panagathon

For large language models, isn't everything nails?

Yeah, it's awful. I can't believe how much of a downgrade it is from the old Perseus Hopper.

Scientists and engineers with an interest in such things would have an easier time working on it, if the broader economic and civic context they work in wasn't being messed with by demagogues.

They shouldn't be drafted to resolve the rise of petty tyrants. It's a waste of their time.

> While this sounds generous (and in some ways it is), it does not address the general point that GP is making. That is, the systematic disadvantage which large parts of humanity have w.r.t. to access to the tools. You could say they can't drive a Lambhorgini either, but that also doesn't solve the problem.

This was also the case historically, when being at certain universities, with better professors, better scope of works available at the library, etc, would necessarily provide systematic advantage.

This is the reality of progress. It is always unevely distrubuted.

I do think the open source side of model development is a substantial counter to the pessimism here.

Oh yeah, that's clever

> I don't get why I would use Claude Code when OpenCode, Cursor, Zed, etc. all exist, are "free" and work with virtually any llm. Seems like a weird use case unless I'm missing something.

I'm with you on this. I've tried Gemma and Claude code and it's not good. Forgets it can use bash!

However, Gemma running locally with Pi as the harness is a beast.

It just comes off a bit victim-blamey, I think. If it's not intended, you should certainly be aware that it can.

You could do with building this isn't the system itself. Use an LLM to assess how well the user engaged, whether they got frustrated, etc. Give them a short (generated?) test on the discussed content to gain data regarding their mastery.

This looks unreal!

That's only potentially true for the Dionysian. Others were open to both. See 76e in Plato's Meno, for reference.

You can read Brian Muraresku's The Immortality Key for a detailed exploration of this topic.

It certainly isn't beyond criticism, but it's points are substantive and well referenced, giving the reader enough scope to tackle the controversial points themselves, not just take the authors presentation on face value.

Perhaps in industries you are familiar with. Many industries, however, would have a continued professional development disposition that benefits from continued access to fundamental research. Mine certainly does and the lack of access impoverishes that professional development.

This does sound like a lot of fun. Since this AI only reaches silver level, presumably such a contest could be quite competitive, with it not yet being clear cut whether a human or a tool-assisted human would come out on top, for any particular problem.

This is the library I've always wanted. Look at that Julia set. Gorgeous. Thanks for this. I'm sorry to hear about the dev issues. I wish I could help.

Your intuitions are on the mark.

https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s00213-017-4771-x

This study finds that:

> No patients sought conventional antidepressant treatment within 5 weeks of psilocybin. Reductions in depressive symptoms at 5 weeks were predicted by the quality of the acute psychedelic experience.

I think there's another out there with similar findings, that the stronger the mystical-type experience induced, the stronger the impact on the pathology. I haven't been able to dig it up though.

Sure you can. You simply email one of the listed authors and ask them if the document is legit.

I'm not sure, but I think of a gesture and voice commanded coding, that is AI guided, and beautifully immersive VR presented and edited, where AI guided is a variable of unknown limit describing how intelligent it could get. I reckon Mcluhan would call it a different medium, in the way he does reading press printing vs a medieval manuscript. Whatever it is, it'll be significant.

This reads a little hysterical to me. It's just a new medium of expression. Who knows, maybe the lack of genuine artistic merit, if there is such a thing, would lead more people to watch Jim Jarmusch flicks.

I love Mystery of the Yeti. What a great couple of albums.

Surprised no Shpongle on the lists

I'm inclined, perhaps mistakenly, to think of it as similar to how our brains fill in our peripheral vision, to respond to the lack of data.

https://neurosciencenews.com/peripheral-vision-brain-illusio...

This puts into words how that city made my wife and I feel. Very well said, in my opinion

If your leg gets blown off, and the only help you're getting is from Gary, who claims a strong stomach and has used a needle kit before, for sewing closed your femoral artery, I reckon you're taking a swing.

Are you sure the desperate don't deserve this attempt to help them? I can't imagine what it must be like to have such issues and have zero professional options to turn to, and you know what the solution for many is.

Sounds to me a little like being on the negative end of capital flight, and they are trying to do the capital controls that seem internationally unpopular for developing nations to enact.

I second this. The online Liddle Scott Lexicon is good, but wiktionary brings some very nice modern features like those you mention and many others.

Yeah, I'm interested to hear some key points, but there's nothing here.

Surely no different from a human not understanding Japanese, because it was not in their 'training set'?

This analogy does not work because we search a hay stack with our eyes, but we search for information with far more selective tools. You are comparing apples and oranges.

I think I disagree, since mathematics cannot be reduced to logic (or any other instrumentalisation).

https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/philosophy-mathematics/#M...