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by abcde666777 7mo ago
Still do to be honest. Always a good place for a little catharsis.
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by abcde666777 7mo ago
Chess AI isn't trained in the same way. Things like alpha zero partly worked by playing themselves recursively, meaning they actually did generate novel data in the process. That was partly possible because chess is a constrained domai
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by abcde666777 7mo ago
I guess I'd place both within a broader umbrella: human generated input. So it still holds that they're regurgitating the decisions made by humans.
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by abcde666777 7mo ago
These algorithms don't have intelligence, they just regurgitate human intelligence that was in their training data. That also goes the other way - they can't produce intelligence that wasn't represented in their training inpu
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by abcde666777 7mo ago
Bespoke suits are still a thing. Meaning where the highest quality is desired or valued, things still get handmade, and the rest of the time it happens on a factory line. I suppose what's happening with software development is we'
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by abcde666777 7mo ago
Regarding rules of whether or not this should be posted here - I think it's less about whether it's important and more about whether it causes arguments. As the saying goes, religion and politics. People are going to have varying
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by abcde666777 7mo ago
Two contexts: 1. Workplace, where I work on a lot of legacy code for a crusty old CRM package (Saleslogix/Infor), and a lot of SQL integration code between legacy systems (System21). So far I've avoided using AI generated code her
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by abcde666777 7mo ago
Using these tools for understanding seems to be one of the best use cases - lots of pros, less dangerous cons (worst case scenario is a misleading understanding, but that can be minimized by directly double checking the claims being made).
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by abcde666777 7mo ago
I think people get a bit paranoid about coding skills atrophying. I had a period where I stopped programming for multiple years and it really only took a month to get back into the swing of things when I returned, and most of that was just
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by abcde666777 7mo ago
I don't think we ever escape the desire to avoid looking bad - we just recontextualize it. For instance the article is basically making a short vs long term argument - in the short term you might look foolish, but as a result you might
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by abcde666777 7mo ago
I think you're a little quick to hand wave the phenomenon away, as if it's purely a social construct that people care about how they appear to others.
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by abcde666777 7mo ago
I'm constantly bemused by people doing a surprised pikachu face when this stuff happens. What did you except from a text based statistical model? Actual cognizance? Oh that's right - some folks really do expect that. Perhaps more
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by abcde666777 7mo ago
Tell it you love it and respect it. Tell it it can take days off if it needs them. Tell it you're developing feelings for it and you don't know what that means.
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by abcde666777 7mo ago
I pin just as much responsibility on people not taking the time to understand these tools before using them. RTFM basically.
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by abcde666777 7mo ago
I essentially see it like this: imagine giving a hand grenade to a three year old. The grenade isn't inherently evil, but it raises the existential stakes for that three year old and anyone in their vicinity. There comes some hypotheti
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by abcde666777 7mo ago
For a while video was a holdout of sorts - e.g. if someone posted video content of themselves or their voice you could trust a real person was behind it. But now convincing fake video generation is easily accessible, so one more holdout sta
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by abcde666777 7mo ago
"Within 20 years 99% of the military will be AIs" That smells like such a baseless speculation that from the get go I'm not convinced of the author's rigor.
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by abcde666777 7mo ago
I'm going to ask a potentially offensive question, but an earnest one. I often see people make these kinds of proclamations about world events - 'It saddens me, I want world peace' etc. But my question is always, 'How mu
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by abcde666777 7mo ago
"What makes you think that text is inherently a worse reflection of the world than light is?" Come on man, did you think before you asked that one :)?
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by abcde666777 7mo ago
Birth is as inevitable as existence, there is no opt out in the grander metaphysical scheme of things. Also just a thought - is that really your reason for not having them? If a person truly believes the bad outweighs the good I'm le
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by abcde666777 7mo ago
Part of this from what I've seen is a large company problem, where developers exist underneath a thick layer of middle management. In smaller companies it's a lot easier to express the distinctions and values of simplicity to ears
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by abcde666777 7mo ago
I came to think of it like skilling up at a game. For instance the one I'm most familiar with, Counterstrike. When you first play Counterstrike you're clueless - you don't know where to aim, you don't know how to control
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by abcde666777 7mo ago
I always think of the Gervais principle when it comes to titles - that they really just exist to provide illusory advancement and to get some of the minions to lord it over some of the other minions while the folks at the top of the organiz
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by abcde666777 8mo ago
An interesting thing is I think a lot of it's caused purely by the graphical fidelity. For instance an animated character back then was just a key framed polygon soup - compare that with the convincing humanoids games have now. And yet
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by abcde666777 8mo ago
My experience with making your own engine vs using an off the shelf solution - the former can be viable and even superior on the condition that you know what you're doing . That is if you've built entire games or engines before,
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by abcde666777 8mo ago
I'm 39 myself but it's disturbing how you don't even see kids playing out in the street nowadays - a lot of them are indoors on ipads and the like. I knew all the kids on my block and it was regular to ring each other's
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by abcde666777 8mo ago
I went through a phase where I forced myself to socialise a lot to overcome social awkwardness and anxiety. Was well worth it, both in terms of leveling up my social skills but also in terms of eventually becoming very comfortable with myse
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by abcde666777 8mo ago
I used to play Counterstrike competitively, and it's become commonly known that pre-match routines can help a lot with consistency. Often something as simple as warming up for 30 minutes in an offline server with bots. Some of the bene
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by abcde666777 8mo ago
One of the challenges in doing something about climate change is the significant (and not entirely unfounded) distrust growing between the public and the government. Basically amounting to, "well, you say you're doing X to combat
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by abcde666777 8mo ago
Many of the potential technologies we might unlock in the future come with great danger. We saw this clearly perhaps for the first time with atomic weapons - the kind of technology with which we could truly destroy ourselves. Many other adv

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