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by dsign 7d ago
Here's a scoop from inside writing circles (pre-AI era): we were a lot into "good writing techniques". Not into communication. We wanted to produce a "marketable product". On the way, we (writers, literature profess
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by dsign 7d ago
That was funny :-) I use Opus and Sonnet 5 all the time and I find their language grating. But honest, I prefer to put up with it and get the results than to put up with my own human limitations and not get the results.
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by dsign 8d ago
> In most cases you don’t even need them. Correct. It's like believing in a particular religion, or having a certain fashion sense. When I was younger, I had a particularly handsome friend who spent as much time as possible half-nak
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by dsign 10d ago
It's a funny read if you pull together "AI 2027" and what we all know is going on. Essentially, open AI employee or model is writing "things are going exactly as bad as AI 2027 predicted, but my (golden/RL-) cuffs a
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by dsign 13d ago
> but they would also have expected much more disruptive changes to society as a result than what is happening. > I figure that's because we have abstract intelligence without physical/grounded intelligence, I put the cause
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by dsign 13d ago
There's something to this argument. I for one use an API proxy (Kagi Assistant) when I'm submitting anything remotely sensitive to an LLM. But for coding in my hobby project, I have marked "use my conversations for training&q
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by dsign 14d ago
> What can we say about this with hindsight? > While the ideas of diagonalization and self-reference of course played a central role in the birth of modern mathematical logic and computer science, the most famous uses were negative. T
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by dsign 14d ago
Though your statements are generally true today, I wonder if I can put a bet somewhere about how long it takes until somebody "fixes that problem."
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by dsign 15d ago
Hmm. You are making a good point, and I wouldn’t give the benefit of the doubt to this post’s author. But you can’t just unsee “this is twice load bearing”. Some people will wonder if it’s a training, self-reinforcing feedback artifact. For
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by dsign 18d ago
There is a persistent point that this article makes really well: numbers. And here, bigger seems to be worse. More people equals feebler interactions, worse social life, more alienation between citizens and government. It's not the ful
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by dsign 20d ago
> That's not really the same as it having actual consciousness, It's trivially easy to come up with definitions of consciousness that support your point. But there isn't one of them that it is trivially singular and above
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by dsign 21d ago
Your teddy bear, alas, is not cared for in a socially determined way. But you could create a church of your teddy bear and, with some grit, you could get people to widely assign consciousness to it. We have done that sort of thing for thous
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by dsign 21d ago
Anecdotally, I find AIs, and the doom and gloom they will cause, are great water cooler conversation topics that engages most of the team. However, ever since the advent of LLMs developers have stopped speaking of programming languages and
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by dsign 25d ago
> > The cynic in me bemoans that we brought this upon ourselves, in more than one way. > I enjoy working with other employees and people need human contact to become fully self-actualized. Isolating people to maximize productivity
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by dsign 25d ago
> The subscription models have so many more perverse incentives baked in Yes. But, as your "so many more" implies, there are also perverse incentives in pay-per-token. And now, for the first time, the companies with the perver
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by dsign 26d ago
You have great colleagues. I wasn’t comparing frame of mind of my colleagues and LLMs, which is a loaded notion anyway, but now that you mention it…
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by dsign 26d ago
I don't like AI-generated text at work, at all. It feels lifeless and unfocused. But what I hate the most is that it is objectively better than what I had before. No typos, clear structure, and, regrettably, the verbosity and autistic
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by dsign 28d ago
My take is that "sovereign computing" will go from something 0.001% of the population cares about to over 1% in the coming three decades, i.e. three orders of magnitude. It will depend on how long we continue in the current survte
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by dsign 28d ago
> if this software is ethical? IMO, it absolutely is. First, if fruit flies could suffer existential anguish the same way humans do, they would breathe in relief that digital upload is in sight. Second, even if the fruit flies don'
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by dsign 29d ago
Who the hell needs more than 640 KB anyway? :-) Jokes aside, I've been extremely frugal with memory in my latest project, in the hope that it can fit in a few megabytes of RAM. But we have come a long way since the eighties, and now an
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by dsign 1mo ago
Anecdotally, I saw Opus 5 come up with a complicated loop unrolling technique when I asked it to implement a simple biquad in SIMD, missing a simpler solution. Maybe it was a downgraded session, who knows. That SIMD instruction set, the one
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by dsign 1mo ago
I was arguing with a colleague today that we will never have a reason to make our AIs autonomous and sentient. But now I can't stop imagining an AI startup meeting where somebody says "LLMs do not go through the struggle of unders
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by dsign 1mo ago
Also, the "D" in this parallel story grew up to become an angel investor and a good friend of Felix. This D and his wife live happily with their cat, and travel the world.
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by dsign 1mo ago
These are another "Jacob" and another "Felix", not the ones in the post, but there are so many similarities and such a terrible lesson learned that it needs to be written. The Felix I know is still happy; still going out
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by dsign 1mo ago
I came here to say that. Though not in a bad way; the economics of what is possible but practical/impractical changes greatly with LLMs, and I suspect and hope we will be figuring out the ramifications for a while.
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by dsign 1mo ago
I personally have been trying to get a financial security cushion for the last ten years or so (and failing) so I don't take my own feelings into account; AI hasn't made me more frustrated. On the contrary, it's a tool I now
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by dsign 1mo ago
Hmm. Forget about desktops. I'm programming a microcontroller which is actually reasonably priced and has gotten all its 32Mb of RAM in the same die as the processor, but I'm getting nervous and having a strong urge to stockpile
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by dsign 1mo ago
> Both premises seem laughably unlikely to me. Yeah, that's not gonna happen. > The AGI-pilled must think one of two things; I'm cynical and I believe that AI will be our undoing. In fact, when we let that genie out of the b
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by dsign 1mo ago
I think the guy is right on point at least when it comes to therapies. But he is also missing one major angle: we are no longer in control; our systems are. If we were to vote on the issue, I suspect that a narrow majority would prefer chea
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by dsign 1mo ago
Replace "books" with "human brains" and you have a "warehouse" ready for a grim science fiction project. Or, increasingly likely, a prophecy.

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