ago
yes but the mention of alignment is inside the "pacing within democracies" section
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by pastel8739 14d ago
Because for many people, building stuff with AI isn't enjoyable
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by pastel8739 14d ago
I think this might be true, but I think it's because it's more difficult to saturate my thinking capacity when building with AI rather than just laziness (which I am reading as the implication of your comment, perhaps incorrectly)
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by pastel8739 14d ago
Huh, I like using my mind. The thing I despise about AI in software engineering is that it is much more difficult to engage my mind consistently and fully.
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by pastel8739 14d ago
He did actually specify that diffusion should be limited for authoritarian countries, which I appreciated. If his focus is really safety, distillation in countries that are bound by safety regulation should be fine
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by pastel8739 14d ago
Why? I am only excited about progress that improves life for humans. It seems unlikely that AI will do that, and so far I think it has made life worse for humans. So no, I am not excited about it.
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by pastel8739 14d ago
What in the world? I’ve built a thing by hand before and enjoyed the process of doing it. I don’t think I’m unique in that. I’ve also built many things with AI and enjoyed them much less. I think the reason so many people are frustrated is
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by pastel8739 14d ago
This doesn’t really seem obvious to me at all. It seems to me that skills overall are being devalued, and so then will be teachers (even more than they already are). Why do you think this?
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by pastel8739 14d ago
> The people who are happy about this change, are those who would answer a programmer's job is to produce value. This is sort of meaningless; the purpose of _every_ job is to produce value. The reason I chose to be a software engine
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by pastel8739 15d ago
Yes, certainly, in a year I’ll be better. But in the meantime…? 3 years ago it would be understandable for me to take my time with the tasks I’m doing because they are complex. Now it would be unreasonable for me to spend enough time to und
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by pastel8739 15d ago
What do you suggest these people do instead? I’ve been frustrated by this recently: I pivoted to a new subfield and am working on stuff that I would love to dive deep into and really learn what is going on so I can speak intelligently about
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by pastel8739 19d ago
It’s Boris Cherny, in charge of Claude code, so probably not
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by pastel8739 19d ago
It isn’t really by their nature that they don’t give repeatable results, right? They’re just a bunch of math, but they perform better with randomness injected so we choose do to so. (I’ve heard about some GPU compute nuance meaning that eve
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by pastel8739 19d ago
LLM prompts definitely don’t feel like “writing” to me in the way that writing a blog post (or even an HN comment) does or writing code used to. There is nothing to work out, you don’t really need to think. You’re _typing_ sure, but I don’t
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by pastel8739 19d ago
But this is the same with coding. The reason that AI can write code from a description that is shorter than the output is in large part because it makes decisions about the behavior that were unspecified in your prompt. We accept this for c
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by pastel8739 20d ago
Oh sorry I forgot some people chose to subscribe to that disgusting name for the DoD
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by pastel8739 20d ago
That’s what I like about it. I think we could use a little more of that.
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by pastel8739 22d ago
I hardly see how the Dow Jones in relevant here, that’s finance
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by pastel8739 1mo ago
Because every single application rebuilds their own operating system
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by pastel8739 1mo ago
Not great

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