I'm very entertained by the hypothetical game descriptions hahah. Not sure how they would be as actual games though. They all feel like Kilgore Trout novel descriptions, which Vonnegut used as an outlet for all his…
ooh yeah I like this - I was only aware of their chiptune stuff. It's like they heard me wish for more bands that feel like Fang Island and made it happen.
Strong agree. This also applies to how every org I’ve been a part of that preaches data driven decision making is either using data to make unintuitive wrong decisions or chasing down stats that reinforce their priors.
This made me wonder about a few more variations of the prompt: - The deciding server vs five other servers running the same model. - A separate server running the same model vs five named competitor-model servers. - One…
I know! How could these literal landlords be rent-seeking by taking unpaid positions of political influence to increase literal rental income and protect their wealth?
Anecdotally - I, and several people I know, have independently started using CDs, Soulseek and Bandcamp to rebuild personal audio collections after becoming annoyed with streaming apps. LLMs have really helped…
I think with proper oversight you could get a reasonable facsimile of a Clever + Hard-worker from an AI-enhanced Lazy + Clever worker. (Maybe just hopefully thinking of myself.)
I fired up VSCode for the first time in months because I thought it would be a good tool to introduce a friend to LLM-assisted coding. I was so totally overwhelmed by the interface (after using VSCode every day for…
But there ARE more games, personal apps and open hardware! Games went from 38 in 2023 to 609 so far this year. A golden age for taking whatever sounds fun and making it happen. Yes, 50% of HNers appear to think AI…
I hadn't thought about it like this, but I think I want the grassroots version of the PR campaign. Society was finally able to rein in smoking when we collectively realized how dangerous secondhand smoke is. People who…
Frighteningly, I've also found that you can be in the cave together with a group of people. I went to an MMA gym for a long time, and it was very common to see overconfident 'experienced' new members start sparring and…
Reading I, Asimov as a kid immediately converted me from a Southern Baptist to humanist/atheist. I'm sad that atheist discourse has moved away from Vonnegut/Sagan/Le Guin-style humanism. Starting with Hitchens,…
hell yeah
I don’t understand why all of these companies need to frame it like this. Why not a large amount of people doing an even larger amount of science?
>> HN comments are _NOT_ going to help debugging your mental state. > Nice paradox you've created there. This is a "...and don't call me Shirley" level of logical interpretation of what they're saying. They are pointing…
Is DOGE gone though? https://xcancel.com/spikebrehm/status/2072422555101561154 I'm very curious about how many other projects like this OPM retirement processing overhaul there are. I also wonder how this outcome will…
If TFA says "only humans can be conscious," you may know many more humans that have a virtual body made up of virtual organs than I do.
I like this bit from the wiki article: Speaking through Zarubin, Dneprov writes that "the only way to prove that machines can think is to turn yourself into a machine and examine your thinking process", and he…
I'm surprised at the largely negative sentiment HN has for this essay. He stakes out his claims in a refreshing and readable way. Most of the criticisms here, and general "philosophical" LLM writings that pop up on HN…
His certainty seems like a rhetorical style rather than a series of facts. It would be very annoying and not persuasive if he started every paragraph with some variation of, "I think" or "I believe." I like that he…
Are you saying that a sufficiently advanced version of sentence continuation is indiscernible from actual understanding? He isn't saying sentence completion is what keeps LLMs from understanding, he saying that's all…
I like the Hebrew syntax of the golden rule! I've never seen it before. I've always like the idea of taking it a step further and trying to do unto others as they would like done unto them. However, the current state of…
I unironically love arguing on the internet, because you're replying to the author of the essay, but I think the text supports your comment and not his hahah. "We lose any sense of economic purpose, and with that,…
Sim City 3k is my least played Sim City game, but this is inspiring me to take another look. I really like the sweaty micromanagement and bigger scope of 4, but maybe I will prefer 3k's simplicity in my old age. The…
Your comparison just helped me understand how I feel about AI a little better. I too own a car but don't like driving, and don't like how my environment is shaped by what cars need. I use AI daily and I'm excited about…
I'm very entertained by the hypothetical game descriptions hahah. Not sure how they would be as actual games though. They all feel like Kilgore Trout novel descriptions, which Vonnegut used as an outlet for all his…
ooh yeah I like this - I was only aware of their chiptune stuff. It's like they heard me wish for more bands that feel like Fang Island and made it happen.
