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by svnt 6mo ago
I use it claude and gemini all the time and they get more advanced theory, motivation, and history wrong all the time. If you aren’t seeing the errors it is because you are in some really mainstream conversations or because you don’t know w
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by svnt 6mo ago
Good luck all-in. But seriously what are you doing that this works? I guess if you are writing pop culture articles this might work. For anything where the output has consequences I can’t imagine finding success like this.
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by svnt 6mo ago
This seems almost completely untrue? The new models have engines that are smaller turbos, that part is true — but they get >30% better fuel economy, and they output more power. The reliability might become an issue down the road especial
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by svnt 6mo ago
His point is that in x86 there is no performance difference but everyone except his colleague/friend uses xor, while sub actually leaves cleaner flags behind. So he suspects its some kind of social convention selected at random and the
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by svnt 6mo ago
Getting deep into apologetics here. No disagreement on micro USB, it was a terrible standard.
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by svnt 6mo ago
Thanks I am the source. em-dashing since 1997
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by svnt 6mo ago
I don’t have feelings about the AI industry to put aside. I would not have sufficient information to assess whether thingamajigs are legitimately valuable or whether they are tulips. The only indicator I see is the last point about people u
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by svnt 6mo ago
Yes I understand why the agreement exists, but that does not remove the circularity.
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by svnt 6mo ago
They are different observations, I think, though the phrasing confuses it: a) cost per successful task is rising — eg claude max allocation is functionally shrinking b) is there enough potential cost reduction in the queue to make up the ga
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by svnt 6mo ago
It is meaningless when what you sell costs more than what your customer pays for it. I could sell $100B of GPUs at 90% of their cost tomorrow and I have market acceptance.
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by svnt 6mo ago
And receiving investment from their vendor in exchange? When this is done in established companies it is typically called a kickback and directed toward one person, but in this case the whole thing is so incestuous the kickback goes straigh
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by svnt 6mo ago
It is entirely possible, especially in small companies in my experience, that “factors beyond the dev teams control” means “technical founder with severe myopia and decision fatigue who prevents “complexity”” as they see it, which for them
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by svnt 6mo ago
This dancing between positions is all very defensible and if the path is currently working for you, more power to you. Dogma, like the binaries, still functionally exists, whatever the narrative. If you can’t admit that, that might also be
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by svnt 6mo ago
I am curious where you got this impression? Apple fought it the whole way, commissioned studies to show it was a bad idea, etc etc. This after they had a decade prior been subject to the same thing with micro USB and skirted that agreement
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by svnt 6mo ago
This is what happens when the market for phone batteries only exists for OEMs who buy millions at a time, custom. It will stop only when there is a reason for consumer-detectable battery quality indicators — ie non-tech people have a reason
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by svnt 6mo ago
Ah and there is the dogma -- the otherness of the enlightened. The binaries still functionally exist. I see a lot of value in reflective practices. At the same time it seems unlikely to me that the point of existing is to not trouble your m
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by svnt 6mo ago
There are no conspiracies where a corporation has profit incentive. There is perhaps a question of planning and initial intentionality, but the metrics and motivation to continue are clear enough.
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by svnt 6mo ago
Are you able to use the language practically? How would that work? You prompt it in english but tell it to work in tokinensis? And then translate back at the end?
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by svnt 6mo ago
The Western Zen? In my experience it is downgraded from being a religion to being a system of practice which relieves it of the broader Mahayana cosmology. But I would suggest the dogma is less obvious but still there, often just somewhere
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by svnt 6mo ago
Which one?
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by svnt 6mo ago
Your version of the last point is a bit softer I think — parent was putting it down to “loss of talent” but yours captures the gaps vs natural human interaction patterns which seems more likely, especially on such short timescales.
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by svnt 6mo ago
Right but it is at most a couple of hours with claude code and posted on Sunday night.
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by svnt 6mo ago
That makes sense, but what is the solution?
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by svnt 6mo ago
Sure, but if that were the case why has it gotten worse recently? I would expect it to be as a result of cost optimization or tradeoffs in the model. I suppose it could be an indicator of the exhaustion of high quality training data or mode
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by svnt 6mo ago
I’ve also noticed Gemini and Claude occasionally mixing terms recently (eg revel vs reveal) and can’t decide whether it is due to cost optimization effects or some attempt to seem more human. I can’t recall either using a wrong word prior t
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by svnt 6mo ago
Or one from a place of unfounded hubris.
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by svnt 6mo ago
You edited your comment to remove it.
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by svnt 6mo ago
This assumes regulatory capture is not a thing.
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by svnt 6mo ago
Thank you for disclosing that your entire purpose was ad hominem, it makes it easier to understand why it was difficult to pin down your criticisms of my arguments.
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by svnt 6mo ago
I meant West Eurasia, I agree it doesn’t seem to support any broader conclusion.

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