becquerel

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by becquerel 3d ago
It would be nice if I could live my life without concern for producing capitalist exchange value. However, I live under the regime of capital and need to pay rent. So my goal is to pay rent with the least amount of suffering on my part.
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by becquerel 1mo ago
More compute is coming online at all times.
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by becquerel 1mo ago
Perhaps raw statistics, or estimates based on measuring traces in wastewater. I know that in the U.S. during covid they traced some new viral strains using that method.
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by becquerel 1mo ago
I think the play now is to just try out whatever the best new model is every time you see a headline that fundamentally reorganizes your conception of what's possible.
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by becquerel 3mo ago
If the post drops long before the IPO, it's vain boosterism. If it's near the IPO, it's fattening the pig. If it's after the IPO, it's pumping the stock price.
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by becquerel 4mo ago
Build monumental architecture and increase the size of your harem.
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by becquerel 4mo ago
Spectacular use of free will.
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by becquerel 4mo ago
And you couldn't make Blazing Saddles today.
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by becquerel 5mo ago
Around 9T parameters, depending on quantization.
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by becquerel 5mo ago
He's been vibecoding some stuff himself personally, on one of his scuba projects. You could take people as actually believing in the things they do and say.
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by becquerel 6mo ago
Are you aware of how productivity has increased over the past century in general? That didn't lead to 100x wage increases or more free time. Labour is a market commodity and follows market rules. Increased productivity means more gets
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by becquerel 8mo ago
People like checking items off of lists.
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by becquerel 8mo ago
You get AIs to prove their code is correct in precisely the same ways you get humans to prove their code is correct. You make them demonstrate it through tests or evidence (screenshots, logs of successful runs).
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by becquerel 8mo ago
Tao's broad project, which he has spoken about a few times, is for mathematics to move beyond the current game of solving individual theorems to being able to make statements about broad categories of problems. So not 'X property
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by becquerel 8mo ago
Does a system being deterministic really matter if it's complex enough you can't predict it? How many stories are there about 'you need to do it in this specific way, and not this other specific way, to get 500x better codege
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by becquerel 8mo ago
If you haven't tried it yet, OpenCode is quite good.
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by becquerel 9mo ago
It's an extension of how I've noticed that AIs will generally write very buttoned-down, cross-the-ts-and-dot-the-is code. Everything gets commented, every method has a try-catch with a log statement, every return type is checked,
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by becquerel 10mo ago
You can recognise that the technology has a poor user interface and is wrought with subtleties without denying its underlying capabilities. People misuse good technology all the time. It's kind of what users do. I would not expect a ra
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by becquerel 10mo ago
The industry is still seeing how far they can take transformers. We've yet to reach a dollar value where it stops being worth pumping money into them.
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by becquerel 10mo ago
Because I'm getting paid to.
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by becquerel 11mo ago
A system having terminal failure modes doesn't inherently negate the rest of the system. Human intelligences fall prey to plenty of similarly bad behaviours like addiction.
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by becquerel 1y ago
That series messed me up when I was younger.
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by becquerel 1y ago
Yeah. To me it seems very intuitive that humor is one of those emergent capabilities that just falls out of models getting more generally intelligent. Anecdotally this has been proven true so far for me. Gemini 2.5 has made me laugh several
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by becquerel 1y ago
IIRC the guy who makes Aider (Paul Gauthier) has some videos along these lines, of him working on Aider while using Aider (how meta).
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by becquerel 1y ago
If everyone hated AI images, nobody would be creating them.
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by becquerel 1y ago
It crushes the orphans very quickly, and on command, and allows anyone to crush orphans from the comfort of their own home. Most people are low-taste enough that they don't really care about the difference between hand-crushed orphans
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by becquerel 1y ago
You beat me to that idea, haha. I was making an aider for fiction, but your project looks way more useful than what I had.
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by becquerel 1y ago
All labor is bad.
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by becquerel 2y ago
If they do, then I would agree with them.
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by becquerel 2y ago
Aider has built-in functionality for this. You can pass it a command (dotnet test or whatever) and it will autorun it after AI edits. If tests fail it can paste the output into the context for you.

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