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interstice··on There Is No AI (It's Just People) with Jaron Lanier
I agree with the sentiment but I can absolutely see a long chain of thought about something innocuous ending with a decision to book you a hotel room.. I guess --dangerously-skip-permissions is a bit like ignoring the keep your hands on the steering wheel alert but for life.
interstice··on How to buy a good car for $1000
For me a loan would be far more stressful than fixing a 20 year old car, but I have worked for myself for 15 years so my priorities are probably skewed
interstice··on Research acceleration: The view inside OpenAI
On the one hand you need any lathe to build a good lathe, even a bad one. On the other, that is a potentially flawed principle to base the entire future of AI on.
interstice··on Chinese robot runs 100M sprint quicker than Usain Bolt's world record
Given its form factor there is already a ton of active research into developments that would be just about plug and play. Hands with coordination for example.
interstice··on Superpowers, Not Superintelligence
Freedom to decide? Not that humanity is historically great at deciding what brings itself happiness.
interstice··on Discovery Loop
I know some scientists and there's barely enough demand for them as it is
interstice··on I don't recommend Tailwind CSS
For a very long time now I've avoided anything other than 1 class per div with style overrides and written with modular rules and 1-2 degrees of separation between label and rules.

Something like

.title {

  @include type-heading;

  &.LARGE {
    @include font-size-large;
  }

  @include onMobile {
    ...something
  }
}

This has the advantage of being naturally rule based and amazingly succinct to write and understand. Needless to say I'm an odd duck, since I almost never see css written this way.

(edit: I forgot how to format code on HN)

interstice··on Why is everyone trying to build a solid-state battery?
Some heavier elements have hilariously high energy densities and aren't bombs (on their own), but the catch is the energy release is a trickle. Point is it's not an automatic follow that high density = high discharge.
interstice··on Mythologizing AI makes it more likely that we’ll fail to operate it well (2023)
Seems like we need to update that other saying - to err is human but to really f** things up you need an AI
interstice··on Xiaomi-Robotics-1
Slower than a horse even, why even bother
interstice··on Where are YC founders now? OpenAI and Anthropic, mostly
I wonder what the income distribution is like
interstice··on How to build a circular LCD clock
I doubt it's polar if that's what you mean.
interstice··on Punk, or why I don't stream anymore
It might have happened without him eventually, which wasn't really an option at the time.

I visited Bletchley Park Museum a few months ago, it doesn't really mention much of what happened with him at all. Which account are you referring to?

In any case, history is littered with difficult geniuses without talking about just one. Isaac Newton for example.

interstice··on Count Binface
While I haven't been to Mississippi I have spent the last 6 months driving around the UK on a working holiday, and this sounds like a massive stretch. Free healthcare might be helping.
interstice··on Punk, or why I don't stream anymore
I was referring to Alan Turing
interstice··on Punk, or why I don't stream anymore
This logic would have prevented the Enigma machine from existing
interstice··on Grok 4.5
This stuff is measurable
interstice··on GitLost: We Tricked GitHub's AI Agent into Leaking Private Repos
I don't hate the idea of using ai for the sole purpose of navigating arbitrarily massive sets of menus in moments. That actually seems like a great use for it.
interstice··on Bring back crappy forums
Followed of course closely by someone asking a question and replying to themselves saying they figured it out. Though back then I was guilty of that one myself.
interstice··on Bring back crappy forums
My biggest problem with old forums was googling a question, clicking on a post of someone asking that question, and the first response being some gate keeper saying this has been answered so many times use the search function.
interstice··on NSA lost access to Mythos amid Anthropic dispute
Are you saying programmers aren't adaptable? I don't think I've ever seen this field pause to take a breath.
interstice··on ChatGPT's image generator can be manipulated to produce violent, sexual content
That's the world being deliberately created though, one where a mediocre but completely believable song is a prompt away. The scope of the side effects are across the entirety of what has previously taken time and effort until now.
interstice··on Sixty percent of US consumers say 'AI' in brand messaging is a turnoff
To me AI in marketing is a signal that whatever business I'm looking at will pivot when a fad comes along. That is not what I want in any service that I plan to use for a long time.
interstice··on SpaceX to buy Cursor for $60B
I'm not sure if this means gold isn't powered by memes or whether it's just one of the most long lived memes of all time. Aside from other nice properties like lasting a long time, being pretty, and not requiring electricity to exist.
interstice··on CSS: Unavoidable Bad Parts
>> So, don’t think “how can I do my layout in a given system”, think instead “what possible layouts are allowed by the system”

Spoken like someone that hasn't been handed designs and expected to 'just figure it out' for a living.

interstice··on Domain expertise has always been the real moat
Until AI can take responsibility I don't see the accountability issue being solved, hopefully this doesn't just mean humans become responsibility machines.
interstice··on Our tech overlords are planning for conscious AI to conquer the cosmos
This only works if you believe in something unknown which we can't detect or measure, which is by its definition not provable.
interstice··on The dead economy theory
We already live in a world where supply would greatly outstrip demand if we weren't constantly being convinced (or convincing ourselves) to spend money on services we don't need. The only real lack of supply is around things like housing and food as far as I can tell, which is curious considering how long those problems have been around.
interstice··on Perry Compiles TypeScript directly to executables using SWC and LLVM
I got the impression from the first comment that it was speaking from experience not the docs
interstice··on The dead economy theory
Each time people found something else to do that someone would pay them for. This doesn't automatically mean there is an infinite supply of that - unless you believe in it as some kind of fundamental law.
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