MrOrelliOReilly

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Higher Multipoles of the Cow(arxiv.org)
121 points by MrOrelliOReilly 16d ago|31 comments
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by MrOrelliOReilly 3mo ago
I'm not sure I follow your logic. Paying for a service does not mean you get access to all potential services a provider offers. Providers can choose to keep some services internal. Silly example: I pay Netflix for their most basic pla
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by MrOrelliOReilly 4mo ago
My read is that this is motivated purely by cybersecurity concerns. I don't have the impression that the whitehouse is suddenly x-risk pilled. Still, it's good to see the US taking steps towards regulation of powerful AI. Also a s
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by MrOrelliOReilly 4mo ago
Clearly AI-generated writing (confirmed with Pangram). Amazed this has so many upvotes—are people even reading the article? @dang I know you have so far resisted a rule for AI-generated content (as we now have for comments), but I personall
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by MrOrelliOReilly 4mo ago
This article is pretty slim on details, but I agree with the general argument that dualism is unnecessary to explain phenomenal consciousness. The word "consciousness" has a lot of baggage, which causes us to mislabel cognition as
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HeadVis: An Interactive Tool for Investigating Attention Heads(transformer-circuits.pub)
3 points by MrOrelliOReilly 5mo ago|0 comments
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by MrOrelliOReilly 5mo ago
> It’s just the caffeine Fair enough if the use of “dopamine” is imprecise, but excessive screen time / doomscrolling / shitposting is definitely enough to wire you awake on its own, without caffeine.
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by MrOrelliOReilly 5mo ago
Exactly!
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by MrOrelliOReilly 5mo ago
Relevant Hacker News thread https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47904224
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by MrOrelliOReilly 5mo ago
Ugh wrote “latter” and meant “former.” I didn’t mean lack of eng talent, but product
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by MrOrelliOReilly 5mo ago
IMO this is the consequence of a relentless focus on feature development over core product refinement. I often have the impression that Anthropic would benefit from a few senior product people. Someone needs to lend them a copy of “Escaping
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by MrOrelliOReilly 5mo ago
Yeah, good comparison. To Lerner's credit, he is always a poet at heart, which leads to concise, lyrical prose. DFW is voluminous in comparison; when it lands, its great, but it can feel overinflated/overdone when it doesn't.
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by MrOrelliOReilly 5mo ago
I am a huge fan of Ben Lerner and have a copy of “Transcription” at home, waiting to be read. Autofiction is in many ways _the_ dominant mode of contemporary American literature, particularly among the literati of NYC/London (cf. Ocean
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by MrOrelliOReilly 5mo ago
> People hate AI so much that they are prone to attribute to it everything that’s going wrong in their lives, regardless of the truth. That’s why they mix real arguments, like data theft, with fake ones, like the water stuff. Employers d
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by MrOrelliOReilly 5mo ago
That's a fair response. But I'm not aware of any metrics supporting the point that the lag time is decreasing. The discourse I've seen has more focused on the ways Claude/OpenAI/Google have pulled away from the rest
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by MrOrelliOReilly 5mo ago
How so? Opus and Sonnet are frontier models which cannot easily be replicated. Compute has real physical constraints which require appropriate procurement at this scale. At least those two points seem like pretty strong moats against the ma
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by MrOrelliOReilly 6mo ago
I like the principle, but I also find that we software folk commonly mistake the creation of a website as the goal, rather than the production of "content" (e.g. blog posts). I spent years trying to publish a blog and continually
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by MrOrelliOReilly 6mo ago
I’m not convinced you read the post. I believe the author makes quite explicit their goal was to actually visit these cities, noting this is far from the most efficient bus route. Their itinerary also shows long stays in several spots.
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by MrOrelliOReilly 6mo ago
I have had the same hypothesis around the recent operational success of US military interventions, but would agree with other comments here that this is more "vibes" than data. It's been reported that Maven (integrated with C
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by MrOrelliOReilly 7mo ago
Correct, I am stating that the stochastic parrot hypothesis is a fallacy.
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by MrOrelliOReilly 7mo ago
I think you might be underrating the value of even that enabling work. Some parents would not have the financial resources to provide those learning materials. And some parents would take a normative stance on how an 8 year old ought to beh
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by MrOrelliOReilly 7mo ago
This all sounds like the stochastic parrot fallacy. Total determinism is not the goal, and it not a prerequisite for general intelligence. As you allude to above, humans are also not fully deterministic. I don't see what hard theoretic
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by MrOrelliOReilly 8mo ago
I don’t believe the article makes any claims on the infeasibility of a future ASI. It just explores likely failure modes. It is fine to be worried about both alignment risks and economic inequality. The world is complex, there are many prob
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by MrOrelliOReilly 8mo ago
Totally agreed. Most the weird concepts of Gas Town are just workarounds for bad behavior in Claude or the underlying models. Anthropic is in the best position to get their own model to adhere to orchestration steps, obviating the need for
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by MrOrelliOReilly 8mo ago
The author's high-value flowcharts vs Steve Yegge's AI art is enough of a case-in-point for how confusing his posts and repos are. However this is a pervasive problem with AI coding tools. Unsurprisingly, the creators of these too
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Claude Cowboys(write.ianwsperber.com)
2 points by MrOrelliOReilly 8mo ago|1 comments
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by MrOrelliOReilly 8mo ago
For me, the killer feature would more be _autocomplete_ for art. I love to cartoon and doodle, but don’t have the time/patience/skillset to build professional digital assets. If I could go from my pencil drawn sketch to a flashy p
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by MrOrelliOReilly 8mo ago
I will ruefully admit that I had also planned a similar blog post! I am hoping I can still add some value to the conversation, but it does seem like _everyone_ is writing about agentic development right now.
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by MrOrelliOReilly 8mo ago
This is a great consolidation of various techniques and patterns for agentic coding. It’s valuable just to standardize our vocabulary in this new world of AI led or assisted programming. I’ve seen a lot of developers all converging toward s
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by MrOrelliOReilly 8mo ago
And I just predict how you’ll predict

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