awfulneutral

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by awfulneutral 12d ago
Unfortunately I think we're in an age where people are deliberately ignoring this kind of thing in the name of progress.
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by awfulneutral 2mo ago
If they let me watch the videos of our dinosaurs, I would happily let them use my hemes for their calculations.
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by awfulneutral 4mo ago
That thing that reassures me is that I kind of think most people in software aren't doing much useful work anyway, so if the whole thing was really driven by hiring the fewest humans possible to get the work done, companies probably co
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by awfulneutral 5mo ago
Thanks for writing this. For the record, I wasn't responding to your original comment, which I agreed with. And I agree with and empathize with what you're saying here too - it sounds like you've had an interesting relationsh
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by awfulneutral 5mo ago
Yeah. People act like it's a sin to want some notice or respect when you've worked and achieved something, like you should be some zen-like creature that is purely intrinsically motivated. It is not wrong to want some notice or re
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by awfulneutral 7mo ago
Does it still work for you? Unhook hasn't been updated in years and doesn't work for shorts anymore, on Firefox. It's still worth it to get rid of the suggested videos though.
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by awfulneutral 8mo ago
It feels like this to me too, whenever I give it a try. It's like a button you can push to spend 20 minutes and have a 50/50 chance of either solving the problem with effortless magic, or painfully wasting your time and learning n
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by awfulneutral 8mo ago
Yeah, it just reminds me of the early days of VS Code, where features were constantly added and it was fun at first, but they didn't stop and eventually it did feel more sluggish and bloated. Sometimes I'd have to spend time fixin
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by awfulneutral 8mo ago
I am ahead of this curve, my trajectory was VSCode -> Zed -> Helix. Helix doubles my battery life from 4 to 8 hours compared to Zed. Zed is also on a bad trajectory IMO with the huge amount of updates being pushed constantly.
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by awfulneutral 10mo ago
> I genuinely don't know which I'm experiencing. That uncertainty itself feels like it should matter. We don't even know how consciousness works in ourselves. If an AI gets to the point where it convinces us it might have
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by awfulneutral 1y ago
That has been my experience too. I recently turned it all off because I decided the amount of times it takes me 5x longer to accomplish something, in addition to the subtle increase of bugs, is not currently worth it. I guess I'll tr
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by awfulneutral 1y ago
Spinosaurus is the inaccurate one from Jurassic Park 3 and Tyrannosaurus has inaccurate hand rotation. Velociraptor and Dilophosaurus are also from Jurassic Park and highly inaccurate. For shame!
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by awfulneutral 1y ago
It does make you wonder if humanity doesn't scale up neatly to the levels of technology we are approaching...the whole ethics thing kind of goes out the window if you can just change the desires and needs of conscious entities.
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by awfulneutral 1y ago
Yeah, the AI-generated bugs are really insidious. I also pushed a couple subtle bugs in some multi-threaded code I had AI write, because I didn't think it through enough. Reviews and tests don't replace the level of scrutiny som
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by awfulneutral 1y ago
Really interesting, thanks. The last point is thought provoking: > Even so, mankind will suffer badly from the disease of boredom, a disease spreading more widely each year and growing in intensity. This will have serious mental, emotio
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by awfulneutral 1y ago
Experts also do not know the answer to that.
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by awfulneutral 2y ago
Yes, fair enough about the dog - "non-human" was the wrong choice of words. But I don't agree that emotions and social dynamics from an LLM are valid. Emotions need real stakes behind them. They communicate the inner state
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by awfulneutral 2y ago
But there is no message outside the rational layer when you're talking to a non-human. The only message is the amount of true information the LLM is able to output - the rest is randomness. It's fatiguing to have your human brai
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by awfulneutral 2y ago
Has it been tried the other way? I don't remember an iteration where they weren't obnoxiously over-endearing. After the initial novelty, it would be better to reduce the amount of fake information you have to read, and any attem
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by awfulneutral 2y ago
This article sort of reads like they think everything should be immutable, which feels kind of dogmatic. Using `with` for everything by default seems like overkill. But in C#, lately I have been using `readonly and `init` wherever vars sh
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by awfulneutral 2y ago
Ohhh, is that why I keep pressing tab and it doesn't accept the prediction lately? I thought it was a bug. It feels weird for tab to double-indent when it could be accepting a prediction - I wonder if alt-tab to do a manual indent ra
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by awfulneutral 2y ago
This just seems to be the way for code editors. We just have to switch every few years to the next one.
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by awfulneutral 2y ago
Yes, this is really tricky, because nowadays we have people shouting from the rooftops continuously, and half of them are shouting the exact opposite thing as the other half. WWII was openly racist, so from a modern perspective it would be
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by awfulneutral 2y ago
I just bookmark subreddits for things I'm interested in, and visit them individually. I hardly ever see any political content doing that.
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by awfulneutral 2y ago
Refactoring means incrementally changing things in a non-destructive way.
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by awfulneutral 2y ago
I didn't mean it would be a big controversy because it's AI, I meant because they would be replacing major label/artist songs with their own karaoke versions, and then manipulating their own algorithms to promote them. That
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by awfulneutral 2y ago
I listened to a few of the songs and I could definitely believe they are AI. They are extremely clean, near-identical covers, like karaoke versions I guess. If Spotify is funding these, that means they would be trying to poach money direc
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by awfulneutral 2y ago
Isn't that a different phenomenon? This article is about hit songs that have cheap AI covers, almost identical sounding, presumably to poach royalties from the real musicians. The "ghost" thing is interesting too, that sound
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by awfulneutral 2y ago
The definition of "conscious" is kind of the whole question, but I could probably believe that as easily as the idea that every brain of sufficient complexity gets a single unit of conscious soul that inhabits it. I really don&#x
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by awfulneutral 2y ago
I mean, consciousness is a really complicated topic. Either it's an illusion, it's a single thing that inhabits us (i.e. a soul), or there is some smaller "unit" of consciousness like they are describing, which to me do

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