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by selridge 8mo ago
He figured it out and got out. More than can be said for some.
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by selridge 8mo ago
Brother, ABM will catch like 5, tops.
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by selridge 8mo ago
I mean, LLMs aren’t making people sniff around for typography as though that’s a reliable proxy for humanity. Em dashes, semicolons, deftly delving. It’s all just so…facile. We might as well tell ourselves we can tell it’s shopped from the
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by selridge 8mo ago
>Did it work then? Will it work now? God, who knows. Could it have worked at Wikipedia? Both Wikipedia and SO have the same problem that all the easy work is taken. The article on Silicon looked *pretty* different 25 years ago: https:&#
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by selridge 8mo ago
Then what about banking & finance pre central bank era are you nostalgic for? Because if the current system favors the bankers, the previous system sure as hell favored the bankers. Is it the bank runs? I guess I should say this is all
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by selridge 8mo ago
The whole point is to not have the central bank in the control of the executive!
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by selridge 8mo ago
any other pearls of wisdom from the Mises institute you want to share?
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by selridge 8mo ago
This is an ignorant statement cloaked as cynicism. Its purpose is to give permission to check out on politics.
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by selridge 8mo ago
It is not at all clear that monetary policy can actually work here, which is what the statement is saying. When your demand side policy doesn't work, it's just pushing rope. It doesn't matter if or how bad you want a certain
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by selridge 8mo ago
We'll see seigniorage. That's about all we can predict from that particular breakdown of civil society.
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by selridge 8mo ago
Or that the fed is preparing us to expect higher levels of unemployment for the same level of inflation.
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by selridge 8mo ago
Wasn’t much of a joke then, from the looks of it.
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by selridge 8mo ago
I love posts like this because it’s just a knife fight between community members whose identities are built around curation VS. a company whose user studies all sound the same alarm “new users leave because their shit gets curated” Same thi
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by selridge 8mo ago
I think their old findings were hard to treat as gospel just due to the kind of comparison + the sample, but this new result is probably much noisier. It’s hard to make reliable, directional assumptions about the kind of self-selection and
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by selridge 8mo ago
You buy that concern to hire the people. The stack is already free.
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by selridge 8mo ago
Yeah and like…who knows if what is coming is better. Maybe big labs cartelize and withdraw from the global publication market (which is already unraveling). Maybe we ban theory and demand all papers be empirical, though that will amount to
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by selridge 8mo ago
Here is my read: Developers are refusing to complete the survey or selecting themselves out because they (apparently) don’t want to complete the non-AI task. The also saw selection effects from a large reduction in the pay for the study (wh
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by selridge 8mo ago
In my experience, all text “instruction” to the agent should be taken on a prayer. If you write compact agent guidance that is not contradictory and is local and useful to your project, the agent will follow it most of the time. There is no
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by selridge 8mo ago
Kinda. PI is principal investigator and usually they’re a professor with a grant (the grant being the thing they are the principal of investigating). That part is right. But they’re not really directly in the review loop. For some fields wh
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by selridge 8mo ago
Honestly, this is good. We were already in a completely unsustainable system. Nobody had an alternative. We still don’t have one but at least now it’s not just merely unsustainable— it is completely fucked in half. This kind of pattern is g
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by selridge 8mo ago
I mean, yes. You should do exactly that: instruct an agent on how to do something you understand in terms you can explain. Putting that in a `.md` file just means you don’t need to do it twice.
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by selridge 8mo ago
Looks cool! Thank you for sharing.
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by selridge 8mo ago
STREAM THIS
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by selridge 8mo ago
I have been saying that the shift with LLM’s is similar to the 1980s when we standardized computer arithmetic. Prior to standardization, you had to become an expert on how the computer did arithmetic in order to do something that required a
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by selridge 8mo ago
That's all true but it will fall before "[t]he agent has ambient access because it makes it more capable". Folks can shake their heads or worry or whatever, but feet are going to beat to where it is sweet. Users will follow c
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by selridge 8mo ago
This is speculation, but I suspect the training data argument is going to be a real loser in the courtroom. We’re getting out of the region where memorization is a big failure mode for frontier models. They are also increasingly trained on
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by selridge 8mo ago
You gonna go read up on some 0% success rate strategies on the way? What I’m saying is that we act as though claims about these scaling laws have never been tested. People feel free to just assert that any minute now the train will stop. Th
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by selridge 8mo ago
No I don't mean that. I mean the LLM parameter scaling laws. More importantly, it doesn't matter if I mean that or Moore's law or anything else, because I'm not making a forward looking prediction. Read what I wrote. I&#
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by selridge 8mo ago
So far the people who bet against scaling laws have all lost money. That does not mean that their luck won’t change, but we should at least admit the winning streak.
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by selridge 8mo ago
Damn, AI murdered this guy’s hackathon submission. Why would AI do that?!

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