I have, on a lark, reached 20 to 30 adversarial sessions a few times. For some tasks, the sessions will just never converge on anything that yet another session won't find fault with, recommending an alternative already ruled out by another session. Even if all the reasoning in between was documented, the new sessions will endlessly claim to find flaws in past reasoning.
Right, but in this case, exposure is a work requirement, which is a bit different. While an employer isn't going to require tobacco use, work involving asbestos exposure is still a thing (removal perhaps), and an employer knowingly or negligently requiring work activity without both risk disclosure and supply of proper safety equipment would face legal action.
Hence, if mandatory workplace use of AI inflicts harm, then I could imagine things playing out similarly. The damage slowly accumulates, may or may not be noticed in time, becomes difficult to pin down on a past employer, and when you finally realize you need to sue for damages, both the employer responsible and the system are rigged to drag out the process until you're hopefully old and dead before you have a chance to win your case.
I was anticipating that having AI write code to pass tests (human and/or AI written tests) would be worthwhile, but in practice, I've found that even models such as Opus 4.6 Thinking, High Effort simply "cheats", or rather, fails to generalize much too often. It's occurred to me that perhaps I need some amount of randomness in the tests to keep the models honest, but it feels wrong. We'll see.
Isn't a rather good deal of color from feathers a result of "structural color", rather than pigmentation? I'd be curious if fossilized feathers could ever, in theory, preserve enough microscopic detail to guess at that.
Maybe it's just me, but this "We have to fudge the truth because nuance would support the alt-right" business just seems to drive a bigger wedge into the political divide than would just being reasonable. Folks closer to center see it as controlling the narrative, lies, and conspiracy when the full truth comes out. I'd prefer not driving more people into the fringes.
Following similar thinking, there's no world in which AI becomes exactly capable of replacing all software developers and then stops there, miraculously saving the jobs of everyone else next to and above them in the corporate hierarchy. There may be a human, C-suite driven cost-cutting effort to pause progress there for some brief time, but if AI can do all dev work, there's no reason it can't do all office work to replace every human in front of a keyboard. Either we're all similarly affected, or else AI still isn't good enough, in which case fleets of programmers are still needed, and among those, the presumed "helpfulness" of AI will vary wildly. Not unlike what we see already.
For the record, having suffered the effects of extreme dehydration before, if someone insists on aiding me in the process of dying (against my wishes) please get it over with quickly. End it with the morphine right off. Dehydration is a miserable process; the immediate misery of thirst aside, the delirium, paranoia, and irritability are not the least bit merciful to inflict on someone, in my personal experience.
If that's in line with the patient's wishes, cool. Otherwise, not so cool, both for the act of killing someone and for undermining the arguments in favor of legal euthanasia.
Everywhere, license agreements that can be changed by the company at any time, pretty much for every game developer that can afford a lawyer to write up said license agreement. They could all start doing shady stuff at any time. Might still leave thousands of games, but they add up to a drop in the bucket of the overall market.
We can barely afford 5 dimensions with our current operating budget, and it's just not going to scale, I'm afraid. Saddle up boys, I'm proposing we draw them on a _hyperbolic plane_. Two dimensions, fits on a coffee table, room for as many parallel lines as we'll ever need. Hell, some of them can be ultraparallel. Plus, we can deploy it on AWS non-End User Computing for Logical Infrastructure Deployment.
Acknowledging that my own reading of the situation may be flawed, I'd though the situation was that pigs on average are better at sniffing out truffles, but dogs are the better truffle hunters on account of being "good enough" and the fact that dogs, unlike pigs, aren't going to eat half the truffles they find.
I'd go so far as to liken it to a series of memory wipes between age 3 to 4. Memory otherwise appears to function quite fine, from day to day and year to year, but then large blocks all vanish in rapid succession.
Also interesting, as the article alludes to, is that infantile amnesia seems specifically related to episodic memory. Motor skills, language, and other learning obviously survives.
Personally, I'm convinced Bluey is covertly a wholesome show for parents, dressed up as a kids' show, but ultimately still for the sake of children by way of 1) encouraging watching together, 2) improving parents' mental health and well-being, which has positive outcomes for their kids, 3) getting parents to be more engaged and imaginative.
