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by xpct 2mo ago
I don't think the Pangram result is shareable to others. "If you are sure the link is correct, please make sure you are logged in with the account associated with this result."
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by xpct 2mo ago
> How many agents here on HN? LLMs wouldn't pass the HN turing test. HN is also not that big, it'd be plenty enough for a malicious actor to hire real humans instead.
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by xpct 2mo ago
Honestly I'm also surprised by how blindly people trust these allegations of agent behavior. This exact example of the message board could be much easier to fabricate than to arise naturally.
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by xpct 2mo ago
You can imagine each fresh context agent as probabilistically making similar queries when looking for online places to write to and stumbling on the same one. This becomes even more likely if it's one of the websites that got reinforce
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by xpct 2mo ago
It's a reasonable direction, but most of online systems aren't designed for this. This would require persistent connections of any accounts you create to your identity, and disallowing anonymous actions.
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by xpct 2mo ago
A dataset being as popular as their's is will contaminate the data just by people discussing it and creating their own public test sets of similar problems. Still, probably not that much compared to employees targeting it.
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by xpct 2mo ago
I wouldn't lump up all inventions into this. The incentives are warped and we're too focused on adtech and filling human lives with screentime. It should be entirely possible to live a fulfilling life without having to carry a pho
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by xpct 2mo ago
a16z is one of the firms whose influencers I mute on sight on twitter. Far too many grifters shilling dubious products.
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by xpct 2mo ago
I don't understand the point you're making, it only comes off as misanthropic to me. We live in a world where humans are valued, and so is human culture. We educate ourselves to live richer lives and to have more fulfilling experi
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by xpct 2mo ago
PG's 'learning a word' ~= 'learning an idea' comes to mind
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by xpct 2mo ago
By 'rewritten' do you mean refreshed, like learning material with spaced repetition, or some different/deeper concept? Do we 'move' that information to a different cluster of neurons?
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by xpct 2mo ago
That is interesting. For a streak to count, do you have to both send out your own, and open incoming images? I wonder how much you could tell about someone if you had a 6 year snap streak with them. Would they be more like a friend, or an a
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by xpct 2mo ago
Yeah, I'm aware a lot of stuff is catered towards traders. I'm someone who's more interested in the technology itself.
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by xpct 2mo ago
Ah, can't help but think of Atlas Shrugged. For all its flaws, it had a few chapters that described this idea well.
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by xpct 2mo ago
I'd pay for something that was 'SemiAnalysis, but high quality'. Perhaps that's getting too much into insider territory?
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by xpct 2mo ago
It's not intuitive to me for why preference for its own writing would emerge, and during what type of training or tuning. Perhaps something like: learning to identify what source files it has worked on by the code style alone, because
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by xpct 2mo ago
That is what I meant! Couldn't remember the word 'domain' while I was writing out my comment. Thank you
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by xpct 2mo ago
If I recall correctly, there were some papers which suggested that LLMs favor LLM-generated passages over human written ones. I can consistently reproduce this by asking Claude which code snippet it prefers: the one it generated in a differ
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by xpct 2mo ago
Speaking of high quality publications, I wish we could get AnandTech back :( On some older blogs, I still stumble on dead links, and very few of them are on internet archive..
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by xpct 3mo ago
I predominantly used GitHub's product (it had integrations for VS, VS code, jetbrains), and Supermaven. Later, I tried one of the earlier Cursor versions as well.
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by xpct 3mo ago
I've used auto-complete back in 2022-2024 or so and really liked it. At one point, had to code offline and realized the speed up was mostly just a placebo in terms of productivity. I don't expect for auto-complete to have changed
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by xpct 3mo ago
Good. Now do what % of posts link to AI generated articles.
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by xpct 3mo ago
I'd say my experience is different. Even from people whose communication writing I didn't find that useful, they seem to have a better frame of mind than LLMs do. Though, I never encountered people like the examples you gave.
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by xpct 3mo ago
That's interesting. You're saying speed reading helps you grasp information density of text? As someone who hasn't practiced speed reading, how does that happen? Is it something about the way your brain tries to connect ideas
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by xpct 3mo ago
I don't think it's egoistical. I understand it's often uncomfortable to compare people by their intelligence, but by many measures of 'smart', people here have it, more often than not.
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by xpct 3mo ago
I completely agree. I've done a similar experiment on this rather young HN account and it was already able to deduce some things that I never explicitly stated. It probably doesn't require much more than a megabyte of someone&#x27
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by xpct 3mo ago
I think of it as, we've had a hurdle where computers were too slow to organize the data humans produced, but have since crossed it. LLMs and CV also enable analysis of fuzzy data, which hasn't been possible before. This makes me u
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by xpct 3mo ago
Not necessarily. It's quite common for friends of friends to spread half-truth rumors.
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by xpct 3mo ago
That, and we're also past the need for geniuses to keep grinding in a cave, in hopes of landing a patent. People are far more empowered today, many more can work near the bleeding edge, and funding can be arranged in different ways tha
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by xpct 3mo ago
I think we're not the target audience here. It's probably another type of vendor lock-in gamble, aiming for less tech-savvy folks, who rely on Cursor integrations, and to normalize the platform in their eyes.

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