Malentropic Gizmo

Mar 18, 2024 | lesswrong.com | Seth Herd |Malentropic Gizmo |Joachim Bartosik

Introducing DevinIs the era of AI agents writing complex code systems without humans in the loop upon us? Cognition is calling Devin ‘the first AI software engineer.’Here is a two minute demo of Devin benchmarking LLM performance. Devin has its own web browser, which it uses to pull up documentation. Devin has its own code editor. Devin has its own command line. Devin uses debugging print statements and uses the log to fix bugs.

Feb 24, 2024 | lesswrong.com | Malentropic Gizmo |Mary Chernyshenko

This is an exercise about Planmaking and Surprise-Anticipation. It takes about 2-3 hours. It's a small, simplified exercise, but I think it's a useful building block. Humans often solve complex problems via iteration and empiricism. Usually, trying to figure everything out from first principles without experimenting is a bad idea. You can spend loads of time thinking, and then you go outside and interact with reality for 5 minutes and realize all that thinking was pointed in the wrong direction.

Feb 21, 2024 | lesswrong.com | Seth Herd |Shankar Sivarajan |Malentropic Gizmo

Just a short post to highlight an issue with debate on LW; I have recently been involved with some interest in the debate on covid-19 origins on here. User viking_math posted a response which I was keen to respond to, but it is not possible for me to respond to that debate (or any) because the LW site has rate-limited me to one comment per 24 hours because my recent comments are on -5 karma or less.

Jan 23, 2024 | lesswrong.com | Malentropic Gizmo

So I've reached a point in my amateur bodybuilding process where I am satisfied with my arms. I, of course, regularly see and talk with guys who have better physiques, but it doesn't bother me, when I look in the mirror, I'm still happy. This, apparently, is not the typical experience. In the bodybuilding noosphere, there are many memes born from the opposite experience: "The day you start lifting is the day you're never big enough.", "You will never be as big as your pump.", etc..