saulpw

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by saulpw 6d ago
Yeah should have put it through an LLM to clean it up.
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by saulpw 6d ago
Yeah an electron is not a 'thing'. It's like saying there's only one wave in the ocean.
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by saulpw 7d ago
"Awhile" IME is 3-6 months. And they won't stay for 10% more when Meta offers them 50% more. It's brutal but I'm not sure the economics of 'training' add up for any individual company.
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by saulpw 7d ago
I wrote a contract proposal a few months ago and I absolutely did a few rounds with an LLM to get the result I wanted. Anyone applying for a job should be doing this with their cover letters. You know that HR has a pipeline set up with a
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by saulpw 8d ago
You have to assume that in many situations a human is asking an LLM about the content you've provided, even if they or another human reads some or all of it themselves too. So it's valuable to proactively ask your own LLM in the
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by saulpw 8d ago
So let's think one more step out. You're supposed to train your juniors so that you have seniors when everyone else is scrambling. But when everyone is scrambling, the biggest and most-funded/most-profitable companies will
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by saulpw 8d ago
A 100-year-old's children are 70-80 years old themselves, if they are still alive. They very well might be not be capable of taking care of a 100-year-old person. And not everyone has children. Rather than throw up our hands and say
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by saulpw 8d ago
Perhaps Microsoft is the biggest one though? (Who could possibly be bigger?)
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by saulpw 9d ago
I've had several jobs that were great for the first 12-18 months before the manager that hired me left. Then they sucked for another couple years but the pay didn't change.
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by saulpw 10d ago
I thought it sounded like a nice gesture of trying to be helpful and making a small connection with their coworkers. One message a day is hardly "a bunch of noise". Even though you say you wouldn't have said anything at the
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by saulpw 10d ago
s/seen as// Annoyance is a clue; not about them, but about you.
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by saulpw 11d ago
> doing that on a blog has become much harder nowadays because trust in written content has been lost. I also like writing, but I started a podcast for similar reasons. I call it "proof of human".
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Show HN: Below the Root (1984 game) ported to JavaScript(below-the-root.saul.pw)
3 points by saulpw 13d ago|0 comments
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by saulpw 13d ago
Migraines don't have to be painful, and 'inverted tunnel vision' is one of the effects I've experienced.
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by saulpw 14d ago
Sounds like a migraine.
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by saulpw 15d ago
You can't cross the Hudson. Every crossing bans ridden animals. If you can find a ferry to take your horse I'll concede the point. But...good luck.
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by saulpw 15d ago
You can't ride a horse from New York to Washington DC today, and it hasn't been possible for almost 100 years. So enjoy the manual coding while you can. I don't hold out hope that it will be possible in the long run.
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by saulpw 15d ago
Well, hm, for the best of the world you may have a point.. :)
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by saulpw 15d ago
Because your neighbor is the same species and so you have some idea of what it's like inside their head. When your neighbor is a different species, this is pretty much exactly what humans do: kill it. The more unfamiliar, the faster i
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by saulpw 16d ago
Note that addition that's "trillion times faster" is purely an optimization, not greater intelligence. And a society of humans does not increase our overall intelligence. It allows all of humanity to access the accomplishmen
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by saulpw 16d ago
"They" don't care about "fixing" the DMV. It's nice to think that "they would if they could" but in fact, the anti-government party actively cripples and dismantles government services so that people
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by saulpw 16d ago
I think there's an intelligence limit, or at least asymptote. It may be above human intelligence, but I don't think it's miles above it (at least not the kind of intelligence humans can create, recognize, or use). For examp
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by saulpw 17d ago
claude fix it
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by saulpw 18d ago
If fewer people die, there is only less liability to assign. Remember that the original argument was "FSD needs to have 0 fatalities before we adopt it". And it's not valid to argue that some traffic fatalities are unavoi
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by saulpw 18d ago
I can think of several billionaires who would be quite fine ruling over a devastated and machine-led earth. Their families are chosen or bred to agree with their amorality, and they and their dynastic families would rule with pleasure.
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by saulpw 18d ago
Reducing inflation is indeed one of the reasons, but what I was getting at is that the government doesn't "need" people for tax revenue to pay for its services, contrary to popular belief. It needs taxes to make its money va
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by saulpw 18d ago
No, because you can punish bad drivers, remove them from the driving pool, put them in jail, or in some way achieve justice (this may not always happen, but at least it's posible). There is no way for FSD to have any accountability, a
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by saulpw 18d ago
National governments which can print their own currency don't require people for tax revenue. They use taxes to compel people to acquire their currency to give it value. If they can instead compel AIs to acquire their currency, they
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by saulpw 19d ago
I have a friend who writes, she has certain needs, I've shown her how to start building tools, she has no interest in building tools. She's focused on writing and does not think about her personal process that way. Not every is
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by saulpw 20d ago
They paved paradise, put up a parking lot.

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