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When you say "X proxy" the 'X' stands for the thing that is being proxied not the thing that is doing the proxying.

Imagine what happens when human readability is discarded as a goal. LLMs are already very good at inferring meaning with little context. If the objective function is reduction of t…

I wonder when we'll see articles on the lost civic life of social media? With increasing AI use, it is happening.

Reminds me of Elon's answer to the question of what various countries can do about StarLink: "They can shake their fists at the sky."

I'd just be happy if companies were required to call them licensed and forbidden to call them sold or owned by the buyer.

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The subtle thing in all this is that it externalizes labor costs. You are the one doing the work. I was thrown by this a while ago checking into a hotel with kiosk. I was out of my…

I don't think that "root[ing] for mathematicians to go away" is the problem. The problem (if there is one) is that the process by which that occurs is economically determined. No a…

It seems like California is the furthest country in the EU.

Those old stories may have been full of crazy stuff, but look at children's programming over the past 30 years. SpongeBob characters, under the ocean, jumping off a diving board in…

I'll never forget his theory about the origin of the heart symbol.

The Gompertz function strikes again.

That's true, but it can be a trap. I recommend always generating a few alternatives to avoid our bias toward the first generation. When we don't do that we are led rather than lead…

Yet we see directors as artists. Kubrick, Coppola (both of them), Hitchcock, etc.

Look at it this way. The carver doesn't have to grow the tree. Using an LLM for coding is a lot like being a carver. You can take broad or small strokes and discard what you don't …

I'm in the conserving camp. It's more truthful than the narrativization that accompanies attempts to restore. We should remember that we all had a reptilian vision of dinosaurs for…

It's nice to see a passion project.

I would go so far as to say that it should be illegal for AI to lull humans into anthropomorphizing them. It would be hard to write an effective law on this, but I think it is doab…

Great article but disappointed that the monkey with the camera did not make an appearance.

And now 'physical' becomes as hyperbolized as 'violence.'

Sure, you can trade but it is a choice. Claiming that free trade is universally good is saying that there is only one right choice - no barriers.

There are many arguments but the most straightforward one is that a country may decide that preserving particular industries is in their security interest. That can be extended to …

This comes from the dated perspective that free trade is universally good. Nations create their own trade rules and they ought to be able to enforce them. I consider that far prefe…