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Out of curiosity, was that before or after LLM agents?

Oh right, I keep forgetting about those useful-but-historically-mentally-draining-to-update sources of truth. This might be extremely useful when paired with an agent.

My theory is that most problem solvers are bad at solving problems, and most managers are bad at managing, and it doesn't matter how evolution created them: They'll make mistakes, …

No, AI wasn't supposed to solve all that drudgery. The hypothesized AI singularity would, but an ordinary AI agent running an LLM is just a problem solving automaton with no will o…

Yet another statistically misleading headline.

Time is finite and regression testing always gets punted to the back of the line when humans are excited. This simply reveals a staggering level of humanity.

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The endgame in programming is reducing complexity before the codebase becomes impossible to reason about. This is not a solved problem, and most codebases the LLMs were trained on …

I agree with everything you said except that the US is able to stop it. Think about it: Wouldn't Israel simply use these same tools in the US to install a puppet president they can…

A bribe in a low trust society is not the same as a bribe in a high trust society. In this context, a bribe is irrelevant compared to the act of election interference by a foreign …

Quick question: Could they also be manipulating this message board's voting?

You are correct. Robustness requires a system that is working within it's tolerance margin, and stressing that inevitably leads to failure. A fault-tolerant system in this case wou…

I am alarmed at the high number of supposed engineers on this thread that are seemingly unaware of how safety-critical systems work. Literally every other piece of this system has …

Can a single human being reliably and robustly maintain a safety-critical system alone under any circumstances, ever? Ever?

A terminal still offers a more composable interface than a GUI. Analog feedback is still a concern for high level pilots. You are confusing power tools with entry-level instruments…

It is still called the Department of Defense.

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On the other hand, as long as the entire internet goes down when Cloudflare goes down, I'll be able to host everything there without ever getting flack from anyone.

You forgot to provide a counter-argument to the author's position while you attacked them personally.

You're ignoring the fact that going outside to protest wasn't something you could just decide not to do, just like buying groceries. BLM protests and gathering indoors for fun are …

If it quacks like a Markov chain...

Not all artificial neurons are LLMs. Machine learning can be applied to any kind of large data set, not just human prose, and will start finding useful patterns before a human brai…

We use logic to design our technology, but evolution does it by literally shaking all the atoms into place, no design involved. Our brains were created randomly.

But we don't even need a human brain. We already have those, they take months to grow, take forever to train, and are forever distracted. Our logic-based processes will keep gettin…

On the other hand, a large part of the complexity of human hardware randomly evolved for survival and only recently started playing around in the higher-order intellect game. It co…