joshmarlow

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by joshmarlow 8d ago
I've been thinking for a while that something like this could be a solution for the suboptimal UX in the digital assets space. Imagine a very small LLM embedded into a MetaMask equivalent where you just specify the task you want to do
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by joshmarlow 27d ago
"End to end ownership is the job." This is an incredibly good and concise articulation of where the role is going. Thank you.
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by joshmarlow 1mo ago
I would not advocate nationalization of any operations - I think the free market will run the data centers better in general. I'm only suggesting (eventual) negotiations between countries and automated corporations - to operate here, y
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by joshmarlow 1mo ago
I don't understand why this got downvotes - simply extrapolating current trends leads to the need to answer all of these questions. My own $0.02 on the economics piece - every country should have a sovereign wealth fund. Governments sh
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by joshmarlow 2mo ago
I've often thought that s-expression diff-viewers would be very nice tooling. I've also often wondered how easy it would be to just sling s-expressions across the wire to execute in another environment. What would modern infrastru
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by joshmarlow 2mo ago
I've often wondered how viable it is to use AI to fill out the ecosystem gaps in awesome but niche languages (still looking at you OCaml...). I've not gone too deep down this train of thought because a standard library/ecosys
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by joshmarlow 2mo ago
A couple of years ago I listened to a Lex Fridman podcast with a researcher at the MIT Media Lab. I don't know the status of it, but the researcher spoke about how people in developing countries were experimenting with using local reso
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by joshmarlow 2mo ago
I don't hear about them a lot but it looks like arcee.ai is aiming to be just that. Here are some of their current open weight offerings: https://www.arcee.ai/open-source-catalog
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by joshmarlow 2mo ago
That makes sense and had never occurred to me! I just asked and Claude says it's Haiku.
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by joshmarlow 2mo ago
Absolutely the same. Now that Fable is back, the Claude voice interface is... worth dealing with. The app mostly seems to have trouble recovering from networking issues which is jarring in a deep conversation.
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by joshmarlow 2mo ago
I'm so mad that this might make me re-subscribe to ChatGPT. I wouldn't have believed how much I use the voice feature before LLMs and ChatGPT currently has the best voice interface. I think Grok's interface is the next best,
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by joshmarlow 3mo ago
One of the more counter-intuitive parts of management that I've found is that your focus shifts from delivering a technical outcome to care-taking a team that delivers technical outcomes. It's a meta-function. A related physics me
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by joshmarlow 3mo ago
It definitely violates DRY but if you keep passing the JWT down the call chain, you can do redundant permission checking in your business layer. Now the reasonable response to the above is that this should be happening in a dedicated authn&
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by joshmarlow 3mo ago
His Blindsight is one of my all time favorite novels (sequel is good to). His short story Malak - about a military drone given a prototype ethical program - is so good.
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by joshmarlow 3mo ago
This feels like this is exploring the reasons for what Doctorow calls "Enshitification" which is really exciting.
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by joshmarlow 4mo ago
Another suggestion for optimizing local inference - the Hermes team talks a lot on X about how much better results are when you use custom parsers tuned to the nuances of each model. Some models might like to use a trailing `,` in JSON outp
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by joshmarlow 5mo ago
I propose a claude skill to email glitter bombs where appropriate.
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by joshmarlow 6mo ago
> Treat code design and architecture as the thing that lets your slop canons (90% of engineers even pre-ai) move fast without breaking things I'm currently of the opinion that humans should be laser focused on the data model. If you
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by joshmarlow 6mo ago
That's very interesting and is good evidence against the thesis - thanks for sharing!
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by joshmarlow 6mo ago
Very true - which is why this piece "that translations of others words into 'happy' are somewhat approximate." would be very interesting if accurate.
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by joshmarlow 6mo ago
I've not read Aristotle directly but translating eudaimonia was an example in the book that I mentioned. The argument was that eudaimonia is often translated as happiness but that doesn't make sense in contexts where we talk about
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by joshmarlow 6mo ago
A few years ago I read a claim that the word 'happy' is relatively young - ~500 years old - and that translations of others words into 'happy' are somewhat approximate. My takeaway is that (presuming the argument is corr
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by joshmarlow 7mo ago
On a related note, this type of reasoning is what made me flip my opinion on microservices. I've generally been skeptical of a many-microservice architecture for the last decade but LLMs change that - a small microservice is more likel
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by joshmarlow 7mo ago
Now I want my main agent to be modeled after the Adjutant and any subagents to sound like SCVs.
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by joshmarlow 8mo ago
CoinBase sure does - https://www.x402.org/
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by joshmarlow 8mo ago
Adding to your comment, I've found that frequent squashing of commits on the feature branch makes rebasing considerably easier - you only have to deal with conflicts on one commit. And of course, making it easier to rebase makes it mor
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by joshmarlow 9mo ago
I think Grok's voice chat is almost there - only things missing for me: * it's slower to start-up by a couple of seconds * it's harder to switch between voice and text and back again in the same chat (though ChatGPT i
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by joshmarlow 9mo ago
Agreed! In the Lex Fridman podcast from a few years ago that I referenced, he talked quite a bit about his depression - he was near suicidal for 13 years, IIRC. He sounds like a different person now.
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by joshmarlow 9mo ago
I suppose I don't see how that's a problem if he's happy in the process - which he certainly appears to be.
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by joshmarlow 9mo ago
> Bryan Johnson is an interesting case here. If you take the longevity project to its logical end, you get someone who's stopped living in order to keep living - for the most part not eating food he enjoys, not drinking, not doing a

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