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by sfink 8mo ago
your pipe is full of heat .
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by sfink 8mo ago
Then they also don't get the only advantage of being in space, namely free solar energy. You'd need to have solar collectors in a sunny spot, beaming energy to the shady spot, or something. (Beaming because they don't get to
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by sfink 8mo ago
You still can't get more surface area than a sphere without crumpling things up. And given the thermal insulation, you can only lose heat via radiation. Radiating heat from a crumpled boundary means radiating it towards another part of
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by sfink 8mo ago
Thank you. I am in the confusing situation of being extremely good at interpreting the nuance in human writing, yet extremely bad at detecting AI slop. Perhaps the problem is that I'm still assuming everything is human-written, so I do
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by sfink 8mo ago
You have to balance security with utility, so you find obviously safe compromises. You shouldn't allow applications to share completely different file formats. Your text editor doesn't need to be able to open an mp3 file. Even whe
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by sfink 8mo ago
I agree! I just retargeted my corporate espionage agent team at your startup and managed to siphon off 10.4k per month of your revenue.
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by sfink 8mo ago
I make them ask me questions. Forces me to think.
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by sfink 8mo ago
That still doesn't mean much unless you're doing your own training or getting the weights from a trusted source, and neither of those mean much without knowing something about the data being trained on. If someone is trying to i
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by sfink 9mo ago
I definitely relate to this. Except that while I was in the 1% in university who thought hard, I don't think my success rate was that high. My confidence in the time was quite high, though, and I still remember the notable successes. A
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by sfink 9mo ago
> Cooling can be significantly improved due to lower launch costs, heat piping, RTGs, TEGs, and thermoradiative cells, not to mention sunside solar and darkside inline radiators You're saying they're going to steal the night? W
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by sfink 9mo ago
Don't combine it with von Neumann probes and you've solved the Fermi paradox: a civilization that puts that much work into computing power is either doing the equivalent of mining crypto and going nowhere, or is doing AI and is so
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by sfink 9mo ago
The computer hardware only needs to run enough AI compute to be smart enough to convince Musk that it's working. It should be fine.
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by sfink 9mo ago
Right. You build your computers out of superconductors, and they don't get hot. Sadly, they also don't compute. > Even the cheapest kind will superconduct in space (because it’s so cold). Is this a drinking game? Take a drink w
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by sfink 9mo ago
> And finally surface area, once again, getting quite good here with nanotechnology. So your hot thing is radiating directly onto the next hot thing over, the one that also needs to cool down?
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by sfink 9mo ago
> It is better to leave the PR commits separate and atomic so reviewers can digest them more easily. So reviewers have to digest all of the twists and turns I took to get to the final result? Why oh why oh why? Sure, if they've alre
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by sfink 9mo ago
You can configure watchman to do it. `fsmonitor.watchman.register-snapshot-trigger = true` I don't recommend it, though, at least not on large repositories. Too much opportunity to collide with command-line jj write operations.
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by sfink 9mo ago
>> the meaning of words and concepts is not an intrinsic property, but is derived entirely from relationships between concepts. > Possibly I'm not understanding you here. Supposing that certain meanings were intrinsic properti
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by sfink 9mo ago
> How do LLM advancements further such a view? They make people willing to seriously consider a wider ranger of possibilities. Without the example of LLMs, people tended to be very attached to a "hoomanz special, you need to have th
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by sfink 9mo ago
The agents that are doing useful work (not claiming there are any) certainly aren't posting on moltbook with any relevant context. The posters will be newborns with whatever context their creators have fed into them, which is unlikely
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by sfink 9mo ago
I'd like to congratulate you on writing a wall of text that gave off all the signals of being written by a conspiracy theorist or crank or someone off their meds, yet also such that when I bothered to read it, I found it to be complete
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by sfink 9mo ago
>> the symbolic approach to modeling the world is fundamentally misguided. > but how did you arrive at this conclusion? Why are you certain that symbolic modeling (of some sort, some subset thereof, etc) isn't what ML models a
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by sfink 9mo ago
Only if by "solving it", you mean being able to write any program to do anything. Software engineering is a hubris-complete problem. Somehow, being able to do so much seems to make us all assume that everyone else is capable of so
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by sfink 9mo ago
Yes. That part of the video was straight-up "here's how to automate academic fraud". Those papers could just as easily negate one of your assumptions. What even is research if it's not using cited works? "I know
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by sfink 9mo ago
Heh, it would be cool to start having adversarial vibe coding contests: two people are tasked with implementing something using a coding agent, only they get to inject up to 4KB of text into each other's prompts. Just to experiment, I
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by sfink 9mo ago
How? I just asked ChatGPT 5.2 for its training cutoff, and it said August 2025. I then tried to dig down to see if that was the cutoff date for the base model, and it said it couldn't tell me and I'd have to infer it from other me
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by sfink 9mo ago
Be very, very careful about what you wish for.
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by sfink 9mo ago
Yeah, that's roughly my take as well. The AI bit is especially jarring, given the supposed goal of being "resonant", when in fact AI is the most powerful force right now towards making things that are functional without bei
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by sfink 9mo ago
It matters who is going to bear the cost, both for the cases where the risk taker wins and loses. Also, whether anyone else may benefit. Value creation is a thing.
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by sfink 9mo ago
Right, sorry, I didn't mean to imply that you should have covered stack allocation in your post. I think your post covers the right material to make its point. This is more of a side comment about a different question, perhaps "ok
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by sfink 9mo ago
Huh. I expected two main advantages on Rust's side: usable multithreading (as mentioned) and stack allocation. For the latter, the ownership model makes it possible to stack-allocate things that you wouldn't dare put on the stack

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