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mvr123456

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    Comment #47164286

    Something I've been thinking about for years, and fully expected to see earlier. Even though reasoning with LLMs is still largely broken, the "flag logical fallacies and cognitive …

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    Comment #46922713

    Sure, it's typical Wolfram, inviting the typical criticism. If you can understand what he's talking about at all then you won't be very convinced it's new. If you can't understand …

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    Comment #46917081

    I suppose evangelism still has some value if you have a big enough platform. There's always frog-boiled obliviousness to deal with or the next gen coming up and trying to figure ou…

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    Comment #46914192

    This reminds me of how you can create fair coins from biased ones and vice versa. You toss your coin repeatedly, and then get the singular "result" in some way by encoding/decoding…

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    Comment #46913653

    > The combined effect of knots on our technology and understanding of the world is fascinating. Knots as code, code as knots: https://arxiv.org/abs/1009.2107

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    Comment #46913348

    Looking at LLMs as a less-than-completely-reliable compiler is a good idea, but it's misleading to think of them as natural-language-to-implementation compiler because they are act…

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    Comment #46871425

    Since it's an old debate that a lot of smart people spent a lot of time thinking about, the best short / simple answer you'll see for it is "you might want to read some more about …

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    Comment #46643144

    The intro is really good and stands alone. I'd point any outsider to this as a decent description of hacking, programming, software engineering, prototyping in general.

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    Comment #46216599

    This is going to happen and is real stuff we could be working towards with the tools that we already have. No need for AGI vaporware, no waiting around for the perfect agentic play…

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    Comment #46216516

    > perfect distillation of a uniquely American problem [..] but how is this going to get power online faster than just installing solar and batteries? I like the part where when con…

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    Comment #46104314

    > The data shows millennials as a whole are better off than boomers were at their age. Perhaps true if you go east far enough, seems objectively wrong for the majority of the west …

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    Comment #16557493

    Signup doesn't actually work for this thing, just an error that shows a Justin Bieber quote.