DrewADesign

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by DrewADesign 6d ago
And to dismiss criticism of the report’s obvious slant is even more foolish. Just because the report isn’t outright lying about the facts doesn’t mean it’s an objective, definitive, and unimpeachable analysis of what happened. It definite
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by DrewADesign 6d ago
I did read the report. Yes, this article does criticize the presentation of the events in that report. This article doesn’t say that the report is lying, but it does say that it deliberately sensationalized aspects in unhelpful ways, an
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by DrewADesign 6d ago
If you haven’t read the article, it might present some useful counterpoints. It criticizes that particular report’s portrayal of the incident.
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by DrewADesign 6d ago
You’re comparing the sub-minimum-wage offshore template jockeys to average designers, not “high end” designers. A high-end designer making a one-off poster for a local fair is about as likely as a senior engineer at a FAANG company making a
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by DrewADesign 6d ago
I think that’s an exaggeration. Oversimplification? Poor analogy? Sure. Deliberately misleading? I don’t see it.
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by DrewADesign 7d ago
But there’s rarely one correct answer. Conveying the same approximate message to multiple types of readers is extremely difficult in a handful of words. People with subject matter knowledge are annoyed by headlines written for laypeople tha
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by DrewADesign 7d ago
> Anyone applying for a job should be doing this with their cover letters Sadly people lost the skill to write a standard form concise 3-paragraphs-of-3-sentences cover letter even before keyword-based ATS initiated the beginning of the
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by DrewADesign 7d ago
Same
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by DrewADesign 7d ago
Look at that dev productivity go! The continually softening job market means c-suites everywhere care less than ever about their company’s image among developers. They’re surely thrilled to stop pretending to give a shit about anything beyo
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by DrewADesign 8d ago
Plot twist: they were both sold on early investment in companies that survived the .com bust. Now they’re VCs that everybody worships as business geniuses even though they’re just lucky idiots, and the sycophantic chatbots finally let them
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by DrewADesign 10d ago
If you’re just talking about learning a programming language I think you need to be quite judicious in your AI usage. In my experience, people learn programming languages best by overcoming frustrating roadblocks. You often end up learni
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by DrewADesign 12d ago
I’m very close with several current police dispatchers, and even have an expired state telecommunicator certification. Calling 911 can absolutely be a coercive force, and people use 911 to harass people all the time because in many instan
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by DrewADesign 13d ago
You can try to say that I’m arguing whatever you like. If you’re claiming that the underlying structure of digital so-called neural networks is comparable to biological neural networks— which we’ve studied for far longer without really unde
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by DrewADesign 13d ago
Well, when you’re on the clock, you’re an agent of that company. And when you’re installing an indiscriminate mass-surveillance camera, calling the police on someone that’s video recording you is kind of bananas. Perhaps you don’t find t
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by DrewADesign 13d ago
Personally, I don’t think it’s different from any other faith-based motivation.
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by DrewADesign 13d ago
Yeah I like Cal’s take on it, though in this context I’d argue LLMs have even less agency, and are even less deserving of anthropomorphization than a dog is.
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by DrewADesign 13d ago
> I don't think knowing that will make me rich. As someone who’s not really sure that any of this is sustainable, I’d implore you to not sell yourself short. I reckon there’s a ton of dogma and nearly religious zeal among these comp
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by DrewADesign 13d ago
::golf clap::
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by DrewADesign 13d ago
It sucks because I think analogies can be useful in helping people make a mental model of complex things, which is meaningfully beneficial. The problems happen when people aren’t honest about the limits of the analogies, which is damned-nea
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by DrewADesign 13d ago
Situations have lots of independent variables, Doctor, and Anthropomorphism is one problematic facet of many in the way this industry is pushing LLM products. If there was a collision at an intersection with a stop sign partially obscured b
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by DrewADesign 13d ago
> We have no better model for how human decision making works than LLMs This is a claim that requires a lot of citations. > biologically inspired Nature inspires a lot of creation, but superficial similarities don’t mean other aspects
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by DrewADesign 13d ago
Can’t agree with you here. > I love how we all just collectively decided that LLM decisionmaking cannot possibly be like human decisionmaking - because if it were, the consequences would be just too awkward. In love how people get salty
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by DrewADesign 13d ago
I do get their usage intent. If something is at all automated, in English, we often refer to as having some amount of agency. If I started up a riding lawnmower, put a brick on the gas and pointed t it towards a field, many might say I “let
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by DrewADesign 13d ago
You’re not interested because you challenged my definition of negligence by inventing some glib pseudo technicality and then got flustered when I asked you to explain how it was rooted in the real world. Sometimes we get caught taking out o
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by DrewADesign 14d ago
I asked some pretty straightforward questions about the specific legal issues involved— the gun case being an important point in our legal system’s handling of negligence — and your answer basically translates into you not knowing. Negligen
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by DrewADesign 14d ago
Specifically what legal type of negligence are you referring to and how does that known or obvious rule fit into the standard legal tests? Does that known of obvious rule have to be a law? There were no ‘rules’ about attaching strings from
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by DrewADesign 14d ago
It’s one of design’s key responsibilities. Developers need a sophisticated mental model of how it works, and how that gets displayed. Designers need a sophisticated mental model of what problems various users are trying to solve, and the be
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by DrewADesign 14d ago
> We have a word for attack with no intent. It's accident. And we have a word for an accident caused by people that failed to implement proper risk mitigation, were not paying attention, and should have known better. It’s negligence
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by DrewADesign 14d ago
Don’t worry it’ll be gone pretty soon.
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by DrewADesign 14d ago
I’ve only heard the term flimflam as a name for a scam that involves tricking a cashier into giving you a bunch of money with confusing overlapping talk.

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