snikeris
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Comment · 3 days ago
"You can avoid reality, but you cannot avoid the consequences of avoiding reality."
Comment · 3 days ago
We could return to basing hiring decisions on merit.
Comment · 13 days ago
I had a subscription for a few months. I found that at the end of every week I would succumb to the sunk cost fallacy and try to squeeze all the usage out of my subscription. I'd rather pay a little extra in LLM cost to not have that issue.
Comment · 1 month ago
Yeah, what's the deal with this error message?
Comment · 2 months ago
The two issues I have with relying on the cloud for intelligence is:
- I don't trust them with my data
- I don't trust the data they send back to me
The first is about my privacy, the second is about not being manipulated by what is considered the politically correct answer to my questions.
Comment · 2 months ago
Whether a medication leads to dependence and withdrawal should be given greater weight than it gets in the regulatory process. There needs to be a greater counterweight to the obvious conflict of interest in selling a medication that makes you ill when you stop taking it. Doctors should hold themselves to a higher standard than the chronic disease paradigm.
Comment · 2 months ago
On the flip side, a lot of the reasoning and decision making might have happened in the conversation which is more ephemeral than a comment. A future LLM-age source code repository would store the conversation along with the commit, for future reference by humans or LLMs.
Comment · 2 months ago
What properties make a language more LLM-friendly? I've found Claude will readily make use of a REPL when available.
Comment · 5 months ago
I use it through reagent and re-frame. I don't have any complaints.
Comment · 5 months ago
I was a little surprised to find when I gave an LLM REPL access to the running program, it readily started using it during development and debugging.
Comment · 5 months ago
Yeah they probably wouldn't show up to a political rally because of this:
> Separation from Evil
> The community of Christians shall have no association with those who remain in disobedience and a spirit of rebellion against God. There can be no fellowship with the wickedness of this earthly world; therefore there can be no participation in the organizations, works, church services, meetings or civil affairs of those who live in contradiction to the commands of God (this may include Catholics and Protestants as well as other religions and pagans). All evil must be put away, including using weapons of force such as the sword and armor.
Comment · 5 months ago
> I think reading this helps me imagine a version of the future I'd actually like to live in. A version where technology is used well (rather than preaching for abstinence from technology)
I believe the Amish figured this out over a century ago.
Comment · 5 months ago
This is my favorite alternative form of Magic:
https://articles.starcitygames.com/articles/the-danger-room/
"I have a feeling that roughly 25% of games are decided by a player drawing too few lands, 25% of games are decided by a player drawing too many lands, 25% of games are decided by a player having a legitimate bomb not get answered immediately, and the last 25% of games are the ones that everybody hopes for where there is a ton of back-and-forth on both sides. I wanted to create a format that eliminated those unpleasant 75% of games that are unfulfilling and foster a format where ALL of the games were as interactive as possible."
Comment · 6 months ago
I know that it is now commonly defined that way, so I explicitly called out that I was referring back to an the older definition:
> usury (loans made for unproductive purposes)