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I think you're overestimating the thinking here. I ask this question very often, and the persons I ask if of practically never answer. I ask it to highlight that most people have no clear answer to what we mean by reasoning. It's
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What exactly do you consider reasoning?
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How do you define reasoning in a measurable way?
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Because they depend on whether the rate of improvement of self-improvement outpaces the rate of increase in difficulty or not, and at some points they clearly do - e.g. a lot of skills makes the relative rate of subsequent improvement eas
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If I can't tell the difference, why would it matter? The problem is when I can eventually tell the difference.
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The last place I lived, the nearest data centre was a few hundred meters from the local swimming pool, in a business park. Most people would never have known the data centre was there. Elsewhere, e.g. in London, Docklands is both full of hi
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More generally, the problem is that to prevent this using restrictions in privileges, the privilege assigned must be the intersection of the permissions you'd be willing to give to the sources of any items of data you compose the conte
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To butcher a old quote about English: Spanish is just badly pronounced Italian, after all ;)
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I agree not everyone , but it has changed dramatically in at least France as well in the last 30 years. First time I went to France, most people would not switch to English even in the middle of Paris, often even if they knew English unl
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A frontend for Twitter/X used to link to X posts without people needing to log in.
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Claude has made my Ruby compiler pass 8k more rubyspecs tests over the last two weeks, and that includes solving crashing bugs in hours that I'd failed to fix for weeks in the past. Compilers for existing languages is if anything one o
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I have done work for other providers in that space. The pay rates vary massively, and on the high end (providers requiring MSc's or PhD's and doing testing) they are high enough that if you're a freelancer and have dead time
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The 65xx series outsold the 68k by several magnitudes. One might argue about how complex OS's it could run, but e.g. GEOS shows 65xx based designs could go quite far.
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Western Design Centre also claims over 6 billion 6502 compatible cores: https://www.westerndesigncenter.com/wdc/about_us.php
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If the point was to move there'd be no point in having a conversation with Okta sales. The point is to get a discount.
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I actually started my first compiler my allowing (only) inline assembler first, and then starting to wrap higher level constructs around it. It adds a little bit of complexity (you need to be very clear on how you handle registers) but it w
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by vidarh 4mo ago
Yeah, I take the same approach, and as much as I'm generally very pro AI use, to the point I wouldn't really mind AI comments if they added value (but it's fine it'll remain against the rules here), it really has becom
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But even then most such reports still effectively claim a subjective experience.
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I tend to prefer the term subjective experience for what you describe as a meta-ability. Consciousness is too overloaded by conflicting definitions. We could at least imagine the possibility of something coming across as conscious in every
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That sucks - I've thankfully only had that happen once. Similar thing - I was testing my new X11 server, and it turns out that broken X11 packets can make Firefox crash, and I got a refusal on a sub-agent request Fable prompted to ha
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How we got from competition to assuming subsidies is beyond me. There are a whole lot of commodity businesses that flourishes and that are profitable. It's true, that, yes, they will not have huge margins. Grocery stores are like that
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I just had Fable run overnight in a loop, and it fixed ~150 compiler crashing bugs that Opus had kept deferring. I wouldn't start with Fable - when I use burndown loops I tend to include instructions to document progress and set asid
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#2 has been fiction for all but 0.1% or less of authors for many years. As of a few years ago - before AI writing was an issue - the average full time author in the UK would have earned more flipping burgers (but their household incomes are
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Indeed, and that is perhaps the most important lesson of Hitlers rise - dangerous people will always exist, and so it is critical to have systems that are resilient to them, and not allow them to be hollowed out just because the current cr
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Personally I use 5 different model families, 3 of which are open weights with 3rd party inference providers (GLM, DeepSeek, Kimi), so if the frontier labs were to shut down it'd be a nuisance, nothing more.
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Sometimes you just need to let them experience that you are right first, as long they're just making themselves miserable for a bit. Also, it works wonders to let them make a choice between two acceptable solutions instead of giving th
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Because I like Ruby and it's compact, and most of my stack, including my terminal, wm, font renderer and X11 bindings are already in Ruby (the latter two are reused directly). Also because I was curious if it'd be viable, and turn
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It saved me a lot of time when my son was little because it meant he argued less with me over the necessity of things at the cost of an extra sentence here and there.
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Hobby OSs are dime a dozen but rarely go further for the simple reason that there is little motivation - you need programs to run, which typically means ABI compatibility, and you end up in a quagmire of writing drivers, with few benefits t
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It's an undertaking, but there were multiple X servers for small platforms back in the day - the difficulty is overstated. It takes a few thousand lines of code to get a basic one together. Maintaining Xorg might be unreasonably hard

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