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by trescenzi 15d ago
If you read the rest of the piece they do argue for more regulation. They aren’t making a personal responsibility argument like other commenters are saying. The problem with bans is they claim the technology itself is purely bad and the onl
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by trescenzi 15d ago
LLMs can be supremely useful but also not intelligent. It might seem like a pointless distinction but the way we talk about these models matters because it impacts how we interact with and understand their outputs. For example if there’s a
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by trescenzi 17d ago
Yea I’m a weirdo who’s willing to claim that a for loop might be conscious. There’s physical state and comparisons happening after all. But all that actually does is abuse the question being asked and the definition of consciousness. The qu
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by trescenzi 18d ago
Or you could, you know, raise taxes. There’s policy solutions to these problems they just happen to be painful in a way that is easier to point to.
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by trescenzi 20d ago
In Connecticut it is only now cheaper to use electric instead of gas in my prius prime. I get 50-53 mpg highway, even over very long distances I drive to family in STL a few times a years, and electric is $0.33/kWh. So even at around 4
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by trescenzi 24d ago
I recently heard the term _vice signaling_ and it’s very appropriate for this era. While in the past virtue signaling would be used to identify yourself as the member of an ingroup. It’s now common to signal that by doing things that would
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by trescenzi 25d ago
Yea how is this comment so low. There was a brief period of time where the military industry complex wasn’t deeply entwined but that period is very much over.
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by trescenzi 25d ago
It’s confusingly super common in the US for that usage when talking about trucking and shipping. Where of course the other kind of tariffs are also common.
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by trescenzi 25d ago
If I understand correctly OpenAI cannot provide it. Because the models are essentially black boxes, especially this far after the fact, determining if this result built on training data based on conversations about the problem is impossible
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by trescenzi 26d ago
I think it’s a blind spot to a lot of people not just programmers. If you don’t have experience understanding and not just viewing you’ll almost always prefer the shinier object. I don’t really think this is particularly new even generative
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by trescenzi 1mo ago
I enjoy Camus’ take on this. https://theanarchistlibrary.org/library/albert-camus-reflect...
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by trescenzi 1mo ago
Right the words you use matter. You don’t have to frame it as a predator/prey. You can write two different pieces on the two issues. Pairing them up makes it read pretty clear that he’s comparing the two because he wants to kill both o
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by trescenzi 1mo ago
Yea this was quite a post. There’s a lot of pointing at a post about immigration in England[1], and not that I agree, it wasn’t beyond the pale really. It was standard stuff. This piece is really over the top though and makes it very clear
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by trescenzi 1mo ago
If by most developers you mean individuals then sure. But Anthropic and OpenAI have gotten rid of the subscriptions for most, if not all, corporate contracts. So companies looking to give their employees access are paying api rates.
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by trescenzi 1mo ago
This is how all passive RFID works. It's pretty cool. There's even systems that are both passive and active. For example, as a Disney adult, I'm familiar with their magic bands which do have a battery but also work passively.
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by trescenzi 1mo ago
Yea I’d love to see what they attempted to control for. I can’t imagine it’s possible to begin to draw a causal link.
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by trescenzi 2mo ago
Or “To summarize the summary: anyone who is capable of getting themselves made President should on no account be allowed to do the job.” - Douglas Adams
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by trescenzi 2mo ago
Their point isn’t that local models are better or even as good more but that if you can do 50%+ of tasks with local then that’s 50% of tokens that aren’t captured as compute done in data centers.
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by trescenzi 2mo ago
Totally agree these won’t go to consumers but even after a crash I’d home they are able to be sold for parts and not just to landfills. If this all goes into the trash that would be even more tragic than it already is.
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by trescenzi 2mo ago
If Dario was up there preaching about replacing today with Star Trek I think people wouldn’t hate it. Everything those at the head of this project say amounts to the current state except abject poverty for everyone but them. When Dario dona
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by trescenzi 2mo ago
“Godel’s Proof”[1] is also a great and shorter read if the scale of GEB is intimidating(I know it was for me at first). https://nyupress.org/9780814758014/godels-proof/
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by trescenzi 2mo ago
I’ve thought a tiny bit about this. I think I’d lean towards Guile for a game because of Hoot, wasm compiler, and Chickadee, little game library. But I’m remarkably unqualified to have a real opinion since I’ve used Chicken for 72 hours now
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by trescenzi 2mo ago
I started playing with Chicken over the weekend because I was looking for a scheme that you could build binaries of and that had a lively ecosystem. I've really enjoyed it. So far I've mostly played with web stuff. Built a wrapper
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by trescenzi 2mo ago
It's less work if you use a destructive method. They rip the spine off to get individual flatter sheets instead of scanning a bound book.
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by trescenzi 2mo ago
Ironically typhoon forecasting, at this moment, is more valuable. These predictions are matters of life, death, and billions of dollars in damage.
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by trescenzi 2mo ago
If you’re just getting into this tropical tidbits[0] is my go to for more raw data. Less pretty than zoom earth but also an interesting place to see what the models are predicting on each of their runs which is then interesting to compare t
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by trescenzi 2mo ago
Don’t know. Just pointing out that the comment I’m replying to didn’t actually understand the argument being made.
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by trescenzi 2mo ago
The point being made isn't that it cannot inspire someone to then go on to learn but that mastery of the game alone does not convey creative skill. Of course someone can be inspired to go out and learn the skill being modeled but use o
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by trescenzi 2mo ago
If you enjoy this sort of thing I’d highly recommend pico-8 and tic-80. Both have pretty full featured dev environments and have a set of restrictions that make developing for them fun.
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by trescenzi 2mo ago
A lot of the AI crazy boils down to the fact that those who only see people as tools find it easy to see tools as people.

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