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by wizzwizz4 6d ago
I felt you might benefit from the question. Feel free to answer it privately: there's little benefit in me hearing your answer.
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by wizzwizz4 7d ago
Why did you have to?
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by wizzwizz4 9d ago
Judging by how many once-respectable expert developers I've seen start churning out high-velocity utter crud¹, I'm not sure that anyone has the capability to use it responsibility. (Except you, of course, dear reader.) ¹: Often
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by wizzwizz4 10d ago
Tools that could reason: > “In January 1956, we assembled my wife and three children together with some graduate students. To each member of the group, we gave one of the cards, so that each one became, in effect, a component of the comp
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by wizzwizz4 11d ago
People say this every 6 months. I've stopped even paying attention to it, because (A) the code quality remains below the floor, and (B) the people saying it continue to ignore all the other issues with LLM code generation.
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by wizzwizz4 13d ago
In which case, abusive parents can use the rule to retaliate against their children. Never define a rule that gives bad actors power to dictate policy. (Note: this criticism doesn't seem to apply to the actual rule.)
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by wizzwizz4 15d ago
We had tools that could reason, cheat, and communicate in the 1990s. They were (sometimes) called AI.
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by wizzwizz4 16d ago
I like Lemony Snicket's approach: he gives (obviously) wrong, but technically correct, definitions for hard words. These definitions are usually hyper-specific, or satirical. Children, who are still very familiar with learning vocabula
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by wizzwizz4 18d ago
As a workaround, the browser extension Indie Wiki Buddy ( https://getindie.wiki ) will identify links to a relevant wiki in search results, and rewrite them to the wiki preferred by the community. It's quite useful.
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by wizzwizz4 18d ago
You can construct a CPU out of an EEPROM, a clock, and a few latches. Connect it to an immediate mode display with a serial interface that doesn't care about being clocked slowly, connect up a buzzer or some blinkenlights for output wh
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by wizzwizz4 18d ago
> Works until AI compromises a bunch of OSes. Just write a new OS. It's a weekend project to get enough groundwork that you can bootstrap a clean system from clean source code. > And wouldn't there be difficulty comparing
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by wizzwizz4 20d ago
I've written X configs by hand, but only to get a few extra pixels of overscan. I've never needed to do this. My experience has always been that things just work. The UI has never been great, in that I need more explanation than
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by wizzwizz4 24d ago
Not all motivation is externally compelled: there is such a thing as intrinsic motivation. Humans aren't amoral ideal rational economic actors. I do agree, though, that a few years' copyright provides most of the benefits of copyr
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by wizzwizz4 24d ago
The title has changed to A note on subscription prices from LWN . It may be worth editing this title to match.
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by wizzwizz4 25d ago
In what way does that business model rely on copyright protection? "Get the next chapter early" requires a source of chapters, so all you need is for paying clients to not be motivated to redistribute the chapters in an organise
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by wizzwizz4 25d ago
> and that business has for centuries and will continue to operate as if what he believed were true Then maybe we should do away with "business". Small operations do not tend to operate that way, and broadly everyone prefers
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by wizzwizz4 1mo ago
Things that the software running the model would otherwise recompute, if not for the cache. What special meaning are you assigning to it?
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by wizzwizz4 1mo ago
> Raising the noise floor like this only makes it that much harder to find "Smart" people, It does give us a new heuristic, though: people who are willing to completely cut generative AI out of their lives (cold-turkey, if yo
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by wizzwizz4 1mo ago
A cache is just a cache. I'm not sure what significance you're ascribing to it.
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by wizzwizz4 1mo ago
This is the first time my poor communication skills have been interpreted as a sign of my superior intelligence. I think I'm ready to become a professional expert consultant! I was abstracting Richard Stallman's argument to its (i
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by wizzwizz4 1mo ago
> but the insight is probably stated immediately after it. If the intermediate tokens represent reasoning or thought, you would expect "aha" to occur after the thoughts that led to the realisation, including the thoughts en
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by wizzwizz4 1mo ago
Call that "deeper message" A1. He's got arguments A1 and A2, and goes "if P, then A1(P) implies C; and if ¬P, then A2(¬P) implies C; therefore C". But we can just as easily go "if ¬P, then A1(¬P) implies ¬C&quo
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by wizzwizz4 1mo ago
He's already written that essay. It's more rhetoric than substance, but his position is clear. https://www.gnu.org/philosophy/programs-must-not-limit-freed...
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by wizzwizz4 1mo ago
In a world where we no longer have the rat's nest of complexity, we pretty much no longer need to produce code. All the software we will ever need for the next century could fit on books in one, single-floor library, if we exclude ar
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by wizzwizz4 1mo ago
Generative AI is definitely creating political will for simpler, more purposely-designed computer systems, but it's certainly not going to directly create help them in any meaningful way. AI-generated codebases are the posterchild of r
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by wizzwizz4 1mo ago
Elon Musk runs his own media channel, which he uses to depict himself like this. Many others are run by other billionaires. State-owned media like the BBC and France24 tends to paint them in a better light, perhaps out of a desire to treat
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by wizzwizz4 1mo ago
> The lifestyle has a negative effect on their health, with sumo wrestlers having a much lower life expectancy than the average Japanese man. (from https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Sumo&oldid=136533...
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by wizzwizz4 1mo ago
I have now forgotten this information, too.
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by wizzwizz4 1mo ago
In the US, where race is entirely defined by skin pigmentation and there's heavy segregation ("redlining") of living quarters, sure: databases aren't necessary. But in places where race is defined by heritage or culture,
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by wizzwizz4 1mo ago
Italian fascism originated in Italy, but if you broaden the definition of "fascism" to include Nazism (as Adolf Hitler did), then there's an argument that it originated in the 19th century, in many parts of the world, includi

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