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Hey, sorry. I was irritated reading all the idiotic, ugly comments piling on Tao and I mistakenly took yours to be another. Reading it again, I appreciate the sentiment.

Aside: Odd he's still using Opus 5...

Read his slide with "aligned applied problem" and such. The human understanding is what keeps all this stuff aligned to human goals. Perhaps soon enough that won't be necessary though and AIs will read minds or something (I'm serious).

>there may not be a future where his (and to some extent, my) skills are relevant and valued

What are your skills that will still be relevant post-ASI? Perhaps you're an NBA player?

>if you had a [sic] AI-created drug that tremendously improved cancer treatment outcomes

His whole point is that you wouldn't know if it improved outcomes — what if the AI faked the eval.

The background reads like a strong Caltech admissions essay. Just sharing my irrelevant observation.

I for one don't find it strange at all that he squashed the commit history. I suspect many feel similarly. You've demonstrated that you're quite taken aback by it, but without explaining anything wrong with it. It is not a "destruction of trust".

This one doesn't seem expressible in those terms:

    from functools import reduce

    df = reduce(DataFrame.union, dfs)

Came here to comment this. I work on a team of functional-adverse devs, but they all happily use this one.

>Also a phone already starts with very deep depth of field because again smaller sensor size thus smaller focal length etc. Most images at their lower f stop is already in focus. So the ability to reduce aperture or simulate shallow DOF is trying to give users more of the creative control that larger sensor cameras naturally have (need to manipulate because of their larger sensor size) and doesn't make much sense to me.

Totally agreed. I wonder if it will make 180-degree shutter angle video easier to achieve. The only way to achieve this on current iPhones during the day is using a pretty strong ND filter.

Neither this post nor the Sean Goedecke one gives an example of what being angry at work looks like. Anger is a pretty broad emotion. Without examples to base the discussion, it all seems kind of meaningless to me. I see a lot of frustration at work. At what point does it become anger?

If you're excited about AI, doesn't that mean you're actually less AI-pilled? You don't believe it will replace you fully.

That pic of the team... no swag to speak of

Another film she did the colors on is Whisper of the Heart. It's a Ghibli film that was written by Miyazaki, but directed by Yoshifumi Kondō. The colors are truly outstanding. Scenes at dawn, lamplit rooms, overcast school days, and fantasy sequences all look just wonderful.

Example: https://www.sakugabooru.com/post/show/46202

Such excellent writing. I also read the linked post from 2018 near the bottom. When every other thing you see on here is Claude-inflected if not Claude-written, encountering a blog like this is an occasion to cherish.

Indeed. See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Common_knowledge_(logic)

Reminds me of the extended description of what it might be like to drown in an ice lake in the book Stella Maris — it wouldn't be quick.

Opus 4.7 did this in my code and I had never seen it before

It's a common rhetorical technique that never convinces me. I'm not convinced this guy's anecdote is an exception to some rule.

>If the models are good enough, you will simply get outcompeted by engineers willing to trade their long-term cognitive ability for a short-term lucrative career

> (2) AI-users thus become less effective engineers over time, as their technical skills atrophy

Wouldn't (2) imply that if everyone just used AI there eventually would come a time when there aren't engineers who will outcompete you (because their skills are so atrophied)?

Interesting, enjoyable post. Like the bit about data modeling. I've been dabbling in some OCaml and that kind of modeling is the best part. Also interesting to learn of CAMLBOY. Feedback to the author: Skip the AI edit step. I'd have preferred grammar errors or inelegance to what we have here, which is a bit stale.

I just read this https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Cajamarca

It seems like the Incans were overconfident and didn't expect a surprise attack (didn't have their weapons, only a small retinue around the rule in ceremonial garb instead of armor), and then the 8000 warriors were outside and didn't even attempt to fight the Spaniards because they were so demoralized.

Brilliant

>Sure, if you mess up and one of the houses collapses then that'll manifest as an outcome that impacts the home owner negatively.

lol

There are plenty of furniture makers that use all hardwood construction. It's just that they charge like $10K USD for a cabinet

This incident was from 2014. I wonder how many OKCupid employees and shareholders from then are still at/invested in the company. What do corporate punishments do if the people who made the mistake aren't even there to receive them?

I've been using jj, which apparently is also faster than jq https://github.com/tidwall/jj