supern0va

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by supern0va 2mo ago
Yep, I'm perfectly content to use the full lane if there's not another option. And that doesn't mean squeezing into the shoulder. No, that means riding left of center to prevent assholes from passing unsafely on my left. The
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by supern0va 2mo ago
Sure, but just because I may want to filter the photos I post, doesn't mean I want my mirror to show me a distorted view of reality. Isn't this use case more like the mirror, and less like the dating app?
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by supern0va 2mo ago
It's unfortunate that there isn't some better way to signal that there's a high chance that a turn is coming (ie, due to active sub-agents). If CC could send a ping saying "I don't need a turn, but please keep this
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by supern0va 2mo ago
Can you expand on this? I can't imagine this is holding up an entire machine or materially impacting capacity. Isn't it common to have a tiered cache and to ultimately evict (or move to another tier) if there's an active infe
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by supern0va 2mo ago
>imagine thinking than people actually care about truthness I think they actually care about "truthness" when it comes to how others will perceive them. You might filter your face for an online photo. However, you're not g
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by supern0va 2mo ago
>I find it easy to envision a world, maybe 50 years from now, in which the very concept of "truth in advertising" is viewed as a lost, idyllic fantasy. Something people are nostalgic for, but feel powerless to regain. Alternati
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by supern0va 3mo ago
Here's a better question: as we've had nearly as large of a data center build-out happen between 2005 and 2020 for non-AI purposes, with similarly high electricity and water demands...where has the concern been? Why is it only in
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by supern0va 3mo ago
Not exactly. There are some data centers being built in places that don't have the power and water to support them, and obviously it's rational for the locals to oppose them. But I live in a place where we have plenty of water and
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by supern0va 3mo ago
People are scared about the personal impact from AI, then backfill in justifications without even realizing they're doing it. If the equivalent numbers for electricity and water usage were being being used for streaming video, I seriou
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by supern0va 3mo ago
Yeah, Cognition's work is interesting in that regard, but it still doesn't obviate the need for the chips--it just enables training on them when they're spread across multiple data centers. The Plan A proposal estimates that
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by supern0va 3mo ago
I recommend actually reading their recommendation, because they get into the weeds about precisely how the US and China could address this in a trustless/auditable way. The TL;DR is that basically all of the relevant compute can be tra
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by supern0va 3mo ago
>You want to be a child forever, amazed by your toys or the new things you can do. I don't think having a child-like sense of wonder at the world, or continued human ingenuity, is a sign that one wants to be a child forever. I'
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by supern0va 3mo ago
>It's coming from a place of objecting to burnout/overwork culture. Sure, but that's not everyone. I want this because it's hard to carve out time for my fun side projects. :) Also, not everyone feels burnt out or ove
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by supern0va 3mo ago
I'd argue what you're suggesting is more like trying to ban syringes, which have multiple valid uses, in order to stop dirty syringes being left in the street. As someone with a GLP-1 user at home, responsibly depositing their syr
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by supern0va 3mo ago
I'm curious, do you have an example of a level of "woke" extremeness demonstrated by the "rest of them" that is on par with Mecha-Hitler? Because yes, all views on reality are indeed political, but the tendency of m
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by supern0va 3mo ago
I can't help but think you're conflating cause and effect. People are using a tool (AI) to apply a band-aid to a widespread social problem (loneliness and isolation). It's possible that an "AI boyfriend" might make
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by supern0va 3mo ago
Every time something along these lines is posted, comments like this show up. The thing I don't get is...no one would say this about listening to a podcast or audiobook on a walk. I'm not sure why people choose to demonize this sp
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by supern0va 3mo ago
Counter-point: I love that my rubber duck can talk (quack?) back, as well as record and summarize my thoughts on topics I'm working or stuck on. I've wanted a good voice mode for precisely this reason. When I take my dog on a walk
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by supern0va 3mo ago
I have to admit that I'm curious why this is the case. I almost wonder if the pseudo-anthropomorphizing of these models is partially what helps here, similar to how I don't take it personally when I give instructions to a junior
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by supern0va 3mo ago
The same reason we had them before? A few juniors can be productive with oversight and guidance. Half the battle is learning what good work looks like, and figuring out what it is that you should even really be building, and those are skill
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by supern0va 3mo ago
Same here. Honestly, there's also a bunch of human friction that goes away. I can tell a junior that a change needs to be significantly refactored (or even thrown away entirely) without the psychological damage of discarding days/
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by supern0va 3mo ago
First year CS student excited to learn about a thing puts together a small website of academic papers, posts it to HN to share with others. Then someone makes a shitty comment. Is that correct?
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by supern0va 3mo ago
Honestly, I'm puzzled that people don't intuit that "understanding" itself is merely ideas in relation to other ideas.
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by supern0va 3mo ago
>They never are. Ever. And even when they are: they sure seem to bet against Moore's Law or just the general tendency for things to get better/efficient over time. It's frankly remarkable how capable the models have become
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by supern0va 3mo ago
>and even if it requests another angle and is given it, it lacks the capacity to learn that new information permanently. I'd argue this isn't true today, but that the loop for incorporation is long (ie, the next training or fin
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by supern0va 3mo ago
And even then, it's just sampling. Much of what we "see" is a prediction, and there are plenty of optical illusions out there premised on that (plus VR techniques like foveated rendering that take advantage).
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by supern0va 3mo ago
>I've been using it to do this for 2 years now. And many people with me. The change you mention is one of is primarily one of Overton windows, of vibes. I suspect this may have depended on the specific framework. I quite literally c
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by supern0va 3mo ago
>I was worried this time last year that by this time this year, companies would have slashed their engineering teams down to a handful and everything would be driven by mostly autonomous agents with human guidance. But it just hasn'
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by supern0va 3mo ago
>This is really fascinating to me. I was reading this article and originally agreed with you, "I mean, under the covers it's got to be converting to text tokens at some point, so there is no way it's actually cheaper for C
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by supern0va 3mo ago
>There is just no way to go past what we have already observed by their behavior since dogs can't talk or write. There are many dogs that have been trained to press buttons corresponding to words, in the extreme case tens/hundr

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