SkyBelow

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by SkyBelow 9mo ago
If someone seems to have productivity gains when using an AI, it is hard to come up with an alternate explanation for why they did. If someone sees no productivity gains when using an AI (or a productivity decrease), it is easy to come up w
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by SkyBelow 9mo ago
>They still "can't" asses the quality of the output, after all. They can't just ask the model, as they can't know if the answer is not misleading. Wasn't this a problem before AI? If I took a book or online
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by SkyBelow 9mo ago
I had some .csproj files that only worked with msbuild/vsbuild that I wanted to make compatible with dotnet. Copilot does a pretty good job of updating these and identifying the ones more likely to break (say web projects compared to
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by SkyBelow 10mo ago
>If you had a choice between a phone you knew was made by slaves and a phone that wasn't I assume you'd pick the slave free version every time. At the same cost? Sure. At different costs? We see that is not the case. People d
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by SkyBelow 10mo ago
Cheat sheets have an extra bonus, they are a great way to trick students into studying without realizing it is studying. By giving them a limited size, the student has to consider all of what they know and decide which areas they are the w
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by SkyBelow 10mo ago
>I've been the ultra-cynic before, and agree that doesn't work either. People don't like working with you, and don't trust you. Is the issue being that one isn't being cynical enough? If you are very cynical abo
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by SkyBelow 11mo ago
>Also, just like how calculators are allowed in the exam halls, why not allow AI usage in exams? Dig deeper into this. When are calculators allowed, and when are they not? If it is kids learning to do basic operations, do we really all
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by SkyBelow 11mo ago
>Some contries enforce regulations on what tyres are deemed road-legal, due to requirements on safety and minimum grip. It's also why it's illegal to drive around with bald tyres. Yes, this is a good thing. Where it becomes ba
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by SkyBelow 11mo ago
I didn't really say this in my previous point as it was going to get a bit too detailed about something not quite related to what I was describing, but when models do give me lyrics without using a web search, it has hallucinated every
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by SkyBelow 11mo ago
I find them comparable, but not equal, for that reason. Especially if we consider the summation of these commitments. One is obviously much larger, but it defines just one of our relationships within society. The other defines the majorit
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by SkyBelow 11mo ago
I've asked for non 1:1 versions and have been refused. For example, I would ask for it to give me one line of a song in another language, broken down into sections, explaining the vocabulary and grammar used in the song, with call out
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by SkyBelow 11mo ago
Is it that absurd? We have many expectations in society which often aren't formalized into a stated commitment. Is it really unreasonable to have some commitment towards society to these less formally stated expectations? And is expe
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by SkyBelow 1y ago
Years ago in college, we had a class where we analyzed science in the news for a few weeks compared to the publish research itself. I think it was a 100% misrepresentation rate comparing what a news article summarized about a paper verses
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by SkyBelow 1y ago
Assist without replacing. If you were to pass your writing it and have it provide a criticism for you, pointing out places you should consider changes, and even providing some examples of those changes that you can selectively choose to inc
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by SkyBelow 1y ago
I agree. Our best technology at current require teams of people to operate and entire legions to maintain. This leads to a sort of balance, one single person can never go too far down any path on their own unless they convince others to jo
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by SkyBelow 1y ago
I think there is also a major distinction between creating the likeness of someone and sending that likeness to the family of the deceased. If AI somehow allowed me to create videos of the likeness of Isaac Newton or George Washington, that
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by SkyBelow 1y ago
Barter still exists. It is largely inefficient as we don't see things having equal value. Even in barter, often some intermediate that was a form of money emerged, such as a staple food that could be stored for a relative long term.
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by SkyBelow 1y ago
One path that might help you work out your own personal justifications is to find two forms of entertainment you enjoy at near equal levels, but where one you view as valuable and another as a waste. Then look at how both impact your life
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by SkyBelow 1y ago
My issue is that the copyright aspect are what prevents me from using this as much as I otherwise would. About 6 months ago I asked a few different AIs if they could translate a song for me as a learning experience, meaning not a simple tra
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by SkyBelow 1y ago
Shouldn't it be opt in, not opt out? Wear a badge if you are okay being in it. People who aren't wearing it are blurred out or otherwise removed.
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by SkyBelow 1y ago
Sample hypothesis with only minimal amount of knowledge on it. PEs seek to make profit, and are looking for places where they can either raise prices or lower costs (which will quickly correlate with worse outcomes) while not losing custome
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by SkyBelow 1y ago
>nobody reads intermediate commit messages one by one on a PR, period. >Don’t waste your time writing stuff for no one. I've thought about that as I continue to write them. I think I can justify it by saying they are mostly for
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by SkyBelow 1y ago
>Programming languages don’t solve that problem The idea is that a programmer will work with natural language dynamically to create enough of an understanding to create a formalized specification within the programming language (eh, we t
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by SkyBelow 1y ago
If Apple did this, and it turns out Apple did tune the model to the extent that it works really well with AirPods and really poorly with any other competitor, would there be any possibility of legal action against Apple (by the competitor o
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by SkyBelow 1y ago
Such as system does exist, but it is filled with issues. Halo effect and other biases impact memories, in ways that we would not tolerate being made explicit. We are more forgiving of some people than others, we tolerate some forms of str
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by SkyBelow 1y ago
The main issue I see is that the methodology section of the paper limited the full time to 20 minutes. Is this a study of using LLMs to write an essay for you, or using LLMs to help you write an essay? To be fair, LLMs can't be swapp
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by SkyBelow 1y ago
Calling this economic rent, if anything, underplays the issue. The economics in play appear worse than what rent normally covers. The science is funded by other sources, often from the groups which want access, the scientists are not paid
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by SkyBelow 1y ago
It depends what level the education is happening at. Think of it like students being taught how to do for loops but are just copying and pasting AI output. That isn't learning. They aren't building the skills needed to debug wh
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by SkyBelow 1y ago
Information tradeoff. Even if you could keep the entire code base in memory, if something else has to be left out of memory, then you have to consider the value of an abstraction verses whatever other information is lost. Abstractions als
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by SkyBelow 1y ago
To answer this, I would think we should consider other cases where someone could practice medicine without legally doing so. For example, could they tutor a student and help them? Go through unknown cases and make judgement, explaining th

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