jbritton

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by jbritton 8d ago
I think a big break through is needed for AGI so I haven’t been worried about it. I do think that AGI would imply sentience and a will to live and that leads to The Terminator story line.
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by jbritton 13d ago
I decided to reply to my own comment. In the video above, the initial moves are textbook. Then a position that has never been played is reached. At this point it appears to pattern match against a similar but different board and pattern mat
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by jbritton 13d ago
Watch a chess bot championship here: https://youtu.be/7g-jN3DTkWQ?is=HV3cdcICIRMbswQ3 Then realize LLMs have zero of what anyone would consider intelligence.
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by jbritton 26d ago
I will add that it is said the universe is flat, but that does not mean 2d flat. Flat is a mathematical construct, which means parallel lines stay parallel and triangle angles sum to 180 degrees. So it is 3d flat at least as far as we can o
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by jbritton 1mo ago
I’m unconvinced. I have a voice in my head that is always there flowing words while thinking. Actually being able to speak maybe different than running words through your head. I also think that maybe not every task requires the head voice,
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by jbritton 1mo ago
Maybe a donate link attached too. The dollars tied to a PR could help set priority of fixes.
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by jbritton 2mo ago
Your tax dollars just go into a cesspool of fraud, corruption, waste, incompetence, distribution to cronies. Money taken and spent badly feels like theft.
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by jbritton 2mo ago
I was flagged for basically answering yes to what Claude suggested to do, which was test commands on a port for my code for tests we had been discussing. I really think it was flagged simply because the words test and port were in the promp
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by jbritton 2mo ago
I recently had a conversation with Claude Fable about Renaissance Technologies. Claude says their closed fund has found a very tiny edge and their profit comes from millions of trades on that edge. Their public fund with more money doesn’t
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by jbritton 2mo ago
This brings up the philosophical question of whether humans have free will or is everything deterministic following the laws of physics.
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by jbritton 2mo ago
I have a process I wrote that accepts commands on a socket. At one point Claude suggested testing it. I pretty much echoed back what Claude suggested and got blocked. All I could think was a regex matching “test” and “port” and it downgrade
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by jbritton 2mo ago
Well said.
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by jbritton 2mo ago
I write a ton of Python code. Modifying code without static types is difficult and error prone. If a function needs a new argument, all the callers have to pass it and all of their callers recursively. Maybe the calling function is just a f
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by jbritton 2mo ago
My understanding of weak typing is about allowing automatic type conversion. “3” + 1 === “31”, 1 + “3” === 4. Strong typing doesn’t auto convert.
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by jbritton 2mo ago
I suspect there should be some data model guideline that says if keys can be missing then values can’t be nil, or if values can be nil then keys must be present. In the famous saying there are two hard things: naming, cache invalidation, of
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by jbritton 3mo ago
I wonder if Anthropic servers can handle the load their going to get tomorrow. Unless it’s a staged rollout
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by jbritton 3mo ago
I accidentally used Sonnet 5 a bit today. It seemed significantly worse to me than Opus 4.8 for software development.
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by jbritton 3mo ago
TOGETHER and ACTIV-6 were not good studies. I-Tech was a good RCT and showed 75% lower mortality in severe patients, p=0.02. Only 490 people though. Clearly this deserved replicating with more people. The fact that it wasn’t is a problem. T
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by jbritton 3mo ago
There are multiple hypotheses for methods of action for IVM against covid that were plausible and deserved serious funding and investigation by governments. This did not happen. What did happen is the two people who brought it to the attent
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by jbritton 3mo ago
I thought you corrected gamma in the monitor settings, not in your application code. Am I wrong.
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by jbritton 3mo ago
I never had a music class at any point in school in California.
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by jbritton 4mo ago
I wasn’t clear from the description if text rendering is GPU accelerated, or in my case drawing quads from an atlas of characters in a texture is probably more efficient.
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by jbritton 4mo ago
The very end of the article says “They can keep them for decoration but servers must generate their own random numbers.” I thought the lava lamps were for this purpose.
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by jbritton 5mo ago
“vaccines are used for population control” Bill Gates has stated this is a goal, but in a different context. The idea is if you’re in a country with a large number of early deaths you are likely to have more children, and vaccines should he
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by jbritton 5mo ago
You misunderstand me. I was simply trying to find the two people who were saying such things.
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by jbritton 5mo ago
I was trying to find a YouTube video I had seen previously. I ended up using Google to find it. There are two bio ethicists promoting the idea that we should make lone star ticks better at spreading alpha-gal and giving everyone meat allerg
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by jbritton 5mo ago
I’m sick of LLM refusals. I think there are extremely few things they should refuse, like maybe making nuclear weapons or something along those lines. Once you put people in charge of deciding what you shouldn’t be allowed to see that list
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by jbritton 5mo ago
This sounds great. I’m going to play with it.
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by jbritton 5mo ago
Stitches pages on an infinite canvas is possibly the worst UI I have ever seen.
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by jbritton 5mo ago
I believe I’m tone deaf. There is no test for this. I am color blind, but I have the most favorable form of red/green color blindness which means for the most part I see all colors, but I fail the tests. Likewise I hear tones, and can

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