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It was obvious to me as well that your comment was not AI-generated. I thought I'd reply as I like reading in-depth discussions online, so I don't want to see a future where everyo…

There's too many incidental details, too much substance and complexity for this to be an AI-generated comment. (I know this is an 8-day old thread, but accusing a long comment of b…

I commented about this on X. As a developer, "infinite scroll to get more digits" sounds really cool. It sounds conceptually similar to lazily-evaluated sequences in languages like…

This relates to what I wrote in reply to the original tweet thread. Performing arithmetic on arbitrarily complex mathematical functions is an interesting area of research but not u…

I still maintain that this (originally from ancient China) is the clearest proof, and gives the best insight into why the Pythagorean Theorem holds. https://cdn.britannica.com/43/7…

I agree with you politically and spiritually. However, Patrick Mackenzie is a person of the highest calibre (see, e.g., this: https://worksinprogress.co/issue/the-story-of-vaccinat…

This is a terrible article that rambles on for far too long without offering an actually polite way to tell/request someone to do something. These are the best approaches: 1. "Plea…

Quotes from the Memo: "We will distribute tools to leverage the power of these white box models, and create a developer community around our trademark. This approach is an ideologi…

I didn't notice that line, but my immediate thought on reading the memo was that they were going hard after European capital. Seemingly both governmental and from VC firms in Europ…

In memory of the olden days when Hacker News focused on discussions for entrepreneurs, here's a question: I have no doubt that hundreds of millions of BS jobs exist, but isn't that…

I asked a follow-up question: Where did Person get the spoon from? ChatGPT's answer: I apologize for the oversight. Here is the corrected version, including the step to get the spo…

I ran an interesting session with ChatGPT. I don't think the following proves that it has a "world model", but it does seem to be able to emulate having a world model to an impress…

This looks like a very interesting paper that takes the rare approach of actually trying to understand what all the cool new language models are doing at a fundamental level. Does …

I pretty much agree. The "scientific" approach the author pushes for in the article -- running experiments with multiple similar prompts on problems where you desire a short specif…

Funnily enough, I was reading Minsky's book recently. I second the recommendation. I think he's missing many technical details*, but the basic approach seems to be correct. *(For e…

In the same vein, I was playing around with its ability to annotate code with explanations of the changing constraints on different variables (I thought this was a good proxy for d…

If they're willing to learn, GPT is a very powerful tool. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VznoKyh6AXs ["How to learn to code FAST using ChatGPT (it's a game changer seriously)"]

Check out my comments higher up in the thread (eg https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35197613 ), I really do believe that GPT4+ will be primarily useful as augmenters for capable…

I've been able to give it arbitrary blocks of code and have it explain how they work. (Asking this makes GPT more effective when I ask it make further changes. One reason I do this…

> Reading this article I get the same sense about software engineering, if you haven't solved the problem, you don't really understand the code the AI is generating and so you don'…

Fascinating story! It reminds me of William Binney and ThinThread ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ThinThread ). (ThinThread was a system developed by a small team at the NSA that b…

I'm very interested in stories like this. > I wrote software to automate all of this. It took a half an hour, with NO manual intervention. It was strangled in the crib. Can you say…

I messed up the last few entries in the thread, the complete thread is here: https://mobile.twitter.com/isaac_lewis/status/15994780455296...

I'd say people who work as solo entrepreneurs or independent contractors are usually either "sociopaths" (of a particular kind) or some kind of sociopath/loser mixture, depending o…