svieira

> I do think a Reddit with identity would be a much less toxic place.

Do you remember the days of "Real name" requirements on YouTube and "Google+"? The experiment was tried, it didn't change things. (Also, see Facebook for an ongoing version of the same experiment).

Ah contraire, mon ami, I am currently in the process of doing just that in many places in my current codebase.

"The affliction" in his case is skin overgrowth, in the other its the dysphoria, right? But which is the moral way to cure either?

> If ones appearance contradicts ones inner sense of personhood, how can that person ever truly connect with other people?

https://woforgmedia.wordonfire.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/0...

https://www.wordonfire.org/articles/pope-francis-and-the-ele...

> reliably catches >99% of bugs

In what scope?

Humans are not "reduced" to biology. Their biology is presumed to "reveal" something about their personhood. And no matter how they feel about their hair, their hips, their eyes, etc. they ought to receive them as a gift from God and enter into a dialog with Him about how they ought to make use of the gifts He has given them.

Well, he was an honored guest of the Pope for a while. Then he made fun of his host in a published book while claiming that he had a proof when he just had a theory and was told to please stop claiming that his theory required a change in theological interpretations of the book of Joshua (but he might continue teaching his theory about terrestrial movements without claiming that they were necessarily true).

https://www.catholic.com/tract/the-galileo-controversy

> Certainly, the decisive turning points in world history are substantially co-determined by souls whom no history book ever mentions. And we will only find out about those souls to whom we owe the decisive turning points in our personal lives on the day when all that is hidden is revealed.

Edith Stine

> Until it gets a software update, that is. The road performance of an average car AI only ever goes up.

Aren't there stories about certain car companies where their self-driving-at-some-level cars got worse after an OTA update?

The particularly worrying thing here is that they're now going to be gathering training data for a conversational model on _how to influence people effectively even when they already know they are being influenced_. Even more than RLFH already does. "We had to build the Torment Nexus so our children could eat" is not a good reason to build the Torment Nexus. The fact that they are not committing to not doing this tells me that either no one thought about what else this could be used for, or the short term gains are all they are thinking about.

The wild thing is how much faster it is to load. I'd almost forgotten how fast Google's default search used to be. Thank you!

> The measure of our success is whether what we do enables people to understand and think more clearly and effectively about mathematics.

I just wanted to highlight this very correct human-centric thought about the purpose of intellection.

> you're just a next action generator controlled by trillions of cells and subconscious dna-based behavior.

With moral agency and the ability to learn (even if we presume you are correct, which I don't think you are).

And the fact that a transformer model can't distinguish between the two in the context of the sentence given is a point against the general nature of the intelligence.

Now that they've broken the ability to trust video, they're looking to build it back, as long as you're allowed to use the tools:

https://blog.google/innovation-and-ai/products/identifying-a...

(and the previous SynthID: https://deepmind.google/blog/identifying-ai-generated-images...)

But it very much is "close the barn door after the horse has bolted and the barn has otherwise burned down".

Anthropic was talking about this as a "oh nifty, look at this" back in 2024: https://www.anthropic.com/news/golden-gate-claude

The fact that steering one of these things is trivial nowadays and the vectors are close-to-free-to-store (since you don't need anything large to influence the space, see also https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ahtbcExEKng) means that this is very likely already happening.

The problem is that it amazingly easy to bias the weights and the actual size of the bias is tiny. So maintaining a per-user ad biased profile is cheap and profitable. I doubt that "paying directly" will keep out the ad men (after all, Cable TV cost money. Netflix too. Both have ads.)

> Religions’ primary purpose is to facilitate tribal bonds

That's what religion does, but so does "working in Silicon Valley for a tech company". What religion is is another matter entirely.

https://www.newadvent.org/cathen/12748a.htm

> The kind that has incentives for companies to appeal to consumers, and consumers that have money to spend on goods and services.

Note that this presumes a functioning market (free or otherwise). The company store knows it is the only game in town, so it doesn't have to appeal to anyone.

We actually have a constant in our codebase to mark such bugs. You found one? Put it inside an:

    if (PREFER_EXISTING_BUGS_TO_NEW_ONES) { theOldBehavior(); }
    else { theNewBehavior(); }

Then, if we ever go to do a v2 of the thing, we can review these existing "load bearing bugs" and see if they make sense to change.

Yes, but what _percentage_ are they? Or is this the XKCD optimization graph all over again?

This you?

https://june.kim/speedrunning-open-source

> tinygrad I picked on purpose. geohot narrates rejections in public, and a narrated rejection is data; a silent close is noise. Thirteen PRs, one merged, twelve closed. His comments tell the escalation story:

>> be careful with AI usage, we never trade complexity for speed

>> You need to stop with AI PRs, you will be banned.

>> Last warning about low quality PRs before I ban you from our GitHub.

>> I don’t even understand what this does. I’m not reading anything written by AI

> Each line a little more done with my shit than the last.

> Some of those PRs had real bugs with real fixes. The MATVEC pattern rejected equal-range elementwise reduces, a genuine correctness issue. But by that point the maintainer had stopped reading code and started reading provenance. “We never trade complexity for speed” is a valid engineering principle. “I’m not reading anything written by AI” is not.

> I went there for maximum surprise and got it. He had a review queue and a quality bar to protect; I had a clanker and a question. The price was his afternoon, three warnings, an account ban, and real bugs left unfixed.

Because this is Facebook-level "let's make people angry on the internet and see what happens" levels of treating people as if they were means to an end rather than an end in themselves. And you should stop.

> 50x the velocity

:blinks: You are producing in a week what used to take you a year?

> Finding duplicated stacks using different libraries, or even the same library, is becoming more and more common. Even our debugging tools, our tracing grow fragmented.

Same - literally found a re-build of a library feature for use with the library the other day (e. g. MyCustomFooProviderFor(Bar) but Bar already literally has a `.foo` method.) No, it didn't need to be there.

> In advertising and marketing, WPP used AlphaEvolve to refine AI model components, navigating complex, high-dimensional campaign data and achieving 10% accuracy gains over their competitive manual model optimizations.

Ah good, we're getting closer and closer to Venus, Inc. every day. /s

What did you use to fill the time you aren't doing feature development in with? Or are you all now working 20 hour work weeks?

> teaching better than most humans

Ah, so now we get to the "ed tech" question. What is teaching? Is there a human element to it, and if so, what is it? Or is it something completely inhuman? Or do we need to clarify what meaning of "teaching" we're talking about before we have a discussion?

Jesus says, "I am the way and the truth and the life". And to Thomas He says _first_ (two verses earlier), "Put in thy finger hither, and see my hands; and bring hither thy hand, and put it into my side; and be not faithless, but believing".

Congratulations on retiring!

> But let me give you a very serious warning. Be careful how you ask me to do anything outré, to imitate the man in the pantomime, and to sit on my hat. Because I am a man whose soul has been emptied of all pleasures but folly. And for twopence I'd do it."

> "Do it, then," said Lambert, swinging his stick impatiently. "It would be funnier than the bosh you and Barker talk."

> Quin, standing on the top of the hill, stretched his hand out towards the main avenue of Kensington Gardens.

> "Two hundred yards away," he said, "are all your fashionable acquaintances with nothing on earth to do but to stare at each other and at us. We are standing upon an elevation under the open sky, a peak as it were of fantasy, a Sinai of humour. We are in a great pulpit or platform, lit up with sunlight, and half London can see us. Be careful how you suggest things to me. For there is in me a madness which goes beyond martyrdom, the madness of an utterly idle man.

https://www.gutenberg.org/files/20058/20058-h/20058-h.htm