It’s got worse though right? Older models from before everyone went off the deep end with CoT don’t do this and just write the code with 1/10 the token usage. The downside is the code isn’t as good but it is produced a…
Yes either use the local language convincingly if you can, or if you're white European ethnicity respond with a few words in Russian or any other language that the local scammers definitely don't speak
Broadly Latin was the main language in the western Roman Empire but educated people would also have spoken Greek, and in the eastern Mediterranean it was reversed (almost everything was done in Greek but Latin was used…
I once had work MDM on a Mac just... disappear one day. They definitely didn't intentionally remove it, nor did I do anything to remove it, but one day it just wasn't there. Maybe accidentally removed from the MDM…
Also sometimes (depending on the company) being seen to visibly chip in fighting fires can win you real credibility that you can put in the bank and then use later when you want to slightly slack off for a bit. So it…
There's a difference between using stimulants on long missions to stay awake (especially if, for example, you're flying an aeroplane) and getting cranked on speed before a battle purely because you're rather fight high…
It’s a mixed blessing because while the competition should lead to better designs it also leads to massive fragmentation in the drones used which has negative consequences for maintenance, training etc compared to the…
Yes I fear you’re right, power is addictive to most people, once they have a taste they want more. Likewise loss of power is traumatic, picture the barely conscious 90 year old senator getting wheeled into congress to…
The funny thing is it’s so transparent. Like… is that the point? They want us to know how dodgy they are, kind of as a “** you”? Often the point of propaganda is not to convince, it’s to demoralise. On the other hand I…
Yes in theory it should be easier to get on with people if you yourself don’t hold many strong opinions. Unless of course you’re dealing with a zealot who gets angry if you do anything other than passionately agree with…
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I don’t think there’s any one thing or set of things you can read that will make you informed on all topics. Human knowledge is siloed and you need to already be well-informed to judge the quality of information (this…
Truth is reading any of these MSM sources on either left or right is bad imo. Before reading them you're merely uninformed, after you're misinformed which is far worse
The backlash is baked in now I think, people hoping it will just go away are delusional. But if European elites (including UK) are smart they should be able to avoid the worst outcomes, most people don't really want…
Yes, this is part of why I lost interest in video games (probably mostly just getting older if I'm honest). However at the risk of sounding basic, RDR2 (2018) and Cyberpunk (~2022, once they fixed all the bugs) are both…
Some ticket prices are crazy, but the issue is a lot of trains are already very busy especially at the weekends, even with those prices. If trains were made cheaper, some of them would become extremely unpleasant to…
Yes, that's a fair counterpoint. I guess my counter-counterpoint would be that LLMs actually seem to have characteristics closer to the first group than the second, in that they (currently at least) need enormous…
I believe this in general but the issue with AI specifically is historically in every cycle we've overestimated the potential of AI in both the short and the long run - people in the 60s were genuinely quite convinced…
It can't follow orders because it isn't thinking - even in a best case scenario, all you're doing with AGENTS.md is altering the probability distribution of outcomes away from things you don't want towards things you do…
Anecdotally this isn't uncommon among heavy users, I've heard of similar things happen to a few people. You did the right thing stopping, where people really go off the deep end is when they don't listen to the warning…
I'll be honest, both these things are true: It works extremely well, and I don't do it as consistently as I should, precisely because it's actually kind of hard work and the reward is uncertain and delayed (though it…
It being boring is part of the point - normally your brain is constantly stimulated so it does indeed feel strange and uncomfortable when that stimulus is taken away. Pushing through that is what leads to progress.…
It’s not just you this is also my opinion, 5.3-codex was a fantastic model in terms of balancing output quality and cost. Cheap and efficient enough I could afford to use it on basically everything unlike 5.5 or Opus,…
It's peak HN meme material because 1) it affects your intelligence which everyone here values highly 2) you can measure it, it's a number 3) requires tech to measure it So perfect for HN, you can obsess over tech and…
And Israel is attacking various countries - okay not in quite in Europe, but pretty close to the southeastern EU member states. So you have one country which is in a very loose alliance with a country that's attacking a…
