foolswisdom

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by foolswisdom 6d ago
A 180 might be more useful :)
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by foolswisdom 7d ago
When it's happened to me, I shrugged and went back to the way I did things before. Then again, I'm not a vocal social media user by any means.
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by foolswisdom 13d ago
Seems this one might have been deprecated a while ago.
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by foolswisdom 20d ago
I'm not sure if I understand, you're saying that there is no such thing as epigenetic inheritance? In other words you disagree with the phenomenon discussed in this wiki page? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tra
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by foolswisdom 21d ago
As a thought experiment, there's a big difference between "3 companies share 70% of a market, while 30 companies sharing the remaining 30%", and "30 companies share the whole market, none being larger than 8%". In t
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by foolswisdom 24d ago
You're talking about different measures / types of quality. > Anyone who thinks AI is good with writing code that is hard to write for the operator, not due to lack of basic software engineering know how but complexity of the d
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by foolswisdom 27d ago
They're arguing that most usage of resources would be by companies, who are presumably paying.
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by foolswisdom 27d ago
Agreed. The recent privacy kerfuffle with Grok CLI (plus the untrue "it's your fault" response, although they then changed the behavior) is a really bad sign for how your code and data will be the treated.
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by foolswisdom 1mo ago
From the article > It’s hard to collect enough data using invasive methods. Few people want a chip in their brain! But non-invasive methods are getting much better. The hardware is improving and getting cheaper, though I apologize for be
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by foolswisdom 1mo ago
In the original its meaning is being part of a greater unit.
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by foolswisdom 1mo ago
Claude seems to do this all the time. That, the empty words and the increased self initiative of claude were all reasons I decided to just use codex (now merged into GPT).
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by foolswisdom 1mo ago
So you're saying that it depends whether you're measuring "success at task X" (where in average everyone improves) vs comparative success (where people with knowledge can do far and away better at specific tasks).
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by foolswisdom 2mo ago
Yeah, a common problem in cognitive bias research...
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by foolswisdom 2mo ago
The renting out is a pretty recent development.
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by foolswisdom 2mo ago
Related: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48964185 If enough people/companies are on the bandwagon, you're afraid to push back and be the crazy one, potentially losing money. So you roll with it.
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The Resistance Liberal Lawyers Helping Trump Take over the Media(thebignewsletter.com)
5 points by foolswisdom 2mo ago|0 comments
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by foolswisdom 2mo ago
While the misuse of the term monopoly is annoying, that's quite the misleading comment. You're allowed to disagree with what policy is a good idea, but laws like the linked do exist, and they were seen as pro-competitive in their
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by foolswisdom 2mo ago
It sounds like you're focusing on the problems of running local models, or running models yourself, but I don't think that many people seriously expect near term improvement on that, it's definitely more just hopeful thinking
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Competent Bureaucracy – Rebuilding State Capacity [pdf](cdn.sanity.io)
2 points by foolswisdom 2mo ago|0 comments
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by foolswisdom 2mo ago
While preserving problems is undoubtedly a natural incentive, I think Hanlon's razor applies here. Just today I was reading Competent Bureaucracy - Rebuilding State Capacity (< https://cdn.sanity.io/files/d8lrla4
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by foolswisdom 2mo ago
> Take a task, any medium-sized task, decently scoped that you'd trust to give to Sonnet to finish without a hitch. Now give it to ANY open-source frontier model and watch them struggle and go in circles while failing tool calls and
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by foolswisdom 2mo ago
Yeah, that's what bothered me when I read it, too.
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by foolswisdom 2mo ago
Is this not about a separate class action lawsuit?
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by foolswisdom 3mo ago
Maybe so, but the DOJ is not releasing lots of the evidence. I wonder if there's a solid enough case without that.
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by foolswisdom 3mo ago
I recently read Economic Policy and Law in America (by William Letwin) and he discusses a bit (in the context of the early slow enforcement of the Sherman act) the fact that ultimately a prosecutor has limited resources, and any allocation
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by foolswisdom 3mo ago
This reminds of this article which contends that this mistake has carried across time, in every era people described the workings of the brain similar to the machines they knew how to build, which is why we have "ridiculous" descr
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by foolswisdom 4mo ago
There's a partial corresponding quote at https://www.commbank.com.au/articles/newsroom/2026/05/sam-al... .
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by foolswisdom 4mo ago
People with lots of power and clout contribute to making predictions reality by all making predictions that make similar assumptions. The predictions become more likely because people already behave as if they're likely.
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by foolswisdom 4mo ago
Not just instinct, I'd need to be able to justify the choice against any potential downside of not choosing the default option.
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by foolswisdom 4mo ago
Marketing people like the features they're getting, and Google and Meta are dominant, so big that they're the default, in the same way that we talk about github being the default option, and "no one ever got fired for choosin

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