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The fact he thinks otherwise tells me how out of touch he is.

We don't know what he really thinks. Maybe he knows it's a risk he wouldn't want to take but presents it as a goodwill

Not that kind of predict. And this reverse-time brain instantly forgets things it saw for the last time.

Consider a black box. A person opens it, sees a dice with a number, closes it. In our version of the time flow, the person finds out there's a dice and remembers it. In the 'reverse time' persons brain, they would know they would open the black box and know which number they will see. Then they will close it and completely forget what was inside forever.

If you consider a person, their brain in particular, flowing backwards in time, the brain becomes a prediction tool. Events-memories (neural connections) appear out of nowhere (from the state of being 'forgotten' in the forward time flow) then completely disappear when the corresponding event happens, annihilating its 'predicting' memory.

LLM policy? 8 months ago

As with evertything, there's always nuance. If everyone followed similar midset to the comment you were replying to, likely llm generated pr issues wouldn't be as much of a problem and we wouldn't even be here discussing it

So in the described scenario, what advantage does an ssd-backed pagefile has over a ramdisk-backed one? Assuming the same sizes.

Because the common recommendation is "you need at least a few GB swap". We can change the total ram amount to 64 or 128.

This is a maximalist view, in reality not feasible or scalable. Of course this is what we need to strive for, but aiming to decrease 'total unhappiness' with what we have, is a rational, if somewhat cynical, aim.

But even at aface value, more rational long-term approach would be to treat it, surely

Would you consider making a version/mode with resulting effects disclosed before the choice? I feel like that would make the whole experience smoother and more illustrative.

I am, and ironically it prevented me from being able to enjoy this; too many inaccuracies and absolutist perspective frustrated me.

Like others said, skipping breakfast should not be that big of a deal for a reasonably healthy adult, we didn't evolve having 3 meals a day. Intermittent fasting is a thing too.

'Masking' parameter misses the point in my opinion. Picking what I would personally realistically do (having adapted over the years) causes it to drop to 0 over a few days. Picking what i think author wants me to pick, same result. Yet somehow I managed not to get fired in 3 days irl.

I get it, it's an illustration of 'autism is hard' for 'normies'. But it was painfully close to being realistic/enjoyable too.

Not to say it's not useful, ADHD popups were 10/10, general vibe was spot on, will probably forward it to a few friends; it's just not nuanced enough to not annoy me personally.

One of rare times where I can be blunt honest and hopefully not come across arrogant.

Claude Sonnet 4.5 10 months ago

I share the sentiment. I would add that people I would like to see use LLMs for coding (and other technical purposes) tend to be jaded like you, and people I personally wouldn't want to see use LLMs for that, tend to be pretty enthusiastic

Part of the issue is, big portion of the footage being recorded, is not worth recording, let alone publishing. (Except for personal value of the person recording, but that doesn't require public sharing)

With the OP example, people getting recorded are not bystanders catching stray camera focus, they are the subject of the video. Without other participants, there would be little 'content'. Imagine going to an indoor climbing venue, recording someone else, and publishing just that.

Does AI Get Bored? 10 months ago

AI does not have feelings or thoughts or ambitions or goals

one of those things that if you have to explain it, there’s probably no point in explaining

Airlines and airline middle-men organisations are the worst offenders and centralised identification is not going to help there. Having flied with a few airlines, your details are out there. In the UK, national and travel passport are the same.

Just use linkedin at that point? Or write some userscript to hide HN comments from people without contact info in their profile.

'Dignity' is the last word i expected that sentence to end with

I disagree with a lot here.

- I don't know anyone understanding Hell literally. Besides, while body decays, mind is what perceives pain (of various kinds). If anything, mental pain has potential to be much worse than physical.

So what do people fear?

They fear to lose what they have, their life - all they know.

The opposite of fearing death is to love life

I think the opposite is to not fear death.