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by achrono 1y ago
Job applications aren't the only use case for using LinkedIn in this connected way, but even on that topic -- I think we are moving pretty quickly to no longer need to "weed out" AI-written applications. As adoption increases
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by achrono 1y ago
In typical SV style, this is just to throw it out there and let second order effects build up. At some point I expect OpenAI to simply form a partnership with LinkedIn and Amazon. In fact, I suspect LinkedIn might even create a new tier tha
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by achrono 1y ago
The word "beat" and "mercenaries" are also quite important here -- to me, this is Altman's way of saying "you losers who left OpenAI, you will pay a steep price, because we will mess with you really deeply&quot
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by achrono 1y ago
You know that because you're in tech. But the average person who is reading the news, and is likely to participate in a large protest in the next few years, would not naturally make a distinction between incremental and extant code.
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by achrono 1y ago
That's a reasonable interpretation, but that is not what Microsoft has said. Satya talks of "30% of the code that is inside of our repos today". Source: https://www.cnbc.com/2025/04/29/satya-nad
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by achrono 1y ago
No, because Satya's claim is about "30% of the code that is inside of our repos today". Source: https://www.cnbc.com/2025/04/29/satya-nadella-says-as-much-a...
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by achrono 1y ago
I wish an org like IEEE would be way more rigorous than what's revealed with the first paragraph: >In April, Microsoft’s CEO said that artificial intelligence now wrote close to a third of the company’s code. Last October, Google’s
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by achrono 1y ago
I think it's time for creative solutions on this front. This plugin business is a little like a cop living in a house of thieves. For instance, how about an app that will basically detect an ad and visually overlay a blank blob over
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by achrono 1y ago
Let me answer those questions with actual evidence. To begin with, this very case of Perlmutter getting fired after her office's report is interesting enough, but let's keep it aside. [0] First, plenty of lobbying has been afoot,
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by achrono 1y ago
If anyone was skeptical of the US government being deeply entrenched with these companies in letting this blatant violation of the spirit of the law [1] continue, this should hopefully secure the conclusion. And for the future, here's
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by achrono 1y ago
The point is, the self-policing is needed because there isn't a better policing mechanism outside of oneself for something so fundamental, so much at the frontier. As the AI leaders themselves admit [1], they are doing what they'r
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by achrono 2y ago
Despite me having (almost) nothing to do with the Victorians, I have to regularly shake off a vague sense of respecting the Greeks for having "laid the foundation" for us in the 21st c. Because they did nothing of the kind -- they
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by achrono 2y ago
Some NDAs can effectively be life-long. (It's the non-solicits that are time-bound.)
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by achrono 2y ago
What a neat sleight of hand. "We're actually Truly Good, but those annoying lawyers won't let us call ourselves that, so we kind of take that back, but you get the idea right?"
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by achrono 2y ago
Market cap is not money in the bank.
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by achrono 2y ago
There are a far greater number of speakers of Arabic in Germany (1.4M) [1] than in Afghanistan (420K) [2]. So properly speaking, they should be advertising the target region as Europe, Middle East and Africa. [3] [1] https://en.w
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by achrono 2y ago
True but also, what actually is the best alternative that's also free? Non-rhetorical question, because I am averse to paying for what feels like a universal/commons piece of tech.
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by achrono 2y ago
>but wages are like 50x that these days How is that even comparable? Said wage earners aren't even getting to choose which tool they use; let alone those two expenses being remotely comparable in qualitative terms.
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How my indoor air made me sick and dumb (and how I fixed it)(christian.gen.co)
46 points by achrono 2y ago|7 comments
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by achrono 2y ago
Sorry but even keeping aside the poor presentation (as others have pointed out), the functionality itself is not clear at all. I read the "What This AI Calendar Does" three times over and I'm still at a loss. Is this a test t
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by achrono 2y ago
Long-time enterprise SaaS PM here, and sorry, this does not make any sense. The SMB segment is likely to be the least exposed to AI, and software, and the concept of DIY software through AI. As you visualize whole swaths of human workers ge
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by achrono 2y ago
> I don't think OpenAI called in a hit job Why? What do you know about OpenAI beyond the cute 12 days videos or Sam Altman's modest demeanor in interviews? On the other hand, what makes you think they spent "millions of do
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by achrono 2y ago
> We don't even need them to. Why not? What's so special about 7-14 days? I can see plenty of reasons one might want to predict accurately the weather even a year out, just one example: will the weather support an outdoor bbq e
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by achrono 2y ago
No, even if you just type "David de Rothschild", it glitches similarly. As others have pointed out, it's happening even if you do non-trivial encoding. I've tried with languages other than English too. It might be a litt
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by achrono 2y ago
With this one, they'd be at least partly right -- while this secrecy is (probably) not illegal, it is planned secrecy. Or are you saying this is a mere mistake on the part of OpenAI?
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by achrono 2y ago
>This process exhibits a dynamics that, on closer inspection, turns out to be caused to a large extent by the necessity to adhere to early modern marketing rules for academic prints. These rules required the rapid introduction of scienti
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by achrono 2y ago
Assume that I am one of your half-brain individuals drinking the Kool-Aid. What do you say to change my (half-)mind?
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by achrono 2y ago
this name flux
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by achrono 2y ago
Sure. But why do you think changing human nurture is any easier than changing human nature? I suspect that as your set of humans in consideration tends to include the set of all humans, the gap between changeability of human nature vs cha
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by achrono 2y ago
I'm drawing attention to the irony inherent in both these cases. To wit, a study on dishonesty suffering from dishonesty, and a study on rigor suffering from lack of rigor. And sure, mistakes in data analysis are entirely possible. But

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