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by sigbottle 4mo ago
I have noticed absurd lag from the browser usage and sometimes complete bricking of my network too on my computer. I thought it was just my computer getting old, but possibly it's ChatGPT.
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by sigbottle 4mo ago
I mean it's not like anyone could objectively go back in time and query ancient civilizations for what they meant, but presumably it means the verification heuristics, they have currently, pragmatic success, and expert solidarity means
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by sigbottle 4mo ago
What the fuck. I've never been that strong of an engineer. TIL that at one of my internships I was building DuckDB but for the company's private use cases. Well, trying to anyways. I didn't really get the whole picture, the p
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by sigbottle 4mo ago
It's crazy how they're the ones with all the power and control at this point and they're still playing victim.
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by sigbottle 4mo ago
The mafia game aspect is something I had not thought of. Have science fiction / dystopian novels focused on propaganda like that? Novels seem to have cartoonishly evil societies but the real world has stuff like this.
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by sigbottle 4mo ago
That's annoying. I shelled out a pretty penny specifically to try out Fable, but if I'm only going to get to use it for 2 days...
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by sigbottle 4mo ago
It would be amazing in a perfect and just world. This technology is revolutionary. I'm very interested in LLM's because I'm personally interested in how one thinks better and comes up with better ideas - I think LLM's mi
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by sigbottle 4mo ago
Just tried it. Fable is extremely strong. The fact that we can't point to any concrete architectural upgrade is worrying - that means "it just gets bigger" is kind of viable. To be clear, the jump from Opus to Fable was like
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by sigbottle 4mo ago
Does anyone know what the architecture of Fable is? Is it harnesses? Did they solve persistent learning? What did they do?
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by sigbottle 4mo ago
I've only ever known about these through compilers, very cool. On one project, through a variety of circumstances, dead code elimination was straight up not working, but we wanted to show the theoretical improvement of some approach -
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by sigbottle 4mo ago
Codex IME is just smarter, I think it shows given both anecdotes but also how OpenAI has always been at the front of programming competitions and math problems. But Claude models seem to be better at long term problems or more ambiguous pro
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by sigbottle 4mo ago
This is such an abstract principle that the principle itself cannot be refuted. The plan sounds fine on paper. "Just iterate bro". But it entirely depends on what rational agents you put into the system. Obviously, if I sub in a
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by sigbottle 5mo ago
Well no, the idea is a tradeoff between interfaces and telemetry. OK, the agents don't click in the same way as humans. You learn that, what about mouse hovering telemetry, time spent, etc. And one of the most extreme is to force biome
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by sigbottle 5mo ago
Sad times ahead.
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by sigbottle 5mo ago
Wait isn't gpt 5.2 good? Or is it not thinking / not codex? 5.2 was what sparked the late 2025 openai agentic programming revolution.
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by sigbottle 5mo ago
What would unsupervised mean, would unsupervised be something like alphago playing against itself trillions of times? Whereas self-supervised, allows learning without explicit annotation of data ; but it doesn't matter if the models al
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by sigbottle 5mo ago
And they said it wouldn't happen. Everything is an accident, an anecdote, only trust the state with your authoritative quantitative data! There's surely no philosophical issues with that! There's no issues with definitional a
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by sigbottle 5mo ago
And this is one of the many issues with invoking the logical positivists here... I'm not even sure why they were invoked. Even disregarding the big techinical debunks such as two dogmas, sociologically and even by talking to real mathe
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by sigbottle 5mo ago
Sorry, I thought this would've been a method for finding invariants, not one just for expressing them? I guess I should think about TLA+ as ultimately some kind of solver - give it a configuration, it tells me if it's defined well
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by sigbottle 5mo ago
I've been working through the American pragmatist tradition - James, Pierce, Sellars, Rorty, Brandom. Something about that background, all the discussions about definitions and representation, the original article talking about dualism
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by sigbottle 5mo ago
Sorry wasn't there a post literally like a week ago about this being a long term experimental branch and how we needed to not kick the hatchling while it's an egg? 1 week turnaround I guess is what they meant.
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by sigbottle 5mo ago
I've noticed on hackernews in the past year, a certain type of comment. A deep suspicion to first call out a surface behavior, then psychoanalyze strangers with whatever the flavor of the month "deep observation" is. You can&
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by sigbottle 5mo ago
No amount of technology solves social, political, and ethical problems, unfortunately.
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by sigbottle 5mo ago
I mean, Quine invented (the term) holism. I don't think we're on different pages. Maybe I should've specified a bit more what I was getting at. This has very specific implications in symbolic ai specifically where historica
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by sigbottle 5mo ago
About the blog you linked and not your comment: Doesn't symbolic AI have a lot of philosophical problems? Think back to Quine's two dogmas - you can't just say, "Let's understand the true meanings of these words and
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by sigbottle 5mo ago
I don't know what or why our science education is like this, but it seems like everybody's understanding of science bottomed out at a straw man version of popper & positivism. And to be clear, falsification and being empirical
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by sigbottle 6mo ago
I'm pretty sure most people take issue with AGI, because we've been raised in culture to believe that AGI is a super entity who is a complete superset of humans and could never ever be wrong about anything. In some sense, this isn
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by sigbottle 6mo ago
It's not intuitive to humans, even after learning parsing theory. I can do basic name refactorings. I've even written neovim plugins to do 1 specific thing with the AST (dfs down and delete one subtree which I understand). Those
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by sigbottle 6mo ago
Totally agree with the absorption thing. I've always found myself at a great calm, ever since I was a kid, from sitting en transit and looking out the window. A train ride is great for this reason. I think about things. I actively thin
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by sigbottle 6mo ago
Do you think it's akin to Ilya's [1] claim that next token prediction is reality? E.g. any deeper claims about the structure of that intelligence or comparing to humans? To be clear, I'm 100% with you that "next token pr

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