aerodexis

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by aerodexis 5mo ago
in this instance - it seems like Amazon employees are wasting money exploring ways to waste money.
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by aerodexis 5mo ago
They could also have found all these things at the same time - and are slow-rolling the disclosures.
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by aerodexis 7mo ago
> the "rent-seeking class" that has effectively existed for thousands of years This "rent seeking class" is not a historical universal, regardless of how much college marxists insist that it is. Leaders can be good or
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by aerodexis 7mo ago
The network effects and distribution moats are subject to the same erosion. proprietary data less so. Systems of record the least so. The real value-add over the next decades is gonna be around providing "stability". In multiple d
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by aerodexis 7mo ago
The choice isn't between A) the expensive, proven tool and B) the thing I promoted in a few hours - it's b/w A, B and also C) the less expensive, somewhat proven tool that someone else prompted over a couple of days. I can se
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by aerodexis 7mo ago
What's that adage about premature optimization?
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by aerodexis 7mo ago
and likewise, "hate the cogs" takes are equally worthless. All nuance is lost, the cycle repeats again.
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by aerodexis 7mo ago
Real life experience with alcoholics would at-best be constant over time, or be diminishing (since gen Z drinks less). Also seems like the science on whether science communication actual changes behavior doesn't point towards it being
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by aerodexis 7mo ago
The desire to anthropomorphize LLMs is super interesting. People naturally anthropomorphize technology (even printers: "why are you not working!?"). It's a natural and useful heuristic. However, I can easily see how chatGPT w
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by aerodexis 7mo ago
Interesting argument for AI ethics in general. It takes the form of "guns don't kill people - people kill people".
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by aerodexis 8mo ago
The Gervais model is predicated on sociopathy as the driving force of social cohesion. This is the kind of model a sociopath would construct. There are other models available to us. Social organizations require some sort of glue to bind the
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by aerodexis 8mo ago
Agree wholeheartedly - but the conversation around what these technologies /mean/ is gonna end up happening one way or another - even if it is sloppy, imprecise and done by proxy of the definition. If anything, this is a feature a