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by morsecodist 7mo ago
This is kind of the point I am trying to make that sovereignty is somewhat of a spectrum and there are a lot of options for preserving parts of it. I think the Westphalia thing is somewhat overblown there were lots of sovereignty analogs th
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by morsecodist 7mo ago
> HK always was bound to become a part of China Why so? Do you think Monaco should be part of France? Do you think Singapore should be part of Malaysia? A lot of big countries respect the sovereignty of neighboring smaller countries, alt
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by morsecodist 8mo ago
I would never ask a question on stack overflow because half the time it seemed to be flagged a dupe or for some other reason and it brought you closer to being disallowed to ask. I actually have answered a good amount of stack overflow ques
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by morsecodist 10mo ago
I see this advice a lot in various forms. I think people are probably too conflict averse on average so there is some merit to it but there are limits. I feel like there are a lot of times in my life where just moving on or being diplomatic
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by morsecodist 11mo ago
This is such an interesting comment thread because people have such wildly different opinions and from my perspective the entire disagreement just comes from company size. I am a "CTO" and I always put that in air quotes because I
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by morsecodist 11mo ago
I am pretty skeptical of how useful "memory" is for these models. I often need to start over with fresh context to get LLMs out of a rut. Depending on what I am working on I often find ChatGPT's memory system has made answers
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by morsecodist 1y ago
> When just a few years ago, having AI do these things was complete science fiction! This is only because these projects only became consumer facing fairly recently. There was a lot of incremental progress in the academic language model
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by morsecodist 1y ago
Any physical process can be interpreted as computation. Computation is in the eye of the beholder. Interpreting life as computation doesn't really add anything new we are just describing a model that we came up with.
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by morsecodist 1y ago
In general, I think the dependency hate is overblown. People hear about problems with dependencies because dependencies are usually open source code used by a lot of people so it is public and relevant. You don't hear as much about pro
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by morsecodist 1y ago
I am extremely skeptical of this mathematical model to predict history thing. There's just not enough history to do it and you bake in your biases when you go through the qualitative historical record and try to assign it to quantities
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by morsecodist 1y ago
Fair I stopped using Go pre-generics so I am pretty out of date. I just remember having this conversation about generics and at the time there was a large anti-generics group. Is it a lot better with generics? I was worried that a lot of th
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by morsecodist 1y ago
I find the way people talk about Go super weird. If people have criticisms people almost always respond that the language is just "fine" and people kind of shame you for wanting it. People say Go is simpler but having to write a f
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by morsecodist 1y ago
This just makes it even more frustrating to me. Everything good about go is more about the tooling and ecosystem but the language itself is not very good. I wish this effort had been put into a better language.
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by morsecodist 1y ago
These people's theories (except Turing) are highly speculative predictions about the future. They could be right but they are not analogous to the predictions we get out of epidemiology where we have had a lot of examples to study. Wha
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by morsecodist 1y ago
I honestly can't tell if you're being facetious. Maybe I suck at writing and don't properly understand sarcasm but unfortunately I'm only human.
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by morsecodist 1y ago
I don't agree that it is because of the "quality" of the video. The issue with AI art is that it lacks intentional content. I think people like art because it is a sort of conversation between the creator and the viewer. It i
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by morsecodist 1y ago
I'm very skeptical of this psychoanalysis of people who disagree with you. Can't people just be wrong? People are wrong all the time without it being some sort of defense mechanism. I feel this line of thinking puts you in a heads
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by morsecodist 1y ago
> I do feel that there is a routine bias on HN to underplay AI It's always interesting to see this take because my perception is the exact opposite. I don't think there's ever been an issue for me personally with a bigger
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by morsecodist 1y ago
I think it's fair to point out that they were never intended to be a good framework for aligning robots and humans. Even in his own stories they lead to problems. They were created precisely to make the point that encoding these things
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by morsecodist 1y ago
There are some great native apps out there and a lot of them do things you couldn't do on the web, but nowhere near close seems like a stretch to me. There are some great web apps out there. And while there are great native apps made w
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by morsecodist 1y ago
I totally agree. I don't get why people feel so strongly that native apps are better. The web technologies we have are great both from a developer experience perspective and a UX perspective. People hate on electron apps but I think th
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by morsecodist 1y ago
This doesn't make any sense. When people say this they mean they want more social spending and they are willing to pay more taxes to get it. The budget is what it is, the administration has made it clear that keeping the deficit low ha
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by morsecodist 1y ago
I think this is fair. Untracked TODOs should be minimized but I think there is value in recording how some section of code could be improved even if you know you are unlikely to do it. I don't think the triple click thing is a good exa
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by morsecodist 1y ago
Not really. These other industries are evaluating people somehow. Whether it's vibes, connections, resume, or some sort of technical evaluation you'll have a grown adult evaluating you. Hiring will always feel a bit lame and arbit
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by morsecodist 1y ago
I somewhat agree that there is a problem but there is a glimmer of hope. As these medical terms are used more in everyday speech they lose their medical connotations and just become new words for personality traits. A lot of people who casu
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by morsecodist 1y ago
AGI is a marketing term. It has no consistent definition. It's not very useful when trying to reason about AI's capabilities.
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by morsecodist 1y ago
I don't doubt that we will be able to make a content machine. Honestly, we had that on tiktok before generative AI. But I feel like this kind of misses the point of art. The idea of art for me is on some level experiencing someone else
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by morsecodist 1y ago
Humans all have similar brains. Different hardware and algorithms have way more variance in strengths and weaknesses. At some points you bump up against the theoretical trade-offs of different approaches. It is possible that systems will be
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by morsecodist 1y ago
Thanks for replying! I liked the article overall. I guess I read into something that wasn't really there.

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