golemotron

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by golemotron 10d ago
It's hard to get humans to agree to things that are in their collective interest but many not be in their individual interest. It is at the root of many problems. Look up "collective action problem."
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by golemotron 10d ago
Unfortunately, it is a collective action problem. Whenever I hear "we" I flinch.
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by golemotron 10d ago
It's so bad for me that I often drop down into Terminal, find there (with 'find') and then use 'open'. I'm very used to doing this. I've just assumed that Finder is fine for non-technical user so no one co
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by golemotron 2mo ago
When you say "X proxy" the 'X' stands for the thing that is being proxied not the thing that is doing the proxying.
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by golemotron 2mo ago
Imagine what happens when human readability is discarded as a goal. LLMs are already very good at inferring meaning with little context. If the objective function is reduction of token consumption, it's hard to know where we will end u
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by golemotron 2mo ago
I wonder when we'll see articles on the lost civic life of social media? With increasing AI use, it is happening.
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by golemotron 2mo ago
Reminds me of Elon's answer to the question of what various countries can do about StarLink: "They can shake their fists at the sky."
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by golemotron 2mo ago
I'd just be happy if companies were required to call them licensed and forbidden to call them sold or owned by the buyer.
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by golemotron 3mo ago
The subtle thing in all this is that it externalizes labor costs. You are the one doing the work. I was thrown by this a while ago checking into a hotel with kiosk. I was out of my time zone and literally half asleep. Typing my name was rea
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by golemotron 4mo ago
I don't think that "root[ing] for mathematicians to go away" is the problem. The problem (if there is one) is that the process by which that occurs is economically determined. No amount of complaining will stop AI from being
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by golemotron 4mo ago
It seems like California is the furthest country in the EU.
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by golemotron 4mo ago
Those old stories may have been full of crazy stuff, but look at children's programming over the past 30 years. SpongeBob characters, under the ocean, jumping off a diving board into a pool, again, under the ocean. It isn't violen
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by golemotron 5mo ago
I'll never forget his theory about the origin of the heart symbol.
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by golemotron 6mo ago
The Gompertz function strikes again.
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by golemotron 8mo ago
That's true, but it can be a trap. I recommend always generating a few alternatives to avoid our bias toward the first generation. When we don't do that we are led rather than leading.
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by golemotron 9mo ago
Yet we see directors as artists. Kubrick, Coppola (both of them), Hitchcock, etc.
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by golemotron 9mo ago
Look at it this way. The carver doesn't have to grow the tree. Using an LLM for coding is a lot like being a carver. You can take broad or small strokes and discard what you don't like.
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by golemotron 9mo ago
I'm in the conserving camp. It's more truthful than the narrativization that accompanies attempts to restore. We should remember that we all had a reptilian vision of dinosaurs for decades (centuries?) before the latest feathered
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by golemotron 10mo ago
It's nice to see a passion project.
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by golemotron 10mo ago
I would go so far as to say that it should be illegal for AI to lull humans into anthropomorphizing them. It would be hard to write an effective law on this, but I think it is doable.
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by golemotron 10mo ago
Great article but disappointed that the monkey with the camera did not make an appearance.
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by golemotron 10mo ago
And now 'physical' becomes as hyperbolized as 'violence.'
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by golemotron 10mo ago
Sure, you can trade but it is a choice. Claiming that free trade is universally good is saying that there is only one right choice - no barriers.
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by golemotron 10mo ago
There are many arguments but the most straightforward one is that a country may decide that preserving particular industries is in their security interest. That can be extended to culture as well. Japan closed itself off from the world for
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by golemotron 10mo ago
This comes from the dated perspective that free trade is universally good. Nations create their own trade rules and they ought to be able to enforce them. I consider that far preferable than attempts to exert extraterritorial control over s
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by golemotron 11mo ago
The juice isn't worth the squeeze.
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by golemotron 1y ago
Why do people want to signal their low status?
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by golemotron 1y ago
Isn't every advanced technology is seniority-biased?
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by golemotron 1y ago
..and regulation. The same with supersonic.
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by golemotron 1y ago
All utopias are dystopias because they deny reality. With enough perception and wisdom you can find the good in an imperfect universe.

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