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by tacitusarc 1y ago
There is effectively 0 traffic to contend with in that video. I do not see how you could reasonably claim that video should alleviate fears about unsafe behavior.
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by tacitusarc 1y ago
This is exactly true. Much of the scientific establishment has a hubris leading them to believe that small lies “for the public’s own good” are not just acceptable but moral. Of course, when one of these are exposed the public trust degrade
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by tacitusarc 1y ago
Yes! Absolutely. And this is likely what would be necessary for anything approaching actual AGI. And not just visual input, but all kinds of sensory input. The problem is that we have no ability, not even close, to process that even near th
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by tacitusarc 1y ago
I ran into one of the most frightening instances of this recently with Gemini 2.5 Pro. It insisted that Go 1.25 had made a breaking change to the filepath.Join API. It hallucinated documentation to that effect on both the standard page and
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by tacitusarc 1y ago
I think this is a really cool idea! I will say that I only used one search but the results seemed only vaguely accurate.
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by tacitusarc 1y ago
If that were true, I would expect that any software company that had feature parity and provided automated migration would be the defacto victor in their market. However, we see almost no instances of monopolies in software; on the contrary
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by tacitusarc 1y ago
Note that I initially replied to this: > But the moment that the AI can exceed a human programmer, at something as narrow as coding, then the company that has that AI shouldn't sell it to replace humans at other companies - it shoul
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by tacitusarc 1y ago
Specialization tends to preclude this. Why doesn’t TSMC just fab the chips and not create their own? Why do (effectively all) farmers sell grain rather baked goods? Why don’t lumber yards sell furniture? For sure, there are some fantastical
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by tacitusarc 1y ago
I think this is mostly true, but also I’d highlight the necessity of having a mental model, and iterating. I think it is common for a programmer to just start programming without coming up with any model, and just try to solve the problem b
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by tacitusarc 1y ago
The conservatives I know think it’s another mainstream democratic mouthpiece. So I guess they’re doing something right.
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by tacitusarc 1y ago
In fact, if I was told I had purchased lifetime free refills, I would expect I could obtain a refill during any visit without purchase.
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by tacitusarc 1y ago
There is this recent trend of languages enforcing 2 space indentation and disallowing any ability to override. 2 space indentation makes determining block nesting hard for many (maybe most?) people, including me. My understanding is that th
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by tacitusarc 1y ago
It’s definitely contrived, and Jubilee for sure seems to make clickbait-y videos. I don’t particularly fault them for it, it seems to be the arena they are playing in. But I do think they are fairly neutral, and they get people who disagree
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by tacitusarc 1y ago
IIRC he did ask that at one point, and got a pretty interesting answer. I also don’t see how that is a bad faith question. I think in certain contexts the question “what is a Republican” would be important, for example the right wing has be
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by tacitusarc 1y ago
None of those statements advocate violence, much less extol it.
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by tacitusarc 1y ago
I saw the video on the Jubilee channel- so far as I’m aware it is full and uncut. I have not seen any videos from his channel, I wasn’t aware he had one though obviously in retrospect it is unsurprising. I found it: https://youtu
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by tacitusarc 1y ago
This is a pretty inflammatory claim to make, especially without evidence. When did he praise the use of violence?
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by tacitusarc 1y ago
I have not seen much of him, but I did watch a video from Jubilee where he was debating a bunch of people. In that instance, I have to say I saw no indication of bath faith; to the contrary, he seemed to listen very carefully, and would use
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by tacitusarc 1y ago
I honestly have no idea where I read pietnas. The comment you identified was the one I was referring to. I care about consistency, but not foolishly so. I suppose an important question is: under what circumstances is consistency undesirable
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by tacitusarc 1y ago
Presumably the firing would be due to clear lack of judgement.
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by tacitusarc 1y ago
There’s an interesting book “What is Wong with the World”, which points out that despite everyone agreeing that things are broken and people should unite to fix them, there are many competing visions for what “fixed” looks like, and this is
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by tacitusarc 1y ago
Did you read the example pietnas gave? The changed formatting ruined the communicative intent of his code. Formatters do that a lot, and it makes the code unambiguously worse. I don’t really care about whether the back is plywood or whateve
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by tacitusarc 1y ago
That may be true for you, but I have worked with plenty of devs who cannot even be consistent with naming conventions in a function, let alone throughout the application. Don’t get me wrong: modern liners often annoy me and devs who spend a
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by tacitusarc 1y ago
I completely agree with almost all of this. But… > Humans are bad at reasoning about how failures cascade, so we implement bright line rules about when it's safe to deploy. I think aggregate human intuition is often undervalued. It
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by tacitusarc 1y ago
This is part of fraud (from Wikipedia): > While the precise definitions and requirements of proof vary among jurisdictions, the requisite elements of fraud as a tort generally are the intentional misrepresentation or concealment of an im
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by tacitusarc 1y ago
I think if we strengthened fraud provision we eliminate many societal problems, including marketing. If marketers were required to be completely honest and transparent, a lot of this goes away.
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by tacitusarc 1y ago
Because you are a generally honest and trusting person and so you believe them when they lie to you.
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by tacitusarc 1y ago
Exactly this. I don’t want someone who will design complex, bloated systems, but I DO want them to be able to articulate tradeoffs and reasons why various components might be useful.
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by tacitusarc 1y ago
There is a significant segment of the US population that is very sorry about this, and hopes in a few years we’ll see a change that will let us go back to being best friends.
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by tacitusarc 1y ago
I think this ignores the internal conflict in most people’s psyche. The simplest form of this is long term vs short term thinking, but certainly our desires pull us in competing, sometimes opposite, directions. Am I the me who loves cake or

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