skybrian

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by skybrian 3d ago
This is sort of like saying in response to an airplane crash, "who cares why it happened, we need to punish the company until it stops." Nuts to that. We should be interested in why things happen, not just finding scapegoats.
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by skybrian 3d ago
Also, it’s only true in the browser. Node and Deno have sync I/O. You still end up having to make a choice about whether your function should be async.
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by skybrian 3d ago
Generating AI images is something we couldn’t do before. AI assistants are better at web search than anything that came before.
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by skybrian 4d ago
There are many kinds of proxies. Proxies would have to be blocked if they don’t cooperate. Obviously a child-locked device shouldn’t let a client-side proxy be installed.
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by skybrian 4d ago
That standard is mostly used to indicate “adult” websites (porn, basically) which is useful, but rather a different thing than what I’m advocating. There are many websites intended for adults that should not be blocked when Google’s safe se
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by skybrian 5d ago
Websites that don't cooperate would need to be blocked by child-locked devices. That part wouldn't be any different from today.
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by skybrian 5d ago
Sure, the categories can be expanded. For example, movie ratings aren't just "children" and "adults." But explaining the simple case seemed like enough for one comment.
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by skybrian 5d ago
And yet, many people have ambitions. They will put up a website about how great their software is and how everyone should use it. I usually put a warning that it's experimental and might not be maintained. More users, more problems. (A
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by skybrian 5d ago
For software developers, the equivalent is writing software without beta testers. If you don’t seek out users, you will likely build something nobody else wants. And, that’s what I do. I’m retired and I use AI to build websites for myself.
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by skybrian 5d ago
This is almost right, but it shouldn’t be “is a child using the device?” It should be “is this a child-locked device?” There should be a children’s Internet, just like there are children’s libraries, and child-locked devices should give acc
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by skybrian 5d ago
API’s and coding standards help a bit. In one case, the AI was testing HTML-generating code with string assertions, so I had it write a test helper that makes a DOM-based testing API available and a skill telling it to write tests that way.
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by skybrian 5d ago
Could they change the rules so that there’s no or less incentive to “tank?”
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by skybrian 7d ago
Assuming they pay their credit card bill themselves, it's effectively a volume discount for big spenders (though that "volume" goes to multiple vendors). The argument that the money "comes from" other customers is s
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by skybrian 8d ago
The mathematics research results are certainly impressive, but I don't see what that has to do with robotics. Waymo is getting somewhere, but it's been a long slog. There doesn't seem to be much progress on, say, package del
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by skybrian 8d ago
I certainly can't see what's coming. I believe that nobody really knows what's coming. Some people are overconfident.
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by skybrian 8d ago
Trends don't go on forever, but the market can stay irrational longer than you can stay solvent. There's no good rule of thumb for this, other than maybe the Lindy effect.
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by skybrian 9d ago
> What’s the last major life decision you made without at least consulting an AI? This seems like asking what's the last major decision you made without at least doing a web search. There's nothing wrong with doing a search. Th
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by skybrian 9d ago
Uber isn't a good comparison. LLMs are a national or global market, not a local one. Also: already driverless.
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by skybrian 9d ago
My cost to switch is choosing a different model from a pulldown menu.
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by skybrian 9d ago
Aware of what, though? We don't actually know OpenAI's profit margins on inference. Do we need to know? It's enough to know that the market is competitive and new models with better prices are released often. This means you s
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by skybrian 9d ago
Your cheap cynicism makes OpenAI's lower prices sound like a reason to avoid using them, but that's backwards! It's a better strategy to use them now while prices are low and switch later if necessary. Nobody knows who will h
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by skybrian 9d ago
Well, I suppose that explains monads. It’s one thing to see an analogy and quite another to make it the basis of an API.
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by skybrian 10d ago
I have a couple of skills with project-specific conventions for how to write a plan and how to write HTML-generating code. But they could probably just as well be .md files in a docs directory, linked to from the AGENTS.md file.
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by skybrian 10d ago
Though it has all the signs of being AI-generated, this looks like a pretty interesting project. But by itself, it seems sort of like a game engine without a game. Have you done something interesting with it?
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by skybrian 10d ago
They consider themselves to be in an arms race with all the other AI firms (including Chinese) that are not that far behind. And... are they wrong? This is why there's talk about negotiated "pacing."
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by skybrian 10d ago
I have a vague understanding, enough to know that tallness isn't thinking. I think I can usually use the word correctly. (I don't think El Ajedrecista qualifies, but it was starting to play chess, so it's closer to "sm
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by skybrian 10d ago
> If a model were actually capable of scheming, it would also have enough situational awareness This doesn't follow. It might not have that kind of control over its the chain-of-thought, even if in some sense it knew that would be a
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by skybrian 10d ago
You're insisting on a particular definition of a vague term. It makes sense now to say that temperature is what a thermometer measures. However, before there were good thermometers, people often thought that heat and cold were differen
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by skybrian 10d ago
I don't really know. Maybe a continuous build server? But just because it's listed in the catalog doesn't mean it's the one I want to use.
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by skybrian 10d ago
Playing chess, writing code, finding security bugs, and proving mathematical theorems all seem fairly similar to thinking and don't seem much like being tall.

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