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It's just economics. VCs dump large amounts of money into early-stage platforms with the express purpose of exploiting it later. This is an inevitable part of the lifecycle of high…

It's LLM-like in the details, but there are certain patterns of repetition and idiosyncrasies, also certain analogies I don't think an LLM would make (like the aliens thing), that …

Forgive me if a dumb question, but is there no compaction? Do you ever run out of context?

Me as well. One of my formative experiences was reading Refactoring (Fowler). At the time I felt skeptical that it could make a difference --- I had mostly written scientific/resea…

I feel like the development of AI has really shown what a gigantic spectrum intelligence actually is.

There's an "expert trap" in here I think, at least this is something I experience. When you are good at something, it's a lot less effort to draw on that stuff, and you usually get…

I don't expect technology companies to do the right thing by the consumer. There is a niche for companies or NGOs that manage to stick to their core mission, but the incentive stru…

You're talking about the material of the Twitter discussions where I'm more discussing the article itself, which is about the community and discourse surrounding it. If you want my…

I despise the "what's true is true" attitude exhibited by Casey and Bill in these tweets. I find it to be an instant flag of unreliability. The smartest human alive is still a huma…

I think an important realisation for me was this: peoples' egos being involved in their arguments, people being irrational, and so on, these are not merely deviations from an ideal…

Not GP, but I'd argue that over-rationalism and underestimating both the complexity of the real world and the theory-ladenness of one's perspective is just as dangerous. The point …

I've not done particularly rigorous testing, but I've done this a lot with Claude to get a feel. What I've noticed is for certain open-ended tasks, Claude is extremely primeable: i…

> If you want to go out of your way to interpret things as uncharitably as possible, you'll find yourself missing out on a lot of potential wisdom. Thank you for that line --- I ma…

The original sin is the idea that the profit motive on a free market will solve all our resource allocation problems, and that consumption demand should be the ultimate arbiter of …

I think the foundational one is for Western governments to treat critical digital infrastructure for what it is: critical infrastructure. We don't let private capital build nuclear…

Because you must statically declare dependency on an effect, it's opt-in. To be clear, you still pay indirection cost: when you do opt in you have to hope the upstairs implementati…

One of the things I find most exciting about effect systems is that they solve some of the issues with typeclasses and traits. The issue with these is you can provide exactly one i…

I think the point is that even if AI returns don't materialise, there is a dangerous implicit political project among AI moguls to get to this state. Even if we get 10% the way the…

You're assuming that the free market will do what it's meant to do. But there is also a reality that there are plenty of structural market failures in the economy that arise from e…

This article puts into words a lot of things that had been on my mind as missing in AI discourse. Most significantly, actually considering the _systemic consequences_ of the promis…

Attraction towards equilibrium is real, but that equilibrium is not a given. It comes from intrinsic biological constraints, individual preferences, cultural norms, ideology, habit…

I have a couple principles to help me work with this. The first is that even though the object is not a human, you should still exercise politeness and restraint. Like the article …

I feel the same way, and yet I would still say I feel AI usage atrophying my thinking skills. I feel less tempted to use it to shortcut whole files, but even just using it to speed…

Regarding the tension between symbolic representation and Naur "theory", I'd actually say they come from two different traditions, each providing two different theses. When writing…

"Worse is better" remains relevant as ever. https://www.jwz.org/doc/worse-is-better.html