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Comment · 1 month ago
I think this is basically true, but there's a different way of saying this.

LLMs are not aligned _for_ humans in a very similar way to the way that humans themselves are not aligned _for_ humans.

We have not yet solved "alignment" for humans - I don't know why anyone thinks _we're_ going to be able to solve it for inhuman things.

Comment · 1 month ago
because humans lie, cheat, and coordinate...?
Comment · 1 month ago
do these automatically copy over git config and/or installed hooks?
Comment · 2 months ago
I'm surprised the article doesn't address the Occam's Razor probability that... _most people_ hold ideas that the (a?) majority does not... and that increased media attention is likely to "discover" these beliefs.

Or rather, I see no attempt to make an argument that Nobel laureates are statistically _more_ likely than other "well-known" non-politicians to hold non-majoritarian ideas... nor any attempt to argue that the ideas followed rather than preceded the award.

Comment · 6 months ago
nah this doesn't explain it.

most of the users of those third party harnesses care just as much about hitting cache and getting more usage.

Comment · 6 months ago
this doesn't seem like it allows multiple writers?
Comment · 7 months ago
can you elaborate on this? diversifying compute doesn't create more compute - is it that the different LLM vendors have different peak times and so spreading themselves over more compute vendors spreads peak load?
Comment · 7 months ago
yes, what we need is for charities to operate on a quarterly reporting cycle, so that their administrative overhead increase, and (like public companies) they can be myopically focused on short-term performance.
Comment · 8 months ago
I just don't buy this. It is not what I observe with these things. They are not at all "thoughtful".
Comment · 8 months ago
have you gotten a terminal interface on your phone to be acceptably usable? I haven't - not without a real keyboard attached in any case. too many parts of the UX are designed for a true keyboard.
Comment · 9 months ago
how is it different or better than maintaining an index page for your docs? Or a folder full of docs and giving Claude an instruction to `ls` the folder on startup?
Comment · 10 months ago
this is likely in reference to the fact that dicts have maintained insertion order since Python ~3.6 as property of the language. Mathematically there's no defined order to a set, and a dict is really just a set in disguise, but it's very convenient for determinism to "add" this invariant to the language.
Comment · 1 year ago
then this will get filed by every corporation against every lawsuit
Comment · 1 year ago
this is often a sign that the design/solution you've chosen is an unfruitful path.

know when to cut your losses and try something different.

Comment · 1 year ago
as an aside on Nimony aka Nim 3:

can somebody provide a reference explaining/demonstrating the ergonomics of ORC/ARC and in particular .cyclic? This is with a view toward imagining how developers who have never written anything in a non-garbage-collected language would adapt to Nimony.

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