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  • Too scatterbrained to be a good public speaker. Helped launch a disability rights org and lobbied government instead (with reports and scathing tweets instead of money). Organised grassroots pressure is surprisingly effective, would recommend.

  • Top 12hr / 6hr works the best. Active is usually selected by default and rubbish unless you're a reply-guy and want to jump into active discussions. Stick to top for new stuff. If you're still running dry, touch some grass for a bit and come back. There's a decent amount of activity here now that can fill the need providing you aren't just scrolling all day.

    You can set it to hide posts you've seen (on mobile) to prevent the issue of seeing them again too.

  • We can literally design entirely new mechanisms. Redefine money. Local exchange trading systems with local currencies, new monetary systems and elastic mechanisms that are compatible with open governance. Global mutual credit systems. Shift towards bottom-up. Anti-capitalist. Mutualism. The Agora. Now we get to do Elysium instead.

    I assume by being an ‘actual working currency’ you’re talking about speed for instant payments which isn’t a hard problem.

  • Not sure what you mean, we are seeing results at an increasing pace if anything. A lot more complexity going into it than 'increasing text/GPUs' though.

    https://arcprize.org/leaderboard

    AlphaEvolve recently achieved what you are after.

    We also applied AlphaEvolve to over 50 open problems in analysis , geometry , combinatorics and number theory , including the kissing number problem.

    In 75% of cases, it rediscovered the best solution known so far.

    In 20% of cases, it improved upon the previously best known solutions, thus yielding new discoveries

    AlphaEvolve discovered a new scheduling heuristic for Google's Borg cluster management system, recovering an average of 0.7% of global compute resources that were previously stranded due to resource fragmentation.

    Google's annual capital expenditures in the tens of billions, this efficiency translates to hundreds of millions of dollars saved annually

  • Been a few months since I used co-pilot, but they use a model that's worse than GPT-4/4o which is a big step down from the reasoning models.

    Try out Cline, aider, or one of the tools devs actually use with the latest models from Anthropic/Google/OpenAI.

    https://aider.chat/docs/leaderboards/

    Didn't look through all the issues but there were things like

    The agent was blocked by configuration issues from accessing the necessary dependencies to successfully build and test. Those are being fixed and we'll continue experimenting.

    Been out less than a week, let's see how it's doing in a year.

  • Yes, despite the irrational phobia amongst the Lemmings, AI is massively useful across a wide range of examples like you've just given as it reduces barriers to building something.

    As a CS grad, the problem isn't it replacing all programmers, at least not immediately. It's that a senior software engineer can manage a bunch of AI agents, meaning there's less demand for developers overall.

    Same way tools like Wix, Facebook, etc came in and killed the need for a bunch of web developers that operated in the range for small businesses.

  • You can literally just give an AI access to your camera now and it can describe the world around you. Complex scenes, facial expressions, handwritten notes, etc. auto generated subtitles have gotten a lot better, and speech can be converted to ASL in real time or as subtitles displayed on a set of smart glasses, so much stuff. All that stuff that was locked away is now unlocked.

  • Well yes that is what I was referencing. That is how many people use them; out at restaurants, public places, at friends, etc. Often they are watching TV on them anyway.

    But outwith that they have a whole host of problems even when used correctly and little upside. Autoplay, bright colors, fast-paced and visually rich interfaces. Locked in 20cm from the screen. Instead of learning to entertain yourself quietly. Engaging with your other senses.

    Exception is well developed education apps for cognitive impairments, developmental delays, etc where the crazy engagement the design envokes can be useful.

  • More worryingly, shoving them in front of a tablet every time they’re being difficult means they don’t learn how to regulate their emotions.

    Difference between my daughter and her cousins is night and day. Few studies confirming this correlation with violent outbursts later in life too now.

    Tried giving it her on a plane once and she had no idea what to do with it and sat and played with her toys instead, so not that intuitive. She has a mechanical keyboard hooked up to a Pi instead.

    Also your link is broken