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by tines 1y ago
Reminds me of the wonderful skit, The Expert: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BKorP55Aqvg
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by tines 1y ago
I don't think the hand-setting lines of code is really the part that brings these people joy, the joy is in understanding . LLM-like tools do not create understanding in the user, who is farming out the understanding in order to get r
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by tines 1y ago
IMO we are going to see a large class of people who have cognitive deficits brought on by AI tool usage. I've been wondering lately about how to distinguish between tools that enhance your cognitive ability, and tools that degrade it.
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by tines 1y ago
I too was initially wondering what the problem was with price discrimination---it seems like it's just offering a worse product for less money, so everyone gets to choose. But from what I understand, the article is saying that the prob
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by tines 1y ago
The HP fanfic is what decisively drove me away from this shitshow years ago. I'm so glad I read that first rather than getting sucked in through another more palatable route.
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by tines 1y ago
How do you determine whether the mouse is over an enemy head? Is there some variable the engine maintains for that?
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by tines 1y ago
That would require a lot more than editing memory offsets though.
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by tines 1y ago
Same here :) Best learning experience of my entire life. Would recommend.
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by tines 1y ago
Unlikely. Last I looked, VAC only looks at a few gross elements, like the names of the DLLs loaded into the game's process. If you don't match a blacklisted name, you're probably not detected.
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by tines 1y ago
How did editing memory offsets auto-fire based on enemies entering your crosshairs? To my knowledge this would require some code hooking at least. (Or are you using "editing memory offsets" to mean "writing new instructions i
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by tines 1y ago
This is only true for the people who use the cheats, not the people who make them. For the people who make them it's an intellectual exercise, like solving a puzzle, it's an end in itself. That and the social credit it gives you a
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by tines 1y ago
> How so? The claim was “if your headcount is stable.” If it’s not stable in the upward direction, you’ll get penalized relative to the situation before, because it’ll take five years to ramp up on your tax write offs. I’m not sure what
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by tines 1y ago
I would think that if a programmer were really 3x as productive, companies would be doing 3x more, not doing 1x with x/3 people.
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by tines 1y ago
But it takes five years to ramp up right? When this came into effect, you’d already written off 100% of all previous years. You can’t double dip so you’re starting from zero. Also, this penalizes companies for hiring doesn’t it?
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by tines 1y ago
I paid for 32GB, I’m gonna use 32GB.
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by tines 1y ago
I think it’s reasonable to use algorithmic complexity as a definition for “fast”.
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by tines 1y ago
Appreciate the thought-provoking article and your comments, thank you!
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by tines 1y ago
Oh man, House of Leaves is amazing. Danielewski has my respect.
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by tines 1y ago
This is a topic that's really interesting to me, and I've thought a lot about it. The approach that this guy is taking to break out of the addicting loop of gaming/scrolling/whatever is to try to take the principles that
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by tines 1y ago
I guess I'm asking, how do you randomize out the confounder in this case.
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by tines 1y ago
If I thought I could poke holes in the research, I wouldn't be posting on HN. I'm asking questions to learn because obviously I don't understand :)
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by tines 1y ago
OP is an insect going in for assisted suicide.
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by tines 1y ago
How does this control for the "alert nurses" variable? In that case, patients would do better in the morning, regardless of the patient.
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by tines 1y ago
Supposing that patients did better in the morning because, say, the nurses were more alert, no matter how many samples you take you'll find the patients do better in the morning. How does "more samples" help control for confo
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by tines 1y ago
What does randomization mean in this context, and why does it fix those problems?
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by tines 1y ago
> Error messages are another PL design feature shaped by peoples’ standpoint, by their lived experiences and values. For many programming language designers, error messages are an afterthought. Other aspects of design will likely over- p
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by tines 1y ago
This kind of thing won't happen much in our future Technopoly. The regulators are captured by the regulated, and all that will happen when a mistake is made is a shuffling of the cards.
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by tines 1y ago
Agreed. And the interesting thing is that now, with smartphones and an endless stream of captivating entertainment (basically Soma), people won't even be able to think long enough to realize they're miserable and unhappy. If you c
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by tines 1y ago
> security risks and costly errors? I hope that you're right, but the problem is that the regulatory bodies are captured by the players that they are supposed to regulate. Can you name a time in recent history where a company had to
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by tines 1y ago
That’s a good way to think of it. I think it’s degrading every aspect of life. We’re so obsessed with metrics and efficiency that we don’t know how to live any more.

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