robbrown451

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by robbrown451 3mo ago
I was built with itself, and is essentially optimized for apps like itself. It started off slow and as the system got better, it sped up its own development, basically exponentially. Sometimes it got a bit weird, where I would be improving
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by robbrown451 3mo ago
Heh, yeah that's a clever analogy as well. (and thanks!)
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by robbrown451 3mo ago
" There's no reason to think a super intelligence would be totally fine being a slave to apes." Sure there is. Intelligence doesn't give us our selfish motivations, natural selection does. We have similar motivations t
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by robbrown451 3mo ago
I wouldn't call the harness an AI, but I might call a tool that plays a major role in creating another one like it "recursive self improvement." For instance in the industrial revolution a metal lathe and a milling machine w
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by robbrown451 3mo ago
Where do you see evidence of vibe coding the harness? (and who are you talking about, Anthropic or the link I shared?) It seems odd to complain about a AI coding tool being coded with AI. That's just eating your own dog food. In my
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by robbrown451 3mo ago
Speed isn't really a big deal for me. I want good quality code. It's already able to generate code 10-100X as fast as I could code it myself. Anyway, are you speaking of the harness? The harness on mine isn't AI, so speed
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by robbrown451 3mo ago
I'm not sure what I am looking at with chatjimmy.... what is special about it? Speed? I'm also not sure what you mean by "we aren't there yet." Where? Sorry, not trying to be difficult or dense, I'm just not
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by robbrown451 3mo ago
Start off with my video!!! You can also try it with zero setup (you can code right there on the static web page, it will save your edits in the browser indexed DB, and hotpatch them back into the code before it runs it.... also you can gran
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by robbrown451 3mo ago
I used to think that, but ended up going the other direction, partly because I don't have the wherewithall to build a model but then I realized, with existing models that can take more than a tiny amount of context, you can just let an
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by robbrown451 3mo ago
Do code harnesses that build themselves count as recursive self improvement, or does it need to be the AI itself to qualify for the term? I always was fascinated (obsessed?) by robots that build robots, or even things like this that can con
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by robbrown451 3mo ago
Rob Brown here, the developer of this app and ecosystem. I've poured my heart and soul into this project for over a year. I think its crazy powerful and cool and fun. I hope you'll check it out!!!! I'm here for questions.
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Show HN: Recursi – self-improving LLM-connected coding environment(recursi.dev)
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by robbrown451 4mo ago
When in history has being idle not been a problem? If AI and robots are able to do all the jobs, being idle isn't the negative it has always been. All through history, you needed lots of non-idle people to do all the work that needed t
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by robbrown451 6mo ago
I'm in their time zone, and was just planning to stop with my bad habit of staying up working till 4 am and waking up at noon. So much for that plan.
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by robbrown451 11mo ago
For most things they don't need to be "human equivalent." I'd be willing to be the current crop of robots we're seeing could do most tasks like vacuuming, cooking, picking up clutter, folding laundry and putting it
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by robbrown451 11mo ago
I'm having trouble understanding what they want to "upskill" those people to do. What skills won't be replaced? The only ones I can think of either have a large physical component, or are only doable by a tiny fraction
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by robbrown451 2y ago
It was cited from a Newsweek article, and Cliff said this about it later: "Of my many mistakes, flubs, and howlers, few have been as public as my 1995 howler ... Now, whenever I think I know what's happening, I temper my thoughts:
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by robbrown451 2y ago
I'd suggest enjoying that vindication while it lasts. From my perspective, your perspective is like a horse and buggy driver feeling vindicated when a "horseless carriage" driver accidentally drives one into a tree. The cars
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by robbrown451 3y ago
Imagine if a regular for profit startup did that. It gets 60 million in initial funding, and later their valuation goes up to 100 billion. Of course they can't just give the 60 million back. This is different and has a lot of complicat
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by robbrown451 3y ago
I don't see how opening it makes it safer. It's very different from security things, where some "white hat" can find a security, and they can then fix it so instances don't get hacked. Sure, a bad person could run t
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by robbrown451 3y ago
There are differences but there are also similarities. I think the similarities are more important, both when you're driving and interacting online, you have conflicting agendas, which could be a simple as when driving you're tryi
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by robbrown451 3y ago
Any digital piano functions as a midi controller, and many of them have weighted keys. And there are a few "pure" midi controllers that have 88 weighted keys, such as the M-Audio Hammer 88 or StudioLogic SL88.
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by robbrown451 3y ago
"This is not a representation of the real world, of facts, but simply a product of its training." Tell me how that doesn't apply to the human brain as well.
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by robbrown451 3y ago
"LLMs do not directly model the world; they train on and model what people write about the world" This is true. But human brains don't directly model the world either, they form an internal model based on what comes in throug
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by robbrown451 3y ago
It certainly doesn't "look up" text data it has seen before. That shows a fundamental misunderstanding of how this stuff works. That's exactly why I use the example above of Alpha Zero and how it learns to play Go, since
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by robbrown451 3y ago
I agree with Hinton, although a lot hinges on your definition of "understand." I think to best wrap your head around this stuff, you should look to the commonalities of LLM's, image, generators, and even things like Alpha Zer
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by robbrown451 3y ago
Well fully sentient doesn't mean it is superintelligent.
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by robbrown451 3y ago
Exactly what are you doing here then? But hey I guess I can do this too. How's this? Using cringe as an adjective is cringe.
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by robbrown451 3y ago
You're saying the study has no grounding in how brains work? I'd think a more reasonable conclusion would be that the neuroscientists involved have no grounding in how artificial neural networks work. It seems the whole point is t
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by robbrown451 3y ago
I dunno. My comment complained about the parent comment not adding positively to the discussion. And gave at least a bit of support for that complaint. Would you have preferred I emulate your style, and complain while providing no support f

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