slopinthebag

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by slopinthebag 3d ago
this has always been broken
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by slopinthebag 3d ago
It’s a smart tactic for governments to use private corporations to do stuff like this. Flock takes all the heat and the government can even make themselves look good by ditching Flock. 2 seconds later they’ll use a different company. There
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by slopinthebag 3d ago
Ok but if you have to update your software it’s not done, it’s dormant. And when it wakes up, it’s not like this is some massive change. It’s trivial and automatable.
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by slopinthebag 3d ago
Your software is done, so why do you need to recompile it with a new version of the compiler? After all it’s done. Pin compiler version and problem solved. No limitless amount of future work.
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by slopinthebag 3d ago
Nah, what they should have done is called themselves the UK government and then all of HN would be praising them instead
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by slopinthebag 5d ago
Maybe it’s cuz I started with async/await instead of threads but I cannot relate to people saying it’s harder than threading. To me it’s substantially easier to understand than threads, goroutines, or structured concurrency in Kotlin.
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by slopinthebag 5d ago
Why would this be optimistic? This sounds extremely negative to me…
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by slopinthebag 7d ago
if you mean this in a reductionist way for humans, i dont think most of us think we’re omniscient my point more broadly is that if you have an incomplete spec, any entity implementing it either needs to be omniscient or make assumptions abo
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by slopinthebag 7d ago
healthcare is one of the most highly regulated and state-controlled industries on the planet. surely that has nothing to do with it though. must be those damn capitalists!
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by slopinthebag 7d ago
bro your own website has hard coded viewport widths where things jump
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by slopinthebag 7d ago
I doubt AI will ever become omniscient
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by slopinthebag 8d ago
i hope they ban hacker news over there soon too
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by slopinthebag 8d ago
that doesn't seem correct. it's equivalent to saying nobody should be allowed to drink because a small minority of ppl cannot control themslves
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by slopinthebag 8d ago
lmao funny you say that because i dont call myself a libertarian despite holding many adjacent views.... there's also a difference between Libertarians and libertarians. im not american so i refer to the latter but i know what u mean
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by slopinthebag 8d ago
Yes this is the way, not another law to paper over the issues of prior law.
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by slopinthebag 8d ago
That’s because unlike other political factions that treat politics as a team sport and prioritize group identity, libertarians tend to be free thinkers and have their own opinions and views.
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by slopinthebag 8d ago
Yeah that's kinda my point. I'm not sure if the models have gotten that much smarter, but they're certainly getting more capable. That's not the same thing though. There are things GPT 6.0 can accomplish for me that 5.
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by slopinthebag 8d ago
Lol that chart is hilarious when you look at Nvidia. Always sell shovels in a gold rush I guess
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by slopinthebag 8d ago
You'd still have access to the Chinese models though right? Even if you want to argue they aren't truly SOTA they're still pretty dang good.
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by slopinthebag 8d ago
People said this for Opus 4.6 too. Every release the models get RLHF'ed into accomplishing a new task and the people who need to do this task think there was a step change.
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by slopinthebag 9d ago
Coincidentally, that’s how much you contribute to the discussion
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by slopinthebag 9d ago
The optimal form of taxation is none
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by slopinthebag 9d ago
If I wasn’t betting the farm I’d go into debt arming myself somewhere in northern Siberia with enough rations to live a lifetime. Since neither of us are doing this, we’re apparently both betting our lives on the current trajectory of LLMs
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by slopinthebag 9d ago
Actual AGI might be really bad but thankfully we are not even close to building it and I doubt I’ll see it in my lifetime (imo ofc)
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by slopinthebag 9d ago
> regulation is good so long as it is backed up by even handed, robust, transparent, quick and effective sanctions Source for this claim? How can you say regulation is good without even defining what the regulation is? Or do you just bel
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by slopinthebag 9d ago
I thought these things were supposed to be smarter than any human. Look at all the erdos problems they’ve solved!
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by slopinthebag 9d ago
"use state zero". What does it even mean? And why "const" is used for a value that changes? const [count, setCount] = useState(0) are u being serious rn?
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by slopinthebag 10d ago
It's not like managers and executives and PM's are the only people who can prompt an AI. And experienced software developer will be much more effective at using an AI to generate code compared to someone who isn't. So why wou
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by slopinthebag 10d ago
I think it's leading towards a hyper-authoritarian end game, not hyper-capitalist. The state has the ultimate power at the end of the day, no matter how large the labs become.
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by slopinthebag 10d ago
Clicks on Authors name ctrl- Danielle Smith Ah. One thing I find endlessly funny is when people of a particular leaning adopt “the other side”’s arguments when it suits them. People who are left leaning generally have a positive view of

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