It’s got worse though right? Older models from before everyone went off the deep end with CoT don’t do this and just write the code with 1/10 the token usage. The downside is the code isn’t as good but it is produced a…
Yes either use the local language convincingly if you can, or if you're white European ethnicity respond with a few words in Russian or any other language that the local scammers definitely don't speak
Broadly Latin was the main language in the western Roman Empire but educated people would also have spoken Greek, and in the eastern Mediterranean it was reversed (almost everything was done in Greek but Latin was used…
I once had work MDM on a Mac just... disappear one day. They definitely didn't intentionally remove it, nor did I do anything to remove it, but one day it just wasn't there. Maybe accidentally removed from the MDM…
Also sometimes (depending on the company) being seen to visibly chip in fighting fires can win you real credibility that you can put in the bank and then use later when you want to slightly slack off for a bit. So it…
There's a difference between using stimulants on long missions to stay awake (especially if, for example, you're flying an aeroplane) and getting cranked on speed before a battle purely because you're rather fight high…
It’s a mixed blessing because while the competition should lead to better designs it also leads to massive fragmentation in the drones used which has negative consequences for maintenance, training etc compared to the…
Yes I fear you’re right, power is addictive to most people, once they have a taste they want more. Likewise loss of power is traumatic, picture the barely conscious 90 year old senator getting wheeled into congress to…
The funny thing is it’s so transparent. Like… is that the point? They want us to know how dodgy they are, kind of as a “** you”? Often the point of propaganda is not to convince, it’s to demoralise. On the other hand I…
Yes in theory it should be easier to get on with people if you yourself don’t hold many strong opinions. Unless of course you’re dealing with a zealot who gets angry if you do anything other than passionately agree with…
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I don’t think there’s any one thing or set of things you can read that will make you informed on all topics. Human knowledge is siloed and you need to already be well-informed to judge the quality of information (this…
Truth is reading any of these MSM sources on either left or right is bad imo. Before reading them you're merely uninformed, after you're misinformed which is far worse
The backlash is baked in now I think, people hoping it will just go away are delusional. But if European elites (including UK) are smart they should be able to avoid the worst outcomes, most people don't really want…
Yes, this is part of why I lost interest in video games (probably mostly just getting older if I'm honest). However at the risk of sounding basic, RDR2 (2018) and Cyberpunk (~2022, once they fixed all the bugs) are both…
Some ticket prices are crazy, but the issue is a lot of trains are already very busy especially at the weekends, even with those prices. If trains were made cheaper, some of them would become extremely unpleasant to…
Yes, that's a fair counterpoint. I guess my counter-counterpoint would be that LLMs actually seem to have characteristics closer to the first group than the second, in that they (currently at least) need enormous…
I believe this in general but the issue with AI specifically is historically in every cycle we've overestimated the potential of AI in both the short and the long run - people in the 60s were genuinely quite convinced…
It can't follow orders because it isn't thinking - even in a best case scenario, all you're doing with AGENTS.md is altering the probability distribution of outcomes away from things you don't want towards things you do…
Anecdotally this isn't uncommon among heavy users, I've heard of similar things happen to a few people. You did the right thing stopping, where people really go off the deep end is when they don't listen to the warning…
I'll be honest, both these things are true: It works extremely well, and I don't do it as consistently as I should, precisely because it's actually kind of hard work and the reward is uncertain and delayed (though it…
It being boring is part of the point - normally your brain is constantly stimulated so it does indeed feel strange and uncomfortable when that stimulus is taken away. Pushing through that is what leads to progress.…
It’s not just you this is also my opinion, 5.3-codex was a fantastic model in terms of balancing output quality and cost. Cheap and efficient enough I could afford to use it on basically everything unlike 5.5 or Opus,…
It's peak HN meme material because 1) it affects your intelligence which everyone here values highly 2) you can measure it, it's a number 3) requires tech to measure it So perfect for HN, you can obsess over tech and…
And Israel is attacking various countries - okay not in quite in Europe, but pretty close to the southeastern EU member states. So you have one country which is in a very loose alliance with a country that's attacking a…