ImPostingOnHN

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by ImPostingOnHN 2mo ago
AI is not a suitable substitute for collaboration – we are discussing the case of sending AI summaries (1 human asking, 1 LLM answering through a meat proxy), instead of collaboration between 2 humans
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by ImPostingOnHN 2mo ago
> if you’re not willing to consider how you could be better/faster/more productive with AI, you’re unwilling to adapt to the future, and not flexible enough. You’re going to slow down your employer That's for their manag
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by ImPostingOnHN 2mo ago
if the person is incapable of, or unwilling to, read documentation which you think they should, you can ask them honestly about it, or ask your manager about it if management feels this person is unqualified to be in their job, they can tak
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by ImPostingOnHN 2mo ago
> As a boss I'm not paying one employee to waste another employee's time Yes you are: specifically, your job as a manager is to make the company and your people successful. The way that is achieved is through collaboration. I
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by ImPostingOnHN 2mo ago
> if they didn't rtfm they are not being respectful of your time Yes they are. "RTFM" may be an angsty insult thrown around in some toxic open source projects, but it's rude and inappropriate for an actual working e
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by ImPostingOnHN 2mo ago
If your customers or colleagues are asking questions answered by your documentation, it's often a good sign your documentation has some challenges: dense; intimidating; inaccessible; or not easy to search for the specific information y
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by ImPostingOnHN 2mo ago
If your response when someone asks a job-related question is to paste AI, then you're the one telling your boss that AI can do your job. Asking questions is part of the job. Answering questions is part of the job. Collaborating with ot
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by ImPostingOnHN 2mo ago
if the response of AI is sufficient to do your job, why do you have a job?
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by ImPostingOnHN 2mo ago
If you work for a company of more than 1 person, then helping and developing and mentoring your colleagues is part of your job, and a more important one than telling them to rtfm so you can spend those few minutes getting your own thing don
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by ImPostingOnHN 2mo ago
That's the obvious solution in a perfect world. Another part of that obvious solution is to take them down until those sufficient regulations and civilian oversight of police are in place.
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by ImPostingOnHN 2mo ago
Did crime rates go up 218% like police spending did? And are they still up there?
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by ImPostingOnHN 2mo ago
The article mentions that the priority tier costs 2x normal, so the costs of running normal twice should be fine.
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by ImPostingOnHN 2mo ago
Token caching might help here, but if it returns the same result, faster, for the same price as priority, seems good
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by ImPostingOnHN 2mo ago
Aside from melting at historically fast levels, the snow itself is at record low levels. Less snow -> less snowpack -> less water. For data, check out the second visualization here: https://www.wcc.nrcs.usda.gov/ftpref
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by ImPostingOnHN 2mo ago
You're not really responding to the post, which is about the hypocrisy. "They're allowed to be a hypocrite" doesn't mean they aren't a hypocrite.
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by ImPostingOnHN 2mo ago
Maybe that is assuming their goal is to give you what (you think) you like. Their actual goal is probably closer to maximizing the ads you see while minimizing 3rd-party content licensing costs and operating costs, especially if they can ca
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by ImPostingOnHN 2mo ago
Based on your watching patterns, they know your preferred atmosphere, actor performance, editing, sound effects, etc, more accurately than you do, or are willing to tell them. Most people don't have the introspection and honesty to bui
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by ImPostingOnHN 2mo ago
They can get more accurate results for "what keeps this person watching for longer with more ads" from your exact watching patterns than by asking you. HBO even had a very successful show along these lines. How many survey parti
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by ImPostingOnHN 2mo ago
AI has the self-interest of its creators and/or SaaS hosts. For example, look at how Elmu had Grok edited to agree with him politically regarding his claims of white genocide in South Africa. Or for another example, look at how certain
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by ImPostingOnHN 2mo ago
Your post contains several questions, but also several strong indications that you don't care about the answers unless you agree with them already. Would you say that is fair?
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by ImPostingOnHN 2mo ago
Link says they send data for non-LEO vehicles, just less data. Why send any at all?
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by ImPostingOnHN 2mo ago
I think you dramatically overstate the human contribution, but if it exists, it would be seen by the author sharing their prompts. I can see how that might prove embarrassing, though, if their contribution is minimal, so I can see why so fe
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by ImPostingOnHN 2mo ago
it's not that it might help or not, it's more like, "if an AI wrote this, that means I can generate the exact same text (or better) myself, and be _even more_ helped, whenever I'm interested in this topic, by using AI&q
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by ImPostingOnHN 2mo ago
"slop" is a perfectly valid judgement of content surely if we're expected to read this ourselves, the author can write it themselves? indeed, it's helpful to the author, too: writing helps you learn
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by ImPostingOnHN 2mo ago
It stops the uncountably large majority of people from doing it. Like more then 99.9% of people.
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by ImPostingOnHN 2mo ago
If you're basing your perception of sociocultural biases on what you (1 person) have seen or not seen, you may be speaking to your own biases, rather than others' To wit: multiple people here have definitely heard the thing you ha
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by ImPostingOnHN 2mo ago
> Meta doesn't fund the stuff people put there Actually, the article makes it pretty clear that they fund some of the really bad stuff.
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by ImPostingOnHN 2mo ago
> "I don't know" could also mean they couldn't be bothered That's exactly what asking an LLM means, except admitting you don't know something is respectful. If you think someone should know something tha
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by ImPostingOnHN 2mo ago
The appropriate level of trust would be whatever trust you place in a colleague's human responses, because you trust they have verified what "claude said" for correctness. Unless you're saying claude is more trustworth
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by ImPostingOnHN 2mo ago
Your response misses the words most critical to this interaction: "I don't know"

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