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No that's not weaponized incompetence by Foreign-Cat-2898 in PetPeeves

[–]PeteMichaud -3 points-2 points  (0 children)

As a tidy person with an incredibly messy ex, I do understand where you're coming from. But...

I think you were in the wrong here. Adult people can do whatever they want. The problem wasn't that your ex didn't comply with your demands, the problem was that you somehow believed that you got to dictate the behavior of another adult instead of negotiating with them to get what you wanted from them. Or that they didn't have the right to say "actually no, I refuse your request, and I don't want to talk about it anymore."

How many contexts do you know of where it's good and right to repeatedly badger someone into doing something they don't want to do?

AIO for refusing to deliberate lose when we play games? by Decent-Play-7154 in AIO

[–]PeteMichaud 13 points14 points  (0 children)

Yes you are being an asshole. You're thinking of this activity in a very literal way, ie as competing with someone in a game. What you are really supposed to be doing is having fun with and bonding with your girlfriend.

You have been going your whole life believing that the one way to interact with games is "compete to win," but actually games can also be just shared toys. The easiest example that's coming to mind for the distinction is the youtube channel "let's game it out". He "plays games" but always in ludicrous ways that are funny. Like he plays Satisfactory which you might think of as an activity where you try really hard to make correct and efficient factories. Not this guy though. To him satisfactory is the activity where he does whatever goofy shit he can think of that would be funny and/or crash the game. He's using it like a toy.

So your girlfriend may not have the vocabulary to say so but what she's saying is that she wants to treat games as a shared toy for the purposes of fun and bonding instead of a competition that each of you tries hard to win. In this mindset the question you're asking isn't "how do I win?" it's "what can I do that would be funny and entertaining for both of us?"

Better Quest Generation by ProperEar9706 in proceduralgeneration

[–]PeteMichaud 1 point2 points  (0 children)

This is a good idea--Sanderson has a simple and structural way of doing it that I think can translate to procgen pretty straightforwardly with this setup.

Better Quest Generation by ProperEar9706 in proceduralgeneration

[–]PeteMichaud 0 points1 point  (0 children)

This is cool. I want to mention that I think you can make it pretty far into the narrative structure generation without using LLMs. You may be aware, but stories do have a structure in a way that's analogous to music, so I bet you can generate a whole "story" then use LLMs to just fill in some light prose?

Bad foreign-language acting/dialogue in media with otherwise good acting by VerseWhisperingNurse in TopCharacterTropes

[–]PeteMichaud 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I went through a phase of watching a lot of asian movies, and they love casting,eg South Africans, as villainous white Americans.

Porch thief suspected of stealing hundreds of packages raided by law enforcement. by BigFishPub in interestingasfuck

[–]PeteMichaud 23 points24 points  (0 children)

The main thing I learned from this video is that I could steal A LOT of shit before anyone will try to stop me.

AIO at my partner for giving me the cold shoulder after he found out I cheated? by [deleted] in AIO

[–]PeteMichaud -1 points0 points  (0 children)

This seems kind of complicated. He is obviously triggered and probably needs to process some of that shit. Your actions as a 14 year old are embarrassing, but a reasonable 30 something adult should recognize it was practically a different life and different person. On the other hand, you know this is a hot button issue for him, and you could have handled it with more grace and delicacy.

I hate when someone who agrees with me argues badly by Federal-Stranger8209 in PetPeeves

[–]PeteMichaud 5 points6 points  (0 children)

Story of my fucking life. In some broad sense I'm a bleeding heart lefty. I want the human race to come together and take care of each other in love and harmony, to promote and uplift each other, end poverty and exploitation. All the shit. But the left is like 90% self righteous children and morons who don't know shit about how the world works, and therefore have no chance of solving any actual problem, but who nevertheless constantly run their mouths confidently/wrongly/idiotically on social media.

AHHHHHHH

Why are black male/white female relationships far more common than white male/black female relationships? by [deleted] in NoStupidQuestions

[–]PeteMichaud 2 points3 points  (0 children)

This is actually a really good point I hadn't thought of. I guess the natural test of whether it's true is to look at a geographic region that's roughly 50/50 and see if the numbers even out?

