This is the real San Francisco that I know, not the one that Hacker News always talks about. It's a haven for weirdoes that has attracted the strangest of each generation since at least the Beatniks in the 50s. It…
I feel weirdly stuck on both sides of this. I haven't been in a full-time "code writing" roles for years, so my own personal usage of LLMs for anything is roughly nil right now, just because I continue to be able to get…
I think the core of this issue that makes discussion so difficult is people are not talking about "value" in the same sense here. Anything you can sell has value to the sellers, and by basic economic theory assuming…
Humans are next state of their local world predictors, given all previous states they are aware of. That's an entirely fair analogy. The reverse analogy for calling a human a bag of chemicals would be calling an LLM a…
I often wish these kinds of things didn't get posted here. This is meant for a technical audience, and "technical" here means you know something about studies like this, not you understand computing technology. I've got…
That's entirely fair. It is an overstatement. What I meant was, when deployed or during an exercise, any radio communications you make, letters you write, television shows you watch, can be intercepted and read. It's…
These things need to include more details. What is the report that ads were used to target deployed troops? What is the device use policy as of today? FOBs and semi-permanent installations are not secret locations.…
There's a bigger problem I hope you become aware as you read more here. First, very smart people are not smart about everything. Second, nearly nobody is smart when it comes to understanding the limits of human…
The site was registered a month ago. If it ever actually gets and stays popular, see if it has no ads then. The economics of personal interest sites didn't change in the sense that they're any harder to make now…
It makes me think of my college girlfriend. Her dad owned a bar, only one, that he eventually expanded to several, but even with only one, they had a home address on a canal on a small island south of Long Beach,…
The idea of a software factory long predates LLMs or any other form of automated full-program generation. The idea was to take full CI/CD pipelines that allow for rapid deployment of new components into a running system…
Didn't see it even after updating, then read https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/block-ads-firefox-ios: > This feature is experimental and is being introduced to the Firefox user base through a progressive rollout. It…
23 em-dashes in the span of a single README. I gotta hand it to Anthropic. They seriously managed to find a completely legal way to sell crack to crack addicts using other crack addicts as their unpaid sales force.
Piling on to the other responses, I don't really want to see anything at all from you. What I want to see to believe that any meaningful number of people out there are generating 10x the value they used to is a visibly…
For model training, maybe, but the concern of this article is web search, including AI summaries and search as an assistant tool to agents, gets infected with this. You can see it searching virtually any technical…
I've worked in classified tech much of my career and largely specialize at this point in installing and running infrastructure and platform orchestration technologies in airgaps. With all respect, your conjecture here…
I'm not sure why this is remarkable. San Francisco is still the overall #1 thanks to whatever this report means by "quality" of talent. It seems some larger city was bound to overtake San Francisco in total quantity…
> Steven A. Cohen Owner of the New York Mets now, by the way, which maybe non-sports following readers will be happy to hear remain a boondoggle. He tried very hard to spend his way to glory, leading the league in…
I don't know about the framing, won't speculate on causes, but the phenomenon being described is real. I have no idea how far it goes back, at least to Woody Guthrie if we're just describing people who history and…
The first comment on the blog has it. Subjectively, personally, we can all decide for ourselves what purpose we live for, but the purpose of life as a phenomenon in the world is not to enjoy itself. It's to perpetuate…
I benefit tremendously from the exercise example specifically, but I still agree with 0xf8 that this isn't something you can just will yourself into. I identity as an athlete because I am. I've played sports of some…
Do you actually object to countries having standing armies with ranged area weaponry? This isn't what the article is talking about at all. It never says don't build military technology. It says don't build things like a…
Interesting to choose Hacker News as an example. I'm sure they measure every metric that can be measured, but it'd be interesting to see what measures they actually care about doing well on. The stated goal of the site…
No, it isn't. Nobody evaluates a drill on how long a worker spends using it. If you can get the same job done faster, you'll go with that. Even in entertainment, not all products optimize for time of use. Nobody…
I think this sentiment deserves its own serious discussion. It probably won't happen for another few years when the emotions and defensiveness settle, but there's a separate problem happening from quality. Quantity is…
