Thorentis

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by Thorentis 3y ago
> Coders made up 14% of employees at tech companies Wow is this true? If so, I'm extremely surprised it is this low. No wonder Elon could cut 80% of jobs and everything would keep ticking along.
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by Thorentis 3y ago
I have fond memories of running Platoons in Planetside 2. The semi persistent world dynamics, combined with squads and then squads being able to firm platoons, and the map marker system. All of it felt very unique and polished, and not some
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by Thorentis 3y ago
> and I want to have a "hybrid" VCR + DVD experience To be fair, that's exactly what I had. You could buy these two in one VCR/DVD players that had a cassette reader on one side and a DVD drawer on the other. Super ha
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by Thorentis 4y ago
They should add a paid add-on where writers can have an LLM generate snippets from their articles and then post them as notes automatically in order to generate a bite sized feed from existing content. Gives Substack a foot in the AI door a
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by Thorentis 4y ago
In some cases, certainly not! Companies will use AI to create all sorts of blogspam and filler content. But perhaps it's better for an AI to be doing it than for a human life to be wasted on creating such things.
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by Thorentis 4y ago
AI is going to really filter out which people are providing value to society and which are not. Was this person's marketing material actually that valuable? Probably not. But obviously they need to make a living. Hopefully AI will forc
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by Thorentis 4y ago
Oh thanks, I didn't see that. Probably because flagged comments are auto-collapsed even on your own profile. @dang - How long do flags last for? I didn't think my comment was that offensive, but regardless I appreciate the amount
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by Thorentis 4y ago
Buy a projector. This has two benefits: 1) Most projectors are not smart, so it solves that problem. 2) You don't have a gaping black hole in your living space urging you to be sucked into watching it. I despise TV and mass media and w
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by Thorentis 4y ago
Unfortunately every link I clicked on existed purely for the purpose of being part of the 1kb club and appearing on that page.
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by Thorentis 4y ago
Also still have a 2015 MBP that is going strong. Never changed the battery, but I probably should (though I usually use it on charge anyway). Best laptop I've ever bought.
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by Thorentis 4y ago
India's poverty is in an entirely different category to that of the US or other developed nations. Once sewage isn't in the streets, come back to me about starting a space program.
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by Thorentis 4y ago
How does this prevent humans from posting content generated by AI using their own verified identities? This coin doesn't solve the core problem which is telling AI and human generated content apart. I don't care of there is a cr
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by Thorentis 4y ago
Many unrealistic things about this. Various hallucinations, mistakes, anachronisms, etc. Interesting, but not the mark of an AI capable of abstraction or memory.
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by Thorentis 4y ago
You can't read API calls and know if they're real, or if the function names are plausible but non existent. This is the problem with GPT. It creates great sounding possible APIs, but has no idea which APIs actually exist.
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by Thorentis 4y ago
How do you know what it created actually works and hasn't just been hallucinated? Have you checked every API call? Is it using non deprecated versions? Does it even run?
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by Thorentis 4y ago
I wonder how much of the training data included Ads unknowingly (given how many Ads are already online), and therefore how much content generated is already an implicit Ad?
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by Thorentis 4y ago
You underestimate the affect of Tiktok (and other social media) on the mental health of kids, not to mention how easily it can spread ideology. The relationship between those things and school shootings shouldn't need any explanation.
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by Thorentis 4y ago
Been on Linux Mint for 4 years now, and never looked back. Windows is dead to me.
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by Thorentis 4y ago
Yep, this scares me greatly. I am already scared of the faceless, soulless, beauracracy, and this is just a whole other level.
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by Thorentis 4y ago
This is the problem was "endless economic growth". Being profitable is no longer enough. You need to double your share price YOY. This disgusts me and is terrible for society.
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by Thorentis 4y ago
> too profitable to not participate in Sorry, but I really struggle to see how a non AI company will actually become more profitable simply by getting their employees to use ChatGPT. In fact, the more companies that use it, the more dema
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by Thorentis 4y ago
> has a solid understanding of space How so? Is it simply better at predicting the answer to spatial questions based on being a more powerful autocomplete than predecessors? How is this proven?
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by Thorentis 4y ago
That wasn't my point. It is bad that they will lose their jobs. But that doesn't mean we should keep those jobs around.
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by Thorentis 4y ago
There will still be junior devs. My comment was only referring to particular types of junior devs. In short, the barrier to entry foe being a junior dev will be higher, and require more CS knowledge, perhaps even more hardware knowledge. No
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by Thorentis 4y ago
It just raises the bar so that 3D artists who are only capable of reproducing the same boring things they saw in YouTube tutorials are no longer considered proficient. The more I think about this trend, the more I think it might be good. Bo
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by Thorentis 4y ago
The word "authored" is being used completely wrong here. What ChatGPT did is equivalent to what a writing assistant might do who is given a list of bullet points by an author, and asked to expand them into a synopsis. We would nev
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by Thorentis 4y ago
Do you know how many Ipfs nodes have actually pinned your content? Have they done so purely because they are ipfs enthusiasts? Do you feel this solution is better than hosting it on a raspberry pi from home or on a cheap VPS?
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by Thorentis 4y ago
Just giving facts is difficult, since either side can dispute the sources used to prove those facts. I would much prefer each side presenting what they think the facts are.
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by Thorentis 4y ago
This could mean the future goes one of the two ways. Engineers get lazy and converge on using only programming languages which AIs understand or have been trained on, or we forget about this waste of time and work on more important problems

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