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“but we still need an ambiguity-free way to tell the AIs building the world around us what we want done”

Do we? I would argue one of the main reasons AI can be so productive is because it makes assumptions where it finds ambiguity, and we reduce the number of things we need to specify.

Good advice. Anyway, hello everyone.

If the Walkman is recording all the time, then of course they would be a party.

Yes, let’s do something illegal to force a discussion. A discussion that already happened when writing the law…

As per One Hundred Years of Solitude: progress tends to destroy as much as it creates.

“We need a plan to ensure that the good outweighs the bad.”

How apt… for Bill Gates to state this.

Keep in mind the seniority of the author. This was not written by a staff+ engineer.

This is why their forests are currently burning

See https://www.smartphonefreechildhood.org/

I plan to build a datacenter in Jackson hole with expensive paintings on the walls.

Perhaps this too explains the frustration one may feel at times working with LLMs to code - the steering/interpretation by the LLM may distract and second-guess our process within our cognitive space.

Welcome to the stock market.

Yeah but do they read hacker news? Are they hackers?! Are hackers controlling our skies now?!

This letter clearly wasn’t written by AI.

What was your assumption about social media ca. 2010?

…and this is what an AI First post looks like

The more interesting question is, why did it take even longer for the unicycle. Doesn’t have many of the issues bicycles had to solve.

Soon there will be a website which translates AI written text to human text… using AI.

There are many other factors to consider however. Such as time spent with friends, doing something physical, etc. Plus, there’s a spectrum of ways to use trampolines. You’re still allowed to parent…

Absolutely not! But I’m happy to predict…

Would you feel better if their life-changing event came from a car wreck? Tragic things are unfortunately part of life.

Insurance… lawyers… No wonder most kids these days are glued to screens: liability free!

Went to an “amusement” park the other day (US). Throughput of people going down a waterslide at about 2 kids per minute. Insane. Wavepool? Cleared out every 15 minutes or so. Non-stop whistling by an army of lifeguards. Insane. A kid got whistled at because they had a kid on their shoulder. Okay… At least the cop walking around the park (in uniform) all day was nice and handed out stickers. That’s right, a cop at an amusement park. No wonder these places are dying and being turned into warehouses or what have you.

I ended up finding an insurance plan which explicitly covers trampolines. I now basically pay for the cost of the trampoline each year. Insane.

What a time to be alive as a kid in America.

Taylor Swift recently got married east of Seattle

Ummm no. Do not show a sign of weakness like this. Address the problem head on and get a credit card with a bigger limit.

Found the European :)

The real question: did your local LLM write this post?

You seem to believe idempotency is a fancy word for avoiding duplicates, which is why we seem to be having different conversations.

The topic is about idempotency though, and what you are describing is not idempotency. You are describing something different, and arguing “but it accomplishes a similar thing.” It appears you have come to the same conclusion as the article that building idempotency isn’t trivial.

You are improvising, and in the process, changing the semantics of a well established design pattern. Do not recommend.

The problem is the credit tends to go to LLMs. So there’s an imbalance. LLM did all the work. The person using it made all the mistakes.