zoogeny

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by zoogeny 7mo ago
For now. The term people use is "centaur", like the half-man-half-horse of mythology. The AI CEO's are pointing out that when chess was "solved", in that Kasparov was famously beaten by deep blue, there was a window
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by zoogeny 7mo ago
One obvious one, is that people crave community and religion provides a ready made and welcoming community. But this is an exercise that is best performed by you. It is about changing your own attention. Next time you come across some &quot
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by zoogeny 7mo ago
I understand the sketch you are making and my claim isn't "you are wrong". My claim is "it isn't sufficient to explain all of the behavior". You are making massive leaps over important details. In order to feel
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by zoogeny 7mo ago
Very good point and question. I am not intimately familiar with Obsidian because I haven't used it. My understanding is that it indexes directories of .md files to provide a graph-like interface over them, using the contents of the fil
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by zoogeny 7mo ago
I'm not sure what your argument is here, except stating an opinion that loss minimization is equivalent to agency. But even if that was accepted, which is a huge stretch, it doesn't stretch all the way to awareness.
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by zoogeny 7mo ago
I don't think this can last, because whatever advantage structured text files in a file tree provides over an API will be maximized by some format that is better than a file system. That might mean leaning into SQLite or some other ope
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by zoogeny 7mo ago
> eventually an awareness would develop I am not sure how this is a necessary conclusion to the premises you provide.
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by zoogeny 7mo ago
I've thought this myself. We sure do consume a lot of yeast-based foods. Entire industries created to cultivate the stuff. I thought it would be an interesting story about how the bakers and beer makers are the actual illuminati, consc
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by zoogeny 7mo ago
I don't think the entirety of the phenomenon can be explained by fear, and in complex issues such as this a single variable analysis is suspect. I would encourage you to think of forces other than fear that might be driving observed be
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by zoogeny 7mo ago
That is what the market is for! I'm just pointing out "we don't need this right now" isn't necessarily an argument against "we don't need this". There is a saying that isn't perfect but may apply
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by zoogeny 7mo ago
> t took humans years to write the tests by hand, and the agents still failed to converge. I think there is some hazard in assuming that what agents fail at today they will continue to fail on in the future. What I mean is, if we take th
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by zoogeny 7mo ago
I very much take your point, and literally the paragraph before I said "... I tend to seek a middle way". So if you think reviewing once or twice a year is right for you, then go for it. But to answer your specific question: I do
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by zoogeny 7mo ago
It is interesting that Marc Andreesen was having a bit of a X crash out over his belief that introspection is bad [1] I disagree because I tend to seek a middle way. I would agree that too much (excessive) introspection is bad. But I would
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by zoogeny 7mo ago
Part of me thinks this is a bad sign for Apple. They have always been a premium brand. I'm not a business major, but it just feels like a bad thing when premium enters low-end markets. But on the other hand, this is kind of the culmina
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by zoogeny 7mo ago
I have always wanted Deno to succeed. But it just seems to be too full of contradictions. Their initial baffling stance about package.json was the first bad sign. I almost can't imagine the hubris of expecting devs to abandon such a la
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by zoogeny 7mo ago
I recall an earlier exchange, posted to HN, between Wolfram and Knuth on the GPT-4 model [1]. Knuth was dismissive in that exchange, concluding "I myself shall certainly continue to leave such research to others, and to devote my time
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by zoogeny 7mo ago
I actually agree on how unlikely it is but the wildcard is Trump. I mean, he is the kind of guy who just goes with his gut and he has already publicly supported getting rid of the time change, calling it a "50-50 issue" (on which
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by zoogeny 7mo ago
Not to be argumentative since I broadly agree with your characterization (and the mass cancelling of games is concerning), but I think AI will revolutionize at least asset creation. I worked on sports titles for a while and there was litera
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by zoogeny 7mo ago
I think this means preparing for BC to go out of sync with the US states we normally sync to (Washington, Oregon, California). However, there is some hope I've heard expressed that this may push one or more of those states to make the
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by zoogeny 7mo ago
Anyone who has worked on a game knows it is a long, painful slog to the finish line. AI dev is promising the exact opposite: minimal prompts and the agent does all the slog. Even if AI can whip up a quick demo or prototype for a game, it is
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by zoogeny 8mo ago
Hitchhiker's Guide had a slightly deeper philosophical implication though, in that the premise is that powerful computers already existed to solve complex problems. Earth was created to pose powerful questions.
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by zoogeny 8mo ago
One thing I have been guilty of, even though I am an AI maximalist, is asking the question: "If AI is so good, why don't we see X". Where X might be (in the context of vibe coding) the next redis, nginx, sqlite, or even linux
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by zoogeny 8mo ago
I'm happy to wait for any argument you can provide that cultural capital and economic capital are "intertwined, often strategically" instead of bowing to the authority of a source that in abstract clearly argues for the predo
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by zoogeny 8mo ago
No counter argument? Ad hominin? I was politely saying you were wrong and your attempt to muddy the water with "They are both intertwined" was a poor deflection based on the source you provided. But now I see you are a troll and I
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by zoogeny 8mo ago
Just skimming the Wikipedia article [1] and it is appears Bourdieu's argument is bit more nuanced than status and money. It is a bit laden with Marxist jargon, but at least the abstract seems to place the heavy burden on "cultural
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by zoogeny 8mo ago
> we are constantly seeking consensus I disagree, it seems to me that most people are seeking validation. In that sense, we don't want some global consensus, but a consensus within a specifically chosen group that proves our members
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by zoogeny 8mo ago
I think your analysis is interesting but I would argue it has more to do with status than money.
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by zoogeny 8mo ago
I log into Facebook website a couple of times a week to browse Marketplace. I very rarely check the feed (once a month?) since almost no human I know posts there. But my feed has 0 thirst traps when I just checked. It was some musicians I f
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by zoogeny 9mo ago
You may have mistook my post as advocating Christianity or even Alchemy. In the same way that we realized that the plants people used to treat pain contained chemicals that are actually effective at treating pain, and in the same way that m
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by zoogeny 9mo ago
A couple of anecdata for those interested in this. The first is the gospel of Mark, which unlike the other synoptic gospels starts with Jesus, probably around the age of 30, coming across John the Baptist and being baptized. Subsequently, J

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