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One theory I've been entertaining is that whenever GPT-3.5 came out a lot of people were talking about the "bitter lesson" and how scale was all we really needed to get to AGI. No …

I was about to post a snarky comment along the lines of "Sierra? The publishers of Homeworld and Homeworld 2?"

I always got the impression that the only way a relatively average software developer could make a “successful” SaaS is if they built something weird and niche that appeals to an a…

To me demoscene is kind of synonymous with the Amiga, so I would argue that peak demoscene lines up with the rise and fall of the Amiga brand. So I think that's maybe the other dif…

I'm keenly aware, I have a pretty extensive collection of Hacker News bookmarks. It's hard to articulate why I think these are different, but I think the best way to put it is that…

Finding out that this is over 10 years old has made me profoundly sad. Despite the age of LLMs arguably unlocking massive amounts of productivity and agency for developers and non-…

Ironically the physics are kind of my biggest criticism. They call these "world models", but I think it's more accurate to call them "video game models" because they employ "video …

I’m sure there’s some boring neuro-chemical explanation for this, and I won’t doubt or deny the neuro-chemical explanation, but the fact that there’s a mushroom that consistently b…

Oh yeah, funny enough even though I’m a bit of an AI art hater I actually thought very early Midjourney looked good because of all had an impressionistic, dreamy quality.

Funny enough that had crossed my mind with the woodchuck example, because at a glance I can't see any weird artifacts, but I felt confident I could tell it was AI generated immedia…

Something I find weird about AI image generation models is that even though they no longer produce weird "artifacts" that give away that the fact that it was AI generated, you can …

Reminds me of the old gem of the Web 1.0 internet that was Exit Mundi

One of my most frustrating things regarding the potential of an AI bubble was some very smart and intelligent researcher being incredibly bullish on AI on Twitter because if you ex…

I definitely agree with you there. I contracted with a company that had some older engineers who were in largely managerial roles who really liked using AI for personal projects, a…

I think people underestimate the degree to which fun matters when it comes to productivity. If something isn’t fun then I’ll likely put it off. A 15 minute task can become hours, m…

Yeah, I thought about that after I looked at the SWE-bench results. It doesn't make sense that the SWE results are barely an improvement yet somehow the model is a more significant…

> Practically speaking, we’ve observed it maintaining focus for more than 30 hours on complex, multi-step tasks. Really curious about this since people keep bringing it up on Twitt…

> I used to make Dragonball Z fan sites... Based I'm working on a revamp of my personal site. I do a lot of creative coding, most of them are throwaway experiments, so I thought I'…

It really is crazy how much was lost when Apple killed Flash. Absolutely miss Newgrounds. It's still around of course, I'm reflecting more on the vibes when it was in its heyday. U…

My thoughts as I reconcile my conflicting feelings on this. I think it should be objectively cool that Meta has finally managed to come out with a pair of smart glasses that come i…

My personal favorite from that time was a website builder called "The Grid" which really overhyped on its promises. It never had a public product, but people in the private beta me…

Ooh, fun, a FizzBuzzFeed quiz!

Sure, but if you're trying to get there by training a model on video games then you're likely going to wind up inadvertently creating a video game simulator rather than a physics s…

Also, to drive my point further home, in one of the demos they were operating a jetski during a festival. If the jetski bumps into a small Chinese lantern, it will move the lantern…

Genuinely technically impressive, but I have a weird issue with calling these world simulator models. To me, they're video game simulator models. I've only ever seen demos of these…