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961.
by sdwr 4y ago
Retreat! Retreat to the local!
962.
by sdwr 4y ago
Too late for that! Time to batten down the hatches.
963.
by sdwr 4y ago
Thanks, needed that bit of optimism. On the code completion side, I'm already feeling the pain of having to interact linearly with Copilot. Would be nice to have a few different panes - "written description", "suggested
964.
by sdwr 4y ago
This is one of those bell curve memes. Left side: Evolution took their tusks away. Middle: Acktually it's selection pressure acting on the population combined with random mutations that... Right side: Evolution took their tusks away.
965.
by sdwr 4y ago
Woof woof woof!
966.
by sdwr 4y ago
Not chatGPT, but the openAI code playground will continue a functionn if given another turn.
967.
by sdwr 4y ago
It's going to be some fucking hyper-fragmented AR thing, where content is gated behind messaging people you know. Like how Facebook games used to ask you to spam your friends for gems, except instead of gems it's going to be an al
968.
by sdwr 4y ago
Great observation, I've never thought about it like that before. Both involve emotional investment in an external, somewhat hazy "cause". I feel that way about programming - feel like I've invested so much time and ident
969.
by sdwr 4y ago
I disagree! I believe that the universe optimizes away unnecessary calculations, like occlusion culling in a game engine. The sun and the plants and animals make the park more real, more resilient against being optimized to nothing than an
970.
by sdwr 4y ago
Maybe it's embarrassing to interview a guy from down the street instead of a professor at Columbia, or have anecdotes from the local supermarket instead of a brownstone on the Upper East Side. Still, anything is better than hiding behi
971.
by sdwr 4y ago
Zero knowledge proofs are post-bitcoin, just even harder to understand and less(?) efficient. Also the financial + practical engineering that goes into distributed exchanges.
972.
by sdwr 4y ago
Less living things, less variety of living things, shorter pedigree. More things trucked in from the outside. A park in the desert is less real than a park in an appropriate climate. In some sense a mall is a fad, and dies without people. A
973.
by sdwr 4y ago
Venkatesh really coming into his own. His stride is opening up. Feels like reality is starting to catch up with his brain. Years of groundwork starting to pay off?? Want to add to crypto vs AI: They are definitely mirrored in some way. Cry
974.
by sdwr 4y ago
A mall is less real then a park.
975.
by sdwr 4y ago
Really? AI and crypto together is the nuts. That's how it begins to not just affect the real world but participate in it. If anything, the idea of an ungoverned financial arena made of code fits too well with AI. Sounds like the laun
976.
by sdwr 4y ago
Beautiful
977.
by sdwr 4y ago
I'm starting to get idiot savant vibes from it. In a conversation it ranges from "frustratingly naive" to "brick wall", and I would never put it in charge of anything, but it has an immense amount of hidden knowledg
978.
by sdwr 4y ago
If it was in the New Yorker, it would be grounded much better. It would include an interview with an academic invested in the subject, or a profile on someone in the news (but not too popular!), or frame it through the writer's home li
979.
by sdwr 4y ago
Yeah genuine praise is just ok, habitual or forced praise is the worst.
980.
by sdwr 4y ago
Most of it is garbage!! People talking about conversation, especially online, is total crap. It's all small blogs, and the ones who aren't trying to sell you something are this weird combination of unsure and self-inflated. I agre
981.
by sdwr 4y ago
I was playing with openai code yesterday, it made a basic diablo-style item generator with minimal prompting.
982.
by sdwr 4y ago
I believe the conversational meta has shifted in the last 80 years. But more than that, people like to talk about themselves IFF they feel safe and unjudged.
983.
by sdwr 4y ago
Lack of self! The author is a ghost. I read it as a cry for help. "I am lonely", he says. But it's worse than that, because there is no him to be lonely. His cognition is bound up in fragments of other people's fictional
984.
by sdwr 4y ago
I like that summary better than the actual article. The article read as floaty and artificial. ChatGPT's sickly sweet tone peeks through a bit here, but the pacing is much better.
985.
by sdwr 4y ago
The triangle numbers sold me. Just have to come up with a use for it, uh, discover the intrinsic beauty of the universe. Looking at degrees of freedom doesnt really help. A point is picked on a line by constraining it along 1 dimension, a
986.
by sdwr 4y ago
Or on Youtube as attention-retainers. It's really good at drip-feeding content over weeks/months, and changes what videos are recommended based on the duration of the viewing session.
987.
by sdwr 4y ago
Just had the same thought! Parents and kids is an asymmetric relationship. Parents have experience and practical control, kids have more energy and burn warmer. When there's real shit to do, everyone listens up. When everything's
988.
by sdwr 4y ago
Love the real life example. No matter how good the top players are relative to the competition tho, I feel like a large playerbase still raises the skill bar to a huge degree. There's a ratchet effect where someone figures something ou
989.
by sdwr 4y ago
Dont think the player pool is very deep, doubt there are many masters around..
990.
by sdwr 4y ago
Watched some of the first game. I'd bet stratego favors defence, advantage to the AI that has no/minimal concept of the value of time.

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