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Preach! Mustafa Suleyman had a great post on some of this last year: https://mustafa-suleyman.ai/seemingly-conscious-ai-is-coming

This sounds awesome and exactly like the easy and safe on-ramp to OpenClaw that I've been looking for! I want to believe. Two questions as a potential user who knows the gist of Op…

I just had this interaction with ChatGPT. Me: Reverse the digits of 12+39 ChatGPT: The sum of 12 and 39 is 51. If you reverse the digits, you get 15. Me: Reverse the digits of 12 +…

The challenge here is that ChatGPT and other LLMs can only think out loud. They only "think" through writing, and that's always displayed to the user. Has anyone tried giving LLMs …

Thanks, we're aware of that possibility. We talk a lot with them about the motivation for the limits so hopefully they will see the value in applying them to themselves even when w…

Haha, yes, I had the same cousin! We would go play hide and seek while he played Legend of Zelda on his own in the corner :-/

We have three kids, aged 6, 3, and 10 months. The six-year-old gets ~30 minutes of Switch play a week (mostly driving circles in Rocket League), and the whole family watches an epi…

I couldn't agree more! We built Lexio to address exactly that issue. (Our tagline is literally "Stop building dashboards that no one uses".) It does data storytelling (discovering …

That was me! I came here to comment some version of "Ahem, we were doing this in 2005 at Northwestern" and seeing your comment to the same effect made me super happy. Thanks for no…

Yup! I remember my eighteen-year old self being pleased with "Planet does not have Audi, but it does have Audi TTs!" Looking at it again, I think the game works better spoken than …

I played a similar game with some folks once, but I don't know the game's name. The person who knew the rule(s) explained that there was a planet that was like Earth, but it only h…

I for one appreciated all the "I"s! To me it shows that you understand that you are expressing a subjective opinion, not a fact in the world. I think too many people express opinio…

Are you being sarcastic? Or do you genuinely think the lack of office space in SF is a drag on the world?

I guess it's not surprising, but I was super impressed by their copy on the website. "The most original Macintosh since the original Macintosh" holds up really well 17 years later.…

I know you said you're not seeking a therapeutic recommendation, but if you were my friend then I would buy you a beer and gently recommend seeing a therapist. I saw one for a year…

Earnest question: Have you used a monoid? I know my original comment is sort of bratty, and I was confusing monoids with monads, which... is a different functional thing that peopl…

I hate doing memes, but sometimes they're so spot on. "Stop trying to make monoids happen. They're not going to happen."

Hey oemerax, thanks for taking the time to respond. Like you said, I'm probably not the audience for your app :-) For me, the important aspect of social networks is their pleasure-…

"Bynd Zero". Yeesh. This just feels like another thing I'm obligated to burn down and manage. A better solution, for me at least, is to continue to not care about Twitter and Insta…

I don't know what this is doing for music, but I hear nothing from the website and it disables all audio on my Mac. (10.8.5)

Articles like this remind me why I don't use an Android phone. To each their own, but this is not a feature that I want: "Upon install, Android apps can get access to users’ locati…

It would look like result = range(1, 3).concat(range 4, 6).map((x) -> x * x).filter (x) -> x % 2 is 0 or result = range 1, 3 result = result.concat range 4, 6 result = result.map (…

I think it counts as mainstream. We've basically migrated entirely off Javascript at Narrative Science, we've got a whole bunch of server- and client-side CoffeeScript. It and Pyth…

This post doesn't make any sense without context. I now know that a person I've never heard of is no longer going to do a thing that I didn't realize that they were doing.