Philpax

> We should pause to note that a Clippy2 still doesn’t really think or plan. It’s not really conscious. It is just an unfathomably vast pile of numbers produced by mindless optimization starting fr…

Hmm, I'm not sure about that - fully autonomous taxis wouldn't be subject to the limitations of human drivers in terms of availability / reliability / endurance. You could ostensib…

Not "thought", known to have: > Abe and his family were known to have long-standing ties to the Unification Church, dating back to his grandfather Nobusuke Kishi; Abe himself had held spe…

That would require introducing a dependency, which is a digression from the point of the article and would complicate reproduction for the reader.

> Is the AI going to know about pacing? About character motivations? About interconnecting disparate plots? Yes. This is an active research area. See https://github.com/yingpengma&#…

In the interest of provoking discussion: why? If a bot can meaningfully pass and act as a productive member of the community, what does it matter?

Don't forget lazy-loaded content as a further perversion of the scrollbar :'( Discourse is my mortal enemy.

I don't think the impediment to adoption is the syntax - that's straightforward enough - it's the ecosystem / tooling / network effects. I love this, even though I don't …

See also https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40211891 , which has the bulk of HN discussion about Borgo

If it's optional, people are unlikely to use it, and we'll be back at square one again regarding pervasive memory safety issues. That being said, keep an eye on Carbon.

The fascinating part isn't that it can modify code accordingly to some rules - it's that it can modify code from _arbitrary_ languages without having a grammar or semantic analysis for them.

For three hours, they gave everyone access to create videos with Sora, some of which could very well be art. Not only that, but the form in which they did this and the statement they made could also b…

Wow, thank you for posting this quote showing that Churchill was a right bastard. Really expanded my mind.

every single one of those has had exploits

The bots pay monthly for a blue checkmark so that they're promoted to the top of the replies. A small cost does not appear to have been a meaningful disincentive, especially when scammers can eas…

I wonder where we'd be if we'd stopped relying on system packages to provide dependencies for C / C++. It is positively miserable to have to pollute your system when a codebase written …

One wonders if Bluesky's approach to usernames might one day inspire a future package manager in this direction: a GUID that is then aliased to a friendly (sub)domain through proof of ownership, …

" DeepSeek-R1-Lite-Preview is now live: unleashing supercharged reasoning power! o1-preview-level performance on AIME & MATH benchmarks. Transparent thought process in real-time. Open-sour…

Um... clicking through to each integration method, they clearly have examples and documentation on how they work: https://docs.rs/integrate/latest/integrate/adaptive_qua…

Posts that receive many upvotes in a short period of time are automatically hidden from the front page until someone can investigate. I think this behaviour might be described here: < https:/&…

Giving the client the executable to run, not running it for them. This means you can't hide the artifact from the client; for an interpreted language, this means recovery of the source code would…

Gwern's (paraphrased) argument is that an AI is unlikely to be able to construct an extended bold vision where the effects won't be seen for several years, because that requires a significan…

He has studied and influenced the real world. Here's Dario Amodei, the CEO of Anthropic, one of the leading AI companies, directly referencing him in an interview from this week: https:/&#x…

Er, isn't that by François Fleuret, not by François Chollet?