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Instructions are data

I think the point is that worse is better. There is incredible power in a standard (mostly) predictable platform, even if it could be done better.

I mean it kinda does.

> Once you irrigate a field, that water is gone. This doesn't seem true to me, in the sense that anything is truly "gone". The water doesn't cease to exist or is converted to anyth…

Agree completely about the time thing. Indeed, every time I’ve fallen into the trap of somehow believing I’ve moved “past” the time sink it inevitably has bitten me down the road w…

I remember being the big innovation over svn being merging. There were others things, obviously, but the distributed model + easy merges is what I remember.

Any language of Python’s size and popularity will be a mess, the only difference is what parts of it.

What I find fascinating about LLMs is that a lot of their failures seem strikingly similar to the failures that humans struggle with. I’m not sure what this “means” but I think it’…

I don't think this is something to laugh at. Whether or not you think it's necessary or a proper method of punishment, it isn't funny.

This matches me experience as well. Some of my earliest rsync experiences were with the Cygwin version and I can remember scratching my head and wondering why people raved about th…

In my case, once I set the limit to 0 minutes and refreshed the home tab I don't see Shorts recommendations at all. There is still a Shorts tab at the bottom that tells me I have n…

Relevant: https://sqlite.org/mostdeployed.html

IP addresses were always meant to be globally reachable. Of course, NAT has corrupted this - which is why NAT is a scourge.

I think AI can add a lot of functionality but on the margins. Making things “work better”. I think AI as a focal point—in that it is The feature is a mistake for most things. But m…

I’ve always seen the hubris as an essential component of doing things “you didn’t know you couldn’t do.” A lot of great ideas are discounted as impossible and it takes hubris to fl…

To be honest, if you’re using a tool that stores things as trees and blobs and almost every part of its functionality is influenced by that fact, then you just need to understand t…

Thanks for this, I can’t believe this never occurred to me to try to do.

If you read carefully you will see that they never said AI has a theory of mind.

Then what do we do? lol.

Personally, I think you need to chill. He wasn’t “attacking” it, he was just commenting and includes his interpretation about it being from AI. Why don’t YOU just focus on the prim…

Exactly. I mean, if you asked people how probable the current LLMs would be (warts and all) 20 years ago I think there would have been a similar cynicism.

“You can’t tell people anything” I read this on a blog article a long time ago and I’m constantly reminded of it. This gives me that same feeling where someone is attempting to giv…

I dunno, usually when I eat chocolate it makes me want to eat more chocolate. What is the mechanism for this?

My problem with takes like this is it presumes a level of understanding of intelligence in general that we simply do not have. We do not understand consciousness at all, much less …

I think kids are smarter than you give them credit for. You’re right that they randomly click around and will do so for hours. But they /will/ do so for hours. And when it finally …