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by skybrian 10d ago
It would be clearer if the operation were part of the name. The most common operations have good names, like sum(), product(), concat(), and so on. If there's no standard function for it, it's trivial to write a utility function.
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by skybrian 10d ago
I'm retired and write code as a hobby, not presentations or docs, but it fits how I use exe.dev to make a code change. I will have a conversation with the AI, then say "Please go ahead" and close my laptop to do something els
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by skybrian 10d ago
I didn't know websites could opt out of providing data to Google's AI training. Looks Google added support for this via 'Google-Extended' in robots.txt back in 2023: https://blog.google/innovation-and-ai&
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by skybrian 11d ago
But looking one step back, the investor might need to sell something else to raise cash to buy the stock? I suppose in that respect, all investments compete.
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by skybrian 11d ago
They have different kinds of risk, but do AI investments and bonds compete for investors?
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by skybrian 11d ago
I think it gets the chronology wrong? Some of these AI safety orgs were around before Anthropic. AI safety concerns are not new.
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by skybrian 11d ago
Sometimes in "normalization of deviance" situations, there isn't anyone specifically to blame. I wouldn't make an assumption that you can find anyone particularly blameworthy without doing an investigation first.
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by skybrian 12d ago
Why do people focus so much on finding scapegoats? Finding someone to blame is neither necessary nor sufficient to fix a system so an accident doesn't happen again. It might act as as an incentive to fix a system, but it's less di
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by skybrian 12d ago
Maybe, but do you need to prove intent? Of the people, not the AI. Accidents often have penalties associated with them too, but usually there's a difference between accidents and purposeful actions.
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by skybrian 12d ago
I think it's more like how anyone learning to play chess is going to use chess engines, but you can't learn to play by always asking the chess engine for the answer. I expect that all mathematicians are going to be working with po
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by skybrian 12d ago
It will likely burn a lot of tokens, take a long time, and might not work, so hopefully they'll still ask if you really want to spend the money on the attempt.
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by skybrian 12d ago
In Rationalist circles, it's apparently common to share your p(doom) in casual conversation, with the understanding that it's putting a number on your hunch. Maybe it's not a good idea to post it on Twitter without elaboratin
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by skybrian 13d ago
This is sort of like saying in response to an airplane crash, "who cares why it happened, we need to punish the company until it stops." Nuts to that. We should be interested in why things happen, not just finding scapegoats.
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by skybrian 13d ago
Also, it’s only true in the browser. Node and Deno have sync I/O. You still end up having to make a choice about whether your function should be async.
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by skybrian 13d ago
Generating AI images is something we couldn’t do before. AI assistants are better at web search than anything that came before.
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by skybrian 14d ago
There are many kinds of proxies. Proxies would have to be blocked if they don’t cooperate. Obviously a child-locked device shouldn’t let a client-side proxy be installed.
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by skybrian 14d ago
That standard is mostly used to indicate “adult” websites (porn, basically) which is useful, but rather a different thing than what I’m advocating. There are many websites intended for adults that should not be blocked when Google’s safe se
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by skybrian 15d ago
Websites that don't cooperate would need to be blocked by child-locked devices. That part wouldn't be any different from today.
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by skybrian 15d ago
Sure, the categories can be expanded. For example, movie ratings aren't just "children" and "adults." But explaining the simple case seemed like enough for one comment.
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by skybrian 15d ago
And yet, many people have ambitions. They will put up a website about how great their software is and how everyone should use it. I usually put a warning that it's experimental and might not be maintained. More users, more problems. (A
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by skybrian 15d ago
For software developers, the equivalent is writing software without beta testers. If you don’t seek out users, you will likely build something nobody else wants. And, that’s what I do. I’m retired and I use AI to build websites for myself.
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by skybrian 15d ago
This is almost right, but it shouldn’t be “is a child using the device?” It should be “is this a child-locked device?” There should be a children’s Internet, just like there are children’s libraries, and child-locked devices should give acc
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by skybrian 15d ago
API’s and coding standards help a bit. In one case, the AI was testing HTML-generating code with string assertions, so I had it write a test helper that makes a DOM-based testing API available and a skill telling it to write tests that way.
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by skybrian 15d ago
Could they change the rules so that there’s no or less incentive to “tank?”
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by skybrian 16d ago
Assuming they pay their credit card bill themselves, it's effectively a volume discount for big spenders (though that "volume" goes to multiple vendors). The argument that the money "comes from" other customers is s
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by skybrian 17d ago
The mathematics research results are certainly impressive, but I don't see what that has to do with robotics. Waymo is getting somewhere, but it's been a long slog. There doesn't seem to be much progress on, say, package del
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by skybrian 17d ago
I certainly can't see what's coming. I believe that nobody really knows what's coming. Some people are overconfident.
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by skybrian 17d ago
Trends don't go on forever, but the market can stay irrational longer than you can stay solvent. There's no good rule of thumb for this, other than maybe the Lindy effect.
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by skybrian 18d ago
> What’s the last major life decision you made without at least consulting an AI? This seems like asking what's the last major decision you made without at least doing a web search. There's nothing wrong with doing a search. Th
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by skybrian 18d ago
Uber isn't a good comparison. LLMs are a national or global market, not a local one. Also: already driverless.

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