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by Cthulhu_ 4mo ago
I've often felt the same way; I've read some of these and (think I) can spot people using those learned things a mile away, and it immediately raises my hackles up. Management and sales people especially. Touch my shoulder or try
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by Cthulhu_ 4mo ago
I can't stop referring to the irony that the gist of "the 4-hour work week" is to write a book about working only 4 hours a week. But also pretty much all of the self-help books I've read can be summarized in a few parag
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by Cthulhu_ 4mo ago
They can be serious about home-grown AI without needing to become a libertarian capitalist hellscape. I prefer happiness, safety and privacy over competing with the US / China.
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by Cthulhu_ 4mo ago
I think "quality" (quoted to keep the term vague) is important for long-term maintainability of software at scale (>1 developer). However, working / shipped / earning code is always better than quality code that isn&#
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by Cthulhu_ 4mo ago
This is the more striking thing. An meme I often repeat is that ideas are cheap, execution is key - there's a trope of "I have a great idea for an app, I just need a developer to do all the work", exacerbated with AI doing al
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by Cthulhu_ 4mo ago
Which is understandable, but only to a point - the problem was that a lot of banned books were also frequently anti-establishment or critical of the regime. If it was just explicit material then the bible would also need to be banned. But a
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by Cthulhu_ 4mo ago
And it wasn't, until it was. Before Covid-19 we had SARS and MERS, both of which were also watched closely but those didn't develop into a pandemic.
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by Cthulhu_ 4mo ago
Actually they or at least social media does or used to do, peaking during the panny-d and dismantling the 'fake news' checks and balances during Trump II.
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by Cthulhu_ 4mo ago
I'm sure HN cult comments from 10 and 15 years ago are still up though, the Dropbox thread is frequently linked to.
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by Cthulhu_ 4mo ago
That's kind of jumping a few steps ahead; it assumes that we know 80% of office jobs can be fully automated already. And if that were the case, we'd have non-AI software doing that already. I mean we do, but it's not causing
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by Cthulhu_ 4mo ago
It feels like graphics drivers do / did this a lot too. At the very least they make specific optimizations for specific games, probably by tweaking settings and features that the game developers didn't optimize properly themselves
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by Cthulhu_ 4mo ago
It's technology that goes back thousands of years, here's one from the Iliad: https://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Perseus%3Atext... . I love youtube manufacturing videos, saw one where they made a wo
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by Cthulhu_ 4mo ago
For a modern example, see the Raising of Chicago: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Raising_of_Chicago . I think I've seen an image of what the old ground level looks like now, and / or that you can take tours the
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by Cthulhu_ 4mo ago
I'd love to see a before / after video of this or similar experiments, I'm really curious. I've seen similar ones for e.g. giving parkinsons' patients a dose of weed.
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by Cthulhu_ 4mo ago
I wouldn't, or put constraints into it - you may be incapacitated but you may also still be aware, and you wouldn't want to get I-have-no-mouth'd.
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by Cthulhu_ 4mo ago
That's fair, but research into psychoactive substances remains difficult due to legal constraints; N=1 but it will have piqued interest by others, they may want to repeat the tests on a larger scale. That, or individuals will science o
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by Cthulhu_ 4mo ago
I'm sure AI will be used in asset generation but it'll be in deployed similarly as procedural generation of mass assets like trees and npcs. I don't yet see it used for characters as they quickly become kind of generic /
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by Cthulhu_ 4mo ago
Thing is, Steam already was flooded with shovelware - I suspect a percentage of new relelases includes plenty of AI usage that was previously made in other ways (e.g. using asset libraries)
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by Cthulhu_ 4mo ago
That predates LLMs, but I get your point. But besides bots, there's also "low value" comments, the "who's listening in 2026" type comments. Undiscernable from a bot, adds no value, can be omitted and you wouldn
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by Cthulhu_ 4mo ago
This is how it should be though - nobody should be irreplaceable. Look up bus factor etc.
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by Cthulhu_ 4mo ago
Cool, then it's down to everyone using this library to figure out how they can minimize the impact of a zeroday in curl - security should never be down to a single part of a system.
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by Cthulhu_ 4mo ago
Using "literally" doesn't make your comment factual; it's one reason, but also I just think they're neat. That is, they're more collectible than CDs in my opinion. Bigger packaging for better artwork, something
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by Cthulhu_ 4mo ago
> No one likes it, except for those guys. This is anecdotal at best; "those guys" will be using hard data just like tech bros with ecommerce sites do, and the data does not lie. Compression sells better than high dynamic range
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by Cthulhu_ 4mo ago
There's still plenty of crappy headphones, as others have pointed out, but consider also listening from a phone's speaker, a cheap bluetooth speaker, with just one earbud/headphone on, etc. Speaking of, I think the sound qual
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by Cthulhu_ 4mo ago
But Skyrim ended up overdoing it, to the point where it's in every tomb (and there's a lot of them), so you end up expecting it and stab every corpse first.
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by Cthulhu_ 4mo ago
I don't think it was just because you were a kid, if I recall correctly the controls were incredibly unresponsive. Probably a technical reason, that they couldn't or didn't want to interrupt an animation easily, but still. Ye
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by Cthulhu_ 4mo ago
Please read the full paragraph for the answer instead of cherry picking a quote for a knee-jerk reaction: > Be curious, try the new tools, test the latest models. To not do so is silly. > [...] > you could delay adopting “the cloud
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by Cthulhu_ 4mo ago
I think people underestimate how many people move back to their home country once they have a better chance (through e.g. education or money) and / or when the situation there improves (e.g. stability). It's why I don't under
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by Cthulhu_ 4mo ago
"fleeing" and "replaced" are loaded terms, I don't think you can derive that from this data. That said, there's a lot of workers being imported from Asia to the middle-east for their ambitious construction proj
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by Cthulhu_ 4mo ago
I think you're very optimistic with the "a few years", I'm confident all of the parties building AI models are working on Mythos equivalents / competitors, and if they can undercut Anthropic by making it more widely

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