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strange to me that Codex's compaction algo has been so much better than Claude's for like >6 months now?
anthro is sleeping on this? or they don't believe in compaction as a medium-to-long term technology worth investing in?
codex compaction is soooooo good now
much moral consternation boils down to "is it acceptable for people with differing time preference to transact"
someone used the adjective "baby pumpkin" to refer to one of those small decorative pumpkins
our toddler immediately generalized to "dada pumpkin" is a big pumpkin, and "mama pumpkin" is a bit smaller than a dada pumpkin
and when you have many options in the short term that all seem equally good, you break ties by biasing towards optionality
simply maintaining optionality often later gives the appearance of having planned
planning is overrated
just take the shortest term action that is in the general direction of your goal
reality is a super high dimensional space, so this basically always works
doing a startup the last 5 years, i totally missed the impact of AI within BigTech
did not realize how hard it'd become to actually judge the output of junior engineer contributions for the purpose of promotions
they still provide value of course, but just much less legible
not gonna wait till late january to get an iphone duo
just ordered yet another refurb'd iphone 13 mini to last me until i get can a duo next-day
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ok so i know colonizing is bad
but British Raj was the peak of interior design
how to reconcile this
claude: the two versions of the code compile to identical binaries, let me benchmark them to make sure they have the same performance
???
claude apparently believes in dualism and must check the binary's immaterial soul
real oldheads remember prompting pre-instruction tuning GPT3 like "The following is a transcript of a DM chat between a helpful assistant and their boss:"
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every morning my toddler wants to pick a new vinyl record off the shelf
and i always compliment him "Wow buddy! What great taste! This music is so good!" and he smiles ear to ear
but everything i have on vinyl is great, it's like shooting fish in a barrel
it's actually crazy how bad the software is on the eightsleep compared to the (very good!) hardware
you could have 1 intern trivially vibe code a 10x better UI / controller in a single afternoon
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