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contagiousflow··on Qwen3-Coder: Agentic coding in the world
These tools aren't magic, if there are reasons for code changes outside of the diff LLMs aren't going to magically fabricate a commit message that gives that context.
contagiousflow··on How I Use Kagi
Do you have recommendations of other search engines?
contagiousflow··on What's happening to reading?
I don't think you read the article at all...
contagiousflow··on LLM Inevitabilism
[Citation needed]
contagiousflow··on Grok: Searching X for "From:Elonmusk (Israel or Palestine or Hamas or Gaza)"
Think about this for a second, when was Noam Chomsky born, and and what age can you start having substantiated opinions?
contagiousflow··on Bot or human? Creating an invisible Turing test for the internet
> Building better CAPTCHAs is interesting technically, but it is doubling down on a failed solution that nobody actually wants

I want it. I don't want my message boards to be people's AI agents...

contagiousflow··on Ford Will Keep Battery Factory Even If Republicans Ax Tax Break
What is the short term pain exactly?
contagiousflow··on Just How Many More Successful UBI Trials Do We Need?
Could there have been any other reason for people not working in 2020?
contagiousflow··on Salesforce study finds LLM agents flunk CRM and confidentiality tests
But the argument should be showing an agent that does in fact pass these tests. You can't just assert that "this one failed, but surely there must be some agent that is perfect, therefore you can't generalize".
contagiousflow··on Salesforce study finds LLM agents flunk CRM and confidentiality tests
How is that an argument at all? Of course if you could build a better agent that could solve every problem the outcome of the paper would be "this tool performs well at this"
contagiousflow··on AlphaWrite: AI that improves at writing by evolving its own stories
Prioritizing profit above all is still a culture though. And it is the choice of a people to give a small group with large amount of money huge cultural influence.
contagiousflow··on AlphaWrite: AI that improves at writing by evolving its own stories
Technological change doesn't happen independent of culture. Stop with the technological determinism.
contagiousflow··on What happens when people don't understand how AI works
A tool can feel productive and novel, without actually providing all of the benefits the user thinks it is.
contagiousflow··on Self-reported race, ethnicity don't match genetic ancestry in the U.S.: study
This is literally Critical Race Theory
contagiousflow··on AI Horseless Carriages
I can't imagine what I'm going to do with all the time I save from not laboriously writing out "2PM at shake shack works for me"
contagiousflow··on On Jane Jacobs (2017)
What makes you think that?
contagiousflow··on Doge using AI to snoop on U.S. federal workers, sources say
You don't have to assume I'm American. But yeah, the officials that interpret law at the highest level should absolutely be democratically elected. Why would that even be some sort of gotcha?
contagiousflow··on Doge using AI to snoop on U.S. federal workers, sources say
You want an unelected, foreign entity to have total visibility into your government?
contagiousflow··on Bored of It
Wake me up when an LLM has found the solution to Alzheimer's. Until then, don't force it into every software I use.
contagiousflow··on I'm the Canadian who was detained by ICE for two weeks
Do you think the status quo of American prisons is good for anyone? I agree that this issue could be handled better, but as a non-American I've been horrified by many more things in the American prison system than this.
contagiousflow··on I'm the Canadian who was detained by ICE for two weeks
What actual policies prevent bad behavior?
contagiousflow··on A bear case: My predictions regarding AI progress
> In conclusion, we will reach AGI

I'm a little confused by this confidence? Is there more evidence aside from the number of smart people working on it? We have a lot of smart people working on a lot of big problems, that doesn't guarantee a solution nor a timeline.

contagiousflow··on Moscow-based global news network has infected Western AI tools
See: Gödel's Incompleteness Theorem
contagiousflow··on Moscow-based global news network has infected Western AI tools
So how do you observe objective truth of history?
contagiousflow··on Who's Afraid of Peter Thiel? A New Biography Suggests We All Should Be (2021)
No one's saying you can't. The equation changes when a foreign billionaire (and richest man in the world) is saying it.
contagiousflow··on Who's Afraid of Peter Thiel? A New Biography Suggests We All Should Be (2021)
And based on the replies, we're rapidly blazing down that path.
contagiousflow··on Who's Afraid of Peter Thiel? A New Biography Suggests We All Should Be (2021)
See countries outside of America for this.
contagiousflow··on Who's Afraid of Peter Thiel? A New Biography Suggests We All Should Be (2021)
Democracy: famous for never improving human rights and freedoms.
contagiousflow··on Who's Afraid of Peter Thiel? A New Biography Suggests We All Should Be (2021)
In countries other than America it sure does...
contagiousflow··on Who's Afraid of Peter Thiel? A New Biography Suggests We All Should Be (2021)
How is that even a comparison? Governments are elected

Edit: To Americans, fix your own democracy before you think the idea of democracy is broken.

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