TapWaterBandit

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by TapWaterBandit 3y ago
It really isn't just the boomers. It is landowners/homeowners of many different generations. The whole "blame the boomers" thing plays into the hands of the landowners shaking down the rest of us. Don't fall for it
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by TapWaterBandit 3y ago
The boomers have copped too much hate at this point. Definitely not every boomer benefitted from the time they were born, the real culprit of the crises many nations find themselves in is: - Too much prioritising of the land development des
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by TapWaterBandit 3y ago
On the one hand it will be sad if Steam declines as it is overall a fantastic service for gamers. On the other, they definitely occupy a close-to-monopoly like position in the market so it might be good to have that opened up.
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by TapWaterBandit 3y ago
It would have to be nuclear, I imagine. Doesn't seem like any other method would have the juice required while simultaneously being able to power all the other stuff we want (and not also creating emissions). I can't believe the c
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by TapWaterBandit 3y ago
You can't be serious referencing that hack, MacLean. Too much nonsense in her "QANON conspiracy for the Left" writing but this paragraph from the Amazon page is illustrative: > Without Buchanan's ideas and Koch's
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by TapWaterBandit 3y ago
> Starlink, very cool tech, is it really required? I'd say no. Come back and say this after spending a year living in rural Africa, the Outback in Australia, fighting the war in Ukraine, or countless other places with very unreliabl
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by TapWaterBandit 3y ago
Lol such bs. Go have a look on real estate sites and tell me you cant find 1/2 bedroom apartments for well under 1 million. Op is single and clearly not telling the whole story about what he is willing to buy or where he is willing to
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by TapWaterBandit 3y ago
He's bsing or after extremely desirable places. Even Auckland is affordable for a single on $150k pa.
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by TapWaterBandit 3y ago
Yea, I don't think this will happen over the longterm. I do see worker dislocation in certain sectors though, can't see how LLM's won't substantially shake-up office work especially as Microsoft is already busy building
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by TapWaterBandit 3y ago
That is a very cool concept I hadn't considered. No idea of feasibility but would love to see it or something similar happen.
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by TapWaterBandit 3y ago
I agree that engineers will likely be fine (if at all decent). But there are many more jobs done on computers that are fairly routine which are the ones that will be threatened. > An AI currently isn't even capable of doing excel bu
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by TapWaterBandit 3y ago
So you mean like something you can wheel in and install or a humanoid style robot you could use in any kitchen? Cause in theory you're just talking about a dishwasher lol. If you mean a robot that could clean in any kitchen without bre
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by TapWaterBandit 3y ago
I'd be quite surprised if AI (as we've seen so far) threatens manual jobs as these have already been under quite intense pressures to automate for well over a century. The low-hanging fruit IMO are most likely to be anything that
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by TapWaterBandit 3y ago
> I don't think we should argue that high value agriculture like avocados should be banned That probably would start a war. Western hipsters against the world. Throw in quinoa/kale and nukes would be on the table.
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by TapWaterBandit 3y ago
If you read the parent comment as being an example of treating people as "second-class citizens" I'd suggest you need a hard look at your own biases. It is getting increasingly tiresome to have some people who prefer remote b
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by TapWaterBandit 3y ago
> Exactly. Pick a lane. 100% remote or 100% in office. I don't entirely agree, I think hybrid can work well. It's just that like your colleague Robert the remote workers need to realise that there is a trade-off. You might save
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by TapWaterBandit 3y ago
> The remote people have no idea how to get the in office people feel involved, nor do they honestly care. This is a strange example because for a remote worker every other worker is "remote" so why would they ever exclude othe
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by TapWaterBandit 3y ago
When you stop listening to what Sam Altman says and just focus on what he does, you can see the guy is a bit of a snake. Greedy power-hungry man imho.
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by TapWaterBandit 3y ago
I would immediately jump to an AI not being "aligned" by SF techies (or anyone else).
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by TapWaterBandit 3y ago
This is unfair. I don't have a strong position in this debate but there is clearly a difference between in-person interaction and digital interaction that is much greater than the superficial nature of the necktie (or any other piece o
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by TapWaterBandit 3y ago
Sad stuff. The Hindu nationalism being pushed by Modi seems to be having more and more dire consequences for minorities in India.
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by TapWaterBandit 3y ago
How is this different from listening to an album on Spotify though?
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by TapWaterBandit 3y ago
Sure but do you also remember having to rewind tapes or do an absurd dance to rewatch or find a specific scene? I was a big watcher of both and there isn't a doubt in my mind that in terms of time wasted with BS, VHS had DVD comfortabl
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by TapWaterBandit 3y ago
Out of curiosity, what is your definition of "engineering" and "engineer"? Genuine question, I am not an engineer nor in any sort of role that could plausibly be considered engineering.
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by TapWaterBandit 3y ago
> On the other hand, it's not all doom and gloom overseas, here in NZ all I have to do to start a business is walk outside and start selling shit. To file taxes for that all I have to do is fill in my Net Income on a 1 page web form
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by TapWaterBandit 3y ago
Are LLMs ML except called "AI"?
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by TapWaterBandit 4y ago
Good to see a Kiwi making waves in the industry! And who knows, this could play a role in the colonising of the stars so we can all have our own little slice of heaven ;)
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by TapWaterBandit 4y ago
As a foreign observer, what are the locals thoughts on all this? I assumed it was scaremongering after seeing comments saying that theft was legal in SF up until the $300 point (the number might be incorrect, can't remember exactly) bu
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by TapWaterBandit 4y ago
Where do you go for AI news? I haven't found anywhere close to as good as Twitter for AI stuff (admittedly I didn't unfollow anyone because I just ignore political tweets)
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by TapWaterBandit 4y ago
> The reason they didn't release their LLM earlier was likely due to the serious brand risk associated with making it part of Google search. Bing/ChatGPT had no such brand risk, and released their LLMs using the "There&#x2

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