You can get incredible value out of 1-on-1s with capable managers. Insight about where the organization and product is going that you would otherwise miss, you’ll get to rubber duck about your high-level problems with…
Also if it turns out in the end the next big thing that everyone bet on just wasn’t it, you don’t stand out. But if it did work out and you missed the train you come out looking like a fool. There is asymmetry in the…
If everyone becomes 10x more productive it won’t mean the companies cash flow 10x’s. Where value is loose there is competition, so in theory everyone should win. Unless nobody else can compete to capture that loose 10x…
I see it as LLMs, AI, whatever, can be intelligent enough to emulate consciousness, appear outside as if it were. But that is not proof it really has a qualia, an experience of existing. All I am saying we should stop…
Doesn’t the LLM experience discrete continuity every time it infers the next token? > I think consciousness is not an abstract property in the world, therefore it’s tied to certain types of entities. Therefore an AI is…
So is a person suffering from amnesia conscious if they lack short-term and long-term memory? Ruling out consciousness or qualia emerging from the inference in an LLM is just as invalid of a take as being 100% certain…
> In my experience with “agentic engineering” the spec docs should be longer than the code itself. Natural language is imperfect, code is exact. The latter notion probably is true, but the prior isn’t necessarily true…
Put an LLM inside the NPCs in an open world RPG full of dangerous enemies. The LLMs that are more prone to emulate self-preservation will be more likely to survive over ones that have a lesser drive. We should not act…
For now maybe not. (Maybe). But just as evolution in nature, isn’t it likely that in the future the AIs that have a preservation drive are the ones that survive and proliferate? Seeing they optimize for their survival…
You have never split your working tree changes into separate commits?
I don’t want to discredit the authors but just want to offer couple of hypothetical points in these paranoid times. From a marketing angle, for a startup whose product is an AI security tool, buying zero-days from black…
Theres huge uncertainty and layered assumptions in all of microbiology and biochemistry about how exactly things work on small scale. Because it is really hard to study live reactions in little things you can just…
Epigenetics can arguably be an example of what the comment means by narrowing the search space. You can have heritable changes to gene expression that are not part of your genome, but are a result of feedback from the…
Not OP but one reason is having young kids that can’t help bringing home everything that is spreading in daycare/kindergarten
Ok, and that supports the idea of LLM-generated mass spamming in what way…?
Someone taking the time and effort to write and send a letter and pay for postage might actually be appreciated by the receiver. It’s a bit different from LLM agents being ordered to burn resources to send summaries of…
Cancer sucks and I wish your father the best. Also not a doctor or microbiologist, but just wanted to share my layman’s guess on why fixing enzymes will not completely solve the issue: there’s 2 strands of DNA and to…
Specifically for a refugee, at least with crypto you have the possibility to declare your assets in your destination, since you actually still hold on to them. Which is unlikely if it is tied to banks or investment…
The cross border not about technical capacity but legal control. For example if you are a refugee you might not be able to pull your bank savings and liquid stock with you from your home country to another without it…
This, and another angle is that whatever market you are in, it is harder to run profitable margins if your competitors can eat the market while sustaining losses. And there was a lot of money around to sustain those…
Just putting aside the bold assumption that LLMs do make coders obsolete or coding unnecessary, it is possible to find similar joy in the end result as one does (or did, given the article) for programming itself.…
The kind of conditions for peace Russia seems to be going for allows them an unfair position to restart the war in a few years, or pressure Ukraine to become a satellite state for Russia with threat of a new invasion.…
The problem is when 2 people with same level of enthusiasm for linter rules but opposing views collide. If there’s nothing more impactful you could be solving and spending energy and time on than arguing those linter…
Ibuprofen also increases risk of strokes and NSAIDs have been linked to increased risk of intracerebral hemorrhage. It’s a question of whether benefits outweigh cons on population level and I am not an expert, but…
Reminds me of this passage from Postgres documentation: ”As an example, 2014-06-04 12:00 America/New_York represents noon local time in New York, which for this particular date was Eastern Daylight Time (UTC-4). So…
