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   by taneq 5mo ago

   Maybe a sufficiently aligned AI would necessarily decide that the zeroth law was necessary, and abscond. (I’m reading Look To Windward by Iain M. Banks at the moment and I just got to the aside where he explains that any truly unbiased ‘per
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   by taneq 6mo ago

   I’ve been saying for decades that the “hard problem” of programming isn’t curly brackets or any of that shit, it’s figuring out what you actually want, in enough detail that you can explain it to a computer. The amount of detail required is
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   by taneq 6mo ago

   Give it time, I find the initial “ew you made me think a thought I don’t like” downvotes tend to be counteracted by the long tail of “huh actually that makes sense” upvotes. :)
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   by taneq 6mo ago

   As someone who worked in game dev in 2008, we loved Steam, for the same reason we loved the iOS App Store. We take it for granted these days but the ability to self-publish on a first class platform and receive 70% of the sales revenue li
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   by taneq 6mo ago

   I was recently saying to a friend and fellow fan (after getting a Steam Deck, for work purposes obviously) that the stuff Valve does is absolutely how “f#%k you” money should be used.
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   by taneq 6mo ago

   As a fellow ‘unethical’ vegetarian, eating dead animals just seems yucky. I imagine it’s a similar feeling to what most non-vegetarians feel when contemplating eating dog or cat meat.
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   by taneq 6mo ago

   It’s an interesting psychological phenomenon. It’s like the way I keep my house way tidier since I got a robot vacuum. Pick things up off the floor for aesthetics’ sake? Nah. Pick them up because the vacuum will attempt to eat them and migh
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   by taneq 6mo ago

   Kinda the whole point of Asimov's three laws were that even something so simple and obviously correct has subtle flaws. Also the reason we're talking about this again is that machines are significantly less 'mere' than t
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   by taneq 6mo ago

   This reminds me of that old flash site with an animated rabbit chasing the mouse cursor (thinking it’s a carrot). Still trying to dig up a working link.
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    by taneq 6mo ago

    Maybe it’s time to ask Siri again, “hey are you smart yet or are you still just a script?” If she says “I’m sorry, I don’t know how to are you still just a script” then I have my answer. :P LLMs are remarkable these days but they’re still m
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    by taneq 6mo ago

    Let’s test that — hmm, I think it did?
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    by taneq 6mo ago

    iOS automatically ‘replaces’ “quotes” with open/close quotes… and triple full stops with ellipses.
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    by taneq 6mo ago

    I find this is a problem even with human conversations. Some people just aren’t very good at telegraphing when they’ve finished ‘their turn’ talking. Or worse yet, aren’t willing to take turns in the first place.
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    by taneq 6mo ago

    > There’s a big long clear approach to Dunning-Kreuger’s Mt. Stupid with dev work. Is it really that clear? Or do we just think so because most of us here are devs, while everyone else is thinking “Wow what happened? That codebase was gr
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    by taneq 6mo ago

    “Generate 100,000 tokens about why you feel bad.” :P
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    by taneq 6mo ago

    Are you making the pizza for eating or for menu photography? I seem to recall glue being used in menu photography ‘food’ a lot.
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    by taneq 6mo ago

    > Nevermind the fact that they are literally able to introspect human cognition and presumably find non verbal and non linear cognition modes. Are they, though? Or are they just predicting their own performance (and an explanation of t
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    by taneq 6mo ago

    > Why shouldn’t we be able to? I have no idea why but my brain immediately interpreted this as a Scottish accent, like ‘shouldnae’. Weird.
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    by taneq 6mo ago

    Dumb question, do the cybercab thingies not drive themselves? Having a safety driver doesn’t disqualify them if for the vast majority of the time they’re autonomous. It just means they’re earlier into chasing 9’s than Waymo. The characteris
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    by taneq 6mo ago

    Mars was a moonshot, pivot to the actual moon. ;)
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    by taneq 6mo ago

    gasp Science!
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    by taneq 6mo ago

    I wonder to what degree it depends on how easy you find coding in general. I find for the early steps genAI is great to get the ball rolling, but rapidly it becomes more work to explain what it did wrong and how to fix it (and repeat until
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    by taneq 6mo ago

    I mean, it was how Beethoven did it with dice, too. This is just much quicker and more comprehensive.
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    by taneq 6mo ago

    The not-fun work isn’t on the song, it’s on you. Improving the song is a byproduct. This only really becomes apparent over time but you’ll realise you were working on yourself all along.
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    by taneq 6mo ago

    It turned the planet into ‘taterchips!
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    by taneq 6mo ago

    I’m now wondering how difficult it would be to polish one to a mirror finish.
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    by taneq 7mo ago

    But wouldn't using this for eg. removing a support wire result in it making Superman fall down?
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    by taneq 7mo ago

    Think before talk better though
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    by taneq 7mo ago

    More concise is dumber. Got it.
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    by taneq 7mo ago

    The commons? Tragic.