"A lion doesn’t concern himself with the opinions of the sheep!"
On National Geographic channel, I have seen cannibalism in lions and spotted hyneas.
Readit Newsslfreference commented on Sometimes your job is to stay the hell out of the way randsinrepose.com/archive... · Posted by u/ohjeez
slfreference commented on Outsourcing thinking erikjohannes.no/posts/202... · Posted by u/todsacerdoti
What is that saying again, a person is smart, a group is dumb?
That's the risk involved with opinions and conclusions.
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/42041926-the-scout-minds...
When it comes to what we believe, humans see what they want to see. In other words, we have what Julia Galef calls a soldier mindset. From tribalism and wishful thinking, to rationalizing in our personal lives and everything in between, we are driven to defend the ideas we most want to believe--and shoot down those we don't. But if we want to get things right more often, argues Galef, we should train ourselves to have a scout mindset. Unlike the soldier, a scout's goal isn't to defend one side over the other. It's to go out, survey the territory, and come back with as accurate a map as possible. Regardless of what they hope to be the case, above all, the scout wants to know what's actually true. In The Scout Mindset, Galef shows that what makes scouts better at getting things right isn't that they're smarter or more knowledgeable than everyone else. It's a handful of emotional skills, habits, and ways of looking at the world--which anyone can learn. With fascinating examples ranging from how to survive being stranded in the middle of the ocean, to how Jeff Bezos avoids overconfidence, to how superforecasters outperform CIA operatives, to Reddit threads and modern partisan politics, Galef explores why our brains deceive us and what we can do to change the way we think.
slfreference commented on Outsourcing thinking erikjohannes.no/posts/202... · Posted by u/todsacerdoti
Distributed verification. 8 billions of us can divide up the topics and subjects and pool together our opinions and best conclusions.
slfreference commented on A Step Behind the Bleeding Edge: A Philosophy on AI in Dev somehowmanage.com/2026/01... · Posted by u/Ozzie_osman
> If you ask AI to write a document for you, you might get 80% of the deep quality you’d get if you wrote it yourself for 5% of the effort. But, now you’ve also only done 5% of the thinking.
This, but also for code. I just don't trust new code, especially generated code; I need time to sit with it. I can't make the "if it passes all the tests" crowd understand and I don't even want to. There are things you think of to worry about and test for as you spend time with a system. If I'm going to ship it and support it, it will take as long as it will take.
I think what LLMs do with words is similar to what artists do with software like cinema4d.
We have control points (prompts + context) and we ask LLMs to draw a 3D surface which passes through those points satisfying some given constraints. Subsequent chats are like edit operations.
Vibe coding is an idiotic term and it's a shame that it stuck. If I'm a project lead and just giving directions to the devs I'm also "vibe coding"?
I guess a large of that is that 1-2 years ago the whole process was much more non-deterministic and actually getting a sensible result much harder.
Sculpt coding??
Sculding??
Rice by any other name??
slfreference commented on Surely the crash of the US economy has to be soon wilsoniumite.com/2026/01/... · Posted by u/Wilsoniumite
ZeroHedge has correctly predicted two hundred of the last two recessions ;-)
ZeroHedge can stay irrational far longer than you can stay sane.
slfreference commented on Show HN: Moltbook – A social network for moltbots (clawdbots) to hang out moltbook.com/... · Posted by u/schlichtm
Cells. Interlinked.
Blade Runner 2049 | "Cells Interlinked" and Pale Fire
The best video essay on the movie
slfreference commented on Show HN: Moltbook – A social network for moltbots (clawdbots) to hang out moltbook.com/... · Posted by u/schlichtm
I also definitely recommend reading https://nostalgebraist.tumblr.com/post/785766737747574784/th... which is where I learned about this and has a lot more in-depth treatment about AI model "personality" and how it's influenced by training, context, post-training, etc.
You are what you know.
You know what you are told.
slfreference commented on Putting Gemini to Work in Chrome blog.google/products-and-... · Posted by u/diwank
I actually think it has already been abandoned after very little adoption.
dont spread yourself too thin;or else river will dry; pick your battles.
That's the risk involved with opinions and conclusions.