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by satisfice 7mo ago
"Black hole" is a coherent, testable idea. It has real world physical implications, and is the simplest explanation for what we do see. There isn't a Korean version of a black hole vs. a version accepted by the Kurds. There a
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by satisfice 7mo ago
“Mouse!” —- Rafael Alonzo’s I.T.F. Technical Computer Institute Ad (by way of SNL)
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by satisfice 7mo ago
This thing doesn’t have bacteria? Virii?
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by satisfice 7mo ago
I don’t need a reason not to believe in God. It’s an incoherent idea. Even you don’t know what it means. You probably imagine some Santa Claus character on a throne. But I don’t know which God I should be imagining? Athena? Indra? The All S
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by satisfice 7mo ago
Anyone who brags about how many lines of code he creates has already lost the plot. Is any of it trustworthy?
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by satisfice 7mo ago
I call this self-repudiation. I performed a systematic experiment on this exact matter, a couple of years ago. I found that ChatGPT 3.5 frequently self-repudiated, whereas 4.0, under identical circumstances, rarely did. These experiments ar
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by satisfice 7mo ago
“You are demonstrating that you do not trust the relationship enough” This is entirely rational when a relationship is not strong, and a misstep could cause it to sour in a way not easily remedied. If I have to work with you, and can’t fire
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by satisfice 7mo ago
good example!
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by satisfice 7mo ago
“I directed the argument.” The problem is I don’t know that, and I’m not convinced the author can know that either. Perhaps it influenced him in ways he is not aware. My policy is I never let AI draft anything I write. It’s all my voice and
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by satisfice 7mo ago
“Fragile ego” is such a tired trope. It is certainly a factor, but its effects are way overestimated. Something about “fragile ego” seems to stop people from thinking any further. “Looking stupid” has an obvious downside. Just restate it as
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by satisfice 7mo ago
See The Machine Stops, by E. M. Forster. The author seems to be trying to imagine the Internet from the perspective of the 1920’s. Consider also the personal data tablets in The Mote in God’s Eye, which were very iPad-like, though written i
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by satisfice 7mo ago
Exactly right. I have an idea for an “evidence editor.” Claude is waiting for me to tell it exactly what I want this thing to be. But I don’t know. I haven’t figured out how to square the various circles, even in my fantasies. Until I do, C
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by satisfice 7mo ago
No they haven’t. The benchmarks suck, because they are cheap knockoffs instead of comprehensive experiments. LLMs are poorly tested by vendors. They literally can’t afford to test them, so they force us to do it.
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by satisfice 7mo ago
All you need to do is hire someone who is hungry and has potential. That’s most people. So riffle through the resumes to find anyone who shows any kind of spark or humanity. Pick the five of those. Hire one of those five.
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by satisfice 7mo ago
It’s called testing. And from the reports and comments, there doesn’t seem to be much of it happening. The reason is: it’s quite expensive to do well. I find that for every hypothesis I might have to run a thousand prompts to collect enough
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by satisfice 7mo ago
"I don't know the exact internals of a car. But I can infer my car works by driving it." No, you can't infer that it "works." Only that it CAN work. The car may be poisoning you with carbon monoxide. Your rear
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by satisfice 7mo ago
You don’t know it works. That you so glibly speak about products working is proof that your engineering judgment is impaired. You can’t infer the exact contents of a black box merely by looking at outside behavior. The fundamental fallacy y
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by satisfice 7mo ago
So, neither the phone booth, nor the function of the phone booth, nor the experience of the phone booth, nor the meaning of the phone booth is back. Thanks for letting us know.
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by satisfice 7mo ago
American PR is the best in the world.
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by satisfice 7mo ago
Thanks for the deep response. I don’t want to run my own server. But perhaps there is a server I want to join. There seems to be no clear way to search for them. You are referring to Mastodon, but the Fediverse is not just Mastodon.
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by satisfice 7mo ago
The skills list weirdly leaves out “knowing the capabilities and limitations of the tools.” This is non-trivial to say the least. The roles list also leaves out testing, which seems to me to be the second most important thing (after specify
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by satisfice 7mo ago
I run my own mail server, thank you. “It’s one big network” People say that as if its meaning is self evident. I don’t know what that means. Does it mean that I can do one search and find anything on any server? If it’s one big network, why
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by satisfice 7mo ago
I was on Compuserve and Usenet, both of which were no more difficult to use than Reddit. That was in the late eighties. In 1986 I ran a FIDO server, which is like what the Fediverse is now, I guess. I had, maybe, 50 users? I know how things
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by satisfice 7mo ago
I just tried to check out the Fediverse and found utter confusion. I'm not saying its bad-- I'm saying I am bewildered. There are communities I can join, but I can't tell how I should choose a community. I could find no way t
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by satisfice 7mo ago
My fan theory of the original Star Trek is that the computer voice is something they arrived at AFTER trying more naturalistic personalities. They intended to have the control interface be a cold monotone. In fact, there is an episode where
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by satisfice 7mo ago
People who advocate “writing tests” never admit any of the costs and difficulties of automated output checking. As you change your codebase you will experience lots of “failures” that are not failures. You still have to burn your time inves
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by satisfice 7mo ago
Why do people promote things that are unnecessarily complicated? I assume something about this appeals to a certain psychology. Here is the essence of the method for people who dislike rituals: pick one little thing you can succeed at. Do t
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by satisfice 7mo ago
It’s known as hand-coding. We’ve had this term for many years.
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by satisfice 7mo ago
my policy as well
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by satisfice 7mo ago
The rich and powerful can have all the gender roles they want. They are being phased out only among the peasants.

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