getnormality

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by getnormality 2mo ago
> One command. Everything configured. Nothing to research. Being talked at by someone's AI copypasta feels like being in the Truman Show. "Why don't you let me fix you some of this new Mococo drink? All natural cocoa beans
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by getnormality 2mo ago
Why do your opinions about what a "well-behaved" agent is override the wishes of a site's owner?
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by getnormality 2mo ago
Seems like we needed an annual meditation on this topic until 2021, then we took a 5 year hiatus? What happened?
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by getnormality 3mo ago
What you're suggesting seems to go implausibly far beyond what the paper says. RL post-training alters the parameters of the transformer, while your f(manifold) idea seems to suggest that a new layer on top would suffice, no need to al
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by getnormality 3mo ago
A while ago a lot of the discussion about overparameterization was about explaining "double descent", the observation that test error doesn't descend monotonically and actually hits a local maximum around the point where the
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by getnormality 3mo ago
So is Paul Krugman
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by getnormality 3mo ago
This app is a great example of what AI does to your brain. No one making their own choices in the app design would make each question need three clicks.
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by getnormality 3mo ago
It kinda makes sense given that one of their major products is a computer that runs an operating system literally called ChromeOS.
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by getnormality 3mo ago
Your hilariously specific hypotheses remind me of how little I know about technology.
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by getnormality 3mo ago
This weird trend reached an apex in a Feb 2026 OpenAI blog post [1], recently on the front page [2], which describes the process for building... something... written 100% by agents. There is no description of what the thing is, no indicatio
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by getnormality 3mo ago
No detail about this in the article or your comment here, but the voluminous lines of code get a big call-out. Very interesting!
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by getnormality 3mo ago
Could we hop on a quick call to get a quick status on that quick fix?
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by getnormality 3mo ago
So, did this internal prototype ultimately end up being used to create/influence a real product, e.g. Codex app?
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by getnormality 3mo ago
We've known for decades that output metrics like LOC/day are very bad measures of real productivity in software. But they seem to be back in vogue in the age of AI, because AI is so good at maxing these useless metrics, and we nee
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by getnormality 4mo ago
The social media posts are from accounts for the franchise store. There is no reason to think those posts were approved by B&M corporate.
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by getnormality 4mo ago
Clear enough that my questions can be answered in writing? Someone should do that.
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by getnormality 4mo ago
I read the counterclaims from Bricks and Minifigs here: https://bricksandminifigs.com/blog/blog/2026/05/28/bricks-mi... This post and TFA have a common issue: no one seems to have a clear, compellin
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by getnormality 4mo ago
What I keep wondering is, what would have happened without the AI? Would they have just ignored your request? In my neck of the woods it's fairly common that when a person doesn't know how to help you they just don't reply, i
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by getnormality 4mo ago
Yes, this and every internet forum will still be doing this two years hence. Your life will be better if you take to heart this famous passage from Nietzsche: I do not want to wage war against what is ugly. I do not want to accuse; I do no
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by getnormality 4mo ago
I think they're saying it has qualitatively different capabilities that make certain kinds of security work more worth pursuing with the model, not that the model of human-AI interaction has changed. You're right that they're
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by getnormality 4mo ago
Wait, so, there's silent reading time that you hate, AND somehow seniors still manage to claim that they didn't read the thing?
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by getnormality 4mo ago
> Now most of the friction comes from alignment and coordination with other teams. Then I see a solution! Why don't we simply put the entire company on one big team?
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by getnormality 4mo ago
I think "stochastic parrot" misses the mark as a characterization of LLMs, but so does "artificial intelligence." They're both somewhat helpful and somewhat misleading in complementary ways. Maybe that's the be
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by getnormality 4mo ago
A lot of people seem to lean too much on Conway's Law. It takes social organization as primary instead of itself shaped by the nature of a problem. Maybe the reason Sales and Engineering are different departments is because they are di
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by getnormality 4mo ago
From one of the answers: > mathematics only exists in a living community of mathematicians that spreads understanding and breaths life into ideas both old and new. The real satisfaction from mathematics is in learning from others and sha
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by getnormality 5mo ago
> the should-be-illegal process of putting debt on the acquired company's balance sheet. I agree it's weird but ultimately the check against dumb lending is natural consequences for the lender, right? If you ask me for billions
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by getnormality 5mo ago
Wow, amazing. They had an AI robot running o1 look at live ER patients coming in just like a real doctor and they did that much better? Incredible! (literally)
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by getnormality 5mo ago
> To Zeilberger, believing in infinity is like believing in God. It’s an alluring idea that flatters our intuitions and helps us make sense of all sorts of phenomena. But the problem is that we cannot truly observe infinity, and so we ca
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by getnormality 5mo ago
I don't know why people buy smart glasses. Maybe they buy them for video capture. If so, the videos go to Meta's servers and Meta might do things with them. They might be criticized for not reviewing them in certain cases. That&
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by getnormality 5mo ago
What specifically do you mean? It is by design that smart glasses see the things happening in front of their users? Yes, it is. That is why people buy them.

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