jaccola

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by jaccola 5d ago
This is a pretty moronic take. You only have to understand the first thing about physics (e.g., a 14-year-old's understanding) to know that a dragless airplane is impossible. If you are suggesting there is some new model of physics or
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by jaccola 5d ago
> I wouldn't be surprised if there are now more chess books now than there ever have been Well yeah... how would there be fewer?? But the point itself is silly. Few people are putting effort into Maths for the fun of it (and of thos
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by jaccola 7d ago
There’s always been a distinction between published work and unpublished. If my friend showed me some unpublished work (Say 90% of the hardest work toward a significant proof) if I then go finish the remaining 10% and publish the whole thin
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by jaccola 7d ago
If these accusation are true It’s more like you spend 4 years developing a product you’re passionate about. This product will gain you the respect of all your colleagues and either earn you money directly or lead to great career advanceme
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by jaccola 8d ago
I think we can follow the incentives. We know…
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by jaccola 10d ago
Even in code, in person and online I’m seeing some reversal. It’s here to stay I’m sure but I also think “no one will ever hand write code again” is a narrative that is getting pushback.
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by jaccola 17d ago
Yes.. taste
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by jaccola 26d ago
A paper can’t reproduce its self. And he didn’t formulate the test with a 5 minute bound he just predicted that by the year 2000 that within 5 minutes an average interrogator would have a sub 70% chance of guessing correctly. And it’s all i
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by jaccola 26d ago
Low n, time bound, not reproduced. And look at their example conversations… And people forget that sometimes humans message twice. An LLM can only respond. So it immediately fails here in a true Turing test. (You could loop the LLM but then
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by jaccola 26d ago
This is always the most silly argument. The original test was ambiguous but for sure the human was trying to prove themselves human. So the first thing they’d do is tell me LLMs exist and the other thing is an LLM. Obviously a true human l
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by jaccola 26d ago
It hasn’t been passed and no one cares about it because it’s basically an end goal. No lab can hit it so they can’t juice the crazy Turing benchmark 3000 for marketing. If someone sat me down today with an LLM and a human and both were tryi
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by jaccola 29d ago
I like Musk companies more than most here it seems, I think he’s a net positive to the world. But (admittedly sans hard evidence) he absolutely gives me the vibe he’d train on my source code without my permission. I simply don’t trust him i
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by jaccola 1mo ago
I was using tabnine in 2020, I used copilot autocomplete + ChatGPT, then Claude Code. All this to say, I willingly adopted each wave. Having said that, for all our startups “interesting” code I use no AI, not even tab complete. For a few re
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by jaccola 1mo ago
Yes the whole field could more or less be described as combining images taken from different positions :)
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by jaccola 1mo ago
But why can’t this exist on a smartphone? A huge existing install base and, in an iPhone at least, compute capability that will surely far exceed anything that OpenAI can produce.
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by jaccola 1mo ago
To be fair “we will compensate you if you do X” sounds a lot like a contract so you’d probably be just fine in court. (Though likely wise to avoid the chance of a legal headache)
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by jaccola 1mo ago
> We can't all be zero-waste vegan community organisers lobbying for renewables and free education/healthcare Why? If you genuinely believe these things righteous and important why can’t everyone do them? Perhaps because you’re
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by jaccola 1mo ago
Being willing to sell isn’t the only test, otherwise domain squatting would be very difficult. You can generally accept these offers without much risk if done via a lawyer (I’m sure a lawyer isn’t strictly necessary but beyond 5 figures is
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by jaccola 1mo ago
The concern is if you own a domain that you don’t own the trademark for. Twitter owned both the domain and all trademarks so it’s a non issue. Basically in fairly limited circumstances you can have your domain taken off you if someone else
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by jaccola 1mo ago
I don’t think he would. The Turing Test as originally formulated is a bit ambiguous but by most non-incentivised interpretations LLMs do not pass it. In the original test the evaluator knew one was a machine and one a human and could have c
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by jaccola 1mo ago
What is anticompetitive about it? The comment above is literally claiming they’ve been outcompeted.
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by jaccola 1mo ago
Also a completely meaningless statement. Essentially “You didn’t need to file because your lawsuit is wrong” er… yea of course you’d say that or there wouldn’t need to be a lawsuit.
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by jaccola 2mo ago
What’s naive about it? Maybe a bunch of people are finding great new software only possible because of LLMs. Good for them. I’m simply stating I haven’t. (I note in your comment you don’t mention one piece of end user software or how the us
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by jaccola 2mo ago
Yeah I can see this as being an area that will benefit from LLMs. Though, taking it one further, we don’t yet have evidence (so far as I know) that this actually produces more secure software. It’s not that I’m an LLM hater at all, I use th
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by jaccola 2mo ago
The test is simple: have we seen great new products or improvements in the products we use over the past 12,24,36 months? The only great new product I’ve used is my LLM of choice, and those labs seem to be hiring more humans than ever. Mayb
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by jaccola 2mo ago
Ah yes this company that pirates billions of dollars of IP and then has to be sued to pay up suddenly grows a titanium moral backbone and decides to disclose 3 attacks that no one has detected for months and caused no harm. Nothing at all t
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by jaccola 2mo ago
Except Roombas can only clean 80-90% of my floor, and not as well as a real vacuum. And we have a dog that leaves toys everywhere so probably it does more like 60% of the job when accounting for clearing its path, emptying it, etc… To get t
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by jaccola 2mo ago
Another huge blocker (that is essentially just cost too) is maintenance. These things are like 1000x more complex than a car, need to work in a diverse range of environments, handle water, household chemicals, different humidities, kids, et
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by jaccola 2mo ago
Not sure it’s a bubble so much as a story as old as time… signal hacking. Always has happened and always will
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by jaccola 4mo ago
It can’t even write a passable novel… if you know of a great LLM-authored novel I should read please point me to it and I’ll take your recommendation!

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