pohl · HackerLangs

18 hours agodiscuss

Yesterday we learned that it’s been shipping with Claude Code since mid June, so it has a lot of active users already.

Also, the unsafe footprint seems reasonable — the bulk of it in FFI wrappers.

pohl

2 days agodiscuss

Not sure where you’re from but it’s not esoteric at all. Here in the US our current administration is constantly vice-signaling to white supremacists to maintain them as a political base, and uses myriad similar winks to do it. One example: in 2020 the Trump campaign ran Facebook ads featuring an inverted red triangle. The opening sentence was 14 words long. They ran the ad 88 times. It’s ok to choose to be ignorant of the implications, but it’s better to maintain situational awareness.

(I’m not saying the game needs to change its name.)

pohl

2 days agodiscuss

Absolutely, it’s an act of kindness to loop them in. And if an eavesdropper complains about it I’d be super suspicious.

pohl

2 days agodiscuss

Same, but I blame Musk for that. Never seen someone squander so much good will so quickly. It was a choice he made but could have easily avoided, and it’s not like he couldn’t anticipate the downstream effects.

pohl

2 days agodiscuss

This is a frequently mentioned criticism. Is there a good argument about why that approach could have been done in the same amount of time? Seems like larger scope and more uncertainty to me.

pohl

2 days agodiscuss

What specific critical thought(s) do you wish were voiced?

pohl

2 days agodiscuss

deep cut

pohl

4 days agodiscuss

Is it useful to limit these thoughts to a dictator doing dictator stuff, though? What would be the material difference be between that and operatives of his political party astroturfing local school boards to remove books that teach about the racial history of the country or the existance of trans folk, to make it appear as though the local community decided to do it?

pohl

4 days agodiscuss

But will it help those baristas pay off the student loans that paid for their philosophy degrees?

pohl

4 days agodiscuss

None of that supports the claim that it "isn't controllable," though. A curious mind should probably find it interesting that it can be fallible in those ways yet still be useful for producing work, and ask how both can be true at the same time.

pohl

5 days agodiscuss

> because the outcome you get from AI isn't controllable. You can give it the best prompts and design suggestions and it'll still give you completely wrong or horribly written code.

I don’t have a dog in this fight but it seems you’re not accounting for iteration and feedback. A horse will veer off of a road if not occasionally nudged to stay on it, but is useful transportation, nevertheless.

pohl

5 days agodiscuss

It’s a tragedy. I feel the work they were doing was important. At least we got this talk from guy steele

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lw6TaiXzHAE

pohl

5 days agodiscuss

If anything, LLMs make it easier to choose from a broad set of options. The tradeoffs are the same as pre-LLM days, but the learning curve is more favorable.

pohl

6 days agodiscuss

I was also tempted to offer GEB as a better example, although I’ve read it twice. Many bounce off of it.

pohl

8 days agodiscuss

I bought one a couple months ago. It feels strange to have a computer appreciate in value.

pohl

8 days agodiscuss

The government would need to sell their position in order to have gains.

pohl

9 days agodiscuss

Counterpoint: modern fighters need higher-performance engines not just for thrust but also to run and cool more and more electronics. Arguably both are underpowered from where they need to be.

pohl

13 days agodiscuss

We already know that he doesn’t read the PDB, and that they even tried sprinkling his own name throughout the text to hold his interest.

pohl

13 days agodiscuss

This should be an open standard like AGENTS.md or skills. What do other harnesses do?

pohl

13 days agodiscuss

It wouldn’t matter if they had. He’s doesn’t listen to anything he doesn’t want to hear. At this point one can safely assume that he was told exactly how this strategic defeat would play out, and it went in one ear and out the other.

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