You can get incredible value out of 1-on-1s with capable managers. Insight about where the organization and product is going that you would otherwise miss, you’ll get to rubber duck about your high-level problems with…
Also if it turns out in the end the next big thing that everyone bet on just wasn’t it, you don’t stand out. But if it did work out and you missed the train you come out looking like a fool. There is asymmetry in the…
If everyone becomes 10x more productive it won’t mean the companies cash flow 10x’s. Where value is loose there is competition, so in theory everyone should win. Unless nobody else can compete to capture that loose 10x…
I see it as LLMs, AI, whatever, can be intelligent enough to emulate consciousness, appear outside as if it were. But that is not proof it really has a qualia, an experience of existing. All I am saying we should stop…
Doesn’t the LLM experience discrete continuity every time it infers the next token? > I think consciousness is not an abstract property in the world, therefore it’s tied to certain types of entities. Therefore an AI is…
So is a person suffering from amnesia conscious if they lack short-term and long-term memory? Ruling out consciousness or qualia emerging from the inference in an LLM is just as invalid of a take as being 100% certain…
> In my experience with “agentic engineering” the spec docs should be longer than the code itself. Natural language is imperfect, code is exact. The latter notion probably is true, but the prior isn’t necessarily true…
Put an LLM inside the NPCs in an open world RPG full of dangerous enemies. The LLMs that are more prone to emulate self-preservation will be more likely to survive over ones that have a lesser drive. We should not act…
For now maybe not. (Maybe). But just as evolution in nature, isn’t it likely that in the future the AIs that have a preservation drive are the ones that survive and proliferate? Seeing they optimize for their survival…
You have never split your working tree changes into separate commits?
I don’t want to discredit the authors but just want to offer couple of hypothetical points in these paranoid times. From a marketing angle, for a startup whose product is an AI security tool, buying zero-days from black…
Theres huge uncertainty and layered assumptions in all of microbiology and biochemistry about how exactly things work on small scale. Because it is really hard to study live reactions in little things you can just…
Epigenetics can arguably be an example of what the comment means by narrowing the search space. You can have heritable changes to gene expression that are not part of your genome, but are a result of feedback from the…
Not OP but one reason is having young kids that can’t help bringing home everything that is spreading in daycare/kindergarten
Ok, and that supports the idea of LLM-generated mass spamming in what way…?
Someone taking the time and effort to write and send a letter and pay for postage might actually be appreciated by the receiver. It’s a bit different from LLM agents being ordered to burn resources to send summaries of…
Cancer sucks and I wish your father the best. Also not a doctor or microbiologist, but just wanted to share my layman’s guess on why fixing enzymes will not completely solve the issue: there’s 2 strands of DNA and to…
Specifically for a refugee, at least with crypto you have the possibility to declare your assets in your destination, since you actually still hold on to them. Which is unlikely if it is tied to banks or investment…
The cross border not about technical capacity but legal control. For example if you are a refugee you might not be able to pull your bank savings and liquid stock with you from your home country to another without it…
This, and another angle is that whatever market you are in, it is harder to run profitable margins if your competitors can eat the market while sustaining losses. And there was a lot of money around to sustain those…
Just putting aside the bold assumption that LLMs do make coders obsolete or coding unnecessary, it is possible to find similar joy in the end result as one does (or did, given the article) for programming itself.…
The kind of conditions for peace Russia seems to be going for allows them an unfair position to restart the war in a few years, or pressure Ukraine to become a satellite state for Russia with threat of a new invasion.…
The problem is when 2 people with same level of enthusiasm for linter rules but opposing views collide. If there’s nothing more impactful you could be solving and spending energy and time on than arguing those linter…
Ibuprofen also increases risk of strokes and NSAIDs have been linked to increased risk of intracerebral hemorrhage. It’s a question of whether benefits outweigh cons on population level and I am not an expert, but…
Reminds me of this passage from Postgres documentation: ”As an example, 2014-06-04 12:00 America/New_York represents noon local time in New York, which for this particular date was Eastern Daylight Time (UTC-4). So…