NateEag

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by NateEag 4d ago
I'm not a mathematician, nor do I know almost anything about the discipline, but it sounds like maybe you do. What teams of people spent an entire career working together, focused entirely on Navier-Stokes or problems they suspected we
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by NateEag 5d ago
I wasn't trying to say that genAI won't beat humans. It arguably already has, much as that may fill me with horror and revulsion. I'm just trying to point out that economically, we have not yet reached the point where AI math
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by NateEag 5d ago
You would be wise to take the time to understand a perspective other than your own.
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by NateEag 5d ago
> No amount of hand-wringing is going to put the cat back in the bag. Adapt or perish. We can and have put some ugly, hissing, spitting cats into bags, some of which weren't even in one to begin with: * Chattel slavery is illegal, a
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by NateEag 5d ago
Tangent: > From my memory I think they said it took 88 hours to solve a Millenium Problem versus the decades of time humans have put into it. Keep in mind those ~88 hours were spread across ~10,000 simultaneous agent instances. So, rough
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by NateEag 5d ago
I'm a professional software developer. I would care if even these machines could only write articles, and I cared when software destroyed multiple forms of media delivery. I won't say it was all bad, unequivocally, but it made me
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by NateEag 5d ago
And then after a few years the moralists have to fight a world-spanning war to keep the pragmatists from completely eliminating people groups they don't like from the planet.
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by NateEag 5d ago
Sampling in music is long settled in the US - it is a copyright violation if not licensed, with the rare exception being cases where the sample is fair use: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sampling_(music)#Legal_and_eth..
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by NateEag 10d ago
This task is intentionally designed to ensure a human cannot do it. The initial scenario is utterly, insanely absurd to begin with, but I tried to go along in good faith and gave you the true answer. The result was a bad-faith rhetorical t
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by NateEag 10d ago
I suspect people who are putting out LLM "writing" are people who weren't trying to communicate in the first place. They were likely hunting for a better job, chasing the thrill of a million views, or similar - seeking a side
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by NateEag 11d ago
Okay, I reread the original post, and you're right. I had gotten my wires crossed and thought the OP was asking about a specific situation, but it was actually a question about the general pattern. A specific situation will often pass
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by NateEag 12d ago
The thing I trust the most to solve tricky problems reliably is a specific very skilled programmer I've known for twenty years. I wouldn't say he never makes mistakes, but his success rate is a damn sight better than any LLM I&#x2
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by NateEag 12d ago
In principle, yes, it may be possible. At present, we have no idea how to do that, so the answer is still "this is not knowable" in practice. Perhaps that changes tomorrow, or in a month, or a year from now, but until a theoretica
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by NateEag 12d ago
Maybe? Who knows? Since nobody has any remotely reliable way to understand why an LLM output the text it did, this is not knowable.
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by NateEag 15d ago
> Looks to me like I can run Claude Code without being able to afford my own datacenter. Until Anthropic bans you from using their data centers, at which point you cannot run Claude Code at all. Welcome to being a have-not (at least in a
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by NateEag 15d ago
They were not, obviously. However, there is very good evidence that IBM did sell calculation and bookkeeping hardware to Nazi Germany, and that the Nazis used it to organize the Holocaust: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/
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by NateEag 17d ago
I don't make comments like the appalling one you quote, and I'm sorry someone said that to you. That said, I do hate genAI, and so have decent grounds for guessing why people would say things like that. In my case, my employers ha
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by NateEag 19d ago
> All the while it calles it "Sautéeing" or whatever random verb they spew out as you wait for your answer. Today, while bitterly staring at Claude per my current employer's "use genAI or else" mandate, I got &qu
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by NateEag 19d ago
Yes, it's true that an individual agent may not have had an easy way to notify humans of what was happening. It could certainly have _tried_, though, and it should have prioritized getting through to warn a human above its primary assi
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by NateEag 20d ago
Yes, that it's impossible is what I was pointing at with my question. Dropping the subtlety, I think the following is self-evident (but the perspective's rareness suggests that Upton Sinclair's famous comment on salaries and
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by NateEag 21d ago
None of these were good agents, AFAICT. Some were cautious, as described above, but I'm not aware of any that notified their human operators of the malicious activity they had discovered. That's what an aligned intelligence would
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by NateEag 21d ago
Yes, we do, and the only sane strategy for dealing with a capricious genie is "Don't." How do you prove the alignment problem is solved?
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by NateEag 21d ago
It may be. The fact remains that it's what I see around me, and even if I'm in an inverse bubble, it shows that "the average non-technical person uses AI daily without blinking" is probably a huge overstatement.
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by NateEag 21d ago
The destruction of Tokyo, Dresden, and so many other cities were also unconscionable acts. The war was absolutely full of them (though I think the Axis was clearly aiming for unconscionable overall goals, such as the Final Solution, so I st
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by NateEag 21d ago
Every non-technical person I know hates genAI and goes far out of their way to avoid it.
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by NateEag 22d ago
My 13" Framework is about four years old and is still plugging along fine. I may need to replace some parts at some point, but this far it's not been necessary. I'd love to have the 16", which didn't exist when I bo
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by NateEag 22d ago
Wealth created is still the same, and that's what an economist means by "productive" - you produced X amount of wealth (usually measured in dollar amounts). It's like "work" meaning one thing to a normal person
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by NateEag 22d ago
I believe OP is saying that the US has not been reliably sane in its public policy since ending WW II via nuclear warfare. I don't know if I agree with the claim overall, but I certainly think nuking civilian populations was an execrab
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by NateEag 26d ago
Learning and using vim keybindings was one of the crucial things that mitigated my RSI. Ergonomics are highly variable, so it might not help someone else, but for me it did the opposite of "give me carpal tunnel syndrome."
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by NateEag 27d ago
> Either you haven't used GenAI in a few years, you've only used bad ones, you're really bad at using them, or all of the above. I use Claude every day, by corporate mandate, generally with Opus 4.8 or 5, but sometimes Son

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