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by mw888 12d ago
'Prediction' gets overloaded with optimization. Predictions are binary, optimizations are fuzzy. If you're saying it's predicting, then each result should be falsifiable. The result of an LLM output should be able to be
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by mw888 19d ago
Your argument of course sounds nice and fails under your inability to define "gambling." I view favored house-odds, on arbitrary games or not, as unethical and predatory. This is the classic casino slot machine and related. Howeve
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by mw888 20d ago
It does have to be said that if LLMs keep becoming better coders at some point the bottleneck on quality is prompting. Good ideas have many hidden assumptions you think are procedural but often are pivotal to your broader vision. I find tha
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by mw888 21d ago
The intent was to collapse this meaning. In the context of 'decentralized tech' I've come to believe literal 'decentralization' has unavoidably poor network effects, while 'accountability' gives what peop
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by mw888 21d ago
You can choose relays, and everyone using one (centralized) relay avoids the issues. And network effects push everyone to the same one.
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by mw888 23d ago
Email requires a message to reach a specific, limited set of participants. Nostr is a public forum, which means an unbounded number of participants who can engage. Ordering a conversation between an unbounded set across independent nodes le
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by mw888 23d ago
Nostr breaks down along the longstanding ambiguity around what 'decentralization' means. In the literal sense, centralization leads to economies of scale and the alleviation of coordination issues. Those coordination issues are wh
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by mw888 23d ago
ChatGPT subscriptions do the same weekly allowance, which the discounts apply to.
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by mw888 23d ago
Culture us already far more ironic and appreciative of irreverent and absurdist humor, and open-minded to ideology- than it was prior generations. Why would it tend this way before AI? Something to do with the creative potential where tech
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by mw888 26d ago
There's an amortization aspect as well. If I'm going to be iterating on one document or idea in an extended manner with feedback from the chatbot, I will make an effort to setup the decorum it should follow, because it's a sm
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by mw888 29d ago
The article reads like AI, which is a shame because the topic is at least in-theory compelling. 'Crypto' adopts to some extent a principle of being 'decentralized' and now has to square what it means for that type of har
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by mw888 29d ago
Generally constraining scope and providing enough existing material until the LLM is productive. The common counter-argument is that specifying to the sufficient level is more work than just not using an LLM at all. I find that is not a uni
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by mw888 29d ago
Paraphrasing: > Advertisement serves to increase purchase of the inferior product. > The best product, which previously didn't require ads [on Amazon] now must pay Amazon to compete for eyeballs. Advertisement, when successful, i
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by mw888 1mo ago
Consider also the utility of a weaker technology: Succinct Non-interactive Arguments of Knowledge. Theses can be ZK, but even if not they can take an expensive verification, like a hundreds-wide multisignature, and make it cheap.
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by mw888 1mo ago
I won't overclaim but look at "Binius" which uses fields, instead of prime orders, of orders of powers of two. The very intuitive notion is that computers are good at 2s, thus explaining their massive performance gains.
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by mw888 1mo ago
You're appealing to ambiguity. All you've said is you have failed—how is anyone supposed to know what went wrong?
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by mw888 1mo ago
Predict multiple outcomes, induct across them, refine.
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by mw888 1mo ago
Software developers are famous for lamenting the high time preferences of business forcing them to make poor engineering decisions. The dynamic is common. Therefore one should not expect higher quality out of many businesses using AI, but y
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by mw888 1mo ago
This could allow a very opinionated and tailored translation, which I think is the appeal. That said, I'd like to see the prompt(s) having such an effect on the subjective choices for a project like this.
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by mw888 1mo ago
I like Pi, but I didn't end up using it. I tried OpenCode, Pi, Zed Editor and some NVIM packages. I wanted open source, featureful and easy to use. Specifically I wanted to easily edit the agent prompt. I ended up on VS Code. I'm
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by mw888 2mo ago
Your post I responded you had said "I have come to understand it is that everything is indeed political." Now you concede a bit: > Just because most of everything has a political angle/facet does not mean it defines my lif
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by mw888 2mo ago
That's great. You certainly know more the ins-and-outs, and I wish you luck.
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by mw888 2mo ago
AI critique often funnels itself into a narrow bucket: creating code blindly with AI is bad. That's easy to grant. Adversarial testing, checking developer assumptions, refactor suggestions , small dev tools and even some guided coding
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by mw888 2mo ago
In toying with VS Code or other 'agent harnesses' I'm always annoyed to find very long verbose system prompts "You are CoPilot. You are an expert. You can do anything you put your mind to..." and on and on. The toke
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by mw888 2mo ago
Something something pedantry.
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by mw888 2mo ago
I think a lot of this is the inevitable (and good) direction teaching must go. As someone who has self-taught most of my skills both before and after AI, some deep feedback: I don't want a fixed piece of content when learning with AI,
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by mw888 4mo ago
If only the conversation could be rooted with this understanding, rather than it being a leaf.
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by mw888 4mo ago
There's an irony in your comment. On one hand, it's clearly starkly anti-LLM, but on the other hand, you treat humans and LLMs as similar categories, accepting a strong pro-AI framing. You would never say "events are for huma
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by mw888 4mo ago
That's an ambitious conclusion, and not as overly so as some may think. But I believe it is not the reason Rust adopted this policy, I think they just have a more basal and subjective dislike of AI irrespective of whatever truth you ma
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by mw888 4mo ago
Here are the actual policies, not a comment: https://github.com/jyn514/rust-forge/blob/llm-policy/src/pol... It's in-line with the 'nanny' stereotype of the Rust community that they g

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