Strong agree. This also applies to how every org I’ve been a part of that preaches data driven decision making is either using data to make unintuitive wrong decisions or chasing down stats that reinforce their priors.
This made me wonder about a few more variations of the prompt: - The deciding server vs five other servers running the same model. - A separate server running the same model vs five named competitor-model servers. - One…
I know! How could these literal landlords be rent-seeking by taking unpaid positions of political influence to increase literal rental income and protect their wealth?
Anecdotally - I, and several people I know, have independently started using CDs, Soulseek and Bandcamp to rebuild personal audio collections after becoming annoyed with streaming apps. LLMs have really helped…
I think with proper oversight you could get a reasonable facsimile of a Clever + Hard-worker from an AI-enhanced Lazy + Clever worker. (Maybe just hopefully thinking of myself.)
I fired up VSCode for the first time in months because I thought it would be a good tool to introduce a friend to LLM-assisted coding. I was so totally overwhelmed by the interface (after using VSCode every day for…
But there ARE more games, personal apps and open hardware! Games went from 38 in 2023 to 609 so far this year. A golden age for taking whatever sounds fun and making it happen. Yes, 50% of HNers appear to think AI…
I hadn't thought about it like this, but I think I want the grassroots version of the PR campaign. Society was finally able to rein in smoking when we collectively realized how dangerous secondhand smoke is. People who…
Frighteningly, I've also found that you can be in the cave together with a group of people. I went to an MMA gym for a long time, and it was very common to see overconfident 'experienced' new members start sparring and…
Reading I, Asimov as a kid immediately converted me from a Southern Baptist to humanist/atheist. I'm sad that atheist discourse has moved away from Vonnegut/Sagan/Le Guin-style humanism. Starting with Hitchens,…
hell yeah
I don’t understand why all of these companies need to frame it like this. Why not a large amount of people doing an even larger amount of science?
>> HN comments are _NOT_ going to help debugging your mental state. > Nice paradox you've created there. This is a "...and don't call me Shirley" level of logical interpretation of what they're saying. They are pointing…
Is DOGE gone though? https://xcancel.com/spikebrehm/status/2072422555101561154 I'm very curious about how many other projects like this OPM retirement processing overhaul there are. I also wonder how this outcome will…
If TFA says "only humans can be conscious," you may know many more humans that have a virtual body made up of virtual organs than I do.
I like this bit from the wiki article: Speaking through Zarubin, Dneprov writes that "the only way to prove that machines can think is to turn yourself into a machine and examine your thinking process", and he…
I'm surprised at the largely negative sentiment HN has for this essay. He stakes out his claims in a refreshing and readable way. Most of the criticisms here, and general "philosophical" LLM writings that pop up on HN…
His certainty seems like a rhetorical style rather than a series of facts. It would be very annoying and not persuasive if he started every paragraph with some variation of, "I think" or "I believe." I like that he…
Are you saying that a sufficiently advanced version of sentence continuation is indiscernible from actual understanding? He isn't saying sentence completion is what keeps LLMs from understanding, he saying that's all…
I like the Hebrew syntax of the golden rule! I've never seen it before. I've always like the idea of taking it a step further and trying to do unto others as they would like done unto them. However, the current state of…
I unironically love arguing on the internet, because you're replying to the author of the essay, but I think the text supports your comment and not his hahah. "We lose any sense of economic purpose, and with that,…
Sim City 3k is my least played Sim City game, but this is inspiring me to take another look. I really like the sweaty micromanagement and bigger scope of 4, but maybe I will prefer 3k's simplicity in my old age. The…
Your comparison just helped me understand how I feel about AI a little better. I too own a car but don't like driving, and don't like how my environment is shaped by what cars need. I use AI daily and I'm excited about…