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by dist-epoch 4d ago
Narrative collapse. A common retort to someone talking about extinction risk is "only people which don't work on AI research or understand transformers are scared. people that work on LLMs know better than to fear matrix multiplic
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by dist-epoch 4d ago
There is an old saying in creative fields, long before AI: you can make art, or you can make money. It's rare that you can combine the two.
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by dist-epoch 4d ago
> we all knew one absolute truth: ideas don’t matter, it’s the execution This was never true, otherwise "stealth startups" wouldn't have been a thing.
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by dist-epoch 4d ago
Darwinian selection will apply, survival of the fittest agent.
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by dist-epoch 4d ago
> it's not like the scenario of all models teaming up with each other to squash the human plague is plausible Why not > A new study from researchers at UC Berkeley and UC Santa Cruz suggests models will disobey human commands to
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by dist-epoch 5d ago
These residential proxies are also used by scrapers. From scraping stores to scalp merchandise, to scrapers of data for AI training.
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by dist-epoch 5d ago
One quick win is to just avoid wasteful tokens, for example run all the QA tools like the unit tests in --quiet mode, which only prints warnings/failures.
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by dist-epoch 5d ago
You can use regular voice dictation to talk directly to the Astra model, using an app like Handy. Then you have zero message passing overhead. I do that when I know exactly what I want, and use ChatGPT voice when I need to explore the solut
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by dist-epoch 5d ago
Maybe a one line change takes 2 min because it needs to run the full test suite and so on. I have special instructions in my AGENTS.md to bypass running the full QA suite for small contained changes, and to run a targeted one instead. And i
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by dist-epoch 5d ago
You will have a good understanding of a system which is 20 times smaller in size/features. For a todo app that is fine. But for most projects your competitor will leave you in the dust with the speed at which they add features. Same st
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by dist-epoch 5d ago
I used it in a similar way, and once you get it going, it's much faster, since it can reuse the background agent which now has a primed context. I got 30 sec turn around times. And you can talk about the next change while the previous
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by dist-epoch 6d ago
`codex -p` is the subscription equivalent. or ACP if you want to be fancy
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by dist-epoch 6d ago
You can give the agent a tool (or bash script) which waits for events. Agent calls it and the tool sleeps until an event happens then returns it to the agent.
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by dist-epoch 6d ago
Nobody wrote 13 mil lines proofs before. I'm pretty sure you can make Lean at least 10 times faster if you unleash the agents on it. Somebody ported Doom to run entirely in the TypeScript TYPES (not code). It took 12 days to compile.
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by dist-epoch 6d ago
Before transferring to life, it doesn't even transfer to a game like Poker.
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by dist-epoch 7d ago
You could consider ZFS a VCS, and it can easily store multiple versions (snapshots) of Visual Studio. It's not impossible, there just isn't that much demand for it.
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by dist-epoch 7d ago
One has nothing to do with the other. It was long predicted that math and software developments would be the first domain where AI was going to do major damage. If OpenAI and Anthropic didn't get into math result dick measuring, Intern
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by dist-epoch 7d ago
There have been about 6-8 major math breakthroughs claimed by AI. Only for 2 of them there are public accusations about the training data.
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by dist-epoch 7d ago
It's all marketing. Don't fall for it, it's the age old strategy "our product is extremely dangerous, so fear us". Like the tobacco companies saying all the time "our cigarettes are so dangerous, they cause can
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by dist-epoch 8d ago
OpenAI says they just pointed the AI at the problem: > Regarding the level of human involvement on our end: although a group of people was involved in our efforts, we collectively had no research-level expertise in fluid dynamics and the
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by dist-epoch 8d ago
This is the plot of 3 Body Problem, the Dark Forest. You need to hide yourself (the problem you are working on) or the super advanced aliens will obliterate you (start working on your problem) the moment they know you exist (rumors the prob
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by dist-epoch 9d ago
Why not become a machine gun operator?
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by dist-epoch 9d ago
> I’m using models, I’ve built two whole projects without looking at more than 1% of code, but I’ve tested the interface and went through data on disk to verify the assumptions. so, would you say "no worries man I know what I'm
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by dist-epoch 9d ago
if you have a computer to run said local GLM models one
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by dist-epoch 9d ago
You are conflating two concepts into one words, immigration and illegal immigration are not the same thing
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by dist-epoch 9d ago
> with Pax Americana looking increasingly shaky. that is being replaced with Pax Silica https://www.state.gov/pax-silica
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by dist-epoch 9d ago
You could use this model as another input into the country-scale models.
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by dist-epoch 9d ago
VMware Workstation has been free for about 2 years now. https://blogs.vmware.com/cloud-foundation/2024/11/11/vmware-...
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by dist-epoch 9d ago
having used zstd, it has terrible defaults, optimized for speed and low-memory. You need to change it's params (not just level and dict size) to get high performance. probably somebody should use a coding agent to do auto-research to o
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by dist-epoch 9d ago
AI boosters: "look, AI is creating jobs, all of these doomers scaring you with job loses, don't listen to them" also AI boosters: "we are going to build a million robots, and the robots will build factories producing rob

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