notduncansmith

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by notduncansmith 4d ago
“It all hinges on [an entirely presupposed conclusion that we can’t prove is any more likely than the opposite]” is about as unserious as it gets lol
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by notduncansmith 5d ago
Not yet AGI, and Richard Sutton has left to start a new lab
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by notduncansmith 10d ago
I'm not convinced that a truly "superintelligent" AI would come to the conclusion that humanity needs to be destroyed. What a waste of resources that would represent. This planet has so much equity wrapped up in humanity, it
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by notduncansmith 1mo ago
I suspect the same limitations apply to Grand Canyon visitors
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by notduncansmith 3mo ago
I’m able to avoid this basin with a pretty natural baseline professional positivity and frustration management that I would employ with pair-programming. For example, if I just made progress with a human I was guiding through a task, I woul
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by notduncansmith 3mo ago
The actual content is no better, trust your nose
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by notduncansmith 3mo ago
> What’s NOT yet working: Oh Claude~
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by notduncansmith 3mo ago
Have heard this called blue-washing (eg Mike Rowe) when done publicly
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by notduncansmith 6mo ago
You overestimate many teams I think.
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by notduncansmith 7mo ago
Sometimes adapting oneself is, in fact, progress.
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by notduncansmith 1y ago
I hope you’re joking :)
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by notduncansmith 2y ago
Russian bot tactic? Guessing it’s an easy way to farm interaction as people comment back to correct the mistake.
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by notduncansmith 2y ago
I didn’t read the author as blaming, and I can relate to what they’re saying. It’s hard to speak about a childhood full of abuses that thought they had your best interests at heart. I was locked in my room for days on end (sometimes back-to
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by notduncansmith 2y ago
Given the coordination/cooperation aspect of the problem, this isn’t really the “wisdom of the crowd” as I’ve always understood it. Something like estimating the number of beans in a jar is a good fit, since there is only one layer of
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by notduncansmith 2y ago
Happy birthday :)
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by notduncansmith 2y ago
This is wrong. You can absolutely dose psylocybin at levels that make a meaningful difference in experience (certainly enough to have an anti-depressant effect) without “tripping” or being in any way impaired. For many adults, this will be
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by notduncansmith 2y ago
+1 have had to edit Prisma files after generating a migration, it went fine. As ‘moltar says, no magic.
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by notduncansmith 2y ago
This was my first thought. The entire text label should toggle the radio or checkbox, not just the box and the padding.
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by notduncansmith 2y ago
Thanks for the references
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by notduncansmith 2y ago
This certainly seems within the realm of possibility but can you link to a source?
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by notduncansmith 2y ago
That’s fine, but then we need to stop privatizing the AI. If a coalition of companies (and maybe government?) were to train open model weights, and run those models on equal-access hardware (i.e. all residents of the country get N compute c
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by notduncansmith 2y ago
I read this book in the first few years of programming professionally, and in my naïveté I was so eager to apply the patterns therein I missed out on many opportunities to write simple, straightforward code. In some ways it really hindered
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by notduncansmith 2y ago
What is your proposal for adding (or capturing) value?
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by notduncansmith 2y ago
I can type on QWERTY much faster and more legibly than I can write with a pen. I suspect this is true for most proficient QWERTY typists.
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by notduncansmith 2y ago
Not sure I follow, can you elaborate on the contrast between “ethnic” and “scalability”?
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by notduncansmith 2y ago
“It looks like this entire article is an advertorial piece for a book. Would you still like to read it?”
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by notduncansmith 2y ago
> “This is unparalleled, in my memory,” said one intelligence officer who used Lavender, adding that they had more faith in a “statistical mechanism” than a grieving soldier. “Everyone there, including me, lost people on October 7. The m
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by notduncansmith 3y ago
Good ol’ Manna
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by notduncansmith 3y ago
I’ve always been fascinated with language, and long had a hobby of looking up etymologies (my high school Latin teacher was great at pointing these out in class), but Rich’s style definitely pushed me to use it as a tool for thinking. Namin
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by notduncansmith 3y ago
Maybe ironic but I wouldn’t be where I am without Windows APIs. I was 19, and I was a member of some forums where folks shared knowledge on how to (ab)use various technologies for profit; many of these technologies were Web-based. I didn’t

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