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by wrs 4mo ago
Anthropic published, not a two-word request for regulation, but a lengthy proposal for how regulation could work, with safeguards and due process. Instead, one morning the administration just woke up, grabbed the nearest hammer, and went sm
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by wrs 4mo ago
This is great advice, as long as you remember you need both hospitality and service. At some point a warm relationship doesn’t compensate enough for a bad product. I love that the staff at my little neighborhood bank remembers me, and was
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by wrs 4mo ago
Yeah. Ronald Dahl once said something to the effect that to make a good children’s book the first thing you have to do is kill off the parents!
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by wrs 4mo ago
As the article points out, the reason for that particular lack of merchandise is even deeper. > Watterson insisted that if he wasn’t going to settle the question of Hobbes, then he definitely wouldn’t let some toy manufacturer settle i
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by wrs 4mo ago
They’re building a competitive-quality model, from scratch, with fair compensation to content owners, for €13.5 million? Something’s wrong with this picture.
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by wrs 4mo ago
I read the book (found in a used bookstore) when I was 12 or so. It really creeped me out at the time. Good to know our government is now operating at the level of a 12-year-old.
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by wrs 4mo ago
You can also just ask it to do work in a subagent. It will write a plan and launch the subagent to do the actual code, keeping it out of the main context. In addition, you can co-author a plan for a biggish chunk of work, divided into stage
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by wrs 4mo ago
>I think of what to do next As everyone trying to do real work is finding, that's the actual bottleneck. If the system is keeping up with your thinking, you're doing fine. You can't "level up" your thinking by pa
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by wrs 4mo ago
It can’t be; that’s why they shut it off for everybody.
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by wrs 4mo ago
What’s painful is that you’re thinking of letting robots suppress your authentic voice. Also, they got that way by copying humans, and if you continue to cede to them everything they copy, you’ll have no place left to be.
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by wrs 4mo ago
Define the word “soul” first before asking this question.
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by wrs 4mo ago
I've been at BigCos in times past where there was some plausibility to this, but in the current BigCo workplace climate, anybody who tries to claim it's not about the money has a long row to hoe!
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by wrs 4mo ago
As a general rule with LLMs, don't just tell it to do something if you actually need to make sure it gets done. Use a hook script to make it do that, or use the history that's already there (transcripts of all sessions are ret
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by wrs 4mo ago
Oddly, the country with the expensive ineffective healthcare with lower wait times (citation needed) is also the one that doesn’t have guaranteed paid sick leave and other facilities that would make wait times less of a factor.
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by wrs 4mo ago
I think the basic idea is the same (not being a frontier lab researcher I couldn’t say for sure), but there are different techniques, such as “reasoning tokens” that aren’t literally words, and more interesting structures than just sticking
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by wrs 4mo ago
This is how early forms of "reasoning" in LLMs worked: just literally inserting words like "Wait...", "Hmm...", "Let me reconsider...", "But is it really..." into the token stream.
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by wrs 4mo ago
Yep, this was the Microsoft Way for a long time. It is the best. I just visited their huge new campus and it's a bunch of open "pods" and "focus rooms". Blech. They did retain the MS tradition of an incredibly confu
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by wrs 4mo ago
I think you're putting the analogy in the wrong place. In this context, civil engineering isn't a "domain" any more than software engineering. Both are exercised in support of the "actual" domains relevant to b
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by wrs 4mo ago
This is not entirely wrong, but oddly describes the major flaw in its own argument: software engineering has tacit knowledge just like every other domain of expertise! And just as you can't become a doctor by just reading textbooks, or
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by wrs 4mo ago
But wait, if knowledgeable people have to vet the output, the process will not be 10X faster and you will not be able to fire the knowledgeable people. Therefore, your objection makes no sense. QED.
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by wrs 4mo ago
And a generation of young scientists starts packing their bags...
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by wrs 4mo ago
I don’t follow that valuation math either (well, there was no math, just an assertion). Microsoft and Apple are worth a lot more than $800 billion without replacing the entire world labor market.
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by wrs 5mo ago
What I meant by "ground truth" is that it is not fuzzy, not AI-evaluated, and not a consensus. The test suite passes or it doesn't. The codebase lints or it doesn't. The performance improved or it didn't. An agent c
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by wrs 5mo ago
I think the theoretical answer here is this: "Agents address the problem from independent angles, other agents try to refute what they found, and the run keeps iterating until the answers converge." So you will be supplying the
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by wrs 5mo ago
Before you advocate changing an extremely successful safety culture because you want to apply abstract principles, you might want to do some Chesterton's Fence thinking. Aviation safety depends on fearless analysis of objective data an
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by wrs 5mo ago
The common term for a tool that wraps an LLM with a workflow is “harness”.
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by wrs 5mo ago
I thought the “circles” idea made total sense and it could have been a good social network, if they had let it do that instead of forcing it into every other part of Google.
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by wrs 5mo ago
Perhaps I should have used an implication sign -> instead of an equals. Semver says “major version MUST be incremented if any backward incompatible changes are introduced to the public API.” You’re correct that it doesn’t say “major vers
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by wrs 5mo ago
This is not about stickiness. People complain because they liked the dead product . Do you hear complaints about Google+ dying? Reader wasn't a risk, it was a product people loved that wasn't hard to run. It was just too boring t
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by wrs 5mo ago
The entire purpose of semver is to give you a way to resolve that conundrum. New major version = assume it's incompatible. I mean, it may not actually work , but that's what it's for.

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