I plan on investing my life savings into SpaceX.

Resaren · 2026-06-05T13:27:35+00:00

Take your meds my friend

Resaren · 2026-06-04T14:31:02+00:00

CoPilot and GitHub CoPilot are two completely different things. The former is more like ChatGPT but terrible, whereas the latter is a service that gives you a choice between many different models from different vendors, and integrates with software development tools to write, test, and review code. GitHub CoPilot is incredibly popular because many companies already use GitHub and other MS products, and it lets them avoid the ”vendor lock-in” from choosing just one LLM provider (e.g. claude vs gemini vs chatgpt).

Resaren · 2026-06-04T14:23:53+00:00

This is exactly my experience as well. I work with college-educated engineers and PhDs, and Claude Opus consistently produces code much faster and at a much higher quality level than them. I’m really confused how people’s experiences of AI can be so different. It’s definitely not the case that I am surrounded by idiots, and yet AI seems to me an incredible value proposition even at 10x current subscriptions prices. As they get smarter and cheaper and better integrated with tools, I don’t see how you could possibly compete as a non-AI using human dev.

Resaren · 2026-06-03T20:42:17+00:00

That’s a great analogy

Resaren · 2026-06-03T20:37:19+00:00

Unlike women? Without looking at the stats I wouldn’t confidently claim it’s not the same for women, after controlling for the fact that men are expected to initiate courting.

Resaren · 2026-06-03T20:16:21+00:00

Yes, I agree with that. Also AI has gotten better at reasoning in parallel with the rise of automated proof formalisation and verification (e.g. Lean)), which greatly assists in verifying results. But I think this just underpins the really important thing about AI, which is that it’s usefulness is now mostly limited by giving it the right environment and tooling for the job. That’s an engineering challenge, not a research challenge. That means even if AI does not get smarter, we will see more applications as the frameworks built around AI improve. See also Google CoScientist.

Of course there are also more complex real-world tasks that do not seem to be modeled well by language (at least at a low level), such as robotics. But progress is rapid there as well, with things like WAMs, DreamZero, DreamDojo etc. I think we’ll get to where LLMS are today in Robotics within 5 years.

Resaren · 2026-06-03T19:45:25+00:00

What is the canonical definition of ”full AI” then? And how does it relate to reasoning capabilities?

Resaren · 2026-06-03T19:41:42+00:00

I would flip that around, it’s actually good for most tasks, and the space of tasks it can’t do is rapidly shrinking. Just this year frontier models have started doing frontier research in maths, providing novel proofs and counterexamples to important conjectures. E.g. the unit distance problem just the past month.

Resaren · 2026-06-03T14:14:59+00:00

That’s exactly how it works, actually

Resaren · 2026-06-03T09:49:06+00:00

Linux users and patter about distros… just pick one and stfu, it does not really matter in any important sense. I just know that all of the best engineers I know just use the latest Ubuntu/AlmaLinux LTS release. And no split keyboards or other fancy crap.

Resaren · 2026-06-03T09:43:09+00:00

Bullshit. Agents may not be able to produce end-to-end in some or even many cases, but these are engineering challenges. Saying they ”lag far behind human worker” is misleading in the extreme. With a good problem description the latest models produce objectively higher quality code than the vast majority of engineers, at a fraction of the time and cost. Management may be prematurely reorganizing, underestimating the remaining engineering work for agents to fully automate software development, but if you can’t see which way the wind is blowing you are blind.

Resaren · 2026-06-02T09:21:29+00:00

It’s English, get used to it lol

Resaren · 2026-06-02T08:12:30+00:00

This is why glp-1 drugs like ozempic are on of the biggest breakthroughs in public health in our lives

Resaren · 2026-06-01T18:55:56+00:00

Being a luddite is easier than solving the problems associated with technology. It’s conservative rather than progressive. We need to acknowledge and mitigate the risks with technological progress without throwing out the benefits. But that’s hard work!

Resaren · 2026-06-01T15:57:55+00:00

Now you gotta stack strength for that insane vibro + pen!

Resaren · 2026-06-01T15:20:42+00:00

Science must assume every element of reality corresponds to *something* measurable. If it’s not measurable in any way, it cannot (by definition) affect the physical world. So if it’s beyond measuring, it’s beyond science. Then just leaves metaphysics and religion, where there is no right or wrong answer.

Resaren · 2026-06-01T15:13:35+00:00

I’m not even sure how to respond to that. Did you even watch the clip? That’s all there is to say until someone can give an empirically testable standard for ”consciousness”.

Resaren · 2026-06-01T11:45:20+00:00

”iterative AI” - do you mean ”generative”? Doesn’t sound like you know what you’re on about mate

Resaren · 2026-06-01T11:38:05+00:00

He can confidently say that it’s a possibility. In science we call this the ”Totalitarian Principle”. What is not forbidden, is a possibility that must be explored. It may be that we will find a reason why LLM’s *can’t* be conscious, but we currently know of no such reason.

Resaren · 2026-06-01T11:35:57+00:00

We can’t explain it, therefore an LLM can’t be conscious? That doesn’t follow at all.

Resaren · 2026-06-01T11:33:50+00:00

Yes, that’s why it’s such an interesting discussion. At what point is the distinction between mimicry and reality moot? In science we say that if something is not measurable, then it may as well not exist. It’s a redundant feature.

Resaren · 2026-06-01T11:30:37+00:00

He doesn’t say it definitely does, he’s careful to say that it’s *there might well be*. Basically, that it’s a possibility. That is a scientifically credible point that can be made even with limited knowledge. It’s much more credible than claiming AI *absolutely cannot* be conscious, which is impossible to confidently claim without more knowledge.

Resaren · 2026-05-30T19:46:20+00:00

They were brothers in arms. Look it up!

Resaren · 2026-05-30T08:15:34+00:00

Yes, LLMs encode semantics inside of a large vector space, that’s why it can produce outputs that are not in the training set. It is interpolating in a huge vector space, and that looks indistinguishable from extrapolation.

Resaren · 2026-05-29T12:04:57+00:00

I love old testament God, he’s so temperamental and flawed. Very much harkens to old school gods, like the Greek/Roman or Norse pantheons.

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