shawnz

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by shawnz 2mo ago
> being braindead and in severe cases we do indeed say that they are not conscious or able to suffer Sure, there are such cases. But in the general case, it seems to be that memory and ability to change specifically are not necessary and
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by shawnz 2mo ago
It's not a "trap", it's the real argument which makes me hesitant to dismiss consciousness of machines. Yes, it seems silly to dismiss a sick patient as having a lesser consciousness, which is exactly the point
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by shawnz 2mo ago
So if a human loses their memory and their neutral plasticity (with age for example), then they are no longer capable of experiencing suffering?
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by shawnz 2mo ago
I have this worded in my CLAUDE.md as "avoid counterfactuals". It still does it anyway, of course, but that language combined with a few rounds of review back-and-forth seems to work for me
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by shawnz 2mo ago
I understand that ostensibly it is a statement of who is making the claim. But doesn't the media organization have an expectation to research and validate such claims? And so if they didn't, then that must mean that they weren&#x2
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by shawnz 2mo ago
Is it really a different meaning? Isn't the implication that they tried, and failed, to independently verify the claim?
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by shawnz 2mo ago
Yeah, I am just providing one contrived example. The cost benefit analysis won't always be so obvious as that in reality. My point was that if you're not using a blend of both comments and code semantics to explain your code, then
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by shawnz 2mo ago
If you are only encoding intent through "self-documenting code", and not with comments, then you are purposefully not using all the tools at your disposal to encode meaning as efficiently as possible. Imagine a complicated section
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by shawnz 3mo ago
Designing a new on-disk format seems like a pretty far reaching architectural decision... I don't think that's an appropriate target for a drive-by fix from a new contributor
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by shawnz 3mo ago
It's a shame they weren't able to launch this with the previously rumored Tensor CPU: https://www.androidauthority.com/google-pixel-watch-5-tensor...
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by shawnz 3mo ago
There is already some intentional randomness in token selection, because it actually improves the quality of responses if you intentionally don't always pick the most likely next token. You can hide data in that randomness without impa
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by shawnz 3mo ago
What's the incentive for third parties to contribute, knowing just one guy stands to benefit if the project gets monetized in such a manner?
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by shawnz 3mo ago
If you printed teeth, you'd have to make sure the teeth in the top loop are precisely aligned in relation to the teeth in the bottom loop based on the length of the belt, right? That seems like it could be limiting
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by shawnz 4mo ago
I confess I have instructions in my CLAUDE.md to avoid such cliches. But I think it's important to consider that we don't really know what subtext an LLM is associating with a given idiom/analogy/etc. It could be much di
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by shawnz 5mo ago
Related, in a sense: "Reconstructing the Menu of a Pub in Ancient Pompeii" https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26210774
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by shawnz 5mo ago
See also this exploration from Strange Aeons: https://youtu.be/vMOMa-4D1yQ?si=t1uxfY1pEDh2a44Y
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by shawnz 6mo ago
Yeah, I know chargebacks are a frequent vector for abuse and of course I don't mean to imply that customers doing chargebacks ought to always implicitly be given the benefit of the doubt. Given that you are responsive to inquiries, it
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by shawnz 6mo ago
You'd better be promptly responsive to legitimate customer support inquiries if you are going to have a policy like that
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by shawnz 6mo ago
Your entire codebase is already at risk of being blocked by a spinlock or CPU-intensive operation, so what's the difference?
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by shawnz 6mo ago
cPanel is 30 years old, are you saying it's not battle tested, boring, proven, and widely audited? In fact PHP is only a few months older than it.
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by shawnz 7mo ago
Thinking summaries might not be useful for revealing the model's actual intentions, but I find that they can be helpful in signalling to me when I have left certain things underspecified in the prompt, so that I can stop and clarify.
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by shawnz 7mo ago
Note that for Claude Code, it looks like they added a new undocumented command line argument `--thinking-display summarized` to control this parameter, and that's the only way to get thinking summaries back there. VS Code users can wri
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by shawnz 7mo ago
> Supporting only Server grade hardware and ignoring laptop/consumer grade GPU/APU for ROCm was a terrible strategical mistake. A lot of developers experiments first and foremost on their personal laptop first and scale on expe
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by shawnz 7mo ago
I don't think it's a single axis even in the original poster's conception, since you could be both incorrect and also not pragmatic. But if a fix needs to be described as pragmatic relative to the alternatives, that's pr
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by shawnz 8mo ago
Damn, I was working on exactly the same idea not too long ago. It never really went anywhere because I couldn't find a speech rate detection algorithm that worked well enough to make it practically useful. I hope some more mathematical
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by shawnz 8mo ago
While I agree with the sentiment here, you might be interested to see that there are a couple hack approaches to override Claude Code feature flags: https://github.com/anthropics/claude-code/issues/21874#issue
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by shawnz 9mo ago
I mean, yeah, it's entirely possible that the operator is a teenager, isn't it?
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by shawnz 9mo ago
This is essentially Jevons' paradox
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by shawnz 9mo ago
If their whole business is based around being an established standard and making users happy is not a relevant goal, then why do anything at all? They already are an established standard, so why would they bother taking any further actions
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by shawnz 9mo ago
AFAIK my humidifier uses an ESP32 chip.

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