scandox

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by scandox 10d ago
> getting the AI to “try to do the right thing” by human standards. Are these scientists really this hideously naive? If only Stanislaw Lem was alive to adequately dramatize the absurd, childish simplicity of these technicians.
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by scandox 11d ago
It's no Sopwith
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by scandox 15d ago
Yeah I remember we had a family friend and they had a Boost button in their Saab. I don't know if it literally said Boost but in my memory it does. We begged him to press it but he told us it was extremely dangerous and would cause fla
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by scandox 18d ago
My internal metaphor for senior management is of a man sitting in a darkened room receiving slips of paper under the door with little messages on them. That's why founder types have such a massive advantage. They've got a much bet
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by scandox 22d ago
All art requires growth and change. Artists can't go on doing the same things forever. Will they take a turn into some dead end...sure. Maybe even for centuries. But remaining static is certain death.
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by scandox 28d ago
If you're absolving the other person from any understanding of the issue and the alternative is "stuff broken" then yes what you say makes sense. But that's an incredibly low bar and one would have to say - that's n
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by scandox 1mo ago
> I'm sincerely sorry for publishing something that has allowed you to feel this way. What fresh hell is this? If this is human then I wish it was AI
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by scandox 1mo ago
The thing about the two women crawling on the road at night is the stuff of nightmares. I once saw two women - a mother and daughter - drunkenly rolling on the road at a major junction late at night. There was no way on earth a driver comin
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by scandox 2mo ago
What's interesting to me is that the examples he gives are beautiful because of their sincerity. Even if there is artifice, or they're being formal or playful, their style reflects their reading, their shared culture and of course
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by scandox 2mo ago
There's no type for People which I would have thought has provided some of the all time high scoring submissions.
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by scandox 2mo ago
Well I agree but clearly some people have ambiguous motives...they want to do what gives them joy but also a little bit in their heart they want to impress
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by scandox 2mo ago
Lesson is actually: if you want to blow people's minds then practice secretly. An appearance of effortlessness. Sprezzatura. Whatever it is, it seems to be the only thing that impresses the average person.
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by scandox 2mo ago
OpenAI deployed a tool to perform a task. They failed to control it and it did something unintended but negative. It is a mistake to view this as anything but human incompetence. They're just being given a pass because the technology i
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by scandox 2mo ago
But you do have to keep an eye on those things. It can make the adjustments but you can't take your eye off them.
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by scandox 3mo ago
> "We can’t build a machine to do something when we don’t know how it works." Really not sure this is true is it?
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Could the next great novel be written by AI?(theguardian.com)
3 points by scandox 3mo ago|4 comments
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by scandox 3mo ago
Nonetheless it did do it. Right in front of my eyes
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Blog HN: Claude Code Making an Ass Out of You and Me
3 points by scandox 3mo ago|4 comments
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by scandox 3mo ago
Well that's a strange way of expressing competitiveness when Hetzner is still vastly cheaper than those 3 cloud providers, despite those cost increases.
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by scandox 3mo ago
About 2023 I think
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by scandox 3mo ago
Enormous, unrelenting social pressure? A crying child telling you that they're completely cut off from their peers and social group? Day after day of arguments and pleading? Schools and scout groups and extra-curriculars that tacitly r
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by scandox 4mo ago
O'Brien turning off the Telescreen. "You can..." "Yes...we are allowed that privilege"
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by scandox 4mo ago
Because, in practice, it turns telling people what they want to hear into a first-class virtue. >> "We told him about how our land had been stolen and our people were dying. When we finished he shook our hands and said, 'End
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by scandox 4mo ago
I've been thinking about the expression "Reading the Room" for the last ten years. I've come to the conclusion finally that it is extremely pernicious.
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by scandox 4mo ago
One of the problems I've encountered is that the people who do speak up, by their very nature, don't do so in a way that has a chance of being heard. Even the phrase "speak up" suggests the failure that is coming. Gettin
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by scandox 5mo ago
All through the agile era I wrote detailed specs for projects and then followed an agile process. The most successful parts of every project were the ones that we were able to spec best even when they diverged significantly from the origina
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by scandox 5mo ago
Lidl has 375,000 employees. They have stated they employ 7,500 people in their digital services division.
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by scandox 5mo ago
So the 7,500 they say they're employing...is not true?
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by scandox 6mo ago
> when analyzed by actual philosophers. Kind of proving his point a little
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by scandox 6mo ago
Parents do care about improving learning. I certainly see better outcomes for my kids with book based learning. Mainly because the screen based equivalents have such bad ergonomics at the moment. E-learning "tools" that schools ch

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