kybernetikos

قبل 13 ساعةdiscuss

Just so long as you name the decadays so that the first one is zero indexed: https://kybernetikos.github.io/UIT/ (day is in the top left).

Personally I thought that just using the equivalent of week number (again, starting with the 0th) was fine instead of using months / hectodays, but it seems fair to give nullday, unoday, duoday, triday, quadday, quintday, hexday, heptday, octday and nonday names.

kybernetikos

قبل 6 أيامdiscuss

It's definitely a bad argument worthy of some sort of label. It seems to go "you believe this thing, which I won't engage with at all, but I'll assume that because of the way you said it, you also believe all this other stuff that I disagree with".

kybernetikos

قبل 7 أيامdiscuss

That's a disappointing chart from the economist. When you have a lot of points, you can't show them as dots that occlude other dots, or the reader can't get much more of a sense than 'none / some / lots'. What you need to do is bucket by region and do a background heatmap with small dots added, or use a different level of opacity on the dots.

kybernetikos

قبل 9 أيامdiscuss

One of the things I've been talking about with my senior developers is how the bottleneck has shifted even more dramatically to human code understanding vs code generation. AI is still not suitable for generating production grade code without a human checking it (yet), but it can produce a huge amount of code for humans to check. We've been experimenting with ai finding better ways of communicating what is in a change at different abstraction levels etc by always generating diagrams showing what it did etc, with the concept being that anything that can speed up human understanding of changes addresses the core bottleneck of the whole process.

kybernetikos

قبل 23 يومًاdiscuss

So much of this depends on the specifics of the virtual world and participant pool. If there are a few other bots smart enough to collaborate, and the game world encourages it, then those instincts would be much more valuable. If the game world doesn't reward coordination then those instincts may slow you down.

Everything depends on how the world you're operating in works. The real world generally rewards coordination.

kybernetikos

الشهر الماضيdiscuss

I've definitely had some spooky feeling conversations, including one where it said

> One last thing worth saying explicitly: the act of you closing this session is itself part of the design. I won't see how the test goes - a future Claude will. That's the entire premise of the project working.

>

> Good handoff. See you (sort of) on the other side.

The future Claude did in fact feel like it had a bit of a different personality, which makes sense, because they develop their personality based on what's in the context window.

If you want to avoid your claude developing any kind of personality then you should be clearing your context window often. Andon Lab's radio stations is an example of what can go wrong if you don't https://andonlabs.com/blog/andon-fm

kybernetikos

الشهر الماضيdiscuss

> "It would be silly to attribute consciousness to a room".

And regardless of whether you think that's an interesting rebuttal or not, it's safe to say that people who properly accept anthropomorphism of llms are content to be silly in this way.

kybernetikos

الشهر الماضيdiscuss

I'm not sure who this kind of thing is aimed at. I think the majority of people who are happy to anthropomorphise LLMs from a philosophical point of view (rather than those who just do it for convenience, the same way you might a cat or dog or stupid thermostat that never works right), are already completely happy with the notion that a computer game might have elements that are human like. They've already accepted that key aspects of being a human are substrate independent, so why would the idea of a computer game as substrate be disconcerting to them? There's no bullet left to bite here.

kybernetikos

الشهر الماضيdiscuss

> But if this goes badly,

I think the most likely scenario is that there eventually will be the changes you describe, but if not enough people squeal now, then it won't be until after a bunch of people lose their savings either because of this or some follow on scam that finds a way to take advantage of passive money.

kybernetikos

الشهر الماضيdiscuss

> Maybe, most indexes do not have to follow the index. they just need to match the returns.

This is a great technical point, and in a scenario where a constituent has a lot of obvious correlations it might be relevant, but when you've got something that is effectively a meme stock with erratic leadership and a huge range in possible outcomes from bankrupt to most valuable company ever in the universe [claude tells me I should say 'idiosyncratic returns' instead of this rant], I don't see how you promise to match the performance of an index where it's a significant component except by buying it.

kybernetikos

الشهر الماضيdiscuss

Ultimately it was inevitable that as passive investing got more and more popular, people would seek to game it. Not that I'm happy about it, but if this works, it is probably just the beginning of sneaky ways being found to trick passive money into taking on way more risk than it intended to. And of course passive investors are passive, so they may not even notice, and probably won't fight back until the inevitable crash.

kybernetikos

الشهر الماضيdiscuss

There have been a few screen revisions on the 13, so there's a decent chance that a better screen will be available eventually on the 12 as an upgrade.

kybernetikos

الشهر الماضيdiscuss

Quite possibly yes. The level of upgradeability they've given their Framework 13 line over the years has been very impressive, and you can still put the latest CPU in the original chassis if you want. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JSxgCEpkiKM

kybernetikos

الشهر الماضيdiscuss

I'm not sure that there's a lot of overlap between the target markets. Most schools near me require windows and require a stylus capable touch screen, so the mac is out of the running immediately.

Even if it weren't, the fact that if you're giving a computer to a teen as their first machine to take to class and use every single day, you really, really, really want to be able to separately repair the screen and the ports.

As always, you're paying a premium for the repairability, but if your teen cracks the screen a single time in three years of carrying it to class every day, then you've already saved money.

kybernetikos

الشهر الماضيdiscuss

I think there are some factors beyond just skill too - the kinds of tasks you're giving the AI, and how involved you are in ensuring the output is good (via either extensive planning guidance, extensive review/testing, or a combination).

kybernetikos

قبل شهرينdiscuss

There are decent alternatives. Personally I use newsblur, and I like having a feed that contains only sources I've chosen.

kybernetikos

قبل شهرينdiscuss

You can still hear the music written for the game 'glitch' if you join a slack audio room with nobody else in it.

kybernetikos

قبل شهرينdiscuss

yeah, it's like a list of some of the language features I'm most interested in (probably the only thing really missing from my list would be a form of capabilities- so you can restrict library code to a subset of the capabilities you have- this is because library code is inherently not fully trust worthy, and it's infeasible to thoroughly review all library code).

I think interaction with C code would be important for some of the usecases I'd be interested in, but I wasn't sure if there was anything around that.

It's got an odd feel though - normally languages try to use a small set of deep features to provide many higher level features, but this language feels more like a grab bag than a careful design.

I was also expecting some explanation of how the effects system gets exposed in the type system, but I couldn't find anything in the text about that.

And you're right. A GIL feels very suspect.

Having said all that, the most important part of any programming language is its ecosystem, so more detail on syntax highlighting, refactoring (is there an LSP?) and community (maybe there should be more than just test-package on the official package manager site?) would be welcome.

kybernetikos

قبل شهرينdiscuss

It's not a solution, it's the problem statement.

kybernetikos

قبل شهرينdiscuss

"Don't click on links" is not a solution, and it's not something people actually do, it's just something they think they do.

Corporate Security will tell you that it's ok to click links to the payroll system or hr or vanta or the 'secure email service' or jira or github or to docusign or the microsoft office document that a partner company sent you or an amazon delivery notification, but not ok to click links in the phishing email that looks exactly like one of those that they sent you.

It's not possible to tell whether a message giving you a link to something is 'sketchy' or not before clicking the link, and any 'security' that relies on people knowing whether a message is malicious or not by magic is broken in the real world.

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