taneq

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by taneq 3d ago
Actually C is for Cookie. :P
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by taneq 4d ago
> But yeah, human researchers can solve a problem like this in a decade or so None of them did, though, despite how many tried. So empirically, it seems unreasonable to say human researchers can solve ‘problems like this’.
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by taneq 4d ago
> One refreshing aspect was that during PR reviews we stopped debating whether something needed test coverage. I’d be curious to know what percentage of the time spent implementing tests would have otherwise gone to discussions about whe
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by taneq 4d ago
Because in the event that someone does build a strongly superhuman AI, no-one else will get a chance?
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by taneq 4d ago
The Culture isn’t perfect but it seems like the best possible outcome. I think I’d want to be a fast picket and hang out with Special Circumstances.
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by taneq 4d ago
> It's why youtube still hasn't figured out piracy, but they'll knock you immediately if you play 5 seconds of copyrighted music. Unless the piracy is silent, surely audio fingerprinting would catch it?
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by taneq 4d ago
The general sentiment I’ve seen is certainly negative, and seems to be driven by the anti-AI-art echo chamber and by LLM slop flooding the internet wasting everyone’s energy. A few more informed people are also a little concerned about the
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by taneq 4d ago
Honestly not the worst suggestion I’ve seen.
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by taneq 4d ago
They could have bought the game rights, hired the devs, or otherwise come to some licensing agreement. It’d have been a boatload of free publicity for very little outlay. I guess they may not have wanted customers to associate their store w
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by taneq 5d ago
They’re unreliably unreliable.
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by taneq 7d ago
Light’s still slower in glass than in a vacuum, though, or it wouldn’t refract at the transition between the two.
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by taneq 7d ago
Or you can just embrace the 128kbps lifestyle. :D
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by taneq 10d ago
Only if you don’t consider the subnet mask as part of the IP address configuration.
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by taneq 11d ago
It might not be your fault but it sure as hell will be your problem.
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by taneq 11d ago
Most consumer wifi routers I’ve used have a setting to prevent peer-to-peer traffic. Whether this still counts as being on the same subnet is kind of a philosophical question.
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by taneq 13d ago
These are like saying someone isn’t human because they have a speech impediment or an auditory processing disorder. AGI doesn’t mean infallible, it just means it can have a reasonable crack at things it hasn’t seen or done before.
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by taneq 14d ago
If I visualise a 3D object then it’s in at least pseudo-3D (as in front surface with depth) but I can switch it to a kinda volumetric view. This might be thanks to years worth of 3D modeling and CAD which helped me map between first person
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by taneq 14d ago
I’ve heard people claiming that they can but I’ve never heard compelling evidence that they’re directly visualising 4D objects rather than 3D projections of them, or some symbolic representation (arrays of numbers etc.)
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by taneq 15d ago
Pay no attention to the bot behind the comments. ;)
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by taneq 15d ago
As a ‘normal’ person it sure feels weird sending (or receiving) a purchase order or invoice for six figures though.
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by taneq 17d ago
Reminds me of how some people (groups? cultures?) call a lathe a “lathe machine.”
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by taneq 18d ago
It’s a thing you can avert? Or do you mean one in the far future which we might avert by reducing carbon emissions now?
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by taneq 18d ago
Or driving a small, economical car?
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by taneq 19d ago
While it’s important to make this explicit, at what point do we just assume a high-reliability UPS is table stakes? Of course, if you need SIL2 type reliability then you need to assume any given hardware component can spontaneously combust
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by taneq 20d ago
When I was first getting into software dev, I thought 'enterprise' meant 'industrial grade', 'powerful', 'high-performing'. Then I actually met some enterprise software, and realised that it means &#x
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by taneq 20d ago
If you wanna sell pickaxes to miners, you want a lot of independent miners doing well.
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by taneq 21d ago
You’re kind of begging the question that I asked after the full stop. I was wondering how much the underlying mechanism matters if it’s modelling the same environment to a similar level of effectiveness.
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by taneq 21d ago
I bought one for my sister a few years ago. Can confirm, the email chain alone is worth it. :D
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by taneq 21d ago
I meant in the sense of “if a dev doesn’t perceive it as slow, they won’t optimise it”, not that they’d necessarily optimise something that is slow.
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by taneq 21d ago
It goes for all spheres of life, full stop. I’m not sure if agents struggle with this because they learned it from humans, or if they struggle with it because it’s a universally challenging problem, but it’s something we share with them.

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