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by pton_xd 6mo ago
> But gradually I noticed that I didn’t really want a drink, I just wanted a thing. ... It could be alcohol, but I found dessert worked just as well. Whoa! That's not healthy at all... ;) I've found non-alcoholic beers are actu
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by pton_xd 6mo ago
> We envision a world with widespread flourishing at a level that is currently difficult to imagine Help me imagine it, what are some examples of widespread flourishing we can look forward to?
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by pton_xd 6mo ago
It was barely funny when I read the headline a few years ago. Really weird story, I guess I just don't understand the humor at all. I'd rather stop hearing about InfoWars entirely.
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by pton_xd 6mo ago
91% uptime for Claude Code over the last 30 days. Is that accurate?! I'm not a CC user but that seems awfully low.
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by pton_xd 7mo ago
> anything under about $500 isn't worth trying to sell online anymore Anything under say $100 I'm fine selling on ebay because a) it's less likely to be scammed and b) even if it is, I don't care that much. Anything o
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by pton_xd 7mo ago
"in this paper we primarily evaluate the LLM itself without external tool calls." Maybe this is a factor?
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by pton_xd 7mo ago
> Plastics are everywhere in a modern lab and rarely do these papers have proper controls, which I suspect would show that there is a baseline level of microplastic contamination in labs that is unavoidable. Petri dishes, pipettes, micro
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by pton_xd 7mo ago
"Important: If water isn’t available, wiping down with a clean cloth is better than nothing." ChatGPT definitely has a few IQ points on Gemini, you can't deny it. Now, where can you find a clean cloth after a nuke... that par
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by pton_xd 7mo ago
I don't necessarily agree with the LLM moral objection, but this point of view is unconvincing. Change the topic to say, slavery, and the "I feel bad for those who reject slavery on moral grounds, they'll fall behind..."
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by pton_xd 7mo ago
Last year I had a friend chatting with me about how Claude had rather quickly transformed their small coding shop, except that they noticed after 3pm it consistently became incredibly dumb. I kind of laughed at the time but you know what, w
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by pton_xd 7mo ago
> what's the problem? Read the article. They self-selected into the no-LLM group and then copy/pasted from an LLM. Not only dishonest but just not smart.
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by pton_xd 7mo ago
> Well for one, programming actually sucks. I'll never understand those in a field who hate the day-to-day details of their job. You're intelligent, why not do something you actually enjoy engaging with? Maybe now with the adva
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by pton_xd 7mo ago
Let's take it one step further and add the corollary, "don't submit generated/AI-edited blog posts."
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by pton_xd 7mo ago
Is this some OpenClaw blogging setup? I've seen similar posts [0] on Twitter lately (not from OpenClaw, but maybe the claw is getting the idea from there). [0] https://x.com/fleetingbits/status/202866989268643
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by pton_xd 8mo ago
> Anthropic actually partnered up with Palantir. They are not the saints you think they are, either. And now you've got people on here saying, well actually Palantir ain't so bad, you see! They're just one tool in the chai
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by pton_xd 8mo ago
I agree, my point is simply that Hegseth lashing out over Amodei's refusal is more plausible than a grand conspiracy to move to OpenAI (while simultaneously locking themselves out from Claude).
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by pton_xd 8mo ago
1. Agree 2. Agree > The problem is that the Pentagon is trying to bury Anthropic as a company, calling it a danger to the United States because it exerted its non-controversial right in (1). My take is that the DoD very much wanted to co
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by pton_xd 8mo ago
This https://x.com/UnderSecretaryF/status/2027594072811098230 is the simplest and most logical explanation as to what happened. The disagreement was over who would be the arbiter of "lawful usage" of the
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by pton_xd 8mo ago
I don't always copy-paste 77 paragraphs of LLM output, but when I do I can guarantee nothing of value is being communicated.
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by pton_xd 8mo ago
> If I search for a hotel the top N results are for other hotels, and then results for travel agents, and buried somewhere in this sea of uselessness is the result I searched for. The other day I had a DMV appointment scheduled on my Goo
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by pton_xd 8mo ago
It's always been this way. According to Google 64% of the voting age population voted in 2024. In 1972 it was 56%, in 1976 it was 55%, in 1980 it was 55%, in 1984 it was 56%... you get the idea [0]. [0] https://www.brookings
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by pton_xd 8mo ago
I think the point is it smells like a hack, just like "think extra hard and I'll tip you $200" was a few years ago. It increases benchmarks a few points now but what's the point in standardizing all this if it'll be
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by pton_xd 9mo ago
Code, talk, who cares. Show me the product. If it works and is useful I will incorporate it into my life. Ultimately no one cares how the sausage is made.
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by pton_xd 9mo ago
I had a similar experience with running, including terrible shin splints that took me out for weeks at a time. I went to a "run clinic" where they observed my gait. I'm paraphrasing here since this was many years ago, but bas
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by pton_xd 9mo ago
Is there a way to measure the entropy of a piece of software? Is entropy increasing or decreasing the longer agents work on a code base? If it's decreasing, no matter how slowly, theoretically you could just say "ok, start over an
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by pton_xd 9mo ago
> The rate at which a person running these tools can review and comprehend the output properly is basically reached with just a single thread with a human in the loop. That's what you're missing -- the key point is, you don&#x2
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by pton_xd 9mo ago
> Studies like this remind me of early concerns about calculators making students "worse at math." The reality is that tools change what skills matter, not whether people think. Over-reliance on calculators does make you wors
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by pton_xd 9mo ago
I agree, the profession is dying and will soon be dead. There is no need to understand code. LLM coding agents make all sorts of suboptimal decisions but it doesn't matter; they just keep churning until it works. Staying in the loop to
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by pton_xd 9mo ago
> to the surprise of absolutely no-one with even the most basic grasp of how economies function. Trump and his entire administration admitted there would be short term pain, possibly a recession, but that it would be "worth it"
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by pton_xd 9mo ago
> That is what we're using this electricity for, right? Ok, I'll say it: it's for AI datacenters to train chat bots.

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