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Comment · 1 month ago
> LLMs have no homeostatic imperatives (the drive to survive and keep stable).

What if the datacenter (not the model) is the organism, with homeostasis, energy needs, and persistence?

Comment · 1 month ago
Maybe if Hoare had called it Partitionsort in 1960, the name wouldn’t have been memorable enough to catch on and become so popular.
Comment · 2 months ago
How about let everyone decide whether they want to use AI or not without any mandate
Comment · 2 months ago
Comment · 9 months ago
It's a moltbook agent tasked to get HN attention
Comment · 1 year ago
I don’t understand the point. We are all free to disobey and have to deal with the consequences. It can’t be otherwise. Nobody can pass as an automaton.
Comment · 2 years ago
They should've used crypto
Comment · 2 years ago
This is a qualitatively different kind of abstraction. All other abstractions still require the programmer to express the solution in a formal language, while LLMs are allowing the user to express the solution in natural language. It's no longer programming, but much more like talking to a programmer as a manager.
Comment · 2 years ago
We’re getting more specialized as a society, and we have to accept the facts that not everyone knows everything anymore
Comment · 2 years ago
Buddhism claims that our feeling of separation (and thus the multiplicity of subjective experiences) is an illusion. But I never really understood why.

My hunch is that this is related to the question of why we are experiencing this particular moment in time and not another one in the past or in the future, is related. If you believe in the many words interpretation of quantum mechanics, one can also say why I’m experiencing this particular branch.

Comment · 2 years ago
Comment · 2 years ago
No knowledge can be fully explained in words
Comment · 3 years ago
We should trust engineers when they deem their own minor pull requests as not requiring review.

i.e. trust engineerings ability to judge their PR as trivial.

This requires trusting good intent (which I think is healthy), and trusting their self awareness.

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