normalocity

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by normalocity 6mo ago
Love the idea at the end of the article about trying to see if this style of prompt injection could be used to get the bots to submit better quality, and actually useful PRs. If that could be done, open source maintainers might be able to e
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by normalocity 7mo ago
The voice of reason who has seen some things.
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by normalocity 7mo ago
Fair points. I guess I was asking if this is a new, or fundamentally different problem from pre-AI. I could be over-simplifying -- what do you think? This makes me think of risk assessment in general. There's a tradeoff between risk an
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by normalocity 7mo ago
> ... software can, in a very real sense, become self-improving. This is referring to the software the agent is working on, not the agent. > This creates a continuous feedback loop. This is referring to the feedback loop of the agent
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by normalocity 7mo ago
> ... which I imagine would be important for a military control AI I think this is a common, but incorrect assumption. What military commanders want (and what CEOs want, and what users want), is control and assistance. They don't wa
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by normalocity 7mo ago
Agree, this is the point the article makes. I don't think the article claims that it's the agent that is directly improved or altered, but that through the process of the agent self-maintaining its environment, then using that imp
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by normalocity 7mo ago
Where is the claim, in the article itself, about improving the agent?
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by normalocity 7mo ago
For sure this is a real example, but it's also largely a permissions issue where users are combining self-modifying capability with unlimited, effectively full admin access. Outside of AI, the combination of "a given actor can mak
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Breaking the Fix-It Loop: Strategies for Collaborative AI Debugging(contalign.jefflunt.com)
1 points by normalocity 7mo ago|0 comments
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Self-improving software won't produce Skynet(contalign.jefflunt.com)
37 points by normalocity 7mo ago|60 comments
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All you need for a self-improving autonomous developer stack(contalign.jefflunt.com)
2 points by normalocity 7mo ago|0 comments
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Building a new online arcade RTS game agentically(youtube.com)
2 points by normalocity 7mo ago|0 comments
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Todo.md – simplest method for getting AI agents to do work reliably(contalign.jefflunt.com)
1 points by normalocity 7mo ago|0 comments
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A new guide/blog for those ramping up on agentic coding(contalign.jefflunt.com)
1 points by normalocity 7mo ago|0 comments
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Ask HN: How do you use Amazon shipping notifications, if at all?
1 points by normalocity 1y ago|0 comments
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by normalocity 1y ago
Interesting idea. While waiting for my verdict I was asked the same question (and provided the same answer) over and over. Was expecting a bunch of different questions, rather than the same questions, repeated.
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by normalocity 1y ago
it does seem very similar. the instantiation syntax and the way you handle things is very, very similar for sure.
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by normalocity 1y ago
huh, maybe. I didn't know about this or find it when I was looking around. thanks, I'll check this out.
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nobject: dead-simple remote objects for Ruby, inspired by Elixir/Go/Actor model(github.com)
3 points by normalocity 1y ago|4 comments
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by normalocity 1y ago
Most of my code is in Ruby, but I've been watching languages like Go, Elixir, and ideas around the Actor model for years, trying to take the best ideas from these and applying them in my own system. Inspired by all of these examples, b
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by normalocity 2y ago
Not sure why AI agents wouldn't also be connected to an ad platform eventually. Google does this currently. While the author says that they are bypassing Google, that's not most people, and Google's results are front-loaded w
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by normalocity 4y ago
What an incredibly pointless and long ad disguised as a blog post.
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by normalocity 4y ago
Many of the core challenges that are fundamentally about human factors and collaboration haven't changed, such as the conflict between business requirements, engineering approaches, and the desire for no-code solutions. Ex.: People wer
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by normalocity 5y ago
It depends on whether you want to play the game or break it. :D Most people are taking this as a fun algorithmic exercise, assuming imperfect knowledge.
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by normalocity 5y ago
Tom's writeup inspired me to dig a little more. I unfortunately (for me) discovered a very simple way to solve the game on the first guess every time. My fault for reading the game's code, but I just can't look at the puzzle
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by normalocity 5y ago
I liked the first half of the essay - some interesting nuggets of some possible ideas, particularly the point about schisms forming rather than continued collective action once a group becomes large enough. The last half sounds a little bit
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by normalocity 5y ago
I do prefer PostgreSQL if I have a choice, but from the practicality standpoint that many people are hitting on, I'm okay with various design decisions (i.e. take a look at some of the flags for MySQL's `sql-mode` option over the
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by normalocity 5y ago
It can function like this, yes. There's a flag for the `sql_mode` that enables/disables this functionality, and I believe zero dates are disallowed by default in MySQL 8.0+ IIRC.
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by normalocity 5y ago
The main points made by the article are not unique to any particular job or industry. The method, if one is to get more freedom of choice in work, is to get yourself onto important projects that contribute to the bottom line. For a broader
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by normalocity 5y ago
The ship has long since sailed on this point, powered on or not. There's research that's talked about in the book, "Data and Goliath" that explains how the behavior of people specifically trying to avoid being tracked is

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