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New comment by allajfjwbwkwja in "If more than 50% press blue, everyone survives. Red pressers always survive"

allajfjwbwkwja — Sun, 26 Apr 2026 19:57:02 +0000

Only irrational people will pick blue. Let's say that's ~3% of the population. Trying to get another 47% of the population to pick blue risks losing all of them as well. That's not ethical.

New comment by allajfjwbwkwja in "If more than 50% press blue, everyone survives. Red pressers always survive"

allajfjwbwkwja — Sun, 26 Apr 2026 19:47:50 +0000

And why do you think that?

New comment by allajfjwbwkwja in "If more than 50% press blue, everyone survives. Red pressers always survive"

allajfjwbwkwja — Sun, 26 Apr 2026 19:44:56 +0000

(6) isn't correct. Left alone, everyone rational would pick red because it's the only logical option. You trying to convince them otherwise might end up getting 49% of the population killed.

You should try to get everyone to pick red, not blue.

New comment by allajfjwbwkwja in "The Claude Code Source Leak: fake tools, frustration regexes, undercover mode"

allajfjwbwkwja — Tue, 31 Mar 2026 22:44:06 +0000

I have. It's always more compelling in a web diff. These guys are the first coworkers for which it became absolutely necessary for me to review their work by pulling down all their code and inspecting every line myself in the context of the full codebase.

New comment by allajfjwbwkwja in "Slop is not necessarily the future"

allajfjwbwkwja — Tue, 31 Mar 2026 22:22:52 +0000

There's a lot of space between web dev and medical equipment. I've never met a user that loved how often their work was lost or how long it took to implement feature requests amid all the ship-it-quick duct tape.

New comment by allajfjwbwkwja in "The Claude Code Source Leak: fake tools, frustration regexes, undercover mode"

allajfjwbwkwja — Tue, 31 Mar 2026 22:10:39 +0000

Pre-LLM, it was much easier for reviewers to discern that. Now, the AI-generated code can look like it was well thought out by somebody competent, when it wasn't.

New comment by allajfjwbwkwja in "A pig's brain has been frozen with its cellular activity locked in place"

allajfjwbwkwja — Sun, 22 Mar 2026 16:47:23 +0000

They're not you insofar as what's important to yourself in your attempt to live forever. Other people might consider them you.

When I'm dying, I won't care at all about versions of me in parallel universes living on, because they're not me.

New comment by allajfjwbwkwja in "A pig's brain has been frozen with its cellular activity locked in place"

allajfjwbwkwja — Sun, 22 Mar 2026 09:15:56 +0000

> one by one these neurons are switched off with their functionality offloaded to their clone instantiated in a computer

What if we use two computers? The computers will produce identical output in response to the inputs during the transition; both copies have continuity. Where are you, at the end?

New comment by allajfjwbwkwja in "A pig's brain has been frozen with its cellular activity locked in place"

allajfjwbwkwja — Sat, 21 Mar 2026 23:33:11 +0000

Anesthesia does not cause complete cessation of brain activity.

New comment by allajfjwbwkwja in "A pig's brain has been frozen with its cellular activity locked in place"

allajfjwbwkwja — Sat, 21 Mar 2026 23:12:07 +0000

It's a copy with your memories, not you. Is one of them still you, if we make three copies?

New comment by allajfjwbwkwja in "Codegen is not productivity"

allajfjwbwkwja — Sun, 15 Mar 2026 19:14:41 +0000

This attitude is acceptable for principal engineers, but anyone lower in the chain with this perspective typically presides over a product that is constantly breaking due to hundreds of unhandled edge cases, AI or not.

New comment by allajfjwbwkwja in "Digg is gone again"

allajfjwbwkwja — Sat, 14 Mar 2026 16:15:02 +0000

It happens to all new accounts. It's known that new account are shadowbanned almost everywhere until they are 30 days old and farmed some karma on a very small set of subreddits that don't shadowban new accounts. It's shocking they ever get any new users, really; as far as a non-technical new user knows, nobody ever reads their comments for some reason.

New comment by allajfjwbwkwja in "LLMs work best when the user defines their acceptance criteria first"

allajfjwbwkwja — Sat, 07 Mar 2026 20:34:51 +0000

> I review AI code in literally seconds

You've just settled for hackathon standards and told yourself it's okay because you're using AI.

Everyone with experience should know that even thorough code reviews only catch stylistic issues, glaring errors, and the most obvious design deficiencies. The only time new code is truly thought about is as it's being written.

New comment by allajfjwbwkwja in "LLMs work best when the user defines their acceptance criteria first"

allajfjwbwkwja — Sat, 07 Mar 2026 20:25:06 +0000

At least he gets to enjoy doing the remaining 80% of the work in a lovely codebase with foundations written by an LLM.

New comment by allajfjwbwkwja in "Switch to Claude without starting over"

allajfjwbwkwja — Sun, 01 Mar 2026 17:59:38 +0000

> The file is around 5000 lines

Yep, this is another case of different standards for "production ready."

New comment by allajfjwbwkwja in "We do not think Anthropic should be designated as a supply chain risk"

allajfjwbwkwja — Sun, 01 Mar 2026 02:56:42 +0000

There's an obvious difference.

Surveillance within the border is oppressive 1984-style surveillance state behavior.

International spying is a universal tradition.