narnarpapadaddy

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by narnarpapadaddy 4d ago
No disagreement here; I felt countless smaller problems leading up to the final blow was implied.
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by narnarpapadaddy 4d ago
I think this is the correct take. And until we have an AI Hiroshima it’ll be difficult to get the international community to work together. It’ll take rogue AI (or AI-powered group) disabling a significant world power before everyone comes
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by narnarpapadaddy 13d ago
The “elements for randomness” are carve-outs for the parts of territory the map can’t contain. The more granular the map, the larger relative proportion that falls into that set. Nobody can predict the layout of my basement from a globe of
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by narnarpapadaddy 13d ago
The currently accepted answer to that is “the territory appears to be randomized” (quantum mechanics)
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by narnarpapadaddy 17d ago
Trust as delegation is an interesting angle; if you’ve not read Team Topologies I’d recommend it. These topics are treated pretty well.
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by narnarpapadaddy 17d ago
> is advocating for and what doesn't tend to happen in dysfunctional organizations. Agreed the observations are interesting, and that’s what is being advocated for, I just don’t think top-down vs bottom-up is the axis that impacts t
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by narnarpapadaddy 17d ago
An aspect that’s missing from this analysis is distributed vs centralized decision authority. In militaries and in tech startups a “squad” or “two-pizza team” are empowered to make decisions for their local domain because they have the real
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by narnarpapadaddy 1mo ago
So the wiggle room for efficiency is in the mechanism for counteracting yaw? Either the weight or energy expense of running a tail rotor or quadrotors or variable pitch mounts (or some other clever mechanism)?
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by narnarpapadaddy 1mo ago
I think performance generally trades along a different axis: open-world vs closed-world assumptions. There are many cases where closed-world assumptions may confer performance benefits, such as tree-shaking, whole program optimization, and
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by narnarpapadaddy 2mo ago
> This is about guiding principles, about personal liberty, and about freedom from tyranny. The point he’s trying to make, as I understand it, is that states adapt. They don’t just throw up their hands and say “guess we can’t do anything
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by narnarpapadaddy 2mo ago
No disagreement in principle; in practice taking that approach in Zig is safer than in Rust, because in Rust it’s “all or nothing.”
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by narnarpapadaddy 2mo ago
I agree that it’s not inherent to emitting machine code but I do think it reflects a different set of priorities. In extremely high performance code you use different data structures and algorithms and change your approach to memory allocat
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by narnarpapadaddy 2mo ago
It’s probably too little too late in the age of Claude… C# grew all those features over time. It had to leave syntax to support old patterns to preserve backwards compatibility. Thus, the syntax has grown a bit noisy over time to support al
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by narnarpapadaddy 2mo ago
No, I’m not. I’m explicitly differentiating between those two perspectives and which corporations care about. “Blame” doesn’t exist in most corporate vocabularies.
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by narnarpapadaddy 2mo ago
It’s possible. Effects allow more aspects of computation to be represented/generalized, but as the author has noted concrete implementations have already been tried in some cases. Rust’s ownership, Java’s exceptions, Typescript’s async
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by narnarpapadaddy 2mo ago
Because it’s their job to fix it. If they don’t, the axe falls again. Humans often think in terms of deontological ethics. Corporations operate in terms of consequentialist ethics, and the only consequence that matters is that the numbers g
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by narnarpapadaddy 2mo ago
I feel the author’s pain. LLMs take over right as we’re finally figuring out the unifying models and algorithms for programming languages. Some time back I went on a tour of the fort at Dry Tortugas. Largest brick masonry fort in the world.
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by narnarpapadaddy 2mo ago
I buy that markets are like a traveling salesman problem. “Impossible” in the general case, but good enough could algorithms exist. Where’s the economist formulation of that algorithm? What are the policy implications that fall out of that?
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by narnarpapadaddy 2mo ago
Rules are only “good” or “bad” in the context of the alternatives. What’s the alternative?
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by narnarpapadaddy 3mo ago
Way above my pay grade. I’m not an expert in game theory, economics, warfare, or nuclear proliferation. :)
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by narnarpapadaddy 3mo ago
Game theory here is applied to two fundamental market theorems. It’s a way to analyze the validity of those assumptions, rather than to build a new model. Empirical evidence to the contrary is expected given mutually inconsistent premises,
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by narnarpapadaddy 3mo ago
Are securities regulations so lax that pump ‘n dump schemes on a global scale get IPO’d? Are conmen so sophisticated that their plans take decades to mature and require sending rockets to space? Either or both of those being true is almost
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by narnarpapadaddy 3mo ago
If this happened it would make Elon emperor of the known universe. Can’t imagine the level of influence this would buy. It also seems impossible. What are people seeing that I don’t?
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by narnarpapadaddy 3mo ago
Same, I care little about NSFW. We used to all live in caves together where kids saw adults having sex, in conflict, and cleaning game. But I also grew with a different internet than we have now. There’s a level of targeted manipulation tha
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by narnarpapadaddy 3mo ago
Not to mention if “borders” is part of the continuity definition the US is younger than my parents.
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by narnarpapadaddy 3mo ago
That’s not the premise people are building on though. Any particular model almost doesn’t matter at this point. Harnesses are built around them. OpenAI and Anthropic are basically interchangeable in an open-source harness like OpenCode; the
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by narnarpapadaddy 4mo ago
My version of this is the “N+1” principle. Build for one more foreseeable use case than you currently have. The domain model will click in when you need to generalize a solution, and you’ll gain the ability to see your particular solution
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by narnarpapadaddy 4mo ago
In the case of concrete there’s also a time component. Once you mix the cement and aggregate you have a few hours before it begins to set. The cement itself is already typically trucked in (a relatively small amount of dry, easily transport
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by narnarpapadaddy 4mo ago
Anecdotally, my take on this is that biggest value lever is strategy and alignment, not implementation. The typical company is dozens of little vectors pointed in different directions, and they cancel each other out. Scaling up the magnitud
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by narnarpapadaddy 7mo ago
Imagine you initialized 10,000 NPM repos identically simultaneously. Then had 100 different teams each take of 100 those repos for 10 different projects, and let each repo run for 1,000 commits. How distinct would each of those repos be? Ho

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