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mindwok commented on Ilya Sutskever: We're moving from the age of scaling to the age of research dwarkesh.com/p/ilya-sutsk... · Posted by u/piotrgrabowski

Herring · 21 days ago

Nope, Epoch.ai thinks we have enough to scale till 2030 at least. https://epoch.ai/blog/can-ai-scaling-continue-through-2030

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mindwok · 21 days ago

That article is more about feasibility rather than desirability. There's even a section where they say:

> Settling the question of whether companies or governments will be ready to invest upwards of tens of billions of dollars in large scale training runs is ultimately outside the scope of this article.

Ilya is saying it's unlikely to be desirable, not that it isn't feasible.

mindwok commented on MCP Apps: Extending servers with interactive user interfaces blog.modelcontextprotocol... · Posted by u/mercury24aug

mindwok · 23 days ago

It'll be interesting to see how this goes, but my first impression is that it's actually not where we want to go. One of the cool things about MCP (or even just tool calling) is that the LLM on top of a tool provides a highly flexible and dynamic interface to traditionally static tools.

I love being able to type "make an iptables rule that opens 443" instead of having to dig out the man page and remember how to do that. IMO the next natural extension of this is giving the LLM more capability to generate user interfaces so I can interact with stuff exactly bespoke to my task.

This on the other hand seems the other way round, it's like bolting a static interface onto the LLM, which could defeat the purpose of the LLM interface layer in the first place right?

mindwok commented on My stages of learning to be a socially normal person sashachapin.substack.com/... · Posted by u/eatitraw

donatj · a month ago

> The other day, someone told me, “I can’t imagine you ever being awkward with people.”

I was telling my therapist of several years recently about being uncomfortable with the number of new people I've had to meet recently.

He seemed surprised that I wasn't excited by it all and said something along the lines of "You seem like a very social person, that seems out of character." It struck me… am I really that good at masking that my therapist didn't realize I am absolutely terrified in near all social situations? I have zero idea how to make small talk with people I haven't known for years.

Working from home since COVID has made my social skills so much worse because I don't get the practice.

mindwok · a month ago

If you are outwardly meeting lots of people and your therapist is picking up on vibes you aren't awkward, it sounds to me like you might be being quite hard on yourself. Not to suggest your experience isn't valid, but that perhaps your small talk is not the issue!

mindwok commented on My stages of learning to be a socially normal person sashachapin.substack.com/... · Posted by u/eatitraw

mindwok · a month ago

There's a lot of wisdom in this post and it resonates with my experience, great write up OP.

I'd add one thing though: OP's ability to observe and imitate these kinds of social dynamics he was seeing suggests he's already coming from a solid foundation of EQ and also feeling secure enough to try on these different personas. Often there's a lot of work to be done to even get to that place!

mindwok commented on Removing XSLT for a more secure browser developer.chrome.com/docs... · Posted by u/justin-reeves

arandr0x · a month ago

It's encouraging to see browsers actually deprecate APIs, when I think a lot of problems with the Web and Web security in particular is people start using new technologies too fast but don't stop using old ones fast enough.

That said, it's also pretty sad. I remember back in the 2000s writing purely XML websites with stylesheets for display, and XML+XSLT is more powerful, more rigorous, and arguably more performant now in the average case than JSON + React + vast amounts of random collated libraries which has become the Web "standard".

But I guess LLMs aren't great at generating XSLT, so it's unlikely to gain back that market in the near future. It was a good standard (though not without flaws), I hope the people who designed it are still proud of the influence it did have.

mindwok · a month ago

100%. I’ve been neck deep over the past few months in developing a bunch of Windows applications, and it’s convinced me that never deprecating or removing anything in the name of backwards incompatibility is the wrong way. There’s a balance to be struck like anything, but leaving these things around means we continue to pay for them in perpetuity as new vulnerabilities are found or maintenance is required.

mindwok commented on Apps SDK developers.openai.com/app... · Posted by u/alvis

darajava · 2 months ago

I don't understand, what could be built with this platform that wouldn't be made obsolete by conceivable updates to ChatGPT?

Another commenter suggested a hotel search function:

> Find me hotels in Capetown that have a pool by the beach .Should cost between 200 dollars to 800 dollars a night

ChatGPT can already do this. Similarly, their own pizza lookup example seems like it would exist or nearly exist with current functionality. I can't think of a single non-trivial app that could be built on this platform - and if there are any, I can't think of any that would be useful or not in immediate danger of being swallowed by advances to ChatGPT.

mindwok · 2 months ago

ChatGPT can only do this now because the information is essentially freely available. Booking.com etc post their pages on the web to get traffic. In the world OpenAI is imagining, people will rarely if ever interact with the internet directly, it’ll instead all be through intermediary LLMs. In that world, the organisations that own authoritative information about hotel prices and locations will not make that freely available to LLMs, they will sell it. ChatGPT is trying to get ahead by encouraging them to embed themselves directly into their platform so they get first dibs on this kinda stuff before they put up the walls.

mindwok commented on All the sad young terminally online men derekthompson.org/p/all-t... · Posted by u/gamechangr

mindwok · 3 months ago

I often wonder what the internet would look like if we just banned paid advertising. Facebook, instagram, X, TikTok, they’d all have to start charging users to stay alive and I don’t think anyone would choose to pay for the brainrot. I’d like to see us remove the incentives these companies have for just gluing us to our phones.

mindwok commented on Help us raise $200k to free JavaScript from Oracle deno.com/blog/javascript-... · Posted by u/kaladin-jasnah

notapenny · 3 months ago

Grow up.

And accept that both have merit. You may not like it but there's a reason languages, tools, companies, products, whatever become popular. And it isn't just because "people are idiots" or evil companies. Console wars are for teenagers.

mindwok · 3 months ago

Nah. You can be an adult and realise that your feelings don’t mean the world owes you anything, and still think Oracle are a bad company with bad values.

mindwok commented on The Sagrada Família takes its final shape newyorker.com/magazine/20... · Posted by u/pseudolus

mindwok · 3 months ago

The Sagrada Família gives me a kind of weird optimism and hope for technology and what it could be. I went to Europe for the first time this year, and I remember repeatedly thinking as I saw buildings like the Leaning Tower of Pisa or the Duomo in Florence, how sad it is that humanity doesn't build beautiful things anymore (fair enough when they take like 200 years).

Then you see this, a church over 100 years in the making, finally being realised in the last ~10 years because innovations in stone cutting have made these intricate designs more feasible and progress has rapidly improved. It's awesome.