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by sobellian 4mo ago
I don't think pg would disagree that the politicians that discuss this want to allocate more resources to labor. But what he takes exception with specifically is the rhetoric used to justify this "reallocation." AOC's cl
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by sobellian 4mo ago
Of course it's arguable. You make it sound like founders perform some jedi mind-trick to take money from others. Here's what actually happens. Investors put in initial money because it's a win-win (they get an expected return
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by sobellian 4mo ago
> I will charitably assume Anthropic does not intend to literally destroy anyone and merely wants to become an AGI monopoly.
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by sobellian 4mo ago
I don't know why you think I'm taking anything literally, cf. my first comment. I understand what a metaphorical arms race is. I don't think that Anthropic can forestall others' AI development by getting there first. It
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by sobellian 4mo ago
Well it's difficult to argue against something that was never specifically stated. If someone is able to state specifically how this is an arms race in any other way than that it's a race at all then I'm happy to have that co
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by sobellian 4mo ago
I can't really say I see a similarity to either the Manhattan Project or the Cold War. I don't see how one could apply either massive retaliation or MAD. These are private companies, they are not vested with the necessary authorit
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by sobellian 4mo ago
It's an interesting assumption. The idea behind this with nukes was that we'd like to nuke Germany before they could nuke us. Even after we defeated Germany, we nuked Japan even though they had no possibility of getting their own
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by sobellian 4mo ago
I'm not proposing anything. I don't think it's the government's remit to be honest. But government seizing the means of production is literally the definition of communism.
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by sobellian 4mo ago
He's advocating for the government seizing ownership of the means of production without compensation. That sounds pretty communist to me.
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by sobellian 4mo ago
There is a line between tax and unlawful taking. The constitution forbids taking of property without due process or compensation. No, the government can't just take whatever it likes from anyone and call it a tax. Taxes generally deman
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by sobellian 4mo ago
Taking 50% of a few valuable companies for no compensation is just expropriation. Not that this has political legs, but even if it did, expect an enormous fight. The more obviously legal (and stupendously expensive) route would be eminent d
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by sobellian 5mo ago
Opus 4.7 (haven't tried 4.8) just really struggles writing correct code for complicated (i.e. valuable) work. I can handle architecture, which takes <1% of my time anyway. But writing code that's wrong is a cardinal sin. I&#x27
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by sobellian 5mo ago
You know what they say, nature abhors colossal tanks of high-explosive.
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by sobellian 5mo ago
Ukraine is still fighting. We don't need to send troops. We just need to keep sending weapons (Trump stopped this)
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by sobellian 5mo ago
You're probably thinking about jevons paradox. But you slightly mis-stated. It is the phenomenon that increasing the efficiency of resource consumption can end up increasing total consumption. As you stated it, it would merely be a pro
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by sobellian 5mo ago
Why do we need to quantify an exact quota to qualify as well thought out political thought? Some people think about this issue from the basis of fundamental freedoms. Innocent, productive people deserve the opportunity to move where they ob
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by sobellian 5mo ago
The citizenry would probably fare no worse than with the arrival of the Irish, the Italians, or the Germans. What are you expecting, for the Indians or Chinese to sack DC aux Visigoths?
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by sobellian 5mo ago
Static analysis often shows many false positives. A more intelligent tool can help not to waste limited engineering time.
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by sobellian 5mo ago
The historical rules also left ambiguous promotion to the opposite color: https://chess.stackexchange.com/questions/8291/pawn-promotio... . This rule was clarified later to restrict to the same color.
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by sobellian 5mo ago
Not a lawyer, but - fugitives don't get to run the clock on statute of limitations.
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by sobellian 5mo ago
If half of your code is unsafe then unless you exercise tremendous discipline (Claude basically doesn't) you will just end up with a big ball of unsafe, peppered with hallucinations in whatever random documentary comments Claude decide
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by sobellian 5mo ago
Even more fun facts: if you change the problem instead to 4 queens and one knight , there is exactly one solution up to symmetries (rotations and flipping). Here it is: ..N..... ........ ........ ....Q... .....Q..
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by sobellian 5mo ago
I used CP-SAT to enumerate the solutions. A heuristic for "interesting" solutions is those which only admit one valid bishop placement. For example: ........ Q..B..Q. ........ ........ .......Q ........
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by sobellian 5mo ago
It is a geometric problem. I do have no-overlap constraints, but the cover constraints relate to topology and scheduling. High level, I am taking a rectangle and generating a set of guillotine cuts. I have a list of locations that must lie
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by sobellian 5mo ago
I use CP-SAT for automated design problems. I need a guarantee on solution quality, so gen AI is a nonstarter. The problem formulation is quite messy and has constraints that can vary by locale. CP-SAT handles it pretty well. The one thing
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by sobellian 5mo ago
The cage leaves a lot to be desired - imagine that thing falling on a fire hydrant. The helmet will not help you then. No thanks!
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by sobellian 5mo ago
It could just invent its own secret language embedded into English akin to steganography. The explanation would not lose information but would remain uninterpretable by humans
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by sobellian 5mo ago
AI definitely leads to some productivity gain but the claims of 10x, 100x, 1000+x are (for now) irrational exuberance. Churning out prototype software has always been quick, and now it's blazing . But these LLMs are like Happy Gilmore
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by sobellian 6mo ago
If you would lose even if you didn't move, that is not zugzwang. Zugzwang is when, because you must move per the rules of the game, you lose. I don't really see that dynamic in foreign policy. Any country has the option of maint
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by sobellian 6mo ago
With a CPU 3x faster than a z80, you gotta wonder how many seconds per python instruction.

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