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Might’ve gotten a temp hold put on it since it’s a perennial repost. I’ve posted it myself a few years back! It’s a classic, and bears resurfacing occasionally, but it would make s…

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This actually fits quite nicely with the idea that the graph network of humanity has meaningful emergent properties/challenges/phenomena at various densities or subnetwork connecte…

Surprised to see this is the only uv reference in the comments! Feels like an obvious comparison to me, and a very welcome development for the JS ecosystem. uv made me actually _en…

> So if your brain was somehow cloned, you'd exist in two places at the same time? There’d be two Mes – two instantiations of the Me pattern co-occurring. And that would likely be …

As a monist who holds the view that you’re claiming monists can’t legitimately hold, I don’t see any difficulty at all in squaring these ideas: - there is no separate “stuff” that …

If your ticket description is large enough to put a dent in your context window, or otherwise end up as a meaningful share of total token expenditure, then something is very, very …

> "security through obscurity" has been a well understand fallacy in open source circles for decades The times, as they say, are a-changin’. Open software is not inherently more se…

> The idea that hallucinations are somehow less likely because you're asking meta-questions about LLM output is completely without basis Not sure who you're replying to here – this…

You're misunderstanding my assertion. When you give prompt P to model M, when your goal is for the model to actually execute those instructions, the model will be in state S. When …

Not OP but I’d back that assertion. When the model that’s interpreting it is the same model that’s going to be executing it, they share the same latent space state at the outset. S…

I view this post as primarily pattern-matching and storytelling. But I think there’s a buried truth there, and that they were nibbling at the edges of it when they started talking …

Yeah, this deserves a quick explanation. When a human is coding against a traditional API, it might be a bit annoying if the API has four or five similar-sounding endpoints that ea…

You could get pretty far with a set of agent-focused routes mounted under e.g. an /agents path in your API. There'd be a little extra friction compared to MCP – the agent would pre…

Nah, this was 20 years ago or so! Would be fun to whip up a modern version though.

It's still middle-click in my muscle memory from the Windows XP days! God, I used to be _really_ into Minesweeper. One of the earliest games I made back in college was a 3D Mineswe…

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Yeah, you could certainly tell it to skip the Gemini image gen step and replace with generated SVG art, or an existing image, or just stick a longer description there, whatever. It…

I've long held a bit of nostalgia for the old PlayStation game Monster Rancher. You could "discover" monsters by popping in any arbitrary CD in your house – music, a PS game, a PC …

Wow. The guy who’s been thanklessly maintaining the project for 10+ years, with very little help, went way out of his way to produce a zero-reuse, ground-up reimplementation so tha…

Those claims were way, way after the fact. Like, 50+ years later. Zero documentation or contemporary evidence of ANY kind. The claim isn’t taken particularly seriously by historian…

Interesting that you’re getting downvoted. This passage also stuck out like a sore thumb to me – it’s like seeing some antivax stuff thrown into an otherwise serious discussion.

> Robert Maxwell, one of the architects of the for-profit scientific publishing scheme. When he later went into debt, he plundered hundreds of millions of pounds from his employees…

Huge leap there in your conclusion. Looks like you’re hand-waving away the entire phenomenon of emergent properties.

I assume a lawyer took one look at the larger mission statement and told them to pare it way down. A smaller, more concise statement means less surface area for the IRS to potentia…