svieira
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Comment · 2 days ago
Now the real question is "is the revert rate the same because you still have the same process, or do you fix-forward more often now, so your revert-rate is because of higher-severity incidents?"
Comment · 3 days ago
> a good choice
For who?
Comment · 11 days ago
"SOCRATES: Yes, Callicles, if he have that defence, which as you have often acknowledged he should have—if he be his own defence, and have never said or done anything wrong, either in respect of gods or men; and this has been repeatedly acknowledged by us to be the best sort of defence. And if any one could convict me of inability to defend myself or others after this sort, I should blush for shame, whether I was convicted before many, or before a few, or by myself alone; and if I died from want of ability to do so, that would indeed grieve me. But if I died because I have no powers of flattery or rhetoric, I am very sure that you would not find me repining at death. For no man who is not an utter fool and coward is afraid of death itself, but he is afraid of doing wrong. For to go to the world below having one’s soul full of injustice is the last and worst of all evils. "
- Socrates (via Plato), Gorgias
https://www.gutenberg.org/files/1672/1672-h/1672-h.htm#:~:te...
Comment · 12 days ago
> Along with desperately loving entertainment, they desperately want companionship.
And I am presuming that the companionship that people need is the companionship of other human beings. Otherwise, tamagotchi, fish, cats, dogs, parrots, and horses are already perfectly good companions. AI can help fill in for some of those other ones (tamagotchi especially), but it cannot replace human companionship.
Comment · 12 days ago
> People will have more artificial friends than human friends within ~20-30 years.
That would be awful, presuming that the artificial friends are not people.
Separately, you might like Count to the Eschaton by John Wright with its ultimate project being "the sophistication of all matter".
Comment · 13 days ago
I recently re-read Venus, Inc. and the number of times that the satire didn't hit because it read too close to our current reality was quite depressing.
Comment · 19 days ago
> don't allow
Is this "allow" or "encourage"? If "allow", how do you do that deterministically or at least fail-closed?
Comment · 20 days ago
In the vein of these 2 minutes of Guy Steele's talk on Fortress (How to think about parallel programming: Not! https://youtu.be/dPK6t7echuA?si=huyI3LR8LVaB6Yen&t=1589) I think that the real thing here is "do not hide what is important nor obscure that which ought to belong to the user". The question is (as always) "what is important"?
And I think that the "tool" vs. "automation" delineation is one of the clearest and most succinct takes on _how to talk about this problem_ that I have seen in the past few years.
Comment · 20 days ago
Is a query planner an agent? (It might be, I'm not sure semantically the "agent" vs. "automation" distinction will aid as much in the discussion as "tool" vs. "automation", but I'm open to being completely off base here).
Comment · 20 days ago
> Give me the quick automated decision every time
Don't we already have this experience and isn't it called "the Google support experience"? And I don't know about you, but I don't like it.
Comment · 20 days ago
Via LinkedIn (ai-tool-rich-hickey-kjl8e) but I suspect that we're rate limiting slop from there. Mods, feel free to swap out the original link if I was just-wrong about that.
Comment · 23 days ago
> These systems are inherently immoral (it’s just a lot of matrix math)
(nit) "immoral" is "anti-moral". I suspect you want "amoral", that is "without" or "separated from" morals.
But, if you wanted "immoral" ... what about matrix math derived from gradient descent is inherently "immoral" in your view?
Comment · 1 month ago
> If you wanted to go absolutely wild, some hypervisors can checkpoint the memory of a running VM and revert back to a prior version memory and all. I can’t imagine a way to make money off that
You may want to check out what Antithesis is doing in this space - https://antithesis.com/ Specifically, https://antithesis.com/docs/resources/deterministic_simulati...
Comment · 1 month ago
The Boys On The Boat was good, working through Magnifica Humanitas (https://www.vatican.va/content/leo-xiv/en/encyclicals/docume..., but in dead tree form) for my mind stretching.
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