max

swe intern @ apple

i like making cool shit: software, robots, pcbs, racecars, whatever.

[Boze Herrington, Library Owl 😴🧙‍♀️ @SketchesbyBoze]

I can’t stress enough that this would mean the complete extinction of human culture. You need art because it connects you to all who’ve gone before you; it challenges you to embrace perspectives not your own. Media generated to your exact preferences is the death of the soul.

[paji.eth @paji_a]

AI時代に起きる最大の悲劇は《仕事を奪われること》じゃなく、【20年間追いかけてきた夢が、たった20分で叶ってしまうこと】なんよな、これを勝手に《夢の即死問題》と呼んでいるんだけど、例えば「いつか自分のゲームを作りたい」と思っていた会社員が、Claude Codeに話しかけたら30分後には遊べるゲームができてしまう、「いつか小説家になりたい」と思っていた人が、ChatGPTと週末に一冊書き上げてしまう、Sunoで作曲家になり、Soraで映画監督になり、Cursorで起業家になる、もちろん《プロ品質》や《商業的成功》とは別の話だけど、これまで人類は「才能がないからできない」「時間がないから挑戦できない」「技術がないから形にできない」という《3大言い訳》に守られてきたとも言える、それがAIによって一気に剥がされると、恐ろしいことに【夢を叶えたのに、別に楽しくない】という人が大量に現れるかもしれない、つまり人間が欲しかったのは《作品》なのか、《作る行為》なのか、それとも「いつかすごい自分になれる」という《未来の自分への期待》だったのかが、いきなり試されるんよな、これまでの社会は《才能の証明》に10年かかったから、その10年間を“夢”として生きられた、でもAIがその期間を10分の1、100分の1に圧縮すると、夢の賞味期限まで短くなってしまう、そこで始まるのが、これも勝手に名付けた《夢のデフレ》で、映画を作れることも、アプリを公開できることも、会社を立ち上げられることも、それ自体はどんどん珍しくなくなる、すると逆に価値が上がるのが【誰にも頼まれていないのに、なぜか作り続けてしまう人間】なんよな、100本のゲームを作れる人より、101本目をどうしても作りたくなる人、100曲生成できる人より、たった1曲のサビが気になって朝まで直してしまう人、AIが《能力の格差》を縮めるほど、《執着の格差》がむき出しになっていく、これは《情熱資本主義》とでも呼べる変化で、学歴でも職歴でも資格でもなく、何に異常なほど夢中になれるかが、その人の競争力になっていく、皮肉だけど、人類が何千年もかけて《できないこと》を減らしてきた結果、最後に残る問いが「で、あなたは何をしたいの？」という、子どもに聞くような質問に戻ってくる、そしてもっと面白いのは、そこで初めて自分の《本当の好き》を発見する人が大量に出てくる可能性で、AIが人間から奪うのは仕事だけじゃなく、“やらなかった人生への言い訳”なのかもしれない、でもその先には、誰もが何度でも自分の人生を試作できる【人生のプロトタイプ時代】が待っていると思うと、ちょっとワクワクするんよな…

[Bhumika Mittal @mittalbhumika7]

Maybe Calvin (1992) knew it all along

[max @britm0b]

I cannot see the future going any other way. We see it now with silicon EDA. It will only propagate until we are post-human-interpretable on every front; engineering and beyond.

[steve hsu @hsu_steve]

What happens when a single day of AI research produces more mathematics than humanity can absorb in a century?

Imagine millions of superhuman research agents at work. Formal systems may verify the proofs, but humans won’t have enough context to understand the underlying web of machine-invented concepts.

Mathematics could split into two layers:

Machine mathematics: vast, verified, mostly consumed by AIs.

Human mathematics: a compressed “effective theory” of the machine frontier—the small subset of ideas we can understand.

Physics may follow the same path: AIs could explore huge spaces of theories and derive correct predictions using structures no human physicist fully understands.

The key question is whether AI can compress knowledge as fast as it creates it.

