AlexandrB

8 ms·

151.
by AlexandrB 3mo ago
Engineering? What's that? Modern development best practice is to have the AI make some changes, then have another AI review the changes, and finally "ship it".
152.
by AlexandrB 3mo ago
> A subscription model isn't needed to kill software. It's not needed, but it sure helps!
153.
by AlexandrB 3mo ago
I think you vastly underestimate how much people like their cars. Sure there are corporate interests who benefit, but they don't force folks to change cars every 3 years or make big "crossovers" and SUVs the most popular car
154.
by AlexandrB 3mo ago
In theory, yes. In practice it's just used as an epithet against specific groups. For instance, you almost never hear folks from South America being called colonizers despite how Spain and Portugal carved up that continent, meanwhile J
155.
by AlexandrB 3mo ago
Being objective doesn't mean laser focusing on the negatives. For instance: > Where you have just limited time to watch the movie you loved? You know how many movies the average peasant watched in the 1800s? 0. The closest equivalen
156.
by AlexandrB 3mo ago
Joe Rogan's Comedy Mothership does something similar[1]. The worst part about these systems is that the lack of accountability and appeals process. If you end up on the "bad" list, you're banned and probably SOL. [1] ht
157.
by AlexandrB 3mo ago
Not to worry, Flock, Palantir, and whoever else has use for it will keep it very safe once they buy it from the car company for $1/driver/month. Edit: Oh maybe MindGeek too, since some car companies reserve the right[1] to record
158.
by AlexandrB 3mo ago
The implication here is that schools are making these decisions on a neutral, apolitical basis - but this is not really possible, is it? As many on the left would say: "everything is political". So what we're discussing is (y
159.
by AlexandrB 3mo ago
You should think this through. The logical endpoint is that all age based content restrictions are "authoritarian". So it should be ok to stock movies like Martyrs[1] or Men Behind the Sun[2] in elementary school libraries, beca
160.
by AlexandrB 3mo ago
It went south around this point: Zuck: Yeah so if you ever need info about anyone at Harvard Zuck: Just ask. Zuck: I have over 4,000 emails, pictures, addresses, SNS [Redacted Friend's Name]: What? How'd you mana
161.
by AlexandrB 3mo ago
I just worry that the wrong thing will be regulated/taxed. It's the combination of algorithmic feed + global reach + monetization potential that makes social media so nasty. But it's easy to create "social media" re
162.
by AlexandrB 3mo ago
“The awful thing about life is this: everyone has their reasons.”
163.
by AlexandrB 3mo ago
The old adage applies to social media: "the medium is the message". You can't steer a ship whose whole purpose is crashing into icebergs from crashing into an iceberg. You're working against the whole purpose of the thin
164.
by AlexandrB 3mo ago
> Buy a plethora of studios. To be fair to Phil Spencer, this was the strategy across the industry right after COVID. Remember the shopping spree Embracer Group went on between 2020 and 2022? I think we were in an e-sports & live ser
165.
by AlexandrB 3mo ago
> The only thing that matters is if LLMs with sufficient scaling can become frontier AI researchers kicking off the exponential. What if the answer is flatly: no? All that other stuff starts to matter a lot then. Predicating your busines
166.
by AlexandrB 3mo ago
The "parrot" part of "stochastic parrot" is quite an ambiguous choice. Taken literally, it's referencing an animal that's actually quite intelligent and capable of complex, novel tasks but has no way to connect
167.
by AlexandrB 3mo ago
Here's the thing: most things people do does not involve tokens of any kind. It is, in fact, stuff that not easily describable. For example, it's trivial for a person to walk, but they cannot verbally describe what muscles they&#x
168.
by AlexandrB 3mo ago
I love how Nvidia is playing both sides. No matter whether AI's future is local or on the cloud, they come out ahead. I suspect they're going to be the biggest beneficiaries from the AI run up.
169.
by AlexandrB 3mo ago
Marketing is very often a dishonest attempt at persuasion. That's the whole issue. In the kindle example, the marketers aren't trying to persuade you to buy books by extolling their virtues, they're "gaming the system&
170.
by AlexandrB 3mo ago
Why is this a Google doc and not just an HTML page? I was super-confused when the links didn't behave like normal links. This is like when people post a screenshot of an Apple note.
171.
by AlexandrB 3mo ago
Gamergate was definitely an inflection point, though my opinion on it has changed throughout the years. I think it was the first internet squabble where throwing around accusations of "isms" became a common tactic. And in defense
172.
by AlexandrB 3mo ago
They've only been around 5 years and have grown tremendously during that time. There's no stable reputation you can rely on yet.
173.
by AlexandrB 3mo ago
> For example, spend an entire month listening to Taylor Swift’s new album, she gets the entire royalty share. > But if you listen to the album 100 times but then listen to lofi beats 900 times, Taylor only gets 10%. Hahaha, I wish th
174.
by AlexandrB 3mo ago
The flip side of this is "Chesterton's Fence"[1]. It's easy to propose "better" solutions, but grading has evolved to be what it is over the past 100+ years. Any novel solution will have different (and not nece
175.
by AlexandrB 3mo ago
There's a great Australian traffic safety ad that makes this same point: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7x7c0qNGbv0
176.
by AlexandrB 4mo ago
And then they went too far and introduced laptops that only used USB-C before finally setting at a (so far) happy medium.
177.
by AlexandrB 4mo ago
> work on things users care about Apparently what users care about is having more whitespace around everything.
178.
by AlexandrB 4mo ago
This is very optimistic. I see a future where high hardware prices push more and more stuff to the cloud and consumer hardware becomes largely a thin client. Soon doing anything with a computer will require an internet connection because th
179.
by AlexandrB 4mo ago
The old "Windows alternates good and bad releases" rule is dead and buried. Every major version since Windows 7 has been a downgrade on what came before. I'd rather be using Windows 8 than Windows 10 and you will have to drag
180.
by AlexandrB 4mo ago
Once the finance guys and gambling addicts arrived it was "game over" for the geeky side of crypto.

More ›