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by roxolotl 1y ago
I think it’s more that there’s no will to do anything about it. As a piece earlier this week pointed out nothing about tech is genuinely inevitable[0]. There are humans making decisions to keep the snowball gathering speed. 0: https:/
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by roxolotl 1y ago
If you’re curious about fiction which thinks about this there’s Altered Carbon which is “what if the rich assholes can live forever” and there’s The Postmortal where all assholes get to live forever.
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by roxolotl 1y ago
I currently run a blog generator I wrote in fennel and have been considering switching to pollen haha. Slightly surprised you didn’t pick fennel over lua since you used racket before. Is there a reason you didn’t?
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by roxolotl 1y ago
This has been reported many places over the past year the percent seems to be all over the place though. Yesterday “As much as 1/3rd”: https://www.reuters.com/markets/europe/if-ai-is-bubble-econo... A week ag
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by roxolotl 1y ago
Would second this. I’ve used it in production to generate tens of thousands of PDFs a day. It just works. Run the docker container throw html and variables at it and get PDFs back.
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by roxolotl 1y ago
Yea and it seems weird to assume that since these states are possible that most humans are mistaken when for millennia they’ve talked about having mental imagery. The idea that aphantasia is just language confusion is so strange to me. As s
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by roxolotl 1y ago
That’s why the self reports seem valuable to me. If someone says “I’ve never seen something in my minds eye” and then they do dmt and say “oh shit I can see things in my minds eye now I totally get what people mean now” it seems to imply th
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by roxolotl 1y ago
So you’re saying you think people who report aphantasia see mental imagery but don’t think of it as imagery? And that the brain scans indicate difference but not around mental imagery?
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by roxolotl 1y ago
The parent article has brain scans showing different activations in control brains vs aphantasia vs hyperphantasia. Also when people self report that their experience has qualitatively changed that seems like a pretty strong indicator that’
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by roxolotl 1y ago
World coin is so delightfully dystopian. You could drop it wholesale into a superhero movie and it would be believable as the supervillain’s plot.
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by roxolotl 1y ago
And if you don’t have time to read it Ray was on Odds Lots in the spring and laid out the gist. https://pca.st/episode/c2eae258-c051-4cd1-87f6-0410e2eb926c
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by roxolotl 1y ago
We have this data[0]. It’s not that bad out there right now compared to 2008-2013 but it is way worse than a few years ago. Everything is relative when it come to how people feel. 0: https://www.newyorkfed.org/research/
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by roxolotl 1y ago
If you want a whole book along those lines Blindsight by Peter Watts has been making the rounds recently as a good sci-fi book which includes these concepts. It’s from 2006 but the basic are pretty relevant.
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by roxolotl 1y ago
Someone shared this piece here a few days ago saying something similar. There’s no reason to believe that any of the experiences are real. Instead they are responding to prompts with what their training data says is reasonable in this conte
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by roxolotl 1y ago
Had been looking at these for some time. A few days of pain where I couldn’t type much and the threat tariffs turning on at the end of the month, this was early August, caused me to pull the trigger on a Voyager, ZSA’s low profile keyboard.
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by roxolotl 1y ago
I suspect that’s how they help you make sense of a mess. If you can get through the styling you can survive anything.
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by roxolotl 1y ago
Yea that’s fair. And if there’s enough money behind something even if it’s not great it can still bend the whole world. I think with a lot of comments like yours people take them, at least I did, to be more slanted to actually be saying som
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by roxolotl 1y ago
I think the most compelling arguments are: LLMs aren’t AI. These are language processing tools which are highly effective and it turns out language is a large component of intelligence but they aren’t AI alone. Intelligence isn’t the soluti
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by roxolotl 1y ago
This totally misses the point of the article. The article agrees that knowing when a problem is a data structure and algo problem is a key strength. The article also isn’t saying that all development should be done TDD. The point of the art
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by roxolotl 1y ago
That’s the point the author is making. The LLMs don’t have the raw correct information required to accomplish the task so all they can do is provide a plausible sounding answer. And even if it did the way they are architected still can only
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by roxolotl 1y ago
The problem with this approach is that so many Americans live paycheck to paycheck that job interruptions quickly become irreparable even with infinite money as the eventual solution. It’s not that extreme for someone to go from job loss to
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by roxolotl 1y ago
Utilitarianism has two issues. The first is the utility monster which is a classic criticism that boils down to "what if there was something which gains infinite utility from the suffering of others". I think it's a rather we
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by roxolotl 1y ago
Very funny this is partly in response to a Brooks piece. He fits nihilism very well. Doesn’t every really write about much and when cornered contends that most of his attempts to make points are really just vibes[0] like famously claiming $
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by roxolotl 1y ago
This comment reminds me of this paper which makes a similar argument. It claims that chips are more than just a depreciating asset you actually have to keep buying more for the economics to enable the scaling. And inherently there's go
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by roxolotl 1y ago
How is it possibly out of bounds to suggest that someone might be of a certain politics? Kirk has said horrific things. Many have horrific things about Kirk. What Kimmel said was so incredibly bland.
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by roxolotl 1y ago
This is the big question. It could be any combination of the following and it likely depends on the company/position too: - Generative AI is genuinely capable enough to replace entry level workers at a lower cost. - The hype around Gen
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by roxolotl 1y ago
Yea my crackpot theory is it’s genuinely something that’s inherent which is causing these declines. That’s why no attempts to reverse them have been successful. I think like you’re saying we’ll end up at some equilibrium.
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by roxolotl 1y ago
You can actually buy stuff like that if you really want to keep a mix on hand. The King Arthur powders are great: https://shop.kingarthurbaking.com/items/bakers-special-dry-m... https://shop.kingarthurbaking
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by roxolotl 1y ago
These workflows always surprise me. Isn’t this what you’ve been doing with humans all along? Write up a basic project plan likely following some structure the product team likes. Share it with the eng team. One to a few members of the eng t
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by roxolotl 1y ago
The takeaway from the paper is you don’t know yourself. It’s one paper, and a small sample size, but attempting to refute its conclusion by stating it’s false doesn’t really get us anywhere.

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