slopinthebag

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by slopinthebag 1mo ago
> regulation is good so long as it is backed up by even handed, robust, transparent, quick and effective sanctions Source for this claim? How can you say regulation is good without even defining what the regulation is? Or do you just bel
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by slopinthebag 1mo ago
I thought these things were supposed to be smarter than any human. Look at all the erdos problems they’ve solved!
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by slopinthebag 1mo ago
"use state zero". What does it even mean? And why "const" is used for a value that changes? const [count, setCount] = useState(0) are u being serious rn?
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by slopinthebag 1mo ago
It's not like managers and executives and PM's are the only people who can prompt an AI. And experienced software developer will be much more effective at using an AI to generate code compared to someone who isn't. So why wou
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by slopinthebag 1mo ago
I think it's leading towards a hyper-authoritarian end game, not hyper-capitalist. The state has the ultimate power at the end of the day, no matter how large the labs become.
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by slopinthebag 1mo ago
Clicks on Authors name ctrl- Danielle Smith Ah. One thing I find endlessly funny is when people of a particular leaning adopt “the other side”’s arguments when it suits them. People who are left leaning generally have a positive view of
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by slopinthebag 1mo ago
average still means something regardless of how you can define it.
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by slopinthebag 1mo ago
it's not really. you have javascript, you have a library like react which has a code transformer written in rust, you have vite which orchestrates the build process, and...? if anything the migration of all these tools to rust makes th
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by slopinthebag 1mo ago
in defence of using ue5 for a 2d platformer, you still get a ton of features to help you build out the platformer, cross platform support, and you can reuse your knowledge across projects. it's kind of the same for react. yes you could
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by slopinthebag 1mo ago
they said opus, not sol, it's cheaper than opus by almost half at max. astra high is also 3x cheaper than opus max at basically the same intelligence. astra high is also about as expensive as sol max while being more intelligent. astra
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by slopinthebag 1mo ago
Who said anything about IQ tests?
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by slopinthebag 1mo ago
Previous discussion https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49378933
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by slopinthebag 1mo ago
The average human would have average intelligence
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by slopinthebag 1mo ago
That’s because AGI, like a lot of terms, has no meaning besides what each individual subjectively projects onto it.
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by slopinthebag 2mo ago
In my region an Uber to the airport is still cheaper than a taxi and much more convenient
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by slopinthebag 2mo ago
The bar could not be any lower these days I guess
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by slopinthebag 2mo ago
overthinks, been slow lately through the official api (slower than glm 5.3 somehow), and tries to run every conceivable e2e test once it does literally anything. like yesterday it ran for like an hour to build a fairly basic frontend... i l
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by slopinthebag 2mo ago
they're also being heavily rlhf'ed to use agents and tools and stuff. 15 months ago this was less of the case.
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by slopinthebag 2mo ago
sounds like they rl'ed your problem in fables training set.
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by slopinthebag 2mo ago
its not about dumping more and more info into the context, its about the intention. whats not in the context is just as important as what is. and i dont see how that can be automated. also were seeing models become worse at writing as they
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by slopinthebag 2mo ago
video games are oop for historical reasons mostly. ue6 is built on verse which is a crazy functional language. carmack himself flirted with haskel and racket. but games are so perf oriented that for a long time the only options were c or c+
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by slopinthebag 2mo ago
the functionality is often necessary and useful the question is if they're required to be implemented in the way that they are or if there is a simpler approach. also a lot of oop hate is 1) hatred of compile-time hierarchies attemptin
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by slopinthebag 2mo ago
ya ive seen the same but in OOP codebases, where the state is all distributed and incapsulated and it's just impossible to reason about how the entire system works because despite it's separation of responsibilities everything is
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by slopinthebag 2mo ago
OOP hate is definitely a popular way to signal that you aren't just a "common grunt programmer". And there are personalities who have made it a big part of their appeal. But I also spent some time with modern Spring Boot, and
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by slopinthebag 2mo ago
Same tbh. I lost my motivation to do any work aside from my job for a while. Now I'm working on some stuff for my friends, heavy using AI and it's just...meh. Whatever feeling of craftsmanship and skill I had is gone, now it'
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by slopinthebag 2mo ago
But the point of unsafe {} in Rust is not that you should never use it, it's that it creates a clear boundary between code that is safe and the code that needs that lower level control. In other languages, everything is inside an uns
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by slopinthebag 2mo ago
This is how it is with languages which provide less guarantees than Rust. Sure you can try to hold all the invariants and restrictions in your head, but a sufficiently advanced compiler can do this for you without the possibility of making
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by slopinthebag 2mo ago
Why can't a next token prediction machine not predict a train of reasoning?
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by slopinthebag 2mo ago
Ok I was implicitly including the mind as part of the brain. Absent a mind, I think we're just talking past each other. I don't see a reason why a brain absent a mind could not be simulated. And of course I have nothing really nov
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by slopinthebag 2mo ago
Maybe you need to factor in the GC algorithm when determining big O, since an algorithm which implements some complexity but creates a lot of garbage actually ends up with a worse big O? Seems like a bit of a stretch to me but possible?

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