SirHackalot

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by SirHackalot 3d ago
He has caused a non-zero number of deaths from entirely preventable diseases, I would rather not mention any numbers (nor do I claim real knowledge of them) before there is public accountability. Mentioning numbers tends to put the Elon Sta
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by SirHackalot 12d ago
Interesting to find this comment, I’ve been dipping my toes into formal methods and was doing a RCoq tutorial yesterday (really basic stuff), and I also noticed that the proofs in RCoq have a more pen -and-paper proof feel to them.
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by SirHackalot 2mo ago
This comment almost made me quit my job and pursue my original passion in architecture. So the job was, all along, as fun as I imagined it… And the full-stack knowledge to make it happen is still rare? I am currently designing my house in B
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by SirHackalot 2mo ago
Harrumph I haven’t been on Reddit in ages, if that helps :)
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by SirHackalot 2mo ago
I fully support Biden administration’s stance on [2], you have to take positive discrimination case-by-case (because sometimes it’s bad). Quotas are bad. I’ve certainly been on your side before — arguing about the negatives in the way DEI h
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by SirHackalot 2mo ago
Also, it turned out Ukraine had a lot of cards. This administration is such an embarrassment.
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by SirHackalot 2mo ago
Yep, that second part of my comment was an article I read about OpenAI and my mind mixed it up with Anthropic. My mistake.
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by SirHackalot 2mo ago
Wow, I should never comment first thing in the morning... Thanks for the correction, you’re right. I will see if I can still edit my comment.
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by SirHackalot 2mo ago
Didn't Anthropic train on our collective data just to sell it back to us for $100/month? On top of that, Apple is suing them over alleged IP and trade secret theft by ex-Apple employees. Hard to feel too sympathetic, and I’m not a
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by SirHackalot 2mo ago
It was always the era of lobbying, now you just shower the gold-obsessed king with tribute — crypto, ballroom funds, a private jet — in order to buy a presidential decree. Just lay gold and silver at the feet of the monarch and wait for you
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by SirHackalot 2mo ago
It outperformed the west in some things, notably not computing (which sealed its fate). I agree though. But I think there’s also something to be said about the way in which the experiment ended. Compared to the bloody, violent disintegratio
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by SirHackalot 2mo ago
> becoming disillusioned > becoming? It's all arcane, superstitious nonsense. Nobody actually knows how to work with these models is right. We've replaced software engineering with prompt astrology and Al whispering. The pea
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by SirHackalot 2mo ago
Throw the USSR in there as well. Central planning allowed them to leap from an agrarian society to launching Sputnik and putting the first human in space, which spooked us into kickstarting the space race. It wasn’t market incentives that d
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by SirHackalot 2mo ago
Take a breath, you’re having a total knee-jerk reaction. What statistic? So out of thousands of years of human history, we somehow stumbled onto the absolute final, perfect economic system 250 years ago with zero room for upgrade? Makes tot
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by SirHackalot 2mo ago
Does that mean capitalism is not an efficient system to meet the needs of well-informed consumers? Why am I being lumped in with an 8 year old who asks their parents to buy them an online game? There should be a market for physical media an
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by SirHackalot 2mo ago
I don’t see why anyone should be obligated to direct traffic to Twitter. Let the author post on his own blog or digital garden. I don’t want to go on Twitter. Echoing the same as others, it’s good to bring any content from Twitter into the
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by SirHackalot 2mo ago
Never seen capitalists this afraid of competition. Same story with Chinese cars… We can’t have cheap, and objectively superior EVs because of protectionist policies towards Musk and his ilk.
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by SirHackalot 2mo ago
I used it to generate some icons for my app recently, I found it a pleasantly useful feature already in its current state. Before this I would’ve had to close the code editor, open something like Illustrator, use something like a tablet (or
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by SirHackalot 2mo ago
Have you seen our track record of violence and general ignorance? I wouldn’t poke us with a ten light year pole.
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by SirHackalot 2mo ago
This is so exciting.
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by SirHackalot 2mo ago
HeY GrOk
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by SirHackalot 2mo ago
Average Musk Stan mentality… It’s why we’re here.
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by SirHackalot 2mo ago
Understandably
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by SirHackalot 2mo ago
How does this compare to non-stochastic, non-ML AI in games currently?
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by SirHackalot 2mo ago
I saw it on the front page.
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by SirHackalot 2mo ago
I’m saying imagine something like Data from Star Trek, something that defies human explanation. Does he have quaila? The humans who work with him everyday seem to think so. LLMs currently are humonculi, if even that. They’re not even that.
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by SirHackalot 2mo ago
It’s not HN that’s the problem... Also please, tell me where is the right place for “serious” philosophical discussion. Would be glad to meet you in that forum and discuss. We don’t align on the definition of AGI. To me, AGI implies conscio
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by SirHackalot 2mo ago
An LLM certainly won’t be AGI, whoever said something so ridiculous? I’m saying eventually, when/if we have an architecture that gives rise to artificial intelligence.
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by SirHackalot 2mo ago
Anyone who believes AGI is imminent is operating on pure materialism (those two Venn diagrams pretty much make a circle), assuming that humans are nothing more than a collection of neural electrical connections and chemical reactions. If th
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by SirHackalot 2mo ago
You don’t like Star Trek TNG? Maybe I should’ve picked LoTR or Atlas Shrugged? The tech oligarchy is more than fine co-opting fiction (fantasy and sci-fi especially). I don’t see why it’s weird at all… Aside from that, your critique is just

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