Diogenesian

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by Diogenesian 2mo ago
The models have updated but the biggest change is providers leaning in to them being "stochastic parrots," aka probabilistic computing, and if p(good response) > 0.5 then running the algorithm over and over again improves accur
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by Diogenesian 2mo ago
I agree that you're being a bit pedantic, but it is a real loss to our language that these models are described as "open source." If you want to use an LLM then open-weight is fantastic. If you want to understand an LLM t
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by Diogenesian 2mo ago
Gödel believed the human brain used non-mathematical reasoning (i.e. inexpressible with a Turing machine) to derive the axioms and thus could "see outside" of any particular axiom schema. The Church-Turing thesis throws cold water
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by Diogenesian 2mo ago
This is uncharitably condescending because I myself am not confused by the notation. Obviously I "did the work." It absolutely is syntactic shuffling of scientific notation and does nothing to solve the problem of intuitive scale
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by Diogenesian 2mo ago
Yang Zhilin, founder of Moonshot AI, got his PhD at Carnegie Mellon and turned down US job offers to go found a startup back home in China. That was obviously a good decision, and immigration policy wouldn't have made a difference.
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by Diogenesian 2mo ago
This scale sometimes goes to 11, for example the size of the solar system is ↑11 meters, but even the size of the entire universe is only ↑27 meters. Which should indicate both how “universal” this scale is, and also how big the univer
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by Diogenesian 2mo ago
The Scheme Programming Language by R. Kent Dybvig is very much worth reading after you finish SICP. Truly the same caliber as K&R's C Programming Language, and more up-to-date (R6RS). The earlier exercises aren't too tricky (e
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by Diogenesian 2mo ago
FWIW I think the more salient learned behavior is 40 years of using calculators / desktops / laptops / smartphones which were basically 99.9999% reliable at retrieving text and doing computations. It is very hard to undo the
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by Diogenesian 2mo ago
I think the underlying problem here is that no single human brain has enough glycogen in reserve to thoughtfully process all the AI slop. It simply cannot be done by mortals. I've noticed this over and over again with "professiona
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by Diogenesian 2mo ago
Maybe you skipped over this in the beginning: The species, Colobus congoensis, is a rare and cryptic monkey largely unknown even among people living within its range. But those who are familiar with the small, black monkeys — an arborea
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by Diogenesian 2mo ago
Even if Pangram was blessed by God to be 100% accurate no, your argument is a strawman. The reliability of the software has nothing to do with the principle behind "software should never make a management [legal / disciplinary &#x
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by Diogenesian 2mo ago
"Reap what you sow" It is kind of incredible that you're not focused at all on the copyright holders, instead focusing on random tech people you had online disagreements with. Artists and writers got screwed first by
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by Diogenesian 2mo ago
FWIW a 5 mile walk is not a long walk. Humans are very much designed to make that trek without too much trouble. Lots of the world has people walking similar distances for fresh water, to go to school, etc. The point being that cars also re
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by Diogenesian 2mo ago
Actually, the METR report speculates that some of the overreported productivity uplift comes from grabbing unnecessary low-hanging fruit, things like "oh I'll make a web dashboard to keep track of this stuff // wow that
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by Diogenesian 2mo ago
Specifically my claim is "the relatively minor productivity uplift I would personally get out of agentic development is offset by the high cost, along with unresolved questions about long-term code maintainability, so I am not convince
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by Diogenesian 2mo ago
I will just point out the benefit is not as obvious as you think. Developers have consistently overestimated LLM productivity gains, which still seems true for agentic AI: https://metr.org/blog/2026-05-11-ai-usage-surve
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by Diogenesian 2mo ago
The article is mostly an interview with a journalist who wrote a book about Napster. The claim comes from his book. That's the source. I have not read the book. If you have concerns about the methodology you should read it yourself.
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by Diogenesian 2mo ago
That's total bullshit. Global music revenue fell by 50% because of piracy[1]. What music piracy did was make it impossible for artists to sell albums without engaging in parasocial celebrity-building and shameless merch. And everyone k
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by Diogenesian 2mo ago
I sincerely believe a cat or a dog is far healthier than an LLM for handling social isolation. No, cats can't talk. But they have needs and desires and real emotions. A friendship with an intelligent, social animal is a real relationsh
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by Diogenesian 2mo ago
I was using Hassabis's bullshit pseudodefinition of AGI, meaning basically that it has a formally high IQ and doesn't forget about object permanence too too often, but is still basically dumber than a cat. If I'm using your d
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by Diogenesian 2mo ago
I am not sure it makes sense to call an LLM a "being" even if it is AGI. They don't have free will, and I don't mean in any especially philosophical / theological sense. What I mean is that I run into a wild racoon,
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by Diogenesian 2mo ago
Why would biological systems be a counterargument? Smelting metals and sustaining life both require an enormous amount of water and about ~1ATM of atmosphere, as far as we know, and there's no plausible known mechanism for sidestepping
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by Diogenesian 2mo ago
That's a bad counterargument. Transcribing is transformative. Copying a video into a PDF is not.
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by Diogenesian 2mo ago
Almost all those people charge for the PDFs. They know the PDF is more useful, that's why the video is free. I don't think your software is (or should be) illegal. But it's a form of theft, and incredibly unethical. These peo
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by Diogenesian 2mo ago
The picture of the guy with his handdrawn "dream phone" is quite charming. Sort of a Homerphone, but it is drawn well. https://spectrum.ieee.org/media-library/man-in-a-village-hol... "Sir, please, a QWER
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by Diogenesian 2mo ago
The point was that we should separate "he had this coming" (true) from "he deserved this" (false).
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by Diogenesian 2mo ago
It is very useful when the LLM-generated article is full of inaccuracies. Look how confused people were in this thread: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48873424 A disclaimer on HN saying "AI generated" would
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by Diogenesian 2mo ago
This article is an LLM-generated summary and it got a bunch of stuff wrong. Very frustrating. Here's the actual paper: https://www.mdpi.com/2411-5150/10/2/34
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by Diogenesian 2mo ago
Read the title a little more closely :) As far as we know computation actually can simulate consciousness: - given any system of quantum particles, a sufficiently large Turing machine can solve the matching system of Schrodinger equation
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by Diogenesian 2mo ago
They did. The article explains tbat this is a trend which has been getting worse for years, specifically pointing to search engines as a major turning point. Your comment is completely off the mark.

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