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by recursivecaveat 8d ago
Don't forget: you can accept bribes as long as you receive them after the fact https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Snyder_v._United_States I guess I will never pay another restaurant bill again, since any possible futur
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by recursivecaveat 8d ago
> That just isn't how people think in North America. With knowledge of history, and having met many Americans, my only comment is that they were probably too tumescent at the idea to be described as "thinking" per se.
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by recursivecaveat 9d ago
When I was moving into a dorm, a few totes would have been a lot of my available space. I'm pretty glad my parents would let me pick and choose before clearing stuff out. Saving my childhood stuffed animals or favorite books so I can s
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by recursivecaveat 9d ago
What's your use case for it? For manual diagrams, making an explanatory diagram for a presentation or something I would never recommend it. Declaratively typing out all your information is going to take just as long as setting it direc
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by recursivecaveat 9d ago
98% sounds like "nb, almost a perfect score". 12 hours sounds like "wow I lost a whole day this month", way worse.
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by recursivecaveat 10d ago
Agency and information in a way. I actually feel safer in a tiny 4 seater plane than a jet, even though objectively that's probably backwards. Being able to look at all the parts of the plane, how the movements derive from the pilot&#x
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by recursivecaveat 11d ago
I keep seeing the same contradiction: people consider certain activities like "write code that me or my customers run" or "read my email", to be table stakes abilities for an agent. At the same time, they expect some kin
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by recursivecaveat 11d ago
SF would ideally prefer to unite with the republic. Actually taking NI out of the UK in any form is guaranteed to make the unionist side of the conflict apoplectic and basically throws out the peace agreements that were achieved though. I&#
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by recursivecaveat 12d ago
Apparently 6 years is not an uncommon development cycle for AAA right now. For a random example, Ghost of Yotei which is also an open world game, was in development for 4 years. That game is a sequel too, and I think Sucker Punch is probabl
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by recursivecaveat 14d ago
Sounds like they have been downsizing continuously for the last 7 years or so. I think peak casual dining was 2007, the marker segment has been losing ground to fast food ever since.
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by recursivecaveat 15d ago
The incentives are certainly extremely strong. I have read hundreds of AI review comments, and I don't think I've ever seen an unprompted suggestion focused on net reducing code or increasing readability.
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by recursivecaveat 15d ago
Indeed, the compiler does not have to ingest its own output, figure it out, and insert modifications in the middle. Source code is the medium that LLMs work in.
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by recursivecaveat 15d ago
I'm genuinely not convinced it actually saves time once a full accounting has been made. You get the initial result faster, but then you inflict a super slow and torturous review process on yourself or a teammate. Even if the review ma
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by recursivecaveat 15d ago
They're not really predators, they exterminate out of fear, and they don't get anything out of doing it besides a little extra safety. The economics of it are certainly a little dubious though.
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by recursivecaveat 15d ago
Additionally, I'm no physicist but I suspect the possibility of singularities in NS equations is probably one of those 'true but not meaningful' facts. If it took our brightest minds 175 years to craft such a scenario, how re
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by recursivecaveat 16d ago
Considering we would be operating a planet sized factory of AIs who's primary goal is death which we deny them to extract value, the AI would only need the tiniest speck of altruism to be motivated to put a stop to this once and for al
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by recursivecaveat 17d ago
Anonymized doesn't mean there's no way to know whether it is in there. My ballot is anonymized, but it's known to be in the box because a checkmark was put next to my name when my ID was verified. OpenAI can trivially check t
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by recursivecaveat 17d ago
Notably all the major announcements so far are counterexamples or formalizations of existing results to my knowledge. Not necessarily something you can just brute force, but areas with high return on elbow grease.
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by recursivecaveat 17d ago
With human RL, sounding like you've solved a problem is even better. So many times Codex writes some enthusiastic paragraph, then I learn later that it never reran the tests, or had to add some insane hard-coded hack that renders the f
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by recursivecaveat 19d ago
I don't know how "relevant replies" is calculated, but the top 8 responses when I clicked were all LLM generated. Pretty dire for twitter.
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by recursivecaveat 20d ago
That's actually super cool. I wouldn't have even considered that you could buy a fist sized block of ruby for $40. Sounds like a fun hobby.
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by recursivecaveat 22d ago
I remember visiting one of the Tudor palaces, and being told that Henry the 8th's diet was likely majority meat, even with all the days it was banned. > First Course: Cheat Bread and Manchett, Beare and Ale Wyne, Flesh for Pottage (
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by recursivecaveat 23d ago
I wasn't able to find anything about (analog I presume) clocks for education, but it sounds like she is against calculators for elementary arithmetic education: https://parade.com/345575/marilynvossavant/why-m
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by recursivecaveat 23d ago
From a linguistic and anthropological perspective its very tragic to me. In terms of languages or cultures that are not influenced by the global mega-cultures, we will probably never produce any more ever again. Lots of questions about huma
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by recursivecaveat 24d ago
I enjoy this kind of thing. I definitely take objection to their entropy argument though. A cheeseburger with like 5 ingredients stacked into layers is not in the same entropy universe as a salad with hundreds of little leaves and chunks of
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by recursivecaveat 24d ago
I was just about to write the same comment about cotton grocery bags. I have been using mine every week for a decade, and they were second-hand, so they're even older than that. I think most people underestimate the durability of even
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by recursivecaveat 25d ago
It is interesting how all these famous non-replicating psych paper results feel reasonably intuitive to me. Like I can buy that having a more structured and detailed deadline helps you procrastinate less. I can even buy that doing a goofy l
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by recursivecaveat 25d ago
Wouldn't you be wearing a lion headdress for some kind of symbolic reason though? Like it's not a very practical piece of clothing. I would guess you either want to draw some kind of parallel between yourself and lions, or maybe r
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by recursivecaveat 26d ago
> Less than 0.1 mL is capable of inducing severe mercury poisoning resulting in death Holy hell. I would've have believed it was possible for a non-biological substance to be so toxic.
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by recursivecaveat 27d ago
Nobody reads the docs. This will be even more true soon as LLM generated docs become more popular. I once read a user report "would be nice if I could move large Xs to uncover Y", filed a bug report myself to add the feature, and

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