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It was part of Sundar's Q3 OKRs. He is going up for promo this cycle.

This is what I did. Hope it works out. The other benefit is you have a more natural method to avoid lock in. A lot of "improvements" to the agent harness I believe are attempts to build customer lock in.

Correct, but for some projects predictable and deterministic aren't required (or sometimes even desired)... Think creative pursuits.

Questions for those who insist on reviewing all code: Why do you not the output of the compiler? Do those reasons not apply to agentic output?

I think a group of us have found, for certain domains, the agentic output is passing all of our standards we have for correctness (ad hoc tests, automated tests, etc) so we don't review the code, just like we don't review the assembly or bytecode. The compiler and assembler have bugs, and its more likely the agent system has a higher probability of bugs. But it's still good enough for personal projects, web apps, prototypes, internal tools, analytical helper tools, etc.

you didn't really answer the question. You just stated the idea is silly. Reasoning is not in the same class as soul, heaven or hell. It's not obvious that human reasoning is not related to an inner monologue. And that LLM chain of thought process is approximating inner monologues.

Our prefrontal cortex are signal prediction 'machines' so when a system that has a signal prediction core has attributes that are similar to our brains, we shouldn't dismiss it out of hand.

I find people that take this line of argument attribute too much supernatural or magical properties to our own brain and nervous system.

I have found that having a separate agent (session / instance) do the benchmarking and reporting the results back to looping optimizing agent is a clean way to prevent cheating. The benchmarking agent has no reason to cheat, its goal is to just to run benchmarks when tickled.

I also found this is really nice for quality evals. Have one agent with no context on how something is made do a quality review, with lots of detailed feedback. Then pass back the review notes to the implementor for feedback. It works a lot better than having an agent self-evaluate its own quality.

Has there ever been an instance in history when this strategy worked? Plato argued that writing things down will make your memory worse, and less skilled as a debater (kind of true!) How are the Luddites doing at textiles? I remember the arguments that using 'high level languages' like C and Pascal will make you not understand machine specific details (kind of true!)

I respect that you want to learn how things are done, that is a great trait. But once you learn how its done, you should use the tools to free up cognitive load for more difficult tasks.

> There are ample reasons to believe that Elon Musk is running his mother's account

Yeah, I'm sure the guy has time to run his mom's social media account. What's your reasons or evidence? Did you consider maybe it's a social media manager one of them hired running the account?

what are the usual reasons?

why? Grok means to understand intuitively. Seems like a pretty good name compared to Claude or ChatGPT, no?

who the fuck is using reddit for product recommendations? reddit was astroturfed in like 2015.

Neurons are not intelligent and don't actually understand the concept of a bicycle. LLM are just one component of the system we call "AI" used to generate the SVG. The parrot argument is tiresome because the LLM alone is not what enabled the recent take-off in practical intelligence we have seen in the last 12 months. The tooling, reasoning chains, harness to self evaluate the output, etc, etc are all needed to make the pelican. Just like the prefrontal cortex alone can't make a pelican with humans.

The purpose of life is to make more life (children). Life forms that do not do that die out. Having children give you so much fulfillment and purpose.

There is a good book on this topic "Selfish reasons to have more kids" https://www.astralcodexten.com/p/book-review-selfish-reasons...

Correct. Trump has a lot of influence over liberal, Clinton appointed, judges.

The rendering of the gullet is very poor, because its both behind the handlebars but in front of the bike frame (impossible geometry). Surprising because gemini is usually pretty good on geo spatial skills.

Edit: scrolled down to medium effort, its better but also has a weird clipping issue with the fish in the beak.

thanks, key quote from the link (for others) "“It is accurate that Canada imposes a tariff of approximately 250% on U.S. exports of certain dairy products into Canada, and even more with Canada’s 25% retaliatory tariffs in place. However, that tariff would only apply if we were able to reach and exceed the quota on U.S. dairy exports agreed to under the U.S.-Mexico-Canada Agreement (USMCA). Frustratingly, the U.S. has never gotten close to exceeding our USMCA quotas because Canada has erected various protectionist measures that fly in the face of their trade obligations made under USMCA."

So I think this supports the point that Canadian politicians are bad for protectionist trade policies, right?

Then why did Canadian politicians tax milk products at > 200%? https://www.cbsa-asfc.gc.ca/trade-commerce/tariff-tarif/2024...

(starting long before the current trade war)

if you really don't understand this, then a quick refresher on supply and demand.

A market price is determined by the intersection of supply and demand. Do you understand this concept? If not, I can use examples or link to better explanation.

Adding highly skilled immigrant workers to the labor pool will marginally effect labor prices (most likely hold them from rising, not decreasing them). So the talent pool would be smaller, maybe worse / maybe better, but definitely higher priced.

Fascism is the merger of corporate and government power. Powerful corporations utilize do not like this policy decision at all. Increasing costs of H1B means less workers who will work harder and cheaper than the market would bear if large amounts of immigrant labor were allowed in. So no, reducing immigrant labor is not a fascist move because it is not in the interests of powerful corporations and capital owners.

If citizenship is not required for protected rights, what is? If myself and 10,000 of my friends migrate to Greenland illegally, does the Greenland government have a duty to protect our rights?

Correct! Hopefully more people factor this into their decision to hire immigrants. Increasing the costs of hiring immigrants is good policy (and reflects the will of the electorate).

I'll defend this administration in good faith on the policies I agree with (I disagree with most of the current foreign policy).

In 2015, Trump took a position on excessive immigration and illegal immigration that made him very popular in the Republican primaries, even considering his very obvious character flaws. Like Ross Perot before him, there was a groundswell of support from people who (rightfully or not) feel like their country and their inheritance they are leaving younger generations was slowly being destroyed (the social fabric that makes America a great place was being shredded).

This policy decision is a continuation of that political shift. This is, quite literally, Democracy in Action. The people wanted to see a change and elected a very unorthodox political leader to enact that change.

So do the natives.

I played Pirates! as recently as 2022. Definitely not lost treasure for me.

I don't follow EU politics. Isn't that position a pretty common EU political view? What is evil about decentralization of power?

200 pages https://www.goodreads.com/en/book/show/3028.Economics_in_One... There are free PDFs if you don't want to buy it.

why?

Piggybacking on this thread to ask my question: What are alternatives that are multiplayer (team oriented) by default? For example, I want my team to see all my sessions easily, vise versa. another way of stating: all the agents are running in a container that that any member of the team can view and interact with.

welcome to the internet, not all browsers are the same

It's not an assumption that the customer is Google scale that led the $35k monthly price point. It was that you (and many others like you) are breaking the terms of service (which state you are not supposed to store, process or analyze the search results). It was an API built for a different era, that doesn't really exist anymore.

> It has honestly been easier to use Anthropic to help me build my own search index & crawling infrastructure than deal with Google.

That's great to hear! FWIW I agree with you that it's harder for independent professionals to get started on Google dev services than others, but the Search API is not developer service and was never intended to be.