CamperBob2

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by CamperBob2 3d ago
e.g. some people may laude a driver’s efficiency for cutting into a long merge lane at the last moment, while others may look down on them as breaking a social taboo. The latter people are wrong. But good luck educating them regarding th
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by CamperBob2 4d ago
Trump and Hegseth cannot be compared to Roosevelt and Stimson. (Notwithstanding Hegseth's illegitimate attempt to rename the DoD to what it was in Stimson's day.) Entirely different class of people altogether.
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by CamperBob2 4d ago
He's the largest single private donor to the Trump 2024 campaign, as I understand it, at $25 million.
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by CamperBob2 4d ago
https://xcancel.com/ID_AA_Carmack/status/2098443262214230095 for convenience
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by CamperBob2 4d ago
to have democratic control of the development of the technology Not super interested in what the people who elected Donald Trump POTUS twice think about AI. (Of course, with Musk and Brockman in the C-suites at two of three major labs, th
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by CamperBob2 4d ago
Letting bad actors dictate the pace of technological development is certainly one option, but not a good one.
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by CamperBob2 4d ago
and it seemed likely that solving them would require major breakthroughs If building a machine that solves these kinds of problems isn't a "major breakthrough," I don't know what is. Is the objection merely that it ca
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by CamperBob2 4d ago
Did the same thing. Added the exact features I wanted/needed to the FreeRDP client and had Claude generate a lightweight server from scratch. Bye, bye, TeamViewer, Windows RDP, and RealVNC.
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by CamperBob2 4d ago
it's confusing how these ostensibly top-of-their-game engineers and researchers are so utterly incompetent Have you seen Codex and Claude Code?
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by CamperBob2 4d ago
edit: what makes me more sad is seeing your credentials in technology and science. Nothing else has ever helped with the things you're bewailing.
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by CamperBob2 4d ago
Then they weren't sandboxed.
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by CamperBob2 4d ago
No, not really. If the old "birds and airplanes" or "swimmers and submarines" metaphors were valid, then language alone wouldn't be enough to encode and embody reasoning capabilities, as has recently become evident
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by CamperBob2 5d ago
1. Put cup of gasoline in breakroom microwave oven 2. Press 'Start' 3. Run away 4. Call press conference: "See how dangerous gasoline is? Only we should be allowed to sell it, for the good of humanity. Microwaves too, for t
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by CamperBob2 5d ago
What do you think we're doing?!
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by CamperBob2 5d ago
I think progress is really measured by what humans are able to do and understand, not machines. Building a machine that solves Millennium problems is pretty cool too. You wouldn't know it from reading these stories, though.
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by CamperBob2 5d ago
It'd be naive to suspect that this isn't part of the backlash. Artists and musicians are indulging a will-to-power impulse just like the rest of us. Nobody likes to lose power, or to see their own influence diluted.
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by CamperBob2 5d ago
Looks like another unreadable black hole of nothingness. God, I wish this trend would hurry up and run its course.
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by CamperBob2 6d ago
I sure hope humans are in the loop at those companies, reviewing pics that aren't recognized as faces. If I ever see one of those captchas, they'll get to see some things that no human has ever, or should ever, see.
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by CamperBob2 6d ago
Nah, I just have my clanker deal with it. It's better at those stupid puzzles than I am.
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by CamperBob2 6d ago
I remember being blown away when a then-unreleased version of GPT 5 took gold at the International Math Olympiad. Now I can run a model at home that can do that. We are more fortunate to have these tools than almost anyone is willing to a
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by CamperBob2 6d ago
I guess I'd do it once, the slow and easy way, and cache the result. But that's just me.
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by CamperBob2 6d ago
If it's vibecoded, who GAF what language is used? This argument applies regardless of how you feel about vibecoding. Lately people have been asking for x64 machine language and getting reasonable results.
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by CamperBob2 6d ago
When they started leaving notes for their future selves, that rationale became a little more interesting. We're seeing the first stirrings of object permanence.
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by CamperBob2 6d ago
How many user pictures are there to choose from, though? This is a nice, elegant way to sample from the set, but the nature, size, and frequency of the problem don't justify more than five or ten seconds' or thought and one or tw
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by CamperBob2 6d ago
If its weights are open, that covers a multitude of other sins. Sufficiently-strong performance on the part of the new model would justify adapting existing tools to work with it.
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by CamperBob2 6d ago
What's a concrete example of how FORTRAN compilers are inherently better at this type of task than modern C/C++ or Rust compilers?
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by CamperBob2 7d ago
There are similar exceptions. For instance, the copy of licensed content that your computer makes in RAM in order to play it is explicitly exempt from being treated as a copyright violation.
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by CamperBob2 7d ago
Anyone who comes close to solving a Millennium problem can honestly say they are on the cusp of greatness. Not sure what this question proves either way.
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by CamperBob2 7d ago
That logic is so goofy, I don't even think the Greeks had a name for it.
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by CamperBob2 7d ago
News flash: people who scraped the Internet without permission to build their product complain when something vaguely similar is done to them. Water still wet, sky still blue. Film at 11. (slibhb: Don't get me wrong, I agree with you

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