slopinthebag

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by slopinthebag 5d ago
eh, momentum has a pretty rigorous definition and it's possible to define it qualitatively. perhaps a better example would have been hardness, where A is harder than B when it scratches B in a test. but it's borderline, and quite
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by slopinthebag 5d ago
yes but there is a big difference between 100 sloppy features vs a handful of strongly and safely executed ones. it's not linear in effort.
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by slopinthebag 5d ago
probably also preferable to buying votes by making and executing promises to give people free stuff/programs. at least they aren't using tax payer money
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by slopinthebag 5d ago
my point is that there isnt much difference, and #2 happens by every politician in every democracy. i have no desire to defend musk but imo people should be criticized for valid reasons or you risk diluting the other arguments.
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by slopinthebag 5d ago
yes in the same sense that the organisation of football players forms the concept of a team which has properties distinct from each individual player
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by slopinthebag 5d ago
i'd be on board with this concept but the author seems to believe his point is generalisable to all under industries, hence committing the same fallacy you're talking about at a large scale. but you're still right. i disregar
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by slopinthebag 5d ago
right because true democracy is when you give cheques to people to convince other people to vote a certain way
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by slopinthebag 5d ago
curl is certainly a much more difficult problem to solve well, and does so without 30 million issues or whatever the CC codebase has
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by slopinthebag 5d ago
your thermostat isn't intelligent. however we pretty much use intelligence as a proxy for consciousness since we cannot actually tell how much of a subjective experience any thing has. so we use intelligence as the metric instead. ty
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by slopinthebag 6d ago
i used "potential" when i should have used "possible" if aliens landed on earth and seemed a lot like us, we would have to grapple with the possibility that they might be conscious and deserving of the same moral conside
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by slopinthebag 6d ago
if there is a potential for them to be intelligent and conscious, it's probably wrong to use them until we know for sure.
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by slopinthebag 6d ago
it doesn't matter? if they're actually intelligent or conscious what we are doing is essentially slavery. it matters an enormous deal ethically and/or morally.
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by slopinthebag 6d ago
> There is a good definition of intelligence. It's what intelligence tests measure. what do intelligence tests measure?
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by slopinthebag 6d ago
would this imply llms aren't intelligent because they have no academic or professional pedigree or credentials? :P
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by slopinthebag 6d ago
this assumes the point of oss is purely utilitarian, which is not true for many people
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by slopinthebag 6d ago
because you can do this with_allocator(&arena, || { third_party_library::do_work() }); there is nothing stopping you from using custom allocators with your own code or with calls to thirdparty dependencies but custom al
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by slopinthebag 6d ago
they aren't gonna send a threatening email, they just ghostban you.
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by slopinthebag 6d ago
i find it fascinating how big of a rust hater you are. willing to outright lie to make your point
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by slopinthebag 6d ago
why would you think they would make that publicly visible?
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by slopinthebag 6d ago
uh yeah...we need hardware attestation and a protocol to make it work cross platform like, yesterday... holy shit
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by slopinthebag 6d ago
just chiming in to say that i agree with you. i initially felt demotivated and passionless but the more i use llms to generate code the more i feel like knowledge of the concepts are crucial to generating useful code. eg. you dont need to m
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by slopinthebag 7d ago
yes people don't understand that there is often a runtime performance cost to explictness as well
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by slopinthebag 7d ago
i think the reason is more that arena's let you manage lifetimes in groups instead of pointer chasing. if you have to manually manage memory, it's eaiser to manage a small number of arena objects instead of a large number of indiv
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by slopinthebag 7d ago
i dunno, people are using rust effectively to build applications too. and apple has started using swift in the kernal. i do agree that applications are probably best built in fast garbage collected language. but it also seems like go, java,
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by slopinthebag 7d ago
ironically rust has fewer features than c++ and zig has more than c
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by slopinthebag 7d ago
yes i've noticed this as well. they all stem from a heterodoxical corner of the programming community who are obsessed about performance. this isn't a bad thing, considering how slow modern software is! but this group believes per
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by slopinthebag 7d ago
yeah to me zig exists as a counter-reaction to rust. which means avoiding both the good and bad things rust does. and rust does a lot of things right, so...
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by slopinthebag 8d ago
thats no different from not understanding why a sufficiently complex and obfuscated binary of a program "makes decisions"
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by slopinthebag 9d ago
yea, plus they have been rlhf'ed to an inch of their lives as well. hard to tell if frontier models can solve more problems because of that or not.
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by slopinthebag 10d ago
send me some cheese pls :) also 6% is something ive never seen. does it come in an extra large bag?

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