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marstall
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- marstallsome of these are better headlines tho
- yup, me too.
- brilliant. feel bad asking for something more - but an inline annotation of who these people are would take it over the top.
- this captures the early of excitement of hypertext in a cool way. seeing the technology through Deena Larsen's eyes is a trip. To her it was a way to be more experimental in expressing her research, and a new way of writing poetry. Must have been quite exciting to make Marble Springs in 1993.
- What kind of area were you talking to it about?
- i guess i'd rather have the understanding it's offering me, with a smudge of, sure, call it bullshit, than not know it at all.
If you think about it, there is no source out there that is unimpeachable, and there is a need to consult many sources to get closer to the truth. triple all that for a rare disease.
- I have the sense overall, from talking to it about aspects of his condition that I understand well, and also using it as a coding assistant in work, that by and large it's on point.
- sorry, i didn't even read the article because I have everything blocked. From the comments, whatever it is it sounds terrible.
- I am using it mostly to try to understand and get context about what the professionals tell me, the treatments they are offering, etc.
- i quiz it often on aspects of my son's condition that I understand, and it gets things right most of the time, with the occasional glaring bit of misinformation.
- > You guess it is a small percentage?
Well I am operating within a space where his doctors are setting the parameters in terms of the pathways targeted, the therapies offered, etc. And I'm asking, how does this therapy work? How is it related to X and Y? How strong is the evidence? Questions like that. I think I can throw the appropriate grain of salt on it, but yeah, some fake facts could creep in. It's stuff that will be validated, but super valuable to just synthesize the lay of the land and give me context for understanding what the docs are saying.
> Curious why do you think you not have gotten these insights that too even from textbooks no less?
Partly just how tailored and conversational ChatGPT is. It gets right at my needed level of explanation. It knows how much education I have. It remembers salient details about my son and his condition. It really explains things well. It knows so much. It's quite remarkable.
[note, i didn't read the article so am not opining on its content in any way. An AI college education sounds terrible in many ways]
- I just had a pretty amazing 4 hour session with gpt 5.1 going over my son's rare disease. Chat broke it all down for me in a really deep and clear way in the back and forth. Insights I've never gotten to from talking to docs, reading papers, reading bio textbooks etc.
I guess some small percentage of it was hallucinated, but if you want to call it a teacher/student relationship, it was pretty amazing.
- I don't get how these agents can work when even Claude Sonnet 4.5 (for example) needs a lot of hand-holding for basic, simple bugfixing stuff. Wouldn't the agents just be huffing and puffing their way off the rails all the time?
- really identify. especially with the early yearning to connect and not having the skills. Learned sooo much over the years by being brutally rejected and eventually taking stock of what happened and extracting a rule or two. but then, yeah, next phase, rules don't matter (except when they do) and change moment to moment anyway.
funny to read this here on hacker news of all places, where I let my carefully managed, almost always inhibited, childhood nerd self fly free in the comments.
OP has definitely gone beyond me in many ways, with his talk about embodiment, and being able to be so empathic that he has elicited tears of gratitude. Enviable.
- > infamous for promoting authoritarianism
what are you referencing here?