saulpw

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by saulpw 5mo ago
How about we make a competing metric for every metric that's being abused? Then at least there's some tension to the piece, instead of all-out paperclip manufacturing.
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by saulpw 5mo ago
People are confusing "excitement" with "evangelism". Your blog is definitely on the pro-AI side of things, but as you say, it's not one-sided or uncritical.
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by saulpw 5mo ago
If it actually helped the economies flourish, then that would be interesting. NIMBY is in some part a reaction to the belief (likely true) that there would be neither jobs nor tax money from a data center in their community backyard--it&#x
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by saulpw 5mo ago
which sounds like it came from React's "dangerouslySetInnerHTML", per the comment you replied to.
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by saulpw 5mo ago
Google has burnt all of its goodwill in dev communities so no, I don't think Gemini is worth consideration.
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by saulpw 5mo ago
There's this other case, which I think many people believe, that AI becomes as powerful as we fear/hope, and productivity is so high that only a few people need to work, but the superior standard of living is enjoyed by only those
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by saulpw 5mo ago
I feel you, I kind of want to skip ahead some years too. But it feels like 1998 internet hype--skip ahead 5 years and Facebook hasn't even been created yet. The internet certainly didn't become just another tool in the tool belt
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by saulpw 5mo ago
The main source of famine is corruption. Ireland had enough food, but it was exported to rich people.
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by saulpw 5mo ago
We still have hundreds of nuclear power plants worldwide! There have been some terrible accidents but overall the consequences of nuclear power are much less than fossil fuel electricity generation. And some people wish we hadn't ner
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by saulpw 5mo ago
"Capitalism" can't become more humane, by its nature. Money is a great technology for coordinating people and work, but capitalism (being the system in which the capital class is allowed to allocate resources without oversig
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by saulpw 5mo ago
Why would they even want to use AI for this? Is the goal to automate the graduation ceremony so faculty don't have to show up? I mean ceremonies in general are not essential, if you want to optimize, you can just not do them at all.
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by saulpw 5mo ago
That seems to be the case, though there are other tricks (like raising the sale price and getting the seller to pay the tax).
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by saulpw 5mo ago
https://fortune.com/2026/05/16/new-york-private-jet-tax-mamd...
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by saulpw 5mo ago
Gosh, 1% on $1m, that's almost $10k! I can see that how would discourage homeownership and distort the market. Actually wait, I can't.
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by saulpw 5mo ago
Similarly, it seems like people are finding out the hard way that coding is the easy part and software design/architecture is much harder.
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by saulpw 5mo ago
Yeah, that's my concern too. I might be interested in checking out an AI-developed language, if I knew who was working on it, could research them as a person (are they an undergrad pre-career or retired post-career?), see previous pro
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by saulpw 5mo ago
I mean what if he's actually the second coming of Christ. We can make up "what if"s all day but it's meaningless to even discuss them if you don't have a shred of evidence to support the claim.
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by saulpw 5mo ago
I agree it's rare, but I think there are more than 830 humans on the planet which can do this.
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by saulpw 5mo ago
Fiddling while our home burns has been a beloved pasttime for many people, from emperors to passengers on ocean liners to prisoners in camps. What else is there to do anyway? Sometimes history must take its course before humanity as a who
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by saulpw 6mo ago
Because agile has been so successful, right? ;)
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by saulpw 6mo ago
> The build-time "yacc and lex"-based level compiler, the "yacc and lex"-based dungeon compiler, and the quest text file processing previously done by NetHack's "makedefs" utility, have been replaced wi
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by saulpw 6mo ago
I find that people who write "may I ask" are often/usually bad-faith arguers under cover of being polite.
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by saulpw 6mo ago
Also see the Swadesh List[0] [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Swadesh_list
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by saulpw 6mo ago
Everyone has different mistakes that are important to them, and not everyone agrees on what is a mistake. Witness how employees from FAANG often don't do well at startups, because they've been taught the wrong lessons.
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by saulpw 6mo ago
How will we know when an AI system has phenomenology (i.e. has "experience", is sentient)? The only reason we presume that other humans have it, is because we each personally experience it within ourselves, and it would be arroga
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by saulpw 6mo ago
> It's easy to hear "Oh well I only had 640kb of memory and typed programs out of a magazine I got in the mail!" Since I was there (young, but there), I want to point out that this crosses three eras which all felt quite d
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by saulpw 6mo ago
Because I'm the one employing it? A model which makes a "delete production database" mistake clearly needs to be taught not to do that, and the person whose production database was deleted ought to be able to teach them not
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by saulpw 6mo ago
Teacher.
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by saulpw 6mo ago
Presumably $100m to train the 70B model? I think you're assuming that the author meant you can take an existing 70B model and run it in 16GB. But it stands to reason that "no loss in capability" means it had to be trained
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by saulpw 6mo ago
You're thinking 10 years too late. The TRS-80, C64, Apple ][ all booted in seconds.

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