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  • FredFig@awful.systemstoTechTakes@awful.systems•eating our own dogshit
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    10 hours ago

    If you’re referring to genetic algorithms, those work by giving the computer some type of target to gun for that’s easy to measure and then letting the computer go loose with randomly changing bits from the original object. I guess in your mind, that’d be randomly evolving the codebase and then submitting the best version.

    There’s a lot of problems with the idea of genetic codebase that I’m sure you can figure out on your own, but I’ll give you one for free: ā€œbetter codeā€ is a very hard thing for computers to measure.














  • https://www.wheresyoured.at/deep-impact/ And the companion piece on his blog.

    What I didn’t wager was that, potentially, nobody was trying. My mistake was — if you can believe this — being too generous to the AI companies, assuming that they didn’t pursue efficiency because they couldn’t, and not because they couldn’t be bothered.

    This isn’t about China — it’s so much fucking easier if we let it be about China — it’s about how the American tech industry is incurious, lazy, entitled, directionless and irresponsible. OpenAi and Anthropic are the antithesis of Silicon Valley. They are incumbents, public companies wearing startup suits, unwilling to take on real challenges, more focused on optics and marketing than they are on solving problems, even the problems that they themselves created with their large language models.