monktastic1

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by monktastic1 8d ago
But this oracle doesn't just say true / false. It also gives a proof. That makes it much less exciting (not to mention beneficial for your career) to find another one (or even worse, the same one).
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by monktastic1 1mo ago
Thanks for this clarification of your position. The brief answer is: > If we didn't move the goalposts, then by definition we already knew exactly where we were headed at the beginning, and we very clearly did not. The criticisms ar
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by monktastic1 2mo ago
So you defined your own idiosyncratic version of "moving the goalposts" and used it to rebut his argument, with a condescending "you understand that's how science works, right?"--instead of being honest that it is
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by monktastic1 2mo ago
Not sure how to suggest edits to titles, but @dang: his first name is Terence, not Terrence.
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by monktastic1 7mo ago
Yes, this is a huge omission, because it means that as engines improve, the stated advantage becomes increasingly meaningless to humans (which is the opposite of what we may intuitively expect). What I really want to know as a player is how
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by monktastic1 8mo ago
I think you're misreading the comment you're responding to. Its parent comment said that life can be a blessing or a curse depending on how you choose to look. They responded by asking whether the word "curse" is appropr
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by monktastic1 8mo ago
Indelible, probably -- though I admit that both trying to eat and trying to delete that passage failed. (I jest -- "impossible to forget," of course.)
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by monktastic1 1y ago
Your account seems relatively new, so you might be unfamiliar with the rule to be charitable here. If you'd like to be snarky and lower the bar for discourse, Reddit is a much better place to do that (though ideally it would be kept ou
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by monktastic1 1y ago
Huh, I would guess there's a different mechanism at work. In my experience, movies playing on TV during the holidays tend not to get people's deep, persistent, undivided attention.
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by monktastic1 1y ago
My assumption here is that FAANG employees are not fundamentally different from the rest of the populace along that particular dimension (desire to inflate lifestyle). I chose them in particular to demonstrate that even when we have the cho
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by monktastic1 1y ago
Perhaps "retire" is the wrong word. One can still work (whether for pay or not) and improve the lives of the people around them without staying on the consumption treadmill. Very few actually do. Again, this isn't meant as a
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by monktastic1 1y ago
I wouldn't be so quick to divide the world so neatly into victims and perpetrators. Every FAANG engineer I know, for example, could easily retire by mid-40s by keeping consumption in check. Instead, nearly every single one chose instea
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by monktastic1 1y ago
Right, each county is coextensive with one borough: Kings (Brooklyn), Queens, Bronx, New York (Manhattan), and Richmond (Staten Island).
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by monktastic1 1y ago
I see. Thanks for the added context; that's much clearer.
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by monktastic1 1y ago
If this were true, then why even bother to make atomic clocks? Why would an article about the "most accurate clock" be interesting to smart people like HN readers if there's no objective measure of accuracy (or if it didn&#x2
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by monktastic1 1y ago
It being "nice" does not negate the fact that there's no way to pay for _only_ ad removal.
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by monktastic1 1y ago
BUD/S /s.
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by monktastic1 1y ago
> Yeah, I don’t get how you distinguish between a correct visual proof and a visual proof that looks right but doesn’t actually prove what it’s trying to prove. This problem exists not only for visual proofs, but for standard written one
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by monktastic1 1y ago
> a government department Looks like the propaganda worked. DOGE is not a "government department" and there is very little visibility into how it's run.
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by monktastic1 1y ago
Like o3, which hallucinates more (as I learned from this piece)? https://techcrunch.com/2025/04/18/openais-new-reasoning-ai-m...
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by monktastic1 1y ago
A little annoying that they use zero instead of o, but yeah.
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by monktastic1 1y ago
Ha, I was in charge of data quality for Google Maps going on 15 years ago. Addresses were hard then, and I'm sure they're hard now. Alas, Google didn't want to invest in keeping this data high quality — a fact to which I actu
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by monktastic1 1y ago
I think it depends on the self-awareness of the user. It's easy to slip into the mode of conflating an LLM with a conscious being, but with enough metacognition one can keep them separate. Then, in the same way that walking on concrete
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by monktastic1 1y ago
Huh, could have fooled me. My first experience of Austin was long stretches of ugly billboards (I think mostly on Burnet and N Lamar), and despite living here for years that first impression never left. Now that I think about it, without so
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by monktastic1 1y ago
Lol, don't know how my mind filled in those letters, but that was indeed my Portland experience so I'll leave it.
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by monktastic1 1y ago
Oh, thank God. I only visited Portland once, and despite being vastly different from Austin in climate and flora, the sea of billboards made it feel eerily familiar (and not in a good way). I expected it to feel more like Seattle, but that
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by monktastic1 1y ago
Yes, that's what it's saying.
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by monktastic1 1y ago
I'm confused by your comment. First, powers of two are 2^n not n^2. But what do you mean you missed the title and wondered what was going on? How could you expect to understand the contents without reading the title? Surely I'm mi
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by monktastic1 2y ago
Indeed, meditation is the best approach I've found as well. It can be seen clearly -- not as an idea, but a direct realization -- precisely why the mind's attempts to pin "this" down are futile. I don't have a bette
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by monktastic1 2y ago
> I consider life and reality incredibly, painfully boring. Interesting. The main benefit I've gotten from psychedelics (mostly mushrooms) is that all of life / reality is impossibly miraculous -- even, paradoxically, when it s

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