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nathias··on NCM: Next-Concept Modeling: Fast, Parallel Coarse-to-Fine Text Generation
this is amazing, if these kinds of concepts are really close to human conceptuality we're basically at AGI
nathias··on I struggle to believe that AI R&D is ingenious
LLMs are skill multipliers, so of course someone without any education and working knowledge of philosophy will get his own results multiplied and be disappointed.
nathias··on I struggle to believe that AI R&D is ingenious
I don't think its the frontier models, my opus 5.5 has no problem working on a project fairly autonomously, for example if I prompt it in the evening it will work the whole night without issues...
nathias··on Show HN: Subvocal – Talk to your computer without making noise
I knew subvocalization would be the main way to talk to ais as soon as I read it in Alistair Reynolds books. I hope it could be done without any mouth movement by just microgestures soon.
nathias··on Why is every rationalist blog post way too long?
Why do americans insist on using philosophical terminology to mean its opposite?
nathias··on Is 'Attention' the Essence of Intelligence?
Why are they calling it 'attention' if it's just a weighted average? Human attention is something very different.
nathias··on SvelteKit 3
I love svelte, but I think in the world of agents programmer ergonomics is no longer relevant.
nathias··on We Write Code by Hand
njoy mhy hnnd crfhted proze
nathias··on Microsoft exec called AI scraping 'the largest theft of labor in human history'
distillation is a human right
nathias··on The End of an Era
a great point, and I think a very rare one
nathias··on Hardcore IndieWeb: Run your own website 100% independently for only $0.01/day
I'm just paying for the domain...
nathias··on Are we offloading too much of our thinking to AI?
I'm not sure how much does the total production of bicycles consume, but I don't see how it's relevant for the use.
nathias··on How to stop Claude from saying load-bearing
what do you mean, which tells are good writing practices?

as I see them they are all truly terrible even if authored by humans

nathias··on Are we offloading too much of our thinking to AI?
LLMs are bicycles for the mind, they do not think instead of you
nathias··on OpenAI Forked Git on GitHub
where were you, when the gitwars began?
nathias··on EU Commission: addictive design Instagram and Facebook in breach of the DSA
it isn't about avoiding all harm as sociallity itself is harmful, it's about software not hijacking/exploiting our cognition especially in times when this would mess with our development
nathias··on AI-generated videos to maximally drive a target brain region
Customized propaganda made for the individual is the only thing I'm afraid of. Right now its easy to avoid the farm trolls that harves boomers minds on facebook, but given the costs go down and tech improves, we each of us have a trollfarm working specifically for us and that would make it extremely hard to not get brainwashed.
nathias··on Every new car sold in the European Union must include a driver monitoring camera
yes I can't understand how anyone buys these
nathias··on The revenge of the philosophy majors
I have a phd in philosophy, but I think this is more like a return of the 'court philosopher' profession.
nathias··on Ask HN: How did you land your first projects as a solo engineer/consultant?
I tried this 5 years ago, haven't had a customer yet.
nathias··on We have a 99% email reputation, but Gmail disagrees
something is wrong with gmail filtering, I had no problems for years but now my custom domain emails go to spam when sending to people I've been emailing all the time...
nathias··on I still prefer MCP over skills
MCP is too thristy
nathias··on The cult of vibe coding is dogfooding run amok
the simple truth is all code is garbage
nathias··on LinkedIn is illegally searching your computer
linkedin is full of dark patterns, it's really unfortunate it became the business default, all other social platforms get more criticism while being only a fraction as bad
nathias··on If you thought the code writing speed was your problem; you have bigger problems
people can have more than one problem
nathias··on The L in "LLM" Stands for Lying
I'm selling hand-crafted template code if anoyne is interested.
nathias··on I'm reluctant to verify my identity or age for any online services
the fight for privacy was lost in the 90s, it's time to move on
nathias··on Breaking the spell of vibe coding
this is quite literally just coping and seething
nathias··on Eight more months of agents
yes, there is a very large increase in TUI tools
nathias··on A few random notes from Claude coding quite a bit last few weeks
it's not about brain atrophy, it's skill atrophy
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