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by xscott 4mo ago
Another neutral party might not believe it's really a doomsday device and that what currently looks like exponential growth in capability could be an s-curve that plateaus in a year or two. After that, it will be diminishing returns t
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by xscott 4mo ago
> you see the point, right? Bah, I think this debate was already old when I first saw people arguing it on comp.lang.lisp in the 90s. I don't have a dog in this fight other than to reject the notion that Common Lisp is "cohere
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by xscott 5mo ago
Heh, I'd probably take R4RS with define-syntax :-)
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by xscott 5mo ago
Scheme is (or at least was) coherent. You don't need to look any further than set/setf/setq to see that Common Lisp is "organically grown" from the fertilizer of a committee. CL does its best to make every other l
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by xscott 5mo ago
I believe the idea is that you don't care what language is being used if you aren't going to look at it anyway. Given that premise, the AI can write JavaScript instead of something you need to compile separately.
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by xscott 5mo ago
I think about that kind of thing a lot. For Special Relativity, maybe? I don't know the historical interactions between Einstein, Minkowski, and Lorentz, but my gut tells me the idea was ripe. For General Relativity, I'm less o
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by xscott 5mo ago
I predict it will get regulated in the US, and that it will lead to regulatory capture. Solving absolutely NONE of the problems people complain about while providing NONE of the benefits AI could bring to society.
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by xscott 5mo ago
Yes, and I keep copies of the ones I like[0]. I can't run the huge ones, but the ones I can run aren't as good the "frontier" models. Regardless, I expect they will be considered contraband someday. [0] - I've bee
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by xscott 5mo ago
I agree with your logic, but you should replace 2 with "AI used by governments only". The haters would have more luck getting rid of nuclear weapons than putting the AI cat back in the bag. Governments will use it for surveillan
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by xscott 5mo ago
All that's going to happen is people will "voluntarily" take it away from themselves. The fearmongers will tell stories about biological or chemical weapons. It'll be things you could learn from a textbook - something l
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by xscott 5mo ago
I believe almost nobody thinks original thoughts. I never have. At best I applied an idea from one area to another, which is something AI can do. Moreover, most novel advancements seem like they come when society is ready for them - the n
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by xscott 5mo ago
For me, I'm very enthusiastic about it's use for programming, mathematics, and as a teaching assistant[0]. I'm very worried about it being used for automated surveillance, terrible customer service, and deceptive targeted ad
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by xscott 5mo ago
There was also a decent amount of enthusiasm for the "long tails" because with unlimited virtual shelf space, you could find products that would not have enough mass appeal to the average consumer to justify their space on physica
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by xscott 5mo ago
There are so many flags to llama.ccp that I won't try to say anything too strong, but I believe things related to `--kv-offload` mean you can have the KV cache in GPU VRAM, regular GPU RAM, paged to disk, etc... I'm on a Mac with
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by xscott 5mo ago
The names for the pieces are confusing, so it's easy to talk past each other. For instance, you're saying "Codex the agent", which isn't a thing now. It's currently GPT-5.5, and at one point it was GPT-5.3-Co
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by xscott 5mo ago
I think you're right about the cost/benefit trade-off in general, but I do wonder how much "compaction" Codex and Claude do is to keep context fresh and how much is to save (them) runtime costs. If you've got a 1M t
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by xscott 5mo ago
Your point about caliber/quality is fair, but I have been pretty astonished by some of the newer/better models (Gemma 4 variants, GPT-OSS before that). However, there's not a lot of memory increase to have multiple sessions i
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by xscott 5mo ago
Lol, I totally agree about anyone using the non-computable angle. However, I've got a 20GB GGUF file on my disk that can write code better than 99% of the people I ever worked with in the last 25 years, and ravens seem pretty clever wi
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by xscott 5mo ago
This kind of proof isn't really as water tight as you claim. It's a lot like saying state machines are limited to processing regular expressions, and then completely ignoring how easy it is to add a stack or linear memory to a st
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by xscott 5mo ago
> People who have conviction about issues with moderation include links to demonstrate what they mean. Yes, I see you're using extra words to say "citation required". It's borderline clever, and fits the obvious inte
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by xscott 6mo ago
The actual trope in this conversation is "citation needed". That's a phrase which pretty much everyone here, yourself included, knows is the superficially civil (politely hostile) way of saying "you're full of shit
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by xscott 6mo ago
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by xscott 6mo ago
I don't understand: They get pissy, but you don't find that obnoxious? If cyclists got off the roads every time a car comes by, that would be consistent with their expectations for walking paths.
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by xscott 6mo ago
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by xscott 6mo ago
As a cyclist, I'm sure you're tolerant and polite to people walking in the middle of the multi-use paths, right? /s For a long time I thought cyclists were hypocrites because they play the victim when they're on roads w
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by xscott 7mo ago
Thank you for this. I had Antigravity already but was thinking of cancelling it because Gemini frustrates me. Using it with Claude though was very impressive. I burned through my token budget in about 5 hours though.
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by xscott 7mo ago
That is interesting, and thank you. I've had a list of pet projects that I've been adding to for years. For those, I just say the broad strokes and tell it to do it's best. Codex has done a really good job for most of them,
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by xscott 7mo ago
Can you expand on that. I've been wanting to try Claude for a while, but their payment processing wouldn't take any of my credit cards (they work everywhere else, so it's not the cards). I've heard I can work around th
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by xscott 7mo ago
I think it would be cool if a language specifically for LLMs came about. It should have something like required preconditions and postconditions so that a deterministic compiler can verify the assumptions the LLM is claiming. Something li
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by xscott 8mo ago
Of course I can't be certain, but I think the "mixture of experts" design plays into it too. Metaphorically, there's a mid-level manager who looks at your prompt and tries to decide which experts it should be sent to.

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