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by slibhb 8mo ago
Yes. They published a great article about it: https://www.nytimes.com/2025/12/31/magazine/ukraine-ai-drone... As I remember it the basic idea is that the new generation of drones is piloted close enough
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by slibhb 8mo ago
It was probably most helpful early on when there was lots of code to write and stuff to configure. Context is an issue as time passes. But it's still quite helpful for tweaking things/adding features later on, as long as I provide
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by slibhb 8mo ago
AI led to me writing code outside of work for the first time in years. I completed a small project that would've taken me months in a couple weeks. I'm excited to work on more things that I've been curious about for a long ti
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by slibhb 8mo ago
There is limited evidence for social media being a problem. This whole thing is a garden-variety moral panic. Particularly troubling is the constant vitriol aimed at Mark Zuckerberg. I admire Mark for ignoring the whole thing, being a famil
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by slibhb 8mo ago
Where are the amazing no-hassle, no-boilerplate tools from last generation? Or the generation before that? Give me a break: it's easy to post this but it's proven very hard to simply "pick the right abstraction for everyone&q
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by slibhb 8mo ago
> And there is another, emerging category, where developers don't have a full mental map as it was created by an LLM, and no one actually understands how it works and what does not. I work with a large number of programmers who don&
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by slibhb 8mo ago
> I was so naïve that I thought progress could only go one direction, because that’s all I’d ever known. What is he talking about? AI? I can't relate. Maybe it's because his identity vaguely repulses me. Although in some ways I
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by slibhb 8mo ago
Why do people like fictional narrative so much? I'm not sure why, other than some platitude like "forming narratives is how people understand the world". But I'm not sure why it follows that fictional narratives are so i
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by slibhb 8mo ago
> I never said it was necessary, only that it was universal. Fair enough! I'm much more optimistic than you. I think we'll keep muddling along, slowly improving morally for the forseable future.
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by slibhb 8mo ago
The ubiquity of slavery doesn't imply that slavery was necessary for the development of modern countries/economies. It just implies that, through much of history, people didn't see anything wrong with slavery.
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by slibhb 8mo ago
My sense is that most immigrants ended up in the north by far, which was richer, more densely populated and had better jobs. Slavery made it significantly harder for free laborers to find work in the south. It is psychologically interesting
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by slibhb 8mo ago
> It just feels difficult to imagine that something they were so deeply invested in for generations wasn’t that important. Southern culture was about having giant houses, partying, and not laboring. They didn't fight for the econom
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by slibhb 8mo ago
I appreciate Gray calling out the Soviets and others but I think the whole argument is wrong. The link between Enlightenment values and imperialism/subjugation of Asia/Africa/Americans is far from clear. Enlightenment values
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by slibhb 8mo ago
The vast majority of work by mathematicians uses n abstracted known things to prove something that is unproven. In fact, there is a view in philosophy that all math consists only of this.
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by slibhb 8mo ago
You're assuming there aren't "new things" latent inside currently existing information. That's definitely false, particulary for math/physics. But it's worth thinking more about this. What gives humans the
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by slibhb 8mo ago
I have no financial stake in it at all. If anything, I'll be hurt by AI. All the same, it's very clear that I'm much more productive when AI writes the code and I spend my time prompting, reviewing, testing, and spot editing.
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by slibhb 8mo ago
I'm more worried about the anti-AI backlash than AI. All inventions have downsides. The printing press, cars, the written word, computers, the internet. It's all a mixed bag. But part of what makes life interesting is changes like
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by slibhb 8mo ago
> In my experience LLM’s can make new things when they are some linear combination of existing things but I haven’t been to get them to do something totally out of distribution yet from first principles. What's the distinction betwe
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by slibhb 9mo ago
What's better? Artists competing for the mass public, artists trying to please individual rich patrons, or artists trying to placate some government commission? I think a mix is fine. But there are disadvantages if you weigh too heavil
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by slibhb 9mo ago
I get where this is coming from. But at the same, AI/LLMs are such an exciting development. As in "maybe I was wrong and the singularity wasn't bullshit". If nothing else, it's an interesting transition to live thro
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by slibhb 9mo ago
Hi I'm right here
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by slibhb 9mo ago
> Hasn't everyone already built this for themselves in the past 2 years? Even if this was true, "everyone building X independently" is evidence that one company should definitely build X and sell it to everyone
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by slibhb 9mo ago
I agree with you. But it's clear that "begging the question" is going the way of "literally," and there's (sadly) nothing we can do about it. I suppose some time in the future, someone will invent a new phrase
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by slibhb 9mo ago
> UBI is not a thing almost any current American politician is considering, and the overton window is speeding in the opposite direction. That will change real quick if everyone loses their job to AI. But until then, yeah, it's not
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by slibhb 9mo ago
Yes. Please don't turn aphantasia into yet another marginalized identity...
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by slibhb 9mo ago
There are few unambiguous bad actions by US tech companies. Certain people just hate them for various reasons that have more to do with their size/success than their actions. Facebook in particular has been a scapegoat for years now.
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by slibhb 9mo ago
> Not true. Some, like myself, love the idea of the shining city on the hill, although we often find the behavior of the actual city less than shining. Your first sentence says "not true". Your second sentence says "true&q
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by slibhb 9mo ago
The reverse is true: people who say things like "The US century is over" almost always dislike the US or wish its global influence would decline. Their commentary is wishful thinking. There is some probability that US global influ
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by slibhb 9mo ago
"We can't do anything because the billionaires" is such dumb cynicism. Actually, local government has a say in zoning almost everywhere in the US. If more people participated, they could make a real difference.
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by slibhb 10mo ago
I strongly agree. It's particularly grating when someone who claims to be neurodiivergent talks about what an advantage it is (as in the linked article).

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