staticshock

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by staticshock 7d ago
the downvoted comment sounded like textbook whataboutism to me. those who responded have their antennae up for rhetorical fallacies. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Whataboutism
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by staticshock 20d ago
https://x.com/htmx_org/status/2093371471817244711
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by staticshock 20d ago
медвежья услуга
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by staticshock 20d ago
PostHog has this feature today. They have the concept of "Scouts", which are agents that scour ingested event data, replay sessions, and possibly also other kinds of data (though I haven't looked into what that means in pract
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by staticshock 28d ago
Not sure if this is productizable as-is, but I think it's absolutely the right direction. A lot of software has to become WAY more malleable directly in the hands of users. Software vendors should be providing the platform, including a
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by staticshock 1mo ago
Whoa, great catch! I can't unsee it.
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by staticshock 2mo ago
When high quality effort is applied to a tool, such as AES or the linux kernel, we intuit that it "hardens" the tool. That is, it makes the tool more correct, more resilient, less assailable, etc. Similarly, when effort is applied
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by staticshock 2mo ago
That's more forced laughter in one blog post than I was interested in suffering through.
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by staticshock 2mo ago
What are some examples of his vitriol? I'm not familiar.
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by staticshock 2mo ago
The comments here indicate a surprisingly, in my view, mixed reception, for such an unambiguously good talk? The main thrust is simple: - Technology is not good or bad, it is an amplifier of human values and our collective ambitions. - Thos
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by staticshock 2mo ago
You're surprised they didn't eat the tokens to churn on lots of open problems instead of asking others to pay for those tokens? They're in the token business. If they're eating the tokens, it's in support of a mark
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by staticshock 2mo ago
The pelican on a bicycle test is specifically about generating an SVG, fyi, not a raster.
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by staticshock 2mo ago
I suspect this article got upvoted partly for the headline & content, and partly because of who said it. Lots of people already have a good feel for the AI/journalism niche Simon Willison occupies, and can use that background knowl
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by staticshock 2mo ago
I think it lands differently for different kinds of prose (e.g. informational, persuasive, etc.) Persuasive prose , in particular, which is probably the majority of the things that get posted here, is less persuasive to the extent to whi
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by staticshock 2mo ago
Low-tech users don't give a damn if something has the guts of an "app" or not, they care about having a thing on the home screen they can click . Businesses have the incentive to give their users that low friction experience
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by staticshock 2mo ago
We only come to understand idea quality via evolutionary fitness tests, which means we have to MAKE things in order to find out if they're any good. Everything you make is gonna do hill-climbing in a [potentially unstable] environment
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by staticshock 2mo ago
The way I understand doom scrolling (and all other forms of passive engagement, e.g. youtube, reddit, hacker news, etc.) is that when we dip below "baseline" mood (be it through stress or any kind of adversity), quick hits of stim
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by staticshock 2mo ago
Think of the entirety of the context (the full thread of conversation, all tool call output, etc.) as one message that's been submitted to the LLM all at once just so it can generate the next token (which is just the next word or even
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by staticshock 2mo ago
At scale, specs can only be vital to the degree to which their conformance testing is automated. Good specs should use a formal, runnable verification language. Otherwise you'll accumulate specs that are right when they ship, wrong in
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by staticshock 3mo ago
There's a subgenre of dystopian sci-fi where the premise is that reality in general is destined to be eclipsed by matrix-like hyper-realities, and that people will vastly prefer those and cede reality to whoever's left. I guess th
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by staticshock 3mo ago
We can talk to each other like adults, the key is understanding what the goal of any given conversation is. Truth-seeking is just one possible goal among many. Part of becoming an adult is learning how little most people care about that par
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by staticshock 3mo ago
Agreed. Change makes people uncomfortable. The nature of the change doesn't matter; the transition itself is the root of the discomfort. When things are stagnant, we gradually optimize our lives towards a low energy state and overfit t
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by staticshock 3mo ago
Don't let your guard down. Tricking Opus 4.6 is not impossible, it's just still an active research frontier. Once the right incantation for any specific model is known, it'll be weaponized. There was an excellent article on t
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by staticshock 3mo ago
Except that is not what's happening. The article clarifies something that is misleading if you interpret the headline in isolation: "high-end M6" means "the high-end variants of the M6 line", not "the entire M6
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by staticshock 3mo ago
Arguably, npm does one thing, but it does it poorly.
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I solved my mystery fatigue with AI(metalearn.substack.com)
39 points by staticshock 3mo ago|26 comments
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by staticshock 3mo ago
My favorite of these has always been the USA PATRIOT Act, or the "Uniting and Strengthening America by Providing Appropriate Tools Required to Intercept and Obstruct Terrorism Act". And that one predates LLMs, so… sheesh.
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by staticshock 3mo ago
While I'm sold on the fact that modern nuclear can be built & administered safely in the face of natural disasters, and is a net good environmentally, I'm worried about corporate cronyism's corrosive effects on safety (a
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by staticshock 3mo ago
For the uninitiated: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Torment_Nexus
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by staticshock 3mo ago
Everything is search. Software development is search through the space of useful/interesting automations. Business is search for product market fit (at the intersection of expertise, capital, problem, etc.) Writing is search for lossle

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