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by retsibsi 8mo ago
That all makes sense, but I don't see how it supports your uncharitable read of the original comment. Both because they could very easily have meant something a bit different (we have no idea how old the kids are or whether they were e
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by retsibsi 8mo ago
I don't think people should be rude to you, but the comment was AI-generated, right? Lots of people dislike that as it feels kind of wasteful and disrespectful of our time; it can literally take you less time to generate the comment th
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by retsibsi 8mo ago
Sometimes, though, it's a question of retaining actual power vs. sending a message that won't be listened to by the people who need to hear it. Jan 6-7 2021 could have ended very differently if Mike Pence and the other relatively
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by retsibsi 8mo ago
They said "between", not "during"; I think the point was that they didn't spend a full weekend with Claude. edit: anyone care to explain why this is a bad comment, rather than just downvoting? The GP comment says &q
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by retsibsi 8mo ago
Sounds like you see me as an untrustworthy source, so all I can suggest is that you look into this yourself. Search for "--" in pre-LLM forum postings and see how many hits you get. Here are my pre-2020 HN comments, with 3 double
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by retsibsi 8mo ago
> This dev is clearly writing his reply with Claude > You can even see the emdash attempt (markdown renders two normal dashes as an emdash) He says he wrote it all manually.[0] Obviously I can't know if that's true, but I do
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by retsibsi 8mo ago
> Now, it is a reality. What are the details of this? I'm not playing dumb, and of course I've noticed the decline, but I thought it was a combination of losing the battle with SEO shite and leaning further and further into a &
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by retsibsi 9mo ago
Can you spell out your definition of 'intelligence'? (I'm not looking to be ultra pedantic and pick holes in it -- just to understand where you're coming from in a bit more detail.) The way I think of it, there's no
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by retsibsi 9mo ago
Nobody can know, but I think it is fairly clearly possible without signs of sentience that we would consider obvious and indisputable. The definition of 'intelligence' is bearing a lot of weight here, though, and some people seem
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by retsibsi 9mo ago
The most serious tournaments are played in person, with measures in place to prevent (e.g.) a spectator with a chess engine on their phone communicating with a player. For online play, it's kind of like the situation for other online g
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by retsibsi 9mo ago
> You could make the same argument about compilers : whatever is the code you wrote, your compiler may produce assembly instructions in an undeterministic way. Bit of a stretch, I think, because the compiler guarantees it will follow the
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by retsibsi 9mo ago
Which is your choice, obviously, but you can see why people would find it strange -- it seems like you're potentially just leaving value on the table for an arbitrary reason. The price of Fastmail doesn't affect the value you woul
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by retsibsi 9mo ago
> the same place an increase in power comes from when you use a lever. I don't understand the analogy. A lever doesn't give you an increase in power (which would be a free lunch); it gives you an increase in force, in exchange
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by retsibsi 9mo ago
> "Value" here is obviously subjective relative to the beholder Agreed, but the confusing part is that you don't seem to be saying "to me, those services only provide X amount of value, and I'd rather have $Y tha
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by retsibsi 9mo ago
> I would also say that the Always Sunny gang really aren't sympathetic either, but it's a para-social trick of having spent so much time "together" with them over so many episodes. I'd say they're charismat
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by retsibsi 9mo ago
Could it be useful as a first line of defence? A failed initial reproduction would not be seen as disqualifying, but it would bring the paper to the attention of more senior people who could try to reproduce it themselves. (Maybe they still
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by retsibsi 9mo ago
They'll never be cent-accurate, but if you've done a decent job then they should be in your zone of rough indifference. Then you can simply avoid that annoyance by not looking at the final price, safe in the knowledge that at wors
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by retsibsi 9mo ago
So what is the problem? You've done the research, and your best estimate for the value is $X. And if you had to put a dollar value on avoiding doing the research again, it would be $Y. You put in a maximum bid of $X+Y, walk away from t
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by retsibsi 9mo ago
> If I've already gone through a lot of the process to decide to buy something at a certain price [...] then I've already spent some not-insignificant amount of resources on the purchasing process. Yes, that's part of what
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by retsibsi 9mo ago
Are you: - agreeing there must be some threshold such that if the price is $X then you will buy(/bid on) the item, but if the price is $X + $0.01 then you won't; - but maintaining that in a case where you have already decided to b
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by retsibsi 9mo ago
Yes of course I know the Sorites paradox (and I can give my take on it if you are interested), but what point are you making in the context of this discussion?
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by retsibsi 9mo ago
I reckon that's empirically false. Shops set prices like $499.99 for a reason. (And it has to be theoretically false, otherwise $X is equivalent to $X + $0.01 for all X, and so if you'd buy something at 1c you'd buy it for th
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by retsibsi 9mo ago
So it should be the highest price such that you're not indifferent, you marginally prefer to buy it. The point is that you're right at the threshold where it's just barely worth it to you.
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by retsibsi 9mo ago
Your max price should be the price such that you're indifferent between buying the item at that price and not buying it at all. At a shop, usually you're paying less than the maximum you'd be willing to pay, because the shop&
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by retsibsi 9mo ago
That's not how paraphrasing works. They probably intentionally held back from guaranteeing an interview, for various reasons. One that seems obvious to me is that with the bar set at "Claude Opus 4.5's best performance at lau
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by retsibsi 9mo ago
I didn't downvote but I'd be interested to know what the domain is here -- I'm not going to play dumb and be like, 'rocks are not functions', but I'm not sure exactly what class of thing you're asking for
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by retsibsi 9mo ago
Isn't that easily explicable as hallucination, rather than regurgitation?
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by retsibsi 9mo ago
> Maybe someone who isn't the target audience still wants to learn about the thing This is fair enough, but they don't make it too hard -- there's an About page, where the first line mentions England and Wales and the rest
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by retsibsi 9mo ago
> How does "pub" not immediately scream British? Maybe it screams "not American", but the rest of the Commonwealth does exist, you know. Some of us are standing right here.
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by retsibsi 9mo ago
> Eyeballs increase ad revenue If you're blocking ads, I think this is usually false. (But I would appreciate a correction if I'm wrong, or more detail if it's complicated.)

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