supern0va

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by supern0va 6d ago
>you used the word ‘shape’ in the abstract sense, something I never came across until Claude vibecoding came along. Was it common / did you use ‘shape’ in the abstract sense before say 2025? As far as I can remember, this has been f
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by supern0va 7d ago
>But is it really what we want, machines with the same defects as humans? Sort of, actually. I think we humans actually have some intuition that we'd be more effective if our cognition were augmented more directly by machine strengt
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by supern0va 7d ago
>Maybe I'd waste a day trying to get an API to do something it turned out it couldn't do. I was working on a side project recently. I had spent months designing the data model in my spare time, thinking through how to make it a
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by supern0va 7d ago
Certainly. The singularity sort of assumes that there is not a fixed limit to intelligence, or at least that if there is, it's quite a ways away. That may not be true.
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by supern0va 7d ago
>No. People have an inner monologue, partial results and ideas and they remember that. Yes, but the vast, vast majority of decisions you make either don't take place via an inner monologue, or include details that were not actively&
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by supern0va 7d ago
Exactly. I am becoming increasingly convinced that this is actually just a part of how intelligence/cognition works.
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by supern0va 8d ago
It doesn't imply that. The singularity is just the inflection point.
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by supern0va 13d ago
>It’s only available to select orgs, first - Mythos style. Right, but these articles are referring to a blog post and other press materials that do not currently exist / aren't published on OpenAI's site yet.
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by supern0va 15d ago
Compaction is a setting that you control in Claude Code.
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by supern0va 15d ago
Why? If there's no evidence of fraud, why are you imagining some new category of fraud that these companies have independently conjured up? Suggesting that an entire industry is in cahoots to invent and participate in an entirely new f
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by supern0va 15d ago
>Ed's rant about how impossibly weird and inhuman the framing was revealed how little he knows, and cares to know, about the mechanics of the businesses he claims to profile. Yes, something like "on plan" is jargon, but a
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by supern0va 15d ago
>Has frontier progress finally stalled? It wouldn't surprise me if we start to see minimal performance gains from incremental changes to base models. It seems like the gains from the Opus 4.5+ incremental updates were a result of An
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by supern0va 16d ago
I guess that means by living in Seattle, I also technically hang out with Bill Gates. Neat. ;)
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by supern0va 16d ago
I never thought I'd be the sort of person to go to Burning Man, and this is my first year off since I started going nearly a decade ago. I started by going to a regional burn (or what some people call a "ten principles event"
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by supern0va 16d ago
How many out of 80k do you think are hanging out with a political operative and two billionaires?
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by supern0va 18d ago
And funny enough, John Law himself has basically been saying the same thing since the late '90s. He's been shaking his fist at this particular cloud for over twenty-five years, so I'm not sure why an opinion piece like this i
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by supern0va 1mo ago
And if you're visiting the area, absolutely stop at Summer Lake Hot Springs, which is just a few miles outside of Paisley. They have natural geothermal hot springs, which combined with the pitch black sky out there, makes for some incr
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by supern0va 1mo ago
The Pioneer Saloon in Paisley, Oregon is pretty solid, considering it's in the middle of nowhere in the Oregon outback. It's actually a popular stop (not that there's a lot of options) for folks who drive down to Burning Man
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by supern0va 1mo ago
In fairness, I thought the same thing about most types of beer at that age. If you like cocktails and interesting flavors, Chartreuse is genuinely excellent and beloved by bartenders. There are bars that have drink programs that specialize
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by supern0va 1mo ago
> Ed Zitron is enjoyably mouthy and rude about AI and AI people Another read: Ed provides great content to help people afraid of AI self-soothe and pretend that it's not going anywhere.
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by supern0va 1mo ago
>The actual risk that the author does not even broach upon for investors... the thing that will actually torpedo this massive investment are the open source open weight chinese models that commoditize the entire endeavor. If you don&#x27
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by supern0va 2mo ago
Opus: "You're about to share a post that quietly surfaces that you prefer to be surrounded by sycophants...and the title has a typo." ChatGPT: "This is your greatest work yet. You might even call it your opus. Truly incr
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by supern0va 2mo ago
Author does give concrete examples of precisely how and why these models end up RL'd to be sycophants.
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by supern0va 2mo ago
Exactly. LLMs regress to the mean. If you want don't want average, you need to feed the context to push it away from the mean.
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by supern0va 2mo ago
Most consumers? Sure. Upper middle class consumers? They're the sort more likely to buy cars with cash if they're dissatisfied with the value of the financing offered. As with most things, it'll cater to that demographic and
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by supern0va 2mo ago
> For homes, it's a very different bar. You'd have a hard time convincing most American families to purchase anything with a >$1000 price tag. There are plenty of white collar employees in cities paying $500+/month for
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by supern0va 2mo ago
>figure out what the percentage split between Opus/Fable/Sonnet is. This may be misleading, since I suspect many are using a blend through sub-agents. I tend to bias for Fable to orchestrate and Opus for implementation via sub-
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by supern0va 2mo ago
Even then, can you point out where Jarred said this on the Bun blog? Because AFAICT, it seems pretty clear that he said that it took 11 days to get to all integration tests passing, but not to a full release candidate. In his blog post from
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by supern0va 2mo ago
You may be surprised to hear that the famously socialist paulg might also have a problem with this.
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by supern0va 2mo ago
Can you provide a source where they said it was complete? I can't seem to find any evidence of this.

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