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Re:Gemini 4 Carbon on Wednesday October 28, 2026 @05:22PM (#50281078)
I'm holding out for Gemini Plaid
Re:The baffling intelligence of a single cell (2024) on Tuesday October 13, 2026 @03:19PM (#50077135)
The main thing you have to say is that life is too complicated to have formed by itself. I think that's actually the most reasonable scientific explanation (not from geology but from first-principle physics and chemistry.)

I think this is one of the hints the Programmer gave us that once we reach the needed level of sophistication we'll understand. Similar to the ending in the book "Contact".

Re:The baffling intelligence of a single cell (2024) on Tuesday October 13, 2026 @03:15PM (#50077077)
Interesting you talk about the eye as a support to evolution - usually it goes the other way.
Re:The baffling intelligence of a single cell (2024) on Tuesday October 13, 2026 @03:14PM (#50077055)
It's safer that way.
Re:The baffling intelligence of a single cell (2024) on Tuesday October 13, 2026 @03:14PM (#50077047)
Perhaps mean it was made with intelligence. When do you think we will be able to create a single cell (not an artificial genome)? Start with a soup with whatever level of sophistication and coerce it to go into a single (minimal) cell (or whatever process that creates the first viable cell). That process is so complicated that it's difficult to understand how it would happen even with directed intelligence, it's hard to grasp how this happened accidentally.
Re:Jev-Driven SRE Diagnosis: What Worked and What Failed on Wednesday October 07, 2026 @06:11AM (#49990646)
can haiku play doom?
Re:Jev-Driven SRE Diagnosis: What Worked and What Failed on Wednesday October 07, 2026 @06:10AM (#49990635)
I had the same feeling. it seems like jev is a classifier that's smarter than bag of words but I would not think it would do well to ask it to judge code fix effectiveness.
Re:Jev-Driven SRE Diagnosis: What Worked and What Failed on Wednesday October 07, 2026 @06:08AM (#49990617)
repo?
People interested in the physics of consciousness might be interested in the book "The Physics of Consciousness" by Evan Harris Walker. https://www.amazon.com/dp/0738204366
no it's not. That's called a "suicide ATTACK", not suicide.
Re:Claude Opus 5.5 on Tuesday September 22, 2026 @05:51PM (#49808674)
interesting.. Can you have a dumber agent do the work 5.5 refuses?
Re:100s of flights cancelled at UK airports due to ATC issue on Tuesday September 08, 2026 @05:35PM (#49617421)
"I told it not to deploy until it was fixed."
if Linus has unrestricted access to Mythos.
I'll be impressed when they can create an entire cell from scratch and it will start to divide. They can create all the needed precursors, bypassing millions of years of random permutation. Because until you have an entire working cell with replication, you have no retained benefit.
Evolution is so smart.
Re:Artificial egg hatched 26 healthy chickens on Sunday May 24, 2026 @02:20PM (#48259714)
like draw and quarter?
Re:Going full AI engineer, not touching code anymore on Tuesday May 19, 2026 @10:48AM (#48194049)
can an architect review a system he didn't design or build?
Re:Going full AI engineer, not touching code anymore on Tuesday May 19, 2026 @10:47AM (#48194031)
With all the people saying that you're going to have problems because the LLM is not good at refactoring or large code bases or OOP, etc. the point may be that if you're working to develop skills, an LLM herder might be a good one. Even if the models are almost, but not quite, good enough yet - they will be.

When looking for a career move you might want to focus on the trajectory more than the current state.

Re:Going full AI engineer, not touching code anymore on Tuesday May 19, 2026 @10:43AM (#48193976)
can you say which llms you're using? have you tried different ones and how were they?
Re:DeepSeek V4 Pro at 75% off until 31 May on Wednesday May 06, 2026 @08:35PM (#48043924)
this is the pitch - it's open source, run it yourself. But >99% of people will not have the hardware needed to run these models at a high enough quality to be close to SOTA. So they will run the open-source models on CCP systems for a good price.
Re:DeepSeek V4 Pro at 75% off until 31 May on Wednesday May 06, 2026 @08:32PM (#48043899)
You are the product. The book is called "So long, and thanks for all the secrets"
Re:DeepSeek V4 Pro at 75% off until 31 May on Wednesday May 06, 2026 @08:31PM (#48043880)
Yes! The only saving grace is that they have so many secrets, mine are not so important.
Re:DeepSeek V4 Pro at 75% off until 31 May on Wednesday May 06, 2026 @08:29PM (#48043869)
Unless you're very careful, it's trivial to have my secrets to be sent to the LLM. If it reads your .env just to see the variable names, the secrets have been sent to the servers. Now - they probably don't care about you and your secrets - but it makes me more uncomfortable that they have them.

This is true of anthropic or openai - but for some reason I think the us govt or anyone else will have a harder time getting to my data from them than the CCP will any chinese company.

Re:DeepSeek V4 Pro at 75% off until 31 May on Wednesday May 06, 2026 @08:18PM (#48043757)
Is anyone concerned about these services and China’s National Intelligence Law?
Re:AI Will Never Be Conscious on Tuesday February 24, 2026 @11:28AM (#47139070)
Once you plug it into quantum computers it will - checkout "The Physics of Consciousness"
Re:Speed up responses with fast mode on Sunday February 08, 2026 @09:45AM (#46934631)
never burned extra usage so fast...
Re:Claude Playwright plugin without the bloat on Wednesday January 07, 2026 @08:51AM (#46526347)
thanks - going to try it out!
You'll see a lot of advanced users advising against compact. The truth is that you have the entire transcripts in your ~/.claude/transcripts (I give claude permission to look there) so when there is some important discussion I don't want to lose, I use claude extract the notes from the transcript. If it's a long transaction it can be big so it might miss things on the first go around - but if you ask it specifically about the topic you're interested in it'll usually find it.
Re:UBCO study disproves the simulation hypothesis on Monday November 03, 2025 @07:52AM (#45798488)
This. The main issue with how people approach the simulation hypothesis is by thinking that the beings that made our VMs are just like us.

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