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by zero_shift 5d ago
I only recently realised why the org is called AutoMATTic
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by zero_shift 5d ago
The linked thread is titled "Caroline Ellison has joined Manifund" however I felt this lacked sufficient context to appear newsworthy.
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Caroline Ellison takes finance ops role at EA charity Manifund(forum.effectivealtruism.org)
3 points by zero_shift 5d ago|3 comments
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by zero_shift 5d ago
> Broadly, the rationalists seem to have been pretty early to realizing LLMs were a big deal You can't make that assertion when these same people made the LLM revolution happen, by securing the capital and human resources to realise
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by zero_shift 5d ago
I agree - it is hard not to be cynical. Funding is becoming scarce; IPOs are getting harder. The hedge funds are trying to back out. I think they realise the web of financing makes them double (triple? quintuple?) exposed. Amodei wants to m
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by zero_shift 6d ago
I'm not going to criticise you for using Claude to build this. Honestly, for me as a consumer, it is a neutral thing provided the software is high quality What I would ask is this: why should I use your software when I could generate m
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by zero_shift 7d ago
> The continued React Native tax of unnecessarily difficult upgrades, My very first experience of RN was having to update an app to handle the mandatory change to 64 bit APKs Which required a massive update not only to several dependenci
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by zero_shift 10d ago
Yeah that rings a bell. It's been two decades... I should start reading again. I remember my essays better than the source material It's been on my mind a lot, how I've lost touch with all this
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by zero_shift 10d ago
This unearths some thoughts, back from my English degree twenty years ago But basically I don't think those problems are all meant to be solved Yes, the supernatural events described on stage are very difficult to pull off even with mo
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by zero_shift 12d ago
I have found this extremely relevant as a (primarily) non-verbal thinker. I don't, generally, think in words, more in - I guess I would call it something like meta-shapes? A sense of a shape but not things I can exactly visualise. (You
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by zero_shift 14d ago
Would you like cookies? (No) -> You can revoke consent at any time (Revoke) -> Would you like cookies?
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by zero_shift 16d ago
This is one of the things that did in Jan Hendrik Schön. I can't remember the exact measurement but he was showing a set of curves that were simply too neat for a relatively small sample size - roughly 100 or so plastic transistors. In
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by zero_shift 1mo ago
I disagree with you, Simon. I almost always see "Use Boring Technology" to close down conversations, not open them up.
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by zero_shift 1mo ago
> What I can't wrap my head around is, businesses are run by people, and all these entrepreneurs are making explicit decisions to abuse their fellow human beings This is a thought I want to pull on I have a view that organisations
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by zero_shift 1mo ago
> I am significantly less tolerant of ads than average people seem to be. I don't know if I am the same. But I do find it very difficult to use an internet browser with no adblocker. Perhaps it's because I have now spent more t
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by zero_shift 1mo ago
But surely it does? It is TCP, even with multiplexing I thought that was the whole motivation for building HTTP/3 on QUIC (UDP)?
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by zero_shift 1mo ago
You are being downvoted but I think this is correct. I doubt Netflix is really doing a double blind RCT on which languages produce better AI pull requests. How would that even work, have two versions of each service in different languages?
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by zero_shift 1mo ago
I work at a large devsec company which uses primarily Go and TypeScript I've found that the LLM generated Go has few mistakes, and generally isn't too obscure. But the volume of code is so high, colleagues do a bad job of reviewin
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by zero_shift 1mo ago
I mean this isn't true, formatting is the most trivial part. And so many languages have an opinionated formatter these days (e.g. Black)
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by zero_shift 1mo ago
To be honest with you, I didn't think this idiom through
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by zero_shift 1mo ago
I made it up on the hoof (pun intended) Cows are the most common animal on the farm, and overall they produce the most value. But they are very replaceable. When times are bad, you slaughter them. Cows are like your rank-and-file applicatio
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by zero_shift 1mo ago
It depends what you mean by enterprise project? If you just mean a large company, I would say they do exist - though it may take some looking for them. You can find them in companies that have to deal with "real" things (hardware,
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by zero_shift 1mo ago
I feel this was already a severe problem pre-AI. From what I hear from my partner (in university administration), nearly half the students demand accomodations for disabilities. Many of those conditions are very difficult to falsify It does
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by zero_shift 1mo ago
I think you have the right observation but the wrong conclusion. The appeal of digital systems, at a social level, is that they can transmit information accurately for almost no marginal cost. They come at the risk of fraud. With AI the lev
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by zero_shift 2mo ago
That's fair. It starts easy, then gets difficult.
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by zero_shift 2mo ago
> the answer was what the Unabomber proposed the whole time. The Unabomber (Theodore Kaczynski) killed 3 people and injured 23 others across 16 bombings between 1978 and 1995 It's absolutely incredible to see this talked about as a
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by zero_shift 2mo ago
Firstly, this generation of AI is not going to take away all jobs Secondly, we already know what happens when sectors face mass unemployment from the 1980s, when steel and coal workers were laid off en-masse: nobody came to help Acceleratio
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by zero_shift 2mo ago
Starcardian also died this year - killed in a road accident whilst cycling
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by zero_shift 2mo ago
We already have human intelligence. Creating new humans is easy (and fun) The only reason to emulate human intelligence is to capture it, exploit it, and reduce the negotiating power of those who have it naturally. Anyone who wants this is
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by zero_shift 2mo ago
Wonderful. And these people call themselves utilitarians too. God / Buddha / Allah / Batman, save me from their kindness!

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