Feathercrown

AI prose everywhere. Disappointing for something that should be a labor of love.

It seems unwise not to implement sandbox measures just because the chance of misuse has gotten lower.

I find the way the author communicates with the LLM fascinating. For example:

> However, I didn’t just want any result; I wanted something that pulls me.

> Initially, I asked Claude:

> Me: which unsolved problems in the Surreal Numbers research program pull you the most and why?

Note the switch from "pulls me" to "pull[s] you". What is the author's perception of the relationship/boundary between them and the LLM here?

1. Are they using it to find things it flags as interesting in hopes they might also find it interesting?

2. Do they consider "interesting" to be a universal (observer-independent) trait and are using the LLM to find things that are interesting?

3. Have they delegated their desire to find something interesting to the LLM so that it can instead find something that it flags as interesting, regardless of how the author feels?

4. Do they see it as a part of their thought process, and so do not distinguish "you" from "me"?

5. Do they see it as part of them, and are referring to the combined entity in the second person?

I would love clarification on this.

I don't know if this necessarily qualifies as "accelerating their learning". The user appears to know what the proof is doing, but not how or why.

I got a temporary license and received the real one in the mail later. Yes, you can keep the old one.

"For non-photographic images, the argument that “they should be vector images” doesn't hold up because many images could be vector images but aren't, and they can't be vectorized perfectly. “The world should be different” is not a justifiable defense against optimizing for the way the world actually is."

This is a good paragraph. I see people forget to apply that last sentence all the time.

AGI and superintelligence are not the same thing

Given "dirty" would make a strange (although valid) imperative, it would likely be referring to the state of the dishes

Black is more common, judging by the description at the bottom

Surely you understand that this is impossible in the general case?

Citogenesis!

https://xkcd.com/978/

Can't believe we got to see one in the wild, and with clear attribution to boot.

Correct me if I'm mistaken, but weren't pencils ruled out by NASA because of the dust they create when they write? The toilet engineering could be a similar situation. These people are professionals, we should not assume they built it like this for no reason.

This would still benefit from a difficulty rating system or order

Incremental config changes sounds like it could lead to a LOT of bugs

This is a well-known effect, it does make a significant difference. People feel safer driving slower when the road has obstacles closeby or when it's curved. You can use this to slow people down with bollards, small curves, or even trees near the road in rural areas.

I get the same feelings when I edit code in different languages.

study_n += 1

I haven't found that to be very accurate. I suspect the internal idiosyncrasies of a company are an issue, as the AI doesn't have the necessary context.

No mobile support?

Some people talk slower than your natural listening speed. It's less like skimming and more like if some books used 36pt font and you normalized the size back down to a comfortable information-dense size.

I did this the other day in an old component that had been refactored several times. It's incredibly satisfying. IMO removing code is often more important than adding it because it helps so much with maintainability and future development speed.

An AI agent has agency-- it can choose when to act.

Autosorting, fuzzy search, document analysis, identifying posts with the same topic, and sentiment analysis all benefit from AI's soft input handling.

This is an excellent tool for the toolbox. My company has work from home days but the managers technically have to approve schedule changes/exceptions. Since they almost always approve it, we usually just say "I'll be working from home Tuesday if that's okay" and unless they object, you're good.

Feels this way to me too.

> However, I had no concept of cuteness or how to be it.

My memory isn't as good as yours, but you just reminded me of this fairly distinct feeling. As a child you're being earnest; only as an adult do you see that as being cute.

Isn't drowning one of the few things that babies instinctually fear?

Flexbox allowed this within a flat list, but this is much more applicable

Isn't the Peter Principle only true if you consider skillsets to be static? If you learn and grow into new roles, it can be avoided or mitigated.

You can't claim that Linux games running on Windows counts against Linux, but ignore that Windows games also run on Linux. You can't have it both ways.

Agreed. I think you could automate some of that too, could save time if you do it often.