mjg2

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by mjg2 1mo ago
Is it an "econ paper?" I'm sorry for the continued contrarian route here but I ask it in earnest. Are we compromising our standards of economic papers to fit the fad? Like how I gestured in my top-level comment, are we being
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by mjg2 1mo ago
When I say “how” I mean like how u/glouwbug mentioned: Formatting. But more so Structure. When I read artifacts by Frontier Labs I notice a trend towards deteriorating lexicographic architecture. Like how a textbook or larger tomb is c
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by mjg2 1mo ago
Would it kill these OpenAI guys to learn how to write a white paper? Google's DeepMind did better with their AGI to ASI, though I have qualms on their execution. Whenever I see these Frontier Labs "publish a paper" on ArXiv.o
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by mjg2 1mo ago
Right. The favorite bank of Epstein's cash account will surely keep its integrity /s - https://fortune.com/2025/10/08/deutsche-bank-and-jeffrey-eps... - https://www.reuters.com/susta
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by mjg2 2mo ago
Seriously, what's hope is left for adults when a 5 year old understands signed Nostr events? The ELI-SWE is the docs I guess? I want to get off the Silicon Valley marketing express.
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by mjg2 2mo ago
I don't understand why people cast skepticism or not-devotion as "hatred." There's a whole spectrum for opinions to fall on; I don't care for sports but that doesn't mean I hate baseball.
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by mjg2 2mo ago
Thanks for sharing this. It appears your README.md's first paragraph is truncated. It ends with "Carmack which reportedly contains..." What were you intending to say next?
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by mjg2 3mo ago
To the author's credit, there's a disclosure that the article is a teaser for deep dive for paid-subscribers only. That's probably why it's light on details.
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by mjg2 3mo ago
Ah I see now that I am in agreement with you, thank you for being a patient interlocutor. I do not discard and rule out the possibility of a different substrate being the well-spring from which sentience emerges. Plainly, based on the curre
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by mjg2 3mo ago
Roger that, thank you. w/r/g your recapitulation of my point: yes, the story is unoriginal and pointless, and the HN community seems to eat it up-- isn't that odd. So I still disagree with your elucidated point (as you end wi
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by mjg2 3mo ago
I cannot tell if you are asserting my comment is chauvinistic with your use of "we." If that is so: that's a poor counter to my point or assessment of my stance because it assumes I'm making a baseless argument as a &quo
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by mjg2 3mo ago
Thank you for your point. I don't understand why half these comments are taking this blog post seriously when it ends with "Weights helped me draft and proof this story." > Weights helped me draft and proof this story. A
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by mjg2 4mo ago
lol Dude I should be the one verifying your age with this response. I don’t hate Elon, I am wary of his track record and I don’t use X. I drove a Tesla back in 2012, and it’s been a marked downgrade ever since. I’m not going to keep engagin
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by mjg2 4mo ago
That's just a man standing by his car. I'm asking for video proof, I'm sorry that wasn't clear off the bat. I also abstain from X due to Elon's track record, so I'm not going to keep searching there for it. Cou
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by mjg2 4mo ago
Sure they have improved but how do we define success? Is success "It can drive a road it has never been on?" Even then I'm not sure because the model (not the physical car) has probably scanned that road before so it is recal
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by mjg2 4mo ago
I think an accolade's merit is based on the definition of done for work delivered. Elon certainly told the public a certain vision of self-driving (a definition of done) and it didn't come to fruition despite PR progress; i.e. a w
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by mjg2 4mo ago
I could never trust a Tesla to drive safely around people. They seem like death traps. Could you share a link to the coast to coast drive please? How aided was it?
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by mjg2 4mo ago
Tesla still hasn't achieved their 2016 self-drive goal by their self imposed deadline of 2017, even now a decade later. So, politely, is that accolade merited?
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by mjg2 4mo ago
I find your critique very interesting from a perspective-angle: why are you using words like "accommodate," and "foibles," for LLMs? It's not humanoid or sentient: it's a cleverly-designed software tool, not in
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by mjg2 5mo ago
> Biggest issue that stuck out seems to have been that they think the LLM could somehow have an inner dialogue with itself to find out "it's reasoning and motivation": > I'm guessing these are the same type of peop
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by mjg2 5mo ago
The 2025 edition from Penguin
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by mjg2 5mo ago
I’m going to suggest books with prose I like: - The Sun Also Rises, Hemingway - Butcher’s Crossing, Willams - Legs, Kennedy - The Passenger, McCarthy As for sci-fi: Dune!
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by mjg2 5mo ago
I just finished this book and complained about it the whole time. The prose is amateur and peppered with cliches (e.g. you should be fined for publishing the phrase "their suit was so sharp it could cut"). His attempt to write abo
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by mjg2 6mo ago
I was just re-reading the passage from Plato's "The Phaedrus" on writing & the "art" of the letter for an essay I'm working on, and your remark is salient for this discussion on LLM-style AI and social medi
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by mjg2 7mo ago
That's the whole Microspeak scheme: rename any generic term into a Microsoft term to encroach claim without sweat. Bunch of mooches.
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by mjg2 8mo ago
Clean project, well done. As a classically trained pianist, I'll say the following commentary regarding this thread: there are many ways to learn to "play the piano" and no one is going to agree on "the right way" b
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by mjg2 9mo ago
First, I'm responding the more (politely) trivial remarks. > drugs and alcohol, swimming, bad driving, biking, getting hit by a car whilst walking, getting shot, or suicide. These are false equivalences-- when has a pool try to groo
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by mjg2 9mo ago
This HN post fits into the category of "Pithy blog title with casually anecdotal content." Software companies will never earnestly attempt to protect children because that action ("acknowledging children are in danger by usin
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by mjg2 9mo ago
With due respect, this comment conveys a position of privilege and surviver's bias. I, like you, eschewed online rules as a minor and I luckily benefitted from this time in my expertise. I was lucky. I didn't run into predators wh
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by mjg2 9mo ago
> It's the child's obligation to use that education wisely. I disagree because children, despite how precocious and "old-soul"ed, are not wise compared to online predators. I appreciate your POV on allowing children t

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