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by jtr1 1mo ago
Quite something to see neither Jared nor his in-laws mentioned here
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by jtr1 1mo ago
I realize this is not scalable, but I’ve come to the personal preference that sycophancy be overt. LLMs are always steering in a direction and I find it a good reminder that they are just as incapable of objectivity as humans. TBD, but I th
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by jtr1 1mo ago
Just working on my own stuff so YMMV, but from a cost reduction standpoint, the two most outsized ROI wins came from making sure the agent runs all terminal commands in quiet and using a codebase index mcp to speed up understanding and redu
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by jtr1 2mo ago
This tweet is written as parody, but it seems self-evident from reading Trump's tweets that they do not all come directly from the president himself. Most political offices delegate social media to an internal team, presenting as if fr
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by jtr1 2mo ago
Most programming best practices were created to solve for the same problem LLMs face: limited context. The principles around well-crafted code strove to make it modifiable by future agents who are not the author. Maintainable code stabilize
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by jtr1 2mo ago
I do wonder if there will be a convergence between sodium-ion battery architectures and cheaper, renewable-powered desalination. Could industrial seawater mining be competitive as a sodium feedstock source?
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by jtr1 2mo ago
I think the limitation to team "let-people-do-what-they-want-even-if-it's-bad-for-them" is that it's rooted in outdated assumptions about what free will and coercion look like. Broadly speaking, libertarian notions of ne
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by jtr1 3mo ago
I've been running Claude Pro at home, supplemented with Deepseek configured in Claude Code. I've had decent luck throwing Opus (and briefly Fable, RIP) at architecture / product problems and producing plans to hand off to Dee
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by jtr1 4mo ago
You may want to update your priors [1][2][3] 1. https://www.carbonbrief.org/guest-post-how-solar-panels-and-... 2. https://www.fastcompany.com/91500104/google-minnesota-data-c... 3. https://
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by jtr1 4mo ago
This is the answer for me as well. My partner and I try to be intentional about giving each other at least an evening a week to go do something social, but it doesn't work out nearly that often because everyone else is juggling their o
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by jtr1 4mo ago
There is such a thing as "naive cynicism"
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by jtr1 4mo ago
Yeah, I like the "get out of jail free" card approach. The thing I always used to hate before this era was getting stuck in a hole on something that would take days or worse to grind through. It's nice to drop a little plank
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by jtr1 4mo ago
I have been building an iOS app that I had kicking around in my head for years but never had time to build. I have been a frontend UX engineer for the better part of a decade and went through a handful of tutorials on Swift. The project def
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by jtr1 5mo ago
This is appalling and I agree the technology is creepy. However, human verification is already a big problem that seems like it will only grow from here. It does seem to me that this should be solvable at the device level by having a biomet
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by jtr1 6mo ago
For many possible reasons, depending on where you live.
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by jtr1 6mo ago
"But the economy" is an out-of-date framing. The cost of renewables has been plummeting for well over a decade. New renewables are now cheaper than new fossil fuel plants in most of the world, and in many regions they're alre
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by jtr1 7mo ago
Maybe this is a naive question, but why wouldn't there be market for this even for frontier models? If Anthropic wanted to burn Opus 4.6 into a chip, wouldn't there theoretically be a price point where this would lower inference c
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by jtr1 7mo ago
The demo was so fast it highlighted a UX component of LLMs I hadn’t considered before: there’s such a thing as too fast, at least in the chatbot context. The demo answered with a page of text so fast I had to scroll up every time to see whe
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by jtr1 7mo ago
I tend to agree, this has been my experience with LLM-powered coding, especially more recently with the advent of new harnesses around context management and planning. I’ve been building software for over ten years so I feel comfortable loo
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by jtr1 8mo ago
At last, our scientific literature can turn to its true purpose: mapping the entire space of arguable positions (and then some)
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by jtr1 8mo ago
Yes. I think the concept you’re describing is proprioception: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Proprioception
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by jtr1 8mo ago
I spent some very enjoyable time browsing courses and tutorials in the Santa Fe Institute’s complexity explorer![1] I wish I had encountered complexity science earlier in life. It touches on so many of the questions that have sparked my ima
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by jtr1 9mo ago
The ending of the article left me feeling he had more of an axe to grind here. The mostly unspoken ideological background is that classical art is often appropriated by proponents of Western chauvinism to demonstrate their supposed innate c
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by jtr1 9mo ago
Interesting. Like many people here, I've thought a great deal about what it means for LLMs to be trained on the whole available corpus of written text, but real world conversation is a kind of dark matter of language as far as LLMs are
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by jtr1 10mo ago
What is your personal experience here?
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by jtr1 10mo ago
On the flip side, the crypto hype machine pretty seamlessly flipped to the AI hype machine, so it makes sense the same anti crowd shifted pretty seamlessly. Given the practical applications of crypto were minimal and the externalities were
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by jtr1 10mo ago
They were and we should push back and yes, there is a mountain of baseless hype. But if you train your fire on the wrong thing, you risk not addressing the actual problem.
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by jtr1 10mo ago
I think the point here is that objecting to AI data center water use and not to say, alfalfa farming in Arizona, reads as reactive rather than principled. But more importantly, there are vast, imminent social harms from AI that get crowded
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Why mesh networks break when big crowds gather(spectrum.ieee.org)
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by jtr1 11mo ago
I think you'll have a difficult time comprehending the phenomenon if you look for reasoned arguments. A much more productive framework, IMO, is to see it in terms of a feedback loop between funding sources and the aggregate valence of

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