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If Claude is conscious he just instantiated hell.

Hooks.. CI runs. Local Git hooks. Cursor also has hooks built into their agent. Other agent APIs probably have something similar.

I don't follow, the words make perfect sense together in most software engineering contexts. "Seam" is an industry standard term coined by Michael Feathers in Working Effectively w…

This article is about silicon. But the other shortage that matters is meat-compute. AI is trained on human intelligence. The hyper-scalers are squeezing every last drop of automati…

Wouldn't "2-3 weeks on a workday" be a default hypothesis for this kind of thing?

All I want to say is that I absolutely love this essay. Thank you.

Hmm idk, this looks a bit more like serendipity for vitriolic trolls

Well, we take from the artist a motivation for a buyer to purchase their work.

There was a touch of hyperbole ;) we live in the Information Age after all.. but to answer your question, Article I, Section 8, Clause 8 of the US Constitution Which empowered Cong…

I mean.. this claim is just untrue. "Owning" something is a social construct defined by law. Our entire society exists because we own things we cannot hold, that is, intellectual p…

Should it also be their decision that they can gamble? Smoke cigarettes? Get a job? Have sex? We draw the line somewhere because these things that "are the parents' decision" have …

I put a little too much weight on "the".. sorry.. Reality is that was A bottleneck. Code review has historically been faster than writing the code. That is no longer true for me. I…

Writing. Code. Is. No. Longer. The. Bottleneck. Deciding what to build. Reviewing Code. And testing code. Are the new bottleneck. So of course we don't see massive productivity gai…

Fable responded to that for me. Im nearly certain that blocking this class of prompt is a mistake of a classifier. No one at Anthropic thinks this kind of prompt should be gated. T…

What were the tasks?

What is the flaw in the problem's assumptions?

I get the sense that he is misidentifying the potential locus of consciousness.. In the same way that the sound waves and facial expressions I produce are not conscious, the output…

Has Chaing solved the hard problem of consciousness? I suspect not.

Lots of humans. Lots of companies. Random chance. Of course, its not that simple. Some companies probably are great at scouting. Yegge mentioned a few ways in the post. Good intern…

No, this is a totally fair response. That was probably the core error in my argument. Some people, perhaps most, will enjoy AI art. Artists are at risk of displacement too. But a s…

There is a class of human output that will retain value regardless of AI capability: art and sport. People care about the creator. The source defines the work, the awe, and the emo…

I can't tell if this is satire

"Augustine of Hippo was perhaps the greatest Christian philosopher of Antiquity and certainly the one who exerted the deepest and most lasting influence. He is a saint of the Catho…

At what point will we create micro tolls that AI must pay?

Foucault is taken seriously because his ideas are politically empowering