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Whoa, great catch! I can't unsee it.

When high quality effort is applied to a tool, such as AES or the linux kernel, we intuit that it "hardens" the tool. That is, it makes the tool more correct, more resilient, less …

That's more forced laughter in one blog post than I was interested in suffering through.

What are some examples of his vitriol? I'm not familiar.

The comments here indicate a surprisingly, in my view, mixed reception, for such an unambiguously good talk? The main thrust is simple: - Technology is not good or bad, it is an am…

You're surprised they didn't eat the tokens to churn on lots of open problems instead of asking others to pay for those tokens? They're in the token business. If they're eating the…

The pelican on a bicycle test is specifically about generating an SVG, fyi, not a raster.

I suspect this article got upvoted partly for the headline & content, and partly because of who said it. Lots of people already have a good feel for the AI/journalism niche Simon W…

I think it lands differently for different kinds of prose (e.g. informational, persuasive, etc.) Persuasive prose , in particular, which is probably the majority of the things that…

Low-tech users don't give a damn if something has the guts of an "app" or not, they care about having a thing on the home screen they can click . Businesses have the incentive to g…

We only come to understand idea quality via evolutionary fitness tests, which means we have to MAKE things in order to find out if they're any good. Everything you make is gonna do…

The way I understand doom scrolling (and all other forms of passive engagement, e.g. youtube, reddit, hacker news, etc.) is that when we dip below "baseline" mood (be it through st…

Think of the entirety of the context (the full thread of conversation, all tool call output, etc.) as one message that's been submitted to the LLM all at once just so it can genera…

At scale, specs can only be vital to the degree to which their conformance testing is automated. Good specs should use a formal, runnable verification language. Otherwise you'll ac…

There's a subgenre of dystopian sci-fi where the premise is that reality in general is destined to be eclipsed by matrix-like hyper-realities, and that people will vastly prefer th…

We can talk to each other like adults, the key is understanding what the goal of any given conversation is. Truth-seeking is just one possible goal among many. Part of becoming an …

Agreed. Change makes people uncomfortable. The nature of the change doesn't matter; the transition itself is the root of the discomfort. When things are stagnant, we gradually opti…

Don't let your guard down. Tricking Opus 4.6 is not impossible, it's just still an active research frontier. Once the right incantation for any specific model is known, it'll be we…

Except that is not what's happening. The article clarifies something that is misleading if you interpret the headline in isolation: "high-end M6" means "the high-end variants of th…

Arguably, npm does one thing, but it does it poorly.

My favorite of these has always been the USA PATRIOT Act, or the "Uniting and Strengthening America by Providing Appropriate Tools Required to Intercept and Obstruct Terrorism Act"…

While I'm sold on the fact that modern nuclear can be built & administered safely in the face of natural disasters, and is a net good environmentally, I'm worried about corporate c…

For the uninitiated: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Torment_Nexus