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by ryeights 5mo ago
I understand and I don't care. Your personal interests as a diesel truck driver don't override others' interests in health and clean air
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by ryeights 5mo ago
So what? It's anti-social behavior. What thought does the deleted diesel truck driver give to his fellow citizens, whose otherwise reliable respiratory systems are weakened and made more susceptible to failure by toxic fumes and partic
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by ryeights 5mo ago
Reads like great satire to me.
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by ryeights 5mo ago
My premise is that a vibe-coded app will be indistinguishable from a ‘hand-crafted’ one. So in that scenario the chemist wins, because the developer has no value to add. It is clear to me that SWE and ML research will be subsumed before oth
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by ryeights 5mo ago
s/software engineer/secretary/ s/creating software/typing correspondence/ In a world where software programming/architecting is solved by AI, value will accrue to people with expertise in other domains (wh
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Mechanisms of introspective awareness in LLMs [pdf](arxiv.org)
2 points by ryeights 6mo ago|2 comments
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by ryeights 6mo ago
Yes, but Anthropic didn’t already know the answers. In the OSS ‘reproductions’, they fed the model the one file that actually has a vuln and even told it which parts of the code to focus on. This is obviously a much easier task. If OSS mode
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by ryeights 6mo ago
Remember, that's the most expensive this capability will ever be.
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by ryeights 6mo ago
Sorry, this guy is a hack and this is cope. Most of the things he's saying re: Mythos are objectively false. - Open source models found the same bugs? Sure, if you tell them "here is a file which may contain a vulnerability, look
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by ryeights 6mo ago
That wouldn’t be complete though. I mean that an outside observer could view a simulation of the universe by your model, down to the subatomic particle level, and find no differences with the real world. There is no measurable “consciousnes
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by ryeights 6mo ago
The original formulation of Chinese Room deals with ‘understanding’. One supposes that understanding implies some form of subjective experience. I take OP’s use of ‘think’ to refer to an equivalent concept
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by ryeights 6mo ago
Is it surprising? It seems likely you could build a complete working model of the universe with no provision for consciousness at all. As far as modern science goes, it's an intractable problem
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by ryeights 6mo ago
If the "new software engineering" is Jira, planning, and convincing PM's about viability all day, you can count me out!
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by ryeights 6mo ago
Until recently I would have described myself as an AI skeptic. HN has been a great source for cope on the AI subject over the years. You can find nitpicks, caveats, all sorts of reasons to believe things aren’t as significant as they seem.
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by ryeights 7mo ago
>I had no idea this story existed and woke up to claims that I was obviously* suppressing it. To be fair, it seems you’re saying the submission was being suppressed, just not intentionally. Lots of props of course for transparency and re
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by ryeights 7mo ago
Those things all exist within our conscious realm. “Human brain cells in a vat used for computation” suggests horrors beyond understanding
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by ryeights 7mo ago
>If we are serious about climate policy, we have to set up trade barriers proportional to greenhouse gases emissions to limit this effect. Consumption economies can incentivize production economies to emit less.
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by ryeights 7mo ago
We simply drop a giant tub of baking soda into the ocean every now and then.
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by ryeights 8mo ago
“[W]ithin the capitalist system all methods for raising the social productiveness of labor are brought about at the cost of the individual laborer; all means for the development of production transform themselves into means of domination ov
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by ryeights 8mo ago
TikTok does this as well.
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by ryeights 10mo ago
Selling people grenading engines is not a great way to build recurring revenue streams. And building performant, efficient, and reliable engines is hard enough without intentional sabotage
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by ryeights 10mo ago
>What do you think happened with the Golf 3 engine design? They made the camshaft structurally weaker, so the engine will blow up more easily. Wow, talk about an oversimplification. The Mk3 moved from an 8-valve to a 16-valve engine; yes
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by ryeights 10mo ago
Shift+Win/Option+-. And holding - gives you en/em dash on iOS and Android. Personally I love using em dashes so this whole AI thing is a real disaster for me.
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by ryeights 11mo ago
> How did you determine that "Millions more tried them... and then desisted from treatment without major lifelong mental alterations"? We have lots of public data on SSRI usage (20+ million in the US alone each year) and discon
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by ryeights 11mo ago
Millions of people take SSRIs on a daily basis without these dramatic symptoms. Millions more tried them (for much longer periods than 5 days) and then desisted from treatment without major lifelong mental alterations. So yes, I would say G
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by ryeights 11mo ago
> If a side effect is extremely rare it would be impossible or at least impractical to prove in a population. This is also true for a non-existent side effect. I’m not trying to tell GP he is wrong, just that from a reader’s perspective,
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by ryeights 11mo ago
I don’t want to discount your experience, but attributing a lifetime of symptoms to 5 doses of SSRIs (when you were already exhibiting an unstable mental state) seems extreme.
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DCFlight: Render native UI in Flutter with declarative component architecture(github.com)
1 points by ryeights 11mo ago|1 comments
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by ryeights 11mo ago
Disclaimer: no affiliation, and in early development DCFlight is a new Flutter framework from solo (!) dev Tahiru Agbanwa ( https://x.com/squirelBoy360 ) that uses a React Native-like virtual DOM and Yoga layout engine to rep
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by ryeights 11mo ago
This is an odd perspective to me. I'm an atheist because I don't find the truth claims of theistic religions convincing. Whether or not the centralized structure of modern religion is problematic is tangential to that

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