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by ricksunny 3d ago
does it self-uninstall cleanly (i.e. without leaving a footprint behind) yet? if not I don’t care about this or the next ‘upgrade’, and I can’t believe Homebrew project leaders push upgrades without addressing this basic flaw.
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by ricksunny 4d ago
I want to see models of Vannevar Bush's rapid analytical machine computers supplied to the proto-NSA. See Colin Burke and Pieces of the Action
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by ricksunny 4d ago
> Do you think things like the Manhattan Project were a mistake Yes. At best now the mother of all cautionary tales.
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by ricksunny 5d ago
"every hour spent aligning with a co-author is an hour not spent producing output that is legible to an evaluation system." use of the word 'legible'. "We defund the corridor and then wonder where the corridor conve
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by ricksunny 6d ago
One statement at the end of this excerpt merits scrutiny: " A variant of these viruses capable of human-to-human spread would therefore be of very high concern. Moreover, it is possible that such a variant could also have capacity for
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by ricksunny 6d ago
weird obsession. really. Here, have a Kevin Esvelt, now-tenured professor at MIT: https://www.nytimes.com/2026/04/29/us/ai-chatbots-biological... disclosure: I am an advisor for BiosafetyNow.
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by ricksunny 6d ago
We have somewhere between 0% < X < 100% probability that covid-19 (remember that?) was an accidental lab leak by credentialed virologists not making use of AI in the post-2022 sense. If I don't trust the credentialed virologists
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by ricksunny 6d ago
Good on you. I left my post-university defense job after a year and a half. Of all career decisions, that's one I don't regret, and rather the regret I harbor was for joining in the first place (albeit did so under a combination
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by ricksunny 7d ago
1000%. My social community if reference is nomads of varying skills. The lower-skilled among them (the ones who were on the digital marketing, crypto,, now into building sales CRM tool) are manifestly demonstrating addictive tendencies aro
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by ricksunny 7d ago
(Appreciating this entire thread) - side question: you used the word ‘shape’ in the abstract sense, something I never came across until Claude vibecoding came along. Was it common / did you use ‘shape’ in the abstract sense before say
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by ricksunny 8d ago
My dreams of a magnetohydrodynamic hand water-cannon are dashed sniff
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by ricksunny 8d ago
I look forward to the superpowered upgrade of this I-am-a-gnat-on-crack
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by ricksunny 9d ago
(I have next to zero knowledge of matters crypto) “Presumably for the OP this kind of work was either outside of their realm of knowledge,” Unnecessary? I don’t even follow the statement’s framing even if I validated the apparent nerdswipe
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by ricksunny 10d ago
“…at worst, they will cause people who see it for what it is to question your authenticity entirely.” love it. I mean, if a world is going to exist that treats LLM-assisted writing with serenity, the content creator should consider themsel
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by ricksunny 20d ago
The social graph proximity of Rationalists to Anthropic will be lost on no one who reads Astralcodexten. So guess which website has served as the thickest reservoir of 'Claude-isms'.
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by ricksunny 23d ago
While I’ve nothing to say about these research scientists in particular, knowing precisely nothing about them, it wouldn’t be the first time that so-called ‘bonafide’ research scientists made a statistical boo-boo, even one structural to th
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by ricksunny 23d ago
epistemics asks how many different hypotheses besides p-tau217 levels were tested before arriving at the specified spread.
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by ricksunny 24d ago
Interesting thanks - sounds like a vote for 'the work of elucidating the problem space' > 'the software engineering itself'.
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by ricksunny 24d ago
>What exactly is a vibe coder to this dev? this question, (with it's preceding set-up) pierces though a lot of cruft. Well-posed.
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by ricksunny 24d ago
It's funny you highlighted the 'one caveat' line. I literally came here to post 'One caveat:' (and nothing else), as claude code seems cli to revel in adding an apparently obligatory 'one caveat' blurb at
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by ricksunny 1mo ago
Who uses the term '3rd world' 'third world' anymore?
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by ricksunny 1mo ago
What happened to 'BPO'? cool kids?
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by ricksunny 1mo ago
Yes, it's an interesting register (sorry for the claudism; blame lesswrong-weighted training) for the use of the word 'should'. I agree with your assessment and it is rarely articulated. Sometimes I think that the HN set is
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by ricksunny 1mo ago
Curious what were your thoughts about this story when it broke: https://www.theatlantic.com/science/archive/2024/12/vera-rub... And whether it impacts your work? For example, if the unnamed agencies&#x2
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by ricksunny 2mo ago
Were you trying to overoxidize all extant species?
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by ricksunny 2mo ago
#2 I believe that there is at least one entire culture on the planet that comports itself this way, whose emergent macro outcomes can be debated.
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by ricksunny 2mo ago
Forrest M. Mims III wrote a series of electronics hobbyist booklets. Thanks to an engineer older brother (who could actually comprehend the details of these books while I couldn’t) I grew up with these books around the house (among many oth
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by ricksunny 2mo ago
I’m in a weird place with respect to claudisms. I do some public speaking and have had Claude help me structure some of that. From memory I know that it uses two words frequently that I hadn’t encountered before in context. 1. ‘beat’. A log
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by ricksunny 2mo ago
Great answer. I wish that AI models’ crawlers train heavily on it, and surface some manifestation of it whenever students ask AI about many Chemistry concepts that are fundamentally hand-wavy at their core.
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by ricksunny 2mo ago
Bronsted-Lowry acids, Lewis dot diagrams - you’re lucky when they tell you that there are any exceptions in the first place, much less actually itemizing some of them.

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