My guess: the detailed frontier becomes permanently machine-native, while selected parts are periodically compressed into human-comprehensible principles.

Eventually even deciding what is worth understanding may require AI.

At that point AI is no longer just a scientific tool. Humans are receiving selected explanations from a much larger intellectual civilization they cannot independently grasp.

[max @britm0b]

I have a feeling we will see an LLM discover a NSA backdoor in a popular crypto algorithm rather soon.

[Azad Balabanian @Azadux]

the apple reference photo is likely one of the most consequential things that apple is shipping

watermarking AI gen content is a futile endeavor -- the smarter thing to do is to watermark real things instead

[max @britm0b]

@RomainHedouin what are you talking about? PMSM motor control is AC and will forever be more efficient than DC motors… the cybercab is only removing a single existing AC-DC converter while adding a new one for wireless charging… so far from “purely DC”

[max @britm0b]

@Ethan92745839 @KeremJanberk EV1 mentioned! They did a whole lot of revolutionary stuff with that car. Modern EV platforms (at least outside of China lol…) are still not all that different from what the EV1 pioneered!

[Eutaktos @eutaktospol]

I think the difficulty is that one isn’t really only addicted to the telephone so much as addicted to never having an unoccupied moment, as the telephone is just the little apparatus by which this is achieved. Should you remove Twitter, you’ll open YouTube, then remove that and you’ll read the news, but remove that and then you’re interested in the weather in Belgium and so on.

The rather more horrible experiment these days is probably to just sit somewhere for an hour or so with nothing whatsoever to do with no book or music, or any such improving activity smuggled in…
I believe one shall discover very quickly what the telephone has been protecting one from

{I say all this, naturally, whilst writing it upon the telephone I have been staring at for a stupid portion of the morning}

[Ben Horne 🇺🇸 @benjamin_horne]

The shittiest thing about AI as a SWE is that while it's not the 10x nitro-boost that all the AI hypebeast grifters on here claim it is, it *is* a net ~30% productivity gain (once you factor in all the review, code slop clean up, etc.), which is *just* enough of a boost where you cannot justify not using it.

This is a letdown because using AI after years of learning to code without it is of course an ongoing humiliation ritual, (counterintuitively) *more* exhausting/draining than coding by hand, and way less enjoyable in general.

[max @britm0b]

@GoddenThomas now do it with SLS for improved tolerances! at home you could probably improve them with nylon filament, it’s much stiffer (and stronger and much more expensive) than PLA

[max @britm0b]

@sama I feel that this will be a big moment..

[max @britm0b]

@willdepue GPT-2 345M wrote a handful of sentences in some of my APUSH essays back in 2019. It was never factual but came up with some truly creative writing given enough attempts.

I miss those models.. they could do some unbelievable shit when they weren’t acting like dementia patients.

[max @britm0b]

@GuiveAssadi I will never forget how excited I was to finally test out the full 1.2B version after having my mind blown 124M. But really, GPT-2 was only a bit more coherent than a dementia patient…. and that was not that long ago.

[Thomas H. Ptacek @tqbf]

In this one instance, I'll say: called it.

[Chase Brower @ChaseBrowe32432]

@Deep_Burner @__alpoge__

[max @britm0b]

join FSAE at all costs. get hands on and learn real engineering. you won't regret it.

[max @britm0b]

I have yet to feel anything more rewarding than pouring blood sweat and tears into a car and then getting to push it in the rain

[max @britm0b]

@MehdiHacks It’s not cheap ($450) but this is the best bang for your buck. It’s an extremely capable 3lb robot kit with lots of room for upgrades if you want to turn it into a hobby. Not the best choice if you just want something fun for a few days though. https://t.co/qYwQwEG2td

[max @britm0b]

she’s a beaut. unfortunately GM removed some control modules so she’s an undrivable (for now???) beaut…

[max @britm0b]

would you believe me if I told you I am sitting in one of the rarest cars in the world?