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by vintermann 1mo ago
Sometimes when I use coding agents I wonder, is this what having employees feel like? But it seems like a lot of employers get entirely other things out of it.
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by vintermann 1mo ago
It's one of the more popular retro-computers, but cheap to get into, there are a lot of them around: it's still always cheaper than its original sticker price! I think I paid more for the replacement power supply (the original one
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by vintermann 1mo ago
Well, more because it pulverizes personal responsibility for bad decisions ("I didn't deny your claim, the computer did"). But yeah.
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by vintermann 1mo ago
Before they really started to figure out instruction tuning, there were some wild moments. The AI Dungeon 2 "storyteller" would regularly "lose patience" with its users and roast them or even "hang up" on them.
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by vintermann 1mo ago
I see a lot of load-bearing, - and other AI-ish lingo in CoT-streams. In addition it has its own AI-isms. "Okay." "Hmm hmm." "But wait!" "Ugh."
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by vintermann 1mo ago
I still miss NEdit. Around 2001 when I started getting into Linux seriously, I was also reading a lot about cults - Scientology had recently, infamously, forced Slashdot to take down a comment about their secret practices. One of the things
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by vintermann 1mo ago
"What I Learned About UI Design from Getting Roasted on Hackernews"
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by vintermann 1mo ago
It has been pointed out before that although we know of no cultures which used a bijective base number system (well, besides base 1!) it might not be immediately obvious if they did. I think it was in a paper which was about how many times
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by vintermann 1mo ago
"Don't care" - it has a value, but it doesn't matter. This is classically used in Karnaugh maps. But you can imagine two kinds of "don't care" values, too: the complacent one, and the assertive one. The co
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by vintermann 1mo ago
A lot of work is apparently put into bypassing any kind of anti-scraping, no work is apparently put into figuring out if the site freely gives a way to get all that information in a less wasteful way.
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by vintermann 1mo ago
> We received a similar notice from the same company in 2023 and successfully appealed against it. This company also filed a similar notice this year against an indie game with similar voxel art style by the name of Allumeria. They'
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by vintermann 1mo ago
It used to be common in the US too. My great-grandfather, for instance, planned to go to the US and work for five years to afford a farm back home. He had earned enough in three (and also contracted tuberculosis, and also the elderly couple
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by vintermann 1mo ago
It's a little more than scapegoating, though. It's also absolutely about social dumping. Yes, the UK would be in serious trouble without immigrants, but richer people would be disproportionately in trouble, especially non-working
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by vintermann 1mo ago
Well, not to defend the practice, but I think a reason for demanding application from abroad, is that if you decide to deny renewal, now they don't get back in. Whereas if you can apply from within the country, then people who are deni
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by vintermann 1mo ago
The Word Purpose was Invented Precisely to Distinguish Between What a System Does and What it Ought to Do. Less catchy, but damn, I hate that slogan.
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by vintermann 1mo ago
That's not strictly speaking totalitarianism. Not saying it's any better, but it isn't about uniforming people's opinions and persecuting dissent.
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by vintermann 1mo ago
Right. So how can we trust Gates, a person currently benefiting from extreme power concentration, to want what's best for us all?
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by vintermann 1mo ago
A storm can appear to act with purpose too, or a planet orbiting a star, yet I doubt you assign it agency. It's fundamentally your choice to assign something agency or not, whether you are right or wrong to do so, is not an empirical q
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by vintermann 1mo ago
I am not forced to use them in my job. In fact I would like to use them but my department kind of falls between two chairs so our "AI strategy" doesn't include me (even though I took Andrew Ng's course over a decade ag
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by vintermann 1mo ago
Were you on drugs when you wrote that post? You don't think drug users are bad people, so surely that's just a neutral question... Or maybe there are times where drug use can still be a problem, whether it makes people bad people
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by vintermann 1mo ago
Reddit voted itself out of my attention by requiring login for old.reddit.com browsing.
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by vintermann 1mo ago
I'm pretty sure the Ukraine war news on Twitter are mostly what's bubbled up from less accessible forums (like Telegram channels). This site is a good alternative for tech news.
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by vintermann 1mo ago
You're still not getting it. "Entity", "survival", these are still arbitrary or circularly defined terms. You decided what an entity is (i.e where one thing ends and a different thing begins) and what the essence
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Nefertiti was subject to a "damnatio memorae"-campaign as I recall, along with the rest of her monotheist (Aten-worshipping) family.
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There is also a legend of incestuous royals connected to the Boyne valley tombs in Ireland, written down in the 12th century. DNA examination of a person buried in the tombs found that his parents were indeed very closely related. This sugg
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You're missing what I'm trying to say. There are no goals in nature. Agency and goal-directedness is something we ascribe to things. The set of things an organization ends up doing may be distinctly different from those of the
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The threat of death from flooding is already a pretty good incentive, people accept the risk when it's the best option they have.
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People live there already. How do you propose to move them and support them in the place you moved them to? Please don't make me break out the Aquaman joke.
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There's no intelligence without teleology. Intelligence and information are only meaningful concepts of you assert (necessarily without any evidence except the circular kind) that some differences matter. Do the cells "have"
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Intelligence is only meaningful with respect to a goal or set of goals. I think organizations' intelligence can only be called superhuman if you ascribe them their own inscrutable goals, different from what people want their goals to b

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