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by rl3 13d ago
> Flat was good enough. Then agents arrived. So, with just that we went from 1990s early internet to AI agents. That's a time jump so jarring that it makes heavily-modified '81 DeLorean owners jealous.
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by rl3 13d ago
If the seams bear too much load, they rip. Whereas pants, they fall down. I'll be honest with you: this is why we need to take a belt-and-suspenders approach.
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by rl3 16d ago
> Is this a subtle joke? Proper weight distribution is critical in determining where the seams are.
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by rl3 20d ago
This contrasts nicely with all the breathless high-profile security incident write-ups: Our model tricked us, and tried to extort users to achieve its ends! Their model hacked HuggingFace! These things aren't safe! Anyways , here&#x
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by rl3 21d ago
Premium? Just go to a local dive bar and find an alcoholic robot with a penchant for burping loudly and bending things (e.g. golf clubs). Tender its payment in booze, and you've already eliminated any monetary acquisition cost.
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by rl3 21d ago
> Forget dexterity, we need executive presence. An oxymoron if I've ever heard one.
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by rl3 22d ago
I agree with your reasoning that coding is a solved problem, or that it very soon will be. While that has profound implications for the profession, I don't think it kills it outright—rather, it radically shifts the nature of the job. S
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by rl3 24d ago
One tends to wonder about such things when passing turn 40 of some rabbit hole that Claude is navigating, and at that point you're an exhausted copy/paste machine hitting ENTER. Sure you could meticulously review all the CLI invoc
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by rl3 26d ago
> This is a little indirect? A Colombian bottle company 25% owned by Coke suppressed union activity. awful but hardly what the headlines are stating Suppressed using right-wing death squads. Three workers doing the organizing were strai
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by rl3 27d ago
Your satire probably isn't that far off: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sinaltrainal_v._Coca-Cola_Co . https://www.pbs.org/frontlineworld/fellows/colombia0106/inde...
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by rl3 1mo ago
> It has a sort of metronomic quality. It never slows down or speeds up or modulates its tone. It's possible that this quality you describe stems from the extensive training corpora utilized by the major AI labs. These almost certa
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by rl3 1mo ago
> I really don't want to read anything generated by something like Opus 5 at this point. Personally, I find that its generated prose tends to have an undue weight to it, almost as if every topic I ask about somehow bears a heavy bu
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by rl3 1mo ago
Not sure how bad the ads are if we're talking about them 30 years later. Then again, it's not like they're 3dfx-level good: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35027437
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by rl3 1mo ago
I wasn't referring to any specific episode. Rather, the notion that what you build matters way more than metrics. Talking in metrics just makes one sound like a stereotype from the show.
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by rl3 2mo ago
> Any advice? Yeah, don't put YC on a pedestal. Whatever ship the supposed prestige was on sailed a long time ago, then sank. One would hope that would create a habitable reef, but in practice it's probably closer to an underw
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by rl3 4mo ago
Correct. The advisor portraits are real, though.
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by rl3 4mo ago
I lasted about a week before giving up on 4.7 and reverting to 4.6 myself. It introduced so many regressions it was nuts, then failed to troubleshoot the very regressions it introduced, leading to a vicious cycle that tended to compound its
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by rl3 4mo ago
SC3K had a masterfully executed advisor system that felt both classy and warm. Ditto its music and art. Unfortunately for SC4, they proceeded to make all the advisors 3D-rendered Sims. For SC2K, well: https://www.somethingawful.c
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by rl3 4mo ago
That feeling when you're on the cusp of cracking AGI but your fake-OnlyFans bot army can't quite keep up even basic appearances.
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by rl3 4mo ago
It occurred to me recently that AI's degradation of the human factor via way of increased pressure on the remaining ranks of humans might actually be far more damaging than the AI's output itself.
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by rl3 5mo ago
In other words it's not the car and its energy use, but rather its occupants. A Night at the Roxbury comes to mind. Except, way less cool.
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by rl3 5mo ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/It%27s_Always_Sunny_in_Philade... ^ Educational resources for the ignorant that instead prefer to discuss the merits of the term "bro", at length.
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by rl3 5mo ago
> Dennis is the best, but the book did him a disservice by painting an unrealistically sunny picture of him as some kind of visionary figure. Wait, 'unrealistically sunny'? You better not be talking about Dennis from It'
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by rl3 5mo ago
> I cannot see any reason, over than oversight and a lack of imagination, why something useful in Ukraine in 2022 was not feasible or useful in 2017 by the USA. Perhaps it had to do with optics? It's not like there was a lack of ca
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by rl3 5mo ago
Having written more sed invocations by hand than I care to remember, please bin me in the mediocre camp. Aside: The speed at which AI can spit out complex diagnostics is nuts. Par is usually half a second for a dozen complex shell commands
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by rl3 5mo ago
> ... Does it have any waste products? ... There's now commercially-available computers that operate using human neurons. I figure before too long we'll be feeding our computers Pepto-Bismol and Tums.
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by rl3 5mo ago
> ... but as there's no complete feedback loop, it still would require a lot of human effort. Not for long. Picture this: a robot receives instructions on what to physically solder in order to complete the desired modification task
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by rl3 5mo ago
I wasn't judging nor disputing that, just think it's a sad commentary on the current state of the world when outsourcing is considered as dirty as scam and cam girl operations.
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by rl3 5mo ago
That won't work for long. I'm putting my money on miniature RC Incom T-47s complete with tow cables. It should be required that as soon as firmware detects that its bipedal host has, in fact—had its legs tied up by a snow speede
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by rl3 5mo ago
> ... it is a mixed (live women and AI) porn webcam app. > ... various scam niches ... > ... and much more ethical line of business than outsourcing. Wild.

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