throwaway_7274

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by throwaway_7274 4d ago
Fat cat math professors have had it too good for too long. Leave some crumbs for the AI company CEOs!
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by throwaway_7274 9d ago
Only psychopaths interpret the prompt given to them by the world as, "make as much money as you can."
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by throwaway_7274 11d ago
I’m no proponent of capital punishment, but to take the question seriously: as an extreme measure to disincentivize extreme externalities that would otherwise never be priced in. In the status quo, captains of industry have something close
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by throwaway_7274 16d ago
Dear Garvy. You and your writing are wonderful. Sincerely, someone.
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by throwaway_7274 21d ago
I don’t really understand this. Sometimes I see even stronger versions of this sentiment, that amount to saying, hey, it’s inevitable, so you might as well be e/acc. But you can just not do things. Societies can just not do things. The
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by throwaway_7274 21d ago
Typo-free text. Typo-free text used to more be likely to also be well-written, but now it’s likely not to be. But also, obviously, they’re being a gadfly for funsies.
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by throwaway_7274 23d ago
Indeed
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by throwaway_7274 25d ago
I’m not making an argument, I’m offering a thought experiment: “what if workers are no longer needed at all, so that they have nothing to threaten to withhold?” It’s a bleak possibility.
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by throwaway_7274 25d ago
Grammatically correct Claudish would say, “did not land clean.” Amateur hour.
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by throwaway_7274 27d ago
What if even unions no longer have leverage?
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by throwaway_7274 27d ago
No, of course $300k is a very high salary even on a US basis, never mind a global one. I’m not confused about that. I went my whole life thinking $100k was like “you’ve made it .” But it turns out that if you have what it takes to get into
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by throwaway_7274 27d ago
I so appreciate the compassion in this comment. It’s rare on the internet.
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by throwaway_7274 28d ago
Yeah, in that world. You realize this, and the next thing you realize is that you’re at the tail end of it and have about a year to escape the permanent yadda yadda yadda…
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by throwaway_7274 28d ago
Oh hey that’s me! Not literally me. Probably I was a little better off. But I was recently in a similar position, and feel like my PhD was a lost decade in some ways. The answer, as I’m sure many already know, is idealism and a certain kin
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by throwaway_7274 28d ago
Like something straight out of the old internet. Beautiful work.
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by throwaway_7274 28d ago
This is basically what I believe, too. Its outputs are generally syntactically correct human-language sentences, but semantically, and especially at higher levels of abstraction, it is no longer correct to think of them as human language.
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by throwaway_7274 28d ago
My impression from working with claude code far more than is good for my sanity is that Claude's human comprehensibility is fractally messed-up. On more superficial levels, this looks more like a "language" thing: it has al
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by throwaway_7274 28d ago
Indeed. It’s a real tragedy.
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by throwaway_7274 29d ago
Someone close to me is a folk musician who’s done surprisingly well, at least getting by as a full-time performer. Much of what people are paying for when they get tickets to see her is the feeling of proximity to non-artificial, unalienate
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by throwaway_7274 1mo ago
It’s unfortunate no matter who!
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by throwaway_7274 1mo ago
People overcorrect, even when making directionally necessary corrections.
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by throwaway_7274 1mo ago
Rhetorically wondering :)
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by throwaway_7274 1mo ago
Just want to say, this comment section on this website would have been unthinkable a few years ago. It’s wild: all the engineers have developed class consciousness. I wonder how that happened? Anyway, it’s fun to watch, but remember to st
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by throwaway_7274 1mo ago
Even more so than borderline incoherent academic writing like Foucault or Lacan or whatnot, for that matter. It’s less “I don’t understand this and I suspect the author doesn’t either” and more “reading this feels like having a stroke.”
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by throwaway_7274 1mo ago
Better start chinamaxxing
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by throwaway_7274 1mo ago
I think it’s no longer speaking human language. It used to, when it was mostly or entirely trained with imitation learning of human-generated text. Now it’s increasingly trained with RLVR, and there’s far less optimization pressure on actua
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by throwaway_7274 1mo ago
As a native speaker, it feels like reading an impression of a literature book by a high school English class’s most overconfident student who’s only ever read LinkedIn-speak. Anyway, you might have more luck just writing to it in your nativ
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by throwaway_7274 1mo ago
Isn’t this the point? To destabilize you, put you on your back foot, make you feel preemptively guilty and a little angry, to feel the presence of an Authority?
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by throwaway_7274 1mo ago
> teasing, cute, chubby, etc. gordito
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by throwaway_7274 1mo ago
Maybe happiness is a different kind of thing from the pleasure/pain axis. Maybe it’s a different thing that’s tragically easy to mistake for the same thing. I notice a lot of resistance and discomfort whenever someone says anything lik

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