This is the real San Francisco that I know, not the one that Hacker News always talks about. It's a haven for weirdoes that has attracted the strangest of each generation since at least the Beatniks in the 50s. It…
I feel weirdly stuck on both sides of this. I haven't been in a full-time "code writing" roles for years, so my own personal usage of LLMs for anything is roughly nil right now, just because I continue to be able to get…
I think the core of this issue that makes discussion so difficult is people are not talking about "value" in the same sense here. Anything you can sell has value to the sellers, and by basic economic theory assuming…
Humans are next state of their local world predictors, given all previous states they are aware of. That's an entirely fair analogy. The reverse analogy for calling a human a bag of chemicals would be calling an LLM a…
I often wish these kinds of things didn't get posted here. This is meant for a technical audience, and "technical" here means you know something about studies like this, not you understand computing technology. I've got…
That's entirely fair. It is an overstatement. What I meant was, when deployed or during an exercise, any radio communications you make, letters you write, television shows you watch, can be intercepted and read. It's…
These things need to include more details. What is the report that ads were used to target deployed troops? What is the device use policy as of today? FOBs and semi-permanent installations are not secret locations.…
There's a bigger problem I hope you become aware as you read more here. First, very smart people are not smart about everything. Second, nearly nobody is smart when it comes to understanding the limits of human…
The site was registered a month ago. If it ever actually gets and stays popular, see if it has no ads then. The economics of personal interest sites didn't change in the sense that they're any harder to make now…
It makes me think of my college girlfriend. Her dad owned a bar, only one, that he eventually expanded to several, but even with only one, they had a home address on a canal on a small island south of Long Beach,…
The idea of a software factory long predates LLMs or any other form of automated full-program generation. The idea was to take full CI/CD pipelines that allow for rapid deployment of new components into a running system…
Didn't see it even after updating, then read https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/block-ads-firefox-ios: > This feature is experimental and is being introduced to the Firefox user base through a progressive rollout. It…
23 em-dashes in the span of a single README. I gotta hand it to Anthropic. They seriously managed to find a completely legal way to sell crack to crack addicts using other crack addicts as their unpaid sales force.
Piling on to the other responses, I don't really want to see anything at all from you. What I want to see to believe that any meaningful number of people out there are generating 10x the value they used to is a visibly…
For model training, maybe, but the concern of this article is web search, including AI summaries and search as an assistant tool to agents, gets infected with this. You can see it searching virtually any technical…
I've worked in classified tech much of my career and largely specialize at this point in installing and running infrastructure and platform orchestration technologies in airgaps. With all respect, your conjecture here…
I'm not sure why this is remarkable. San Francisco is still the overall #1 thanks to whatever this report means by "quality" of talent. It seems some larger city was bound to overtake San Francisco in total quantity…
> Steven A. Cohen Owner of the New York Mets now, by the way, which maybe non-sports following readers will be happy to hear remain a boondoggle. He tried very hard to spend his way to glory, leading the league in…
I don't know about the framing, won't speculate on causes, but the phenomenon being described is real. I have no idea how far it goes back, at least to Woody Guthrie if we're just describing people who history and…
The first comment on the blog has it. Subjectively, personally, we can all decide for ourselves what purpose we live for, but the purpose of life as a phenomenon in the world is not to enjoy itself. It's to perpetuate…
I benefit tremendously from the exercise example specifically, but I still agree with 0xf8 that this isn't something you can just will yourself into. I identity as an athlete because I am. I've played sports of some…
Do you actually object to countries having standing armies with ranged area weaponry? This isn't what the article is talking about at all. It never says don't build military technology. It says don't build things like a…
Interesting to choose Hacker News as an example. I'm sure they measure every metric that can be measured, but it'd be interesting to see what measures they actually care about doing well on. The stated goal of the site…
No, it isn't. Nobody evaluates a drill on how long a worker spends using it. If you can get the same job done faster, you'll go with that. Even in entertainment, not all products optimize for time of use. Nobody…
I think this sentiment deserves its own serious discussion. It probably won't happen for another few years when the emotions and defensiveness settle, but there's a separate problem happening from quality. Quantity is…