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by roxolotl 1y ago
Why does race matter at all? Why would you become a minority? We’re defining minority here as racial and that’s totally arbitrary. It’s so arbitrary that if you look at the early 1900s you’ll see that Italians and Irish weren’t considered w
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by roxolotl 1y ago
> Without freedom of association people stop socializing when you get a plurality population, you can see this everywhere in the US. Can you elaborate on this? To me, again just being honest and genuine, it reads as a racist dog whistle
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by roxolotl 1y ago
Mass immigration has been a fake specter used by the right to get votes for decades now. How did it impact you, or even those close to you personally negatively? I can tell you some positive impacts: - Most western countries are concerned a
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by roxolotl 1y ago
This is a remarkably well started comment. One thing I'd like to add though is that I do think there is an additional piece being discarded irrationally. They tend to highly undervalue everything you're describing. Humans aren&#x2
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by roxolotl 1y ago
It’s such an anachronistic statement I laughed out loud reading your comment. I even was taught that you can’t pass things mid air. You place the potatoes down between each person required to pass them to the person who wants them.
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by roxolotl 1y ago
> But interns learn and get better over time. The time that you spend reviewing code or providing feedback to an intern is not wasted, it is an investment in the future. The intern absorbs the knowledge you share and uses it for new task
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by roxolotl 1y ago
Would you say they aren’t paying attention?
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by roxolotl 1y ago
I can’t say as I have an internal monologue and every word I’m typing echos here in my mind as I type it. But as someone with aphantasia who’s regularly bewildered by questions like “how do you spell” or “how do you get to the grocery store
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by roxolotl 1y ago
An internal monologue is when that sentence is expressed via words as if you are hearing it said by yourself inside your head. Someone without an internal monologue can still arrive at that conclusion without the sentence being “heard” in t
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by roxolotl 1y ago
The risk is real and should be accounted for. However it is regularly presented both as surprising, and indicative that something more is going on with these models than them behaving how the training set suggests they should behave. The co
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by roxolotl 1y ago
The surprise! Is what I’m surprised by though. They are incredible role players so when they role play “evil ai” they do it well.
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by roxolotl 1y ago
> But in fact, I predicted this a few years ago. AIs don’t really “have traits” so much as they “simulate characters”. If you ask an AI to display a certain trait, it will simulate the sort of character who would have that trait - but al
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by roxolotl 1y ago
Unless I’m totally misreading the article they are saying what you’re saying and then taking it and using it as an argument for why we should care about quality. They aren’t saying quality will necessarily happen. They are saying that becau
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by roxolotl 1y ago
I agree with the other comments but one thing that’s also missed is that by accepting a heart transplant you’re likely also taking a heart transplant from someone else. It is incredibly altruistic to be honest enough with yourself about wha
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by roxolotl 1y ago
The thesis is spot on with why I believe many skeptics remain skeptics: > To call AI a con isn’t to say that the technology is not remarkable, that it has no use, or that it will not transform the world (perhaps for the better) in the ri
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by roxolotl 1y ago
Apple prides itself on building high quality user experiences. One can argue over whether that’s true anymore or ever was but it’s very clear they pride themselves on that. This is why Apple tends to “be late” on many features. I think like
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by roxolotl 1y ago
> Many of these same mistakes can be found in popular Stack Overflow answers, which is probably where Claude learnt them from too. This is what keeps me up at night. Not that security holes will inevitably be introduced, or that the mode
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by roxolotl 1y ago
This is my big fear. We’re going to end up in a world where information that isn’t common is significantly more difficult to find than it is today.
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by roxolotl 1y ago
This crop of billionaires was created from a time when capital was ascendant and state power was on the decline. I think as a result they’ve come to believe that the state is mostly there for their benefit especially during Republican admin
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by roxolotl 1y ago
What are your thoughts on why it might be?
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by roxolotl 1y ago
Yea I don’t think I entirely agree. Yes the barrier to is lowered but you still need to know what good writing looks like to produce good writing even when aided.
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by roxolotl 1y ago
That’s not quite what I get from this piece. I read it more as saying that the author uses the LLM to clarify their thoughts and maybe even suggest topics and they wordsmith the output of the model. It even ends with suggesting you write yo
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by roxolotl 1y ago
It’s already easy to generate such things without LLMs. Gleam, another BEAM language, is intentionally very simple and can tend towards the verbose however because of strict typing the lsp has code actions that’ll generate most of that verb
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by roxolotl 1y ago
> We've built something beyond what we imagined, and instead of being curious, many are dismissive and denying its capabilities. What is that? I’ll keep saying this but the problem is the hype. The AI is Normal Technology[0] piece i
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by roxolotl 1y ago
There’s a fun study from ten years ago modeling out what this looks like with hurricanes. Not particularly likely to ever happen but it’s a fun read. One of the things that surprised me is the authors assert that you don’t have to worry abo
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by roxolotl 1y ago
What would helping the poor without helping investors at all look like to you?
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by roxolotl 1y ago
Yea I’d love to know what these look like. I’ve been using Claude and Claude code a bit for things I’m too lazy to do myself but know it’ll be solid at, for example a parser for iso dates in Janet. I set a $10 budget in February and have us
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by roxolotl 1y ago
About 15 years ago when I started my degree there were both the “I want a good job” people and another crowd that I’d describe as having followed a thought process of “I like video games; I want to make video games; I should study comp sci”
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by roxolotl 1y ago
Right… because these things are trained on sci-fi and so when asked to describe an internal monologue they create text that reads like an internal monologue from a sci-fi character. Maybe there’s genuine sentience there, maybe not. Maybe th
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by roxolotl 1y ago
That seems to only say that synthetic data is a larger part of models today than in the past. The newer OpenAI models knowingly hallucinate more. Claude 4 seems great but not a multiplier better. Makes me think the effect of synthetic data

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