Which reminds me that verbal and emotional abuse from parents and close family can have a severe impact reaching far into adult-hood. You can't help having internalized behaviors build around trying to avoid abuse. You can rationally understand that maybe most people aren't judging you like that, but you're also keenly aware that the world is filled with enough who are and with strangers you can never tell who's who.
> This is what I’m thinking. All of the kids I know from 16-22 are the most level headed group of young adults I’ve known.
Taking this on a bit of a tangent, but as an elder millennial, I recall having been told (by elder relatives in their mid-30s at the time) all about how one day I'd too be an "old fogey" looking down on "teens being teens" and how such progression is just the way of things. Hell, I still hear people preaching such "wisdom" today to their youngers.
Yet here I am, just past the age I'm supposedly meant to start ragging on "kids today", and all I can remark is that this same 16-22 set you speak of are remarkably respectful, polite, and considerate, perhaps more so than my own cohort at that age. I almost worry they're not rebellious enough for their own good.
> Didn't they explicitly acquire the people behind CRDT's.
They may well have hired some of the cohort behind early CRDT research. But I don't believe that work was ever directly applied to Google Docs, from what I've read. Google probably has other applications for CRDTs far beyond anything I'd comprehend.
> Wasn't it also part of Google Wave?
The whitepapers and other material I've read all points to OT being used for Google Wave, which was later applied to Google Docs as well.
> It's what used when multiple people edit a Google doc at the same time.
I expect Google Docs is still using Operational Transform, rather than CRDT, which solves a similar set of problems, the former being suited for running off centralized servers and the latter being more suited for distributed scenarios. Though you could still certainly create something Google Docs like with CRDT.
> As an IC, my focus was on immediate tasks and technical details. I thought in terms of sprints and short-term goals, which are more predictable and easier to estimate.
> I wasn’t ready to think about the uncertainties around long-term plans, roadmaps, and quarterly goals.
Promoting to management people who haven't demonstrated skills at long-term planning, roadmap design, and goal setting? What the hell. Though that would explain a lot about the state of things, wouldn't it.
Here I am having to plan multi-year roadmaps, execute them, and consider quarterly progress as a lowly senior IC. If you're only thinking about and working on sprint-sized goals, what are you actually getting promoted for past junior level?
Blend of #1 & #3 here. Without the pay, I don't think I'd muster the patience for dealing with all the non-programming BS that comes with the job. So I'd have found something else with decent pay, and preferably not an office job. Sometimes I wish I'd taken that other path. I have responsibilities outside work, so I'm rarely putting in more than 40 hours. Prior to family commitments, I had side projects and did enough coding outside work. I still miss working on hobby video game projects. But I do take the professionalism seriously and will do the dirty work that has to be done, even if means cozying up to group #2 to make things happen for the sake of the project.
Figure the man (or woman) is really only there to meet legal requirements around having a human somewhere in the loop. The human is a liability, thus the dog. From the interpretation where dog is guarding the equipment, the dog may as well be robotic, sure. But some live animal also provides distraction from the equipment, as well as the ongoing companionship needed to keep the human psychologically stable, which is also crucial for long term liability. Spare human workers are hard to come by, most of them having died of starvation due to lack of employment.
> people are talking about timing attacks on state updates in the universe, hopefully we can exploit it
If the universe did happen to be a simulation (as opposed to just naturally holographic), I imagine exploiting it might be the only way to conclusively prove so. As an actual simulation, there would be a risk of someone and/or something observing it. If intelligence in our universe tends to eventually discover exploits and if the observers aren't fond of simulation errors, we might have ourselves an unexpected answer to the Fermi paradox.
> The “lights in the sky” stuff has always had better explanations. I watched a C-5 fly over low at night in the Adirondacks and it was very odd; very UFO-y until just before it passed over us.
I've witnessed quite a few odd lights in the night sky, myself! And an equal or greater number of military aircraft flying overhead, between bases, by day. None of which I've ever managed to get a good photo of, even when it's a bomber passing over low and slow, much to my disappointment.
> It’s the “the spaceship landed next to me in my farm field and aliens came out” claims that have faded away.
I recall quite of lot those stories also included electronics behaving weirdly, which would make for quite a convenient excuse. Though I suppose a phone might preserve some evidence of that. But surely enough of those prone to making more outlandish claims aren't thinking of that?