flir

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by flir 3d ago
Ok, so they're uniquely careful, and they also get to that threshold first (whatever it is). What happens when everyone else (who is not so careful) gets to the same threshold three months later? How does them getting there first stop
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by flir 5d ago
> proof of humanity I'm just wondering how you'd do that. Only thing I can see working is a web of trust.
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by flir 7d ago
That's the problem every Elite after the first one had. The first one was dogfighting in space, all the others were so. much. space.
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by flir 8d ago
Training on prompts I can understand - that's kinda baked into the premise, and they've been explicit about it. Publication, though? Slimy is right. But the interesting question to me is: once they had a solution, what should they
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by flir 8d ago
"More leaders means more leadership" Heh. Also: make it stop!!!
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by flir 9d ago
Ok half was an exaggeration, but I think $10 might make quite a lot of them jump to Claude. Or DeepSeek. Remember, we're talking about a global user base here. I settled on GPT Plus/Codex for my own work, while my employer settled
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by flir 9d ago
I've spent my entire career trying to automate my job. (I get what you're trying to say, I'm just finding the irony amusing).
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by flir 9d ago
Or more efficient models/faster hardware close the gap between here and profitability. I wouldn't be surprised if every $10 you add to the subscription cost halves your audience.
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by flir 9d ago
And both are illegal. (Depending on your local jurisdiction. But GP said "Online Safety Act" so I'm making an assumption).
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by flir 11d ago
There's nothing a swarm of LLM instances can achieve that a single LLM instance can't. It's the same software, but running in parallel. That doesn't unlock Mysterious Cosmic Powers.
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by flir 13d ago
"just for replication rate to vary depending on some property of the thing replicating" That's a heritable trait, not selection pressure. Remember, we're talking about an infinite population size here, but if the pop. si
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by flir 13d ago
Add Opus 5.0 to your list. (GPT 5.6 Terra tried to give me some kind of driving-at-night-with-a-starfield thing, but failed quite hard).
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by flir 13d ago
(Just realised I should have said "heritable variation" not "adaptive radiation" up there. Oh well.)
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by flir 14d ago
"Evolution doesn't require selection pressure" is a new one on me, tbh.
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by flir 14d ago
Not convinced you've got evolution there. You've got adaptive radiation, but where's the natural selection? The low-black-hole universes aren't going to stop "procreating" because high-black-hole universes exis
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by flir 15d ago
Got curious, so I did a very unscientific experiment. Playing 3 1080 music videos in FF pulls about 60W here. In Chrome, about 50W. No videos playing is about 30W. If it's uBlock or 3.33W, I know which I'm choosing.
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by flir 15d ago
Sounds peaceful. But seriously, web is asymptotically approaching zero usefulness precisely because of all those "capabilities". In those circumstances, can't you see a million nerds muttering "we'll build our own i
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by flir 15d ago
You might still in a power usage graph.
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by flir 15d ago
On the bright side, there will finally be a compelling reason to move to an alternative protocol like Gemini.
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by flir 20d ago
Problem is, no matter how many sub-agents you break the LLM into it's still stochastic parrots all the way down. I've seen no evidence that compartmentalised harnesses can reach solutions that a monolithic harnesses cannot, so I&#
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by flir 24d ago
The early-2ks crop of NoSQL solutions have all got SQL baked in now, haven't they? Maybe when they've achieved wide adoption for a better language than SQL, they can work on getting rid of qwerty keyboards...
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by flir 24d ago
The necessary computer science, you could probably implement. The necessary computer engineering, however...
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by flir 27d ago
logged-out users have been blocked if using a VPN for a while.
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by flir 28d ago
> And from what I have seen, a good number of exhaust fans are straight up fake and just ventilate back in to the room rather than ducted outside. Culinary Cargo Cult.
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by flir 29d ago
If this doesn't turn into universal paperclips about 150 years after an industrial revolution, I'm going to be severely disappointed.
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by flir 29d ago
We're heading for two devices, IMO. A useful one and one for communicating with bureaucracies.
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by flir 1mo ago
for-prophet
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by flir 1mo ago
[Gnomic comments go over people's heads (I'm guilty of writing these too). Gotta think in UX terms - write to make your audience's lives easier, not harder.] You're right, and I think a lot of these projects hit the same
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by flir 1mo ago
Swytch Bike is one. Hub motor.
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by flir 1mo ago
History of creativity, I reckon. There's always been places and times that are just fertile. 470BCE Athens, the Renaissance, 1900 Vienna, 1990s Bristol...

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