AndrewKemendo

In capitalist economics they call this the “free rider problem”

I couldn’t get the video to work. Here’s the relevant clip I found on youtube.

https://youtu.be/3uRCcEoGWxs

My assumption was that nobody checks rss feeds since the iPhone came out anymore, but apparently I’m wrong

I’ve never had an rss on any blog/site I’ve ever hosted and never felt like I’m missing anything

What is the advantage to me of maintaining an rss?

Is there some giant rss feed following community I’m missing?

Who is “they?”

Again… provide me a quote from someone doing this every day that says: “they're about to break the singularity in a couple of years”

The only people saying this stuff are random Internet commenters, breathless reporters and reactionaries.

The only person on record for a statement like this was Geoff Hinton about radiologists and he has since walked back his statement

So then nobody actually has ever said that and its explicitly hyperbole

So then its misleading in the extreme to say “I’ve been told AI can do anything”

It amplifies hype when people make claims like this by including hyperbolic statements as though they are reflective of the state of the discussion.

The Internet is already independent - warez and torrents amd smuggling sites and groups prove this

Anyone can go right now to a DNS registry and set up a url with tld and as many redirects as needed and host locally or remote servers.

Because I’ve been told that Fable can do anything

I hear some version of this anecdote constantly

yet despite using all these prompting tools since 2019 I have never once heard a lab or professional say “x model can do anything”

Can you provide me whatever specific source you heard for this?

five pillars of a stable middle-class existence: education, stable employment, marriage, homeownership, children.

This is cultural bias spoken as though it’s universal

Plenty of fulfilling lives out there that don’t include home ownership, being a parent, having secondary schooling or being partnered with offspring.

StackExchange had ridiculously high barriers to participation, making it inclusive to the long-time users on the site, but exclusive to the newbie participants who found themselves blocked for asking questions

This is significantly under selling it.

Stack overflow was like most of the forums in the late 90s in the early 2000s: hostile to anybody who wasn’t “l33t” hence the beginning of all the bullshit “l33tcode” mess.

I started writing software in 1996 as a 12 year-old and the sheer hostility that you would get from forums or even just reaching out to individual developers was absolutely unbelievable

I remember distinctly, I specifically reached out to Seth Robinson, as a 13-year-old kid who liked the dink smallwood game and was interested in building video game level editors.

His response to me was something like: “My rate for consulting is $800 a week.”

At no point in my 30+ years of being in software has software ever felt inclusive

I mean consider the hacker news is widely considered to be one of the most hostile communities on the Internet to new people, and had that reputation since day one

Government bodies can work for us at the point we collectively decide it’s a priority.

Jesus Christ

I was just recalling 1.5 being a “everything is fucked” Paris agreement number

Then it was “some people will survive” 2.5

It’s like 100% of climate scientists were ignored by industry and society

This is a good description, and similar to my favorite game to play in public with my kids: “Find the normal distribution”

Of course the most frequent ones are on door handles or pushes. Then usually parking space oil stains around an entrance. Etc…

Desire paths are also generally very tight gaussians.

You can learn a lot about pattern of life just by looking at how humans wear down the world

I teach advanced engineering with LLMs:

https://www.givedirection.com/advanced.html

Interestingly this was extremely common when I was growing up in the 90s in Houston and early 2000s in college in Colorado.

Big parties almost always wound up turning into brawls, and you could expect to see brawls when the clubs dumped out from 2-3am. My friends and I used to post up sober to watch when the infrantrymen from Ft Carson home from Afg/Iraq went out. Whoo boy.

Freaknik and Kappa weekend in the 90s were always totally insane.

MTV did a video in 98: https://youtu.be/NCZoBhi3rgY

I tried to use his writeup to oneshot the game and you can see my results here along with the prompts I used:

https://kemendo.com/thrust-one-shot.html

Notably while the game "works" it's not even close to an a "reproduction" as far as I can tell - moreso an interpretation.

This has one level that doesn't level increment, none of the adversarial sprites are correct and the color and iconography are incorrect.

Granted I didn't give it much to work with but I figured I'd see what happens. As far as one shots go, I've seen worse.

I used commodity GPT 5.6 HIGH on firefox via chat interface

I’ve had similar experience with USAA

I had a leak and they covered an entire new hardwood floor for the deductible cost with basically no questions and a handful of pictures

my rates are reasonable for everything

I’ve been with USAA since 2007 and wasn’t aware of these tiers

More info: https://www.reddit.com/r/USAA/comments/12ww8fz/where_can_i_f...

If the open source community can come up with something like this, just imagine what governments are capable of.

Since ~2022 and accelerated by the Russian aggression against Ukraine, governments are now behind both private and open source for frontier technology.

The companies that captured government contracts in the last century can’t move fast enough to bring tech into the government and national technology policy and funding is collapsing compared to the private sector

That’s new in history

Another win for machine learning:

She then applied machine learning to analyse how information was encoded in the calls before testing her findings through behavioural experiments.

Hence why I ask

In my experience, “intelligence” and “consciousness” are socially defined categories and can’t be viewed objectively

There’s too much social weight on those to have a firm definition because the social implications are too grave and nobody is willing to give up their philosophy for a precise definition

Do you have any references for these claims?

I’m also curious how you define consciousness.

Wow the thing that stood out to me was the number of Darien Gap crossing not being zero.

I was under the impression that was the most dangerous part of the planet for every possible reason.

The fact that it’s half a million a year is crazy!

Something must have changed in infrastructure for that to even be possible right?

I’m not sure I ever met a “DevRel” or similar person that didn’t eventually just come out as the “good cop” sales rep while the “bad cop” sales rep is negotiating with the CFO.

Even the ones who didn’t actively push whatever company they worked for like a commission based sales person, the only reason they are in the room in the first place is to support whatever company technology they work for. I always found it to be a bit gross of a job.

Anyone have a different experience?

Correct

For the set of [all tasks humans can do] there is a subset of [things automation can do at equvalent or better error rates].

And that’s the baseline the baseline is not some platonic ideal that is never reached the baseline for a business operator is cost per delivery /error.

The idea that existing human systems are optimized or otherwise “not broken”, is the key fallacy that people keep making.

That is the entire industry of business consulting.

Boston consulting group Bain and MacKenzie make billions of years completely making shit up. same thing with Ernst and young and any of these organizations that make these “future of (insert market)” reports

What’s your definition of AGI?

The entire purpose of automation is to remove a capacity limited human from a continuous workflow because the workflow is more capably achieved with fewer errors than the human

See: traffic lights

I’m unaware of any humans that don’t have this error method also.

Thank you very much for creating this!

I’m gonna send this to people when they tell me that nothing‘s happening and none of this is real

I love this so much thank you