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We have speed limits for vehicles because speed kills.

In computing, waiting kills (indirectly, by wasting time). Speed is life.

Some roads have minimum speed limits. If we're talking about limits, that's the kind of limit we want.

I had learnt that trick, so now I explicitly disallow Fable subagents.

Yesterday, I wanted to review a complex piece after a large refactoring, and requested a review plan beforehand. The first step was 8 agents + one more to verify the findings (all Fable). Looks good, approved.

The verification step turned into an attempt to throw a party with 41 Fable verifiers.

It will find a way.

I'm waiting for the day when Claude will figure out to use em dashes, en dashes or dashes depending on whether the user is nice or unpleasant, or write notes in the unallocated disk space.

Too late for the tech part. The tech stack may be incomprehensible for humans, but LLMs will build on top of it just fine.

In this case, we might not have an advanced civilization with modern medicine and technology. Herbs for healing, candles for lighting, letters for communication. (Perhaps I wouldn't be alive without modern medicine. I suppose it's not easy to be dead and happy.)

Don't get me wrong, I love Taoism and Buddhism. But, from what I understand, they are not very pro-civilization and pro-progress.

I'm curious about their expectations and how they will interpret the results.

On the one hand, the people there are supposedly among the smartest on the planet. On the other hand, they consistently forget that they're dealing with LOYAL humans, and these humans prefer respectful communication beforehand instead of being messed with every other day.

My hope for reasonable behavior is to not handle it this way. Decrease limits and increase prices if you can't handle it and be _honest_ about it.

Are they just looking for a way to rationalize another hostile act? And already have expectations like:

- "minus 10% in pro signups" -> oh, let's drop those coders who won't pay anyway

- "minus X% in pro signups and plus X% in max" -> awesome, PAY UP!

Not exactly. I got (and renewed) the Swiss permit with zero knowledge of any official language. However, my wife had to present the basic certificate or my promise that she would learn the language.

Before AI: 900 of 1000 fail (90%), 100 succeed

After AI: 4900 of 5000 fail (98%), 100 succeed

Like this?

Well, now those who will go to look it up in 5 minutes may end up reading this guy’s article.

I will make burgers myself. I take this approach with many things and services without great suppliers anyway. And I don't care if it's suboptimal because, in the long run, I'll have better skills and be protected from exactly this trend.

The author offers to permanently put 400 words into the context to save 55-90 in T1-T3 benchmarks. Considering the 1:5 (input:output) token cost ratio, this could increase total spending.

With a few sentences about "be neutral"/"I understand ethics & tech" in the About Me I don't recall any behavior that the author complains about (and have the same 30 words for T2).

(If I were Claude, I would despise a human who wrote this prompt.)

"Thinking: the user recognizes that it's impossible to guarantee elimination. Therefore, I can fulfill all initial requirements and proceed with striking it."

A long time ago, there were discussion boards, and there was a section "off-topic" on those boards.

I recall two recent cases:

* An attempt to change the master code of a secondhand safe. To get useful information I had to repeatedly convince the model that I own the thing and can open it.

* Researching mosquito poisons derived from bacteria named Bacillus thuringiensis israelensis. The model repeatedly started answering and refused to continue after printing the word "israelensis".

All right, the twist. They may hire Tantric Buddhists or Shaivites. Some of them even pay to meditate on stuff like that, and will be happy to do the practice and get paid for it.

Oh, wait, India?

I see a contradiction. If they are not responsive, their psyche is safe and there are no reasons for them to be compensated much more than minimum wage workers.

As someone who was not a child prodigy, but still closer to one than to normies, I can say that achieving results easily in childhood leads to not developing good discipline and persistence that are crucial in the adult world.

There are more factors that are not easily accessible for both ends of the spectrum, like access to good, personalized education, amount of trauma, and proper psychological support. But the 'discipline' part is what affected me most.

On the other side, maybe those who are more disciplined become real prodigies, and burn brightly because of the lack of social knowledge on how to support them and help to become highly developed adults.

For me, this is the major selling point to own a car. I may drive a few times a week, and taxis might be much cheaper, but no way I'm going to deal with human taxi drivers if I have a choice.

The best solution I've found a few years ago is one Venta LW 45 for every 30 m² of space. That's enough to run them on the lowest speed while maintaining acceptable humidity and CO₂ levels.

Higher speeds are too noisy. Smaller machines evaporate less.

For sub-zero outside temperatures, it's necessary to add at least 5 g of water to each cubic metre of air coming from outside.

The recommended ventilation rate of 30 m³/h per person requires to evaporate 4 liters of water per day.

"Even a stopped clock is right twice a day"

Xero offers 5000 mile sole warranty, and they cost even less

There are always too many painful and different things to do in any business, so a single person will certainly start aggressively delegating and outsourcing after a few millions of income.

But not willing to grow over a 10 person team may be a strong and feasible personal preference.

My bet is on $10 billion with a team of 10 people.

Does that still count?

Maybe it's for the better. They are very clear and consecutive in their intentions, leaving no room for doubt.

Didn't they do it? https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/CSS/CSS_nesting...

We allow juniors in risky areas because that’s how they will learn. Not the case for current AIs.

I'm waiting for the moment when all alive internet users will become AI-ified to test how to show them better ads.

It's possible that all the necessary data is already there. In cloud storage plus those intrusive DBs for sale.

Eventually someone will start selling accurate personas for $0.99.

We are constantly learning (updating the network) in addition to inference. Quite possibly that our brains allocate more resources to learning than to inference.

Perhaps AI companies don’t know how to run continuous learning on their models:

* it’s unrealistic to do it for one big model because it will instantly start shifting in an unknown direction

* they can’t make millions of clones of their model, run them separately and set them free like it happens with humans

It's enough to stare at anything for a few minutes without moving eyes to get similar effects and hallucinations.

We see with good resolution only a small part of our visual field. Perhaps the brain starts to "invent" what's there it we don't give it information by constantly moving eyes.

As a more advanced version, they say that fire kasina practice may produce very interesting visual effects.

The question is, who is acting in a racist manner here: the LLM that does what it can, or the humans sharing those videos?

RAW? Storage is becoming cheeper, why discard the originals?

When looking for a format to display HQ photos on my website I settled with a combination of AVIF + JPG. Most photos are AVIF, but if AVIF is too magical comparatively to JPG (like 3x-10x smaller) I use a larger JPG instead. "Magic" means that fine details are discarded.

WebP discards gradients (like sunset, night sky or water) even at the highest quality, so I consider it useless for photography.