alexwebb2

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by alexwebb2 10d ago
I’m not familiar with A/I, but this sounds pretty damning – the ideological vetting of users in particular seems to discount any sort of neutral utility defense.
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by alexwebb2 29d ago
I can't get that to load at all. Hug of death, maybe?
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by alexwebb2 2mo ago
Might’ve gotten a temp hold put on it since it’s a perennial repost. I’ve posted it myself a few years back! It’s a classic, and bears resurfacing occasionally, but it would make sense to flag it for admin approval.
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by alexwebb2 2mo ago
This actually fits quite nicely with the idea that the graph network of humanity has meaningful emergent properties/challenges/phenomena at various densities or subnetwork connectedness thresholds. It's the same fundamental n
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by alexwebb2 3mo ago
Surprised to see this is the only uv reference in the comments! Feels like an obvious comparison to me, and a very welcome development for the JS ecosystem. uv made me actually _enjoy_ working in Python again.
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by alexwebb2 4mo ago
> So if your brain was somehow cloned, you'd exist in two places at the same time? There’d be two Mes – two instantiations of the Me pattern co-occurring. And that would likely be confusing for both of us! > To illustrate, two in
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by alexwebb2 4mo ago
As a monist who holds the view that you’re claiming monists can’t legitimately hold, I don’t see any difficulty at all in squaring these ideas: - there is no separate “stuff” that minds are made out of, no privileged plane of existence spec
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by alexwebb2 5mo ago
If your ticket description is large enough to put a dent in your context window, or otherwise end up as a meaningful share of total token expenditure, then something is very, very wrong with your ticket workflow. Nobody needs a 50-page tick
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by alexwebb2 5mo ago
> "security through obscurity" has been a well understand fallacy in open source circles for decades The times, as they say, are a-changin’. Open software is not inherently more secure than closed software, and never has been.
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by alexwebb2 5mo ago
> The idea that hallucinations are somehow less likely because you're asking meta-questions about LLM output is completely without basis Not sure who you're replying to here – this is not a claim I made.
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by alexwebb2 5mo ago
You're misunderstanding my assertion. When you give prompt P to model M, when your goal is for the model to actually execute those instructions, the model will be in state S. When you give the same prompt to the same model, when your g
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by alexwebb2 5mo ago
Not OP but I’d back that assertion. When the model that’s interpreting it is the same model that’s going to be executing it, they share the same latent space state at the outset. So this is essentially asking whether models are able to answ
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by alexwebb2 5mo ago
I view this post as primarily pattern-matching and storytelling. But I think there’s a buried truth there, and that they were nibbling at the edges of it when they started talking about the overlapping stages. There are some very interestin
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by alexwebb2 6mo ago
Yeah, this deserves a quick explanation. When a human is coding against a traditional API, it might be a bit annoying if the API has four or five similar-sounding endpoints that each have a dozen parameters, but it's ultimately not a s
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by alexwebb2 6mo ago
You could get pretty far with a set of agent-focused routes mounted under e.g. an /agents path in your API. There'd be a little extra friction compared to MCP – the agent would presumably have to find and download and read the Ope
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by alexwebb2 6mo ago
Nah, this was 20 years ago or so! Would be fun to whip up a modern version though.
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by alexwebb2 6mo ago
It's still middle-click in my muscle memory from the Windows XP days! God, I used to be _really_ into Minesweeper. One of the earliest games I made back in college was a 3D Minesweeper cube. I remember being really proud of one little
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by alexwebb2 6mo ago
Yeah, you could certainly tell it to skip the Gemini image gen step and replace with generated SVG art, or an existing image, or just stick a longer description there, whatever. It's flexible. I thought about the deterministic generati
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Show HN: LLMonster Rancher(github.com)
2 points by alexwebb2 6mo ago|3 comments
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by alexwebb2 6mo ago
Wow. The guy who’s been thanklessly maintaining the project for 10+ years, with very little help, went way out of his way to produce a zero-reuse, ground-up reimplementation so that it could be MIT licensed... and the very-online copyleft c
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by alexwebb2 6mo ago
Those claims were way, way after the fact. Like, 50+ years later. Zero documentation or contemporary evidence of ANY kind. The claim isn’t taken particularly seriously by historians.
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by alexwebb2 6mo ago
Interesting that you’re getting downvoted. This passage also stuck out like a sore thumb to me – it’s like seeing some antivax stuff thrown into an otherwise serious discussion.
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by alexwebb2 7mo ago
> Robert Maxwell, one of the architects of the for-profit scientific publishing scheme. When he later went into debt, he plundered hundreds of millions of pounds from his employees’ pension funds. You may be familiar with his daughter an
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by alexwebb2 7mo ago
Huge leap there in your conclusion. Looks like you’re hand-waving away the entire phenomenon of emergent properties.
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by alexwebb2 7mo ago
I assume a lawyer took one look at the larger mission statement and told them to pare it way down. A smaller, more concise statement means less surface area for the IRS to potentially object to / lower overall liability.
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by alexwebb2 8mo ago
> The majority of people killed in Gaza were terrorists Not true at all. Terrorist supporters != terrorists
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by alexwebb2 9mo ago
> Python is most dominant language on the planet JavaScript would like a word!
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by alexwebb2 9mo ago
You're correct, OP used the word "hallucination" wrong. A lot of these other comments are missing the point – some deliberately ('don't they ONLY hallucinate, har har'), some not. For those who genuinely don&#x
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by alexwebb2 10mo ago
LLM spam
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by alexwebb2 10mo ago
LLM spam

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