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by patcon 1y ago
> One continuous difference: while GPT-5 would do lots of thinking then do something right the first time, Claude frantically tried different things — writing code, executing commands, making pretty dumb mistakes [...], but then recove
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My sensibility is that agency is about "noticing". The content of information seems perhaps less important than the attention allocation mechanism that brings our attention to something. If you write all your own words, but witho
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I love this article for how it gets the thinking, and I love your response. I've been aware of similar dynamic in politics, where the collective action/intelligence of the internet destroyed all the old signals politicians used to
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It's interesting that, if this became commonplace, it could be much easier to get value out of poorly written books... Some people have deep knowledge, but don't have the skills to untangle context and lay out the right learning
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This story was so unexpectedly emotional. I'd never read a book where I so palpably felt that the main characters were in fact the non-conscious ones.
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I think humans have a coping mechanism to find some beauty in things they're forced to participate in, good or bad. Maybe there's some small edge of anti-fragility in that -- we seem more willing to confront beauty and inspect its
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You can't see how a hosted private model (that can monitor usage and adapt mechanisms to that) has a different risk profile than an open weight model (that is unmonitorable and becomes more and more runnable on more and more hardware e
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roam research! love it as a technology But I recommend logseq for anyone new! All the best features, none of the weird energy of roam, where i worry the founder is training ML models on data.
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I had it stored in my knowledgebase as "alien design" ;) https://medium.com/intuitionmachine/the-alien-look-of-deep-l...
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> he said his original goal was just to raise $5k to buy a computer. Privately, I was skeptical that the $5k computer had anything to do with Requests. Requests is a small pure-Python library; if you want to work on it, then any cheap la
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by patcon 1y ago
In humans, diversity of thought [patterns, not just diversity of knowledge] increases the quality beyond its parts. I suspect this model alloy tactic always works, just only seems impressive when it does so with the top models and achieves
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Yes, and didn't die until the next day. I believe many articles are leaving these parts unsaid due to sensational assumptions they benefit from in virality. EDIT: source https://healthimaging.com/topics/medical-ima
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Total war (or just any collective conflict) is in some sense the consequence of choosing the wrong abstraction, not always innocently. E.g. "It is simply a fact that Group X is just B-like" (group X obviously disagrees, understand
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by patcon 1y ago
I have systemic concerns with how Google is changing roles from "knowledge bridging" to "knowledge translating", but in terms of information: I find it very useful. You find it gives you poor information?
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> the unintellectual border-line savage illiterates fulfill their chaotic fantasies that you truly do get a backward bumble fuck country it's ok if you don't have energy to understand otherwise rn, but please know that there&#x
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by patcon 1y ago
Yes, more radical policy proposals are my expectation too. When the status quo is already extreme (re: property ownership), the appropriate response will seem even MORE extreme because we've gotten used to that opposite one.
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> things like fast food and motorcycles in your eyes? motorcycles...? in... my eyes? What wizardry is this? First "computers in my brain", now this. I'll have the singularity that you're smoking pls :) EDIT: was at fi
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Yes to both. We often attract certain types of people, and have a wealth of experience with that type. We probably all take this as obvious knowledge. But only when I uncomfortably enter a group of people unlike me -- and feel totally alien
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by patcon 1y ago
A friend who ran a mildly popular dev tool (4k+ stars) kept really stellar docs, and his process of updating them was to sit down with a bottle of whiskey every few months, and doing a marathon doc-writing session. the brand voice would com
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by patcon 1y ago
You are one of the few random HN users who have your own page in my personal knowledgebase, because I consistently see your wonderful comments and i can only hope to be swimming in parallel to your perspectives :) Thanks for your great cont
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I think recent Anthropic work showed that they "plan" future tokens in advance in an emergent way: https://www.anthropic.com/research/tracing-thoughts-language...
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Science used to work this way too, didn't it? You'd be rich, or you'd have a wealthy benefactor.
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Haha ok this was good. It's messy. Anyone who claims one way (myself included) is probably Very Wrong On The Internet
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I do agree, both approaches are valid to seek. Setting expectations with disclaimers would be helpful so people can enter willingly instead of perpetually critiquing via comment. I don't like a culture of bashing/minimising one ap
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Good god, the perpetual disdain of default HN for narrative exposition is so deep-rooted. Y'all know humans are kinda "made of" stories, right? Stories are the unit layer that we add on top of biological structure. It's
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Yeah, agree that none of the issues are problems without solutions. The issue is vulture capitalism and misalignment of incentives for platform vs host vs participants. I've been a part of groups that solved these and grew to 8000-memb
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If only there was an API to only allow closing an app on a specific condition. Then you could make it so the pain was in leaving to go back to other work, so you'd enter knowing it would not be an easy exit. (But you'd get to yell
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by patcon 1y ago
Trolls from the Russian federation is interesting. Maybe high bang for buck in destroying livelihoods and cultural capital, re: adversarial statescraft
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In some ways, it's just a peak into existing corruption, perpetrated by those who couldn't even be bothered to make it believable. Likely a script that looks for the first x reviews and then starts generating fake ones, and some p
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He's been trying to participate in opposition politics in South Sudan and imprisoned for it, likely because he's a real threat to power. I think it's too much to label him a crook, he's just fighting corruption by actual

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