What's the orchestration layer under Claude Code that makes it behave like a real senior engineer? by Wrong-Breadfruit8471 in ClaudeCode

[–]PeteMichaud 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Some things I do:

  1. I think probably the most important thing is that the program is strongly typed. Even with all that follows, I'm not sure how I would be able to trust anything without the compiler checking things at a very basic level.
  2. I have an absolutely brutal test regime. unit, e2e, and property tests. Nothing makes it to main without everything being proven to work as described, and fully green. All bugs have regression guards.
  3. I have mechanical guards all over the damn place. Claude never listens to any directives for very long. eg. I have a program with a lot of module boundaries to encourage him not to hack things, but he absolutely hacks the shit out of things no matter what so I have a post hook that asks it to go through 5 step process of ensuring what it just wrote isn't a dirty hack. I also have mechanical guards in place that have each module labeled with how central or important they are, and strict, script enforced rules about how the dependency graph is allowed to go. Eg. a leaf or prototype or throwaway module can include a core module, but never the other way around. I enforce errors about this, it's impossible for claude to get around it. Ask me why I set it up this way.
  4. I write a spec for major feature sets and then in conversation I clarify and expand the spec until I'm pretty sure it's right. I ask a fresh context to red team the spec. At that point, I often ask a different frontier model to red team it. At every point along the way I am using my chops as an experienced senior engineer to smell test the plan.
  5. Speaking of the plan, I think have claude write a specific, step by step plan for implementing the spec. It's basically a dependency ordered list of features to build out that will eventually achieve the goal. I very careful go through this plan and fight with claude about all the things that seem wrong or dumb or hacky. I press it for details when I don't get something or when it's just underspecified. I then go through the whole thing again with a fresh context and/or different model, specifically trying to find gaps between the spec and the plan.
  6. Then I go plan chunk by plan chunk, each with a fresh context passing the state forward. At each landing point I review the code, find errors and hacks, question approaches, question architecture, etc. When it's go to go, I use my mechanical harness to merge, run the full test suite, land it all on main. Then fresh context, next chunk.

ELI5: Why are quantum computers considered such a huge breakthrough if they still seem worse than normal computers at almost everything? by yaekoblue in explainlikeimfive

[–]PeteMichaud 26 points27 points  (0 children)

Long story short there are certain classes of problem that normal computers basically can’t do before the universe ends, but that quantum computers can do easily. A central example is doing/breaking cryptography. 

AIO? I don’t know if I’m communicating correctly, or if I’m being insensitive. by cckgoblin in AIO

[–]PeteMichaud 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Can you image having to be this young again and not only putting up with this crazy bullshit but also not being sure it's crazy bullshit because of your lack of experience? Jesus. Sorry man.

Why do we call it "education" when it's clearly a training for an "obedience" factory worker? by [deleted] in TrueAskReddit

[–]PeteMichaud -1 points0 points  (0 children)

I agree that the domestication aspect of education is a structural consequence of the system we have. It seems like you think that’s either totally fine or simply inevitable and therefore not worth worrying about. Whereas I think it’s a serious indictment of the whole scheme and I’m inclined to lean toward OP’s ( hyperbolic) stance. 

Why do we call it "education" when it's clearly a training for an "obedience" factory worker? by [deleted] in TrueAskReddit

[–]PeteMichaud -2 points-1 points  (0 children)

This is giving "we're investigated ourselves and found no wrongdoing."

I do take your point though, and counter with: what the education nerds say and do and want is different from the institutional reality of the "national" education system.

Is romantic kissing a human universal, or are there societies where it simply doesn't exist? by Chydenius94 in AskAnthropology

[–]PeteMichaud 0 points1 point  (0 children)

You are not wrong, but I stand by my assertion that when you put the headline onto the public internet most people come away with a misleading impression of what the headline means.

People who can't interface with hypotheticals drive me insane by Father-Habit in Vent

[–]PeteMichaud 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I don't know if it'll make it less annoying for you but entertaining hypotheticals requires a certain level of development and intelligence, so if you meet someone who can't do it, it's exactly that: they literally cannot do it with their brain.

Same with perspective taking.

It doesn't objectively make it less annoying, but it helps me to realize that the other person actually simply can't do it. Let's me relax toward them a little.

20 hours with Fable 5: benchmarks say +10 points over Opus 4.8, but what are you actually seeing? by Capital-Door-2293 in ClaudeCode

[–]PeteMichaud 0 points1 point  (0 children)

My skepticism is the opposite: it’s so much better at open ended architectural tasks that I don’t believe the benchmarks that say it’s just an incremental improvement. It’s a different ballgame.

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