Lutger

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by Lutger 7d ago
Won't a nuclear winter kill 100% of humans? Or runaway climate change (5+ degrees)? Or do you think some people in bunkers will live through these events?
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by Lutger 7d ago
Exactly. A mesh network of all the worlds phones and other battery powered devices with some form of radio. Good luck unplugging that one.
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by Lutger 7d ago
> win a time were we solved all the other problems You don't mean this literally right? We still have hunger, diseases, slavery, poverty, crime, war, climate change, pollution, microplastics, etc. For me it feels like we are very fa
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by Lutger 10d ago
Richard Rorty describes liberalism as the idea that cruelty is the worst thing that exists. Cruelty, of course, has just as many forms as suffering. Universal income protects only basic needs and it does so in part. Even if you have income,
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by Lutger 16d ago
It doesn't need to cover the usage, or even be able to fully charge it when sitting idle parked. There are two ways to make it viable: - adding a bit more range to soothe the range-anxiety people - adding enough kWh in its lifetime to
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by Lutger 23d ago
Its not as bad as in the US I think, but yeah, most of the laws are actually (literally) written by corporations. I wouldn't call them puppets, but EU corps have an outsized influence on the outcome of the process.
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by Lutger 23d ago
It is not perfect, but the delta between 'cannot understand what agent wrote' and 'it makes sense to me right now' is already an improvement. That it may not be sufficient, doesn't mean it isn't a necessary con
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by Lutger 1mo ago
Contrary to what most comments seem to indicate, my takeaway from this is that it doesn't really matter all that much for the agents what language you pick. If humans are still to be involved in the process at some point, then its impe
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by Lutger 1mo ago
I think the conclusions are a bit overstated and lopsided. Regardless of the sycophancy (which you can tune), LLMs have infinite patience and attention to details. They also have very little inherent bias - it just mirrors your own mostly.
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by Lutger 1mo ago
Yes, but that didn't translate to 'lots of free time'. We went on to do other stuff, like fast food, advertisement, entertainment, financial work, etc.
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by Lutger 1mo ago
Why? What is he referencing? I can't find anything as controversial as this with an online search.
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by Lutger 1mo ago
Robots being able to perform any task a human can do, physically, doesn't seem that far off. They would be powered by AI of course. The question is: do we still have to work? If not, who will take all the wealth? We thought the washi
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by Lutger 2mo ago
or 3: cease your assault of the international order, drop the zero sum paradigm and take the opportunity given by these crumbling US-build institutions to build a truly global network of lawful cooperation, where everybody can win. Admit th
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by Lutger 2mo ago
Exactly. The 'whole self' also includes a deliberate thinking mind. People often equate feeling free and being yourself with losing all inhibitions and restraint. That may free great for a while, to unburden yourself, but its a st
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by Lutger 2mo ago
A computer not, but a LLM model does learn. The original text in no way exists 'in the model', and the model does not copy-paste it and resell the original text. Not the same, but reasonably similar to a human. We may need some ne
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by Lutger 2mo ago
Ideas are not protected by copyright, nor are facts. You need to have a very specific and 'creative' / 'substantial' expression of an idea for copyright to apply. The output of an LLM can be easily be such, but usua
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by Lutger 2mo ago
Thank you for this, I've noticed this often in politics and didn't know it has a name. Some politicians do this so often, that any accusation to me reads a confession instead.
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by Lutger 2mo ago
A more rigorous definition of software quality can be found in ISO 25010. > The quality of a system is the degree to which the system satisfies the stated and implied needs of its various stakeholders, and thus provides value. Those stak
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by Lutger 2mo ago
The money isn't really for the researchers personally, but for doing the research. They are merely offered a job at a time where their jobs are on the line in the USA. And not even that, they still have to apply and compete with top re
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by Lutger 3mo ago
> figuring out exactly how to work it into our particular business This is the most crucial bit. Neither ramming it down developers throats nor rejecting it wholesale is particularly productive. You need the conservative people onboard a
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by Lutger 3mo ago
And not few of those 'productivity improvements' for farmers have had disastrous consequences, even though what I think you are referring to has been implemented with far greater discernment and empirical basis than the current AI
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by Lutger 3mo ago
I have a different mental model because I live in a high trust society. Well, at least higher than the US. In my model, the government is basically a virtual contract between all people to take care of each other. One side of the bargain is
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by Lutger 3mo ago
That's the worst thing. You need to take a job to have money. You need to buy food to eat, pay housing, clothing, insurance, etc. Yet you don't get to determine these prices. The 'free market' story is just a way to make
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by Lutger 3mo ago
You don't need no guarantee nor even trust if you have openweights, that's the beauty of it. The real question is: what guarantee do we have from Trump that he won't pull away the software (and hardware) our society is built
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by Lutger 3mo ago
No doubt there are some feelings involved in geopolitics. However, if your mental model of global trade and politics doesn't go beyond comparing Europe to a toddler having tantrum, then you just might miss some important nuances.
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by Lutger 3mo ago
Imposter syndrome maybe? In a way, nothing is complex at the point where you have untangled it, by definition. Software development is, after all, the art of untangling complexity. The real challenge is (re-)imagining something in the simpl
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by Lutger 3mo ago
> Private companies don’t have the ability to ruin your life in the same way your own government does. They just want your money. And what happens when your money is gone? What happens when the government has no money anymore because the
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by Lutger 3mo ago
When people say they prefer 'the syntax', I think they usually mean a bit more than just that: at least a fair bit of this is semantics. Python provides a lot of features out of the box, and if you work superficially along the hap
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by Lutger 3mo ago
We all tend to assume AI will only ever be good at the execute part, but what if AI will also be good at decide-deliver? What if some day, we could put AI in charge of not only running a company, but coming up with a business idea, getting
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by Lutger 3mo ago
Humans make mistakes too, does it mean humans are unusable? We accept as empirical fast that most production quality code has 2 - 10 bugs per 1k LoC. According to your premise, virtually all existing software is therefor unusable. What if a

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