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by stuartjohnson12 1y ago
https://archive.ph/6Pn0K
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Closely followed by the BETTERID act in response to sites using substandard identity providers, a set of stringent compliance requirements to ensure the compliant collection and storage of verification documentation requiring annual certif
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Incredibly common W for Anthropic safeguards. In almost every case I see Claude go head-to-head on refusals with another model provider in a real-world scenario, Claude behaves and the other model doesn't. There was a viral case on Tik
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"Only at this point did Brady realize that it was the CEO himself who was fiddling with the numbers. The entire dual reporting system that the CEO had personally initiated was in part an elaborate spy network to guard against discover
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This is so San Francisco. Looking at LinkedIn I see a devrel manager, a head of finance, a full time hiring manager, a solutions engineer all being held up by a few grad software engineers.
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> "WTF-8", aka "the JavaScript string type" This sequence of characters is a work of art.
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The phrasing on these polls is really unhelpful because it doesn't include the actor. "To what extent do you support or oppose the introduction of age verification checks to access platforms that may host content related to suicid
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by stuartjohnson12 1y ago
Don't mind me over here reselling your software non-commercially
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A HN comment linking to an HN post of a Reddit post of a screenshot of a tweet. https://xkcd.com/1683/
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and if it is a sufficiently accurate next word predictor then it may accurately predict what an agent with socio-emotional skills would use as their next word in which case it will have exhibited socio-emotional skill.
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Your socio-emotional capabilities are illusory. They are a product of how craving for social acceptance "hacks" your brain and exploits the hundreds of thousands of years of evolution of our equipment as a social species.
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This kind of response shows humility and self-awareness. I have no doubt you'll do great after a tidy up. Not an empty affirmation. Good luck stranger.
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Will be blunt since I imagine you're fed up and don't want affirmations. In the most common case where I see engineers who say they struggle with the soft skills parts of interviewing, the underlying issue is a lack of skill in co
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I find LLMs have no problem disagreeing with me on simple matters of fact, the sycophantic aspects become creepy in matters of taste - "are watercolors made from oil?" will prompt a "no", but "it's so much hard
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> Generative AI is to real writing as particle board is to wood. Incredible analogy. Saving this one to my brain's rhetorical archives.
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> An LLM will never have the context you need to solve all problems. How often do you need more than 10 million tokens to answer your query?
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Those hurdles exist because they're worse for most people. You think Cursor wouldn't spin up their own Qwen inference cluster or contract with someone who can if doing so would give them SOTA code editing performance against Cla
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Qwen has previously engaged in deceptive benchmark hacking. They previously claimed SOTA coding performance back in January and there's a good reason that no software engineer you know was writing code with Qwen 2.5. https:/&#x2F
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https://archive.is/47uxV
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Isn't the self-serving thing to do to reframe the "scamming" as meritocracy, and position said scamming as merely the natural moral order of the world resolving itself? It sounds much more like the overbroad frustration of a
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Basically A Creative Kind of Reverse Origin Naming You Make
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import table table()
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Terrible but worth it for the location
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In the medium term I think you have to shift the work upstream to show that they've put in the labour to actually design the feature or the bug fix. I think we've always had this mental model which needs to change that senior engi
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Initial prompt confused me. Weimar hyperinflation happened before the cultural revolution in China. Clicked the blob that was labeled before. Wrong answer! Left page. Probably a skill issue but that was my experience.
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This argument proves too much. If rationalism can't "triumph" (presumably over other modes of thought) because evolution makes moral realism unobservable, then no epistemic framework will help you - does empirically observing
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To the contrary, here's a series of essays on the subject of evolutionary game theory, the incentives created by competition, and its consequences for human wellbeing: https://www.lesswrong.com/s/kNANcHLNtJt5qeuSS
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When people talk about how sophisticated hierarchical agent swarms will be built up that perfectly reflect existing human social structures I'm reminded distinctly of all the attempts to build DDD frameworks for modeling software, and
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I think both of these things can be true at the same time - the issue with a lot of utility-based value is that it often comes in the form of unsustainable heroism. My capacity to feed back interesting thoughts about product and strategy in
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If automating your job is degrading yourself, then engineers are the most debased of whores.

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