almostdeadguy

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by almostdeadguy 9mo ago
> The vagueness comes from who the "developer" is when the LLM goes awry. Is it OpenAI's fault if a third-party app has a slip up, or is the third party? If a research lab puts out a new LLM that another company decides to
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by almostdeadguy 9mo ago
All this seems to do is say you can't use "the AI model did that, not me" as a defense to escape damages in a civil suit, it doesn't change the extent of encouraging suicide that someone could be liable for.
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by almostdeadguy 9mo ago
> I believe that Silicon Valley possesses plenty of virtues. To start, it is the most meritocratic part of America. Tech is so open towards immigrants that it has driven populists into a froth of rage. It remains male-heavy and practices
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by almostdeadguy 10mo ago
I mean I suppose you can continuously add "critical feedback" to the system prompt to have some measure of impact on future decision-making, but at some point you're going to run out of space and ultimately I do not find this
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by almostdeadguy 10mo ago
I think it’s a fair point that google has more stakeholders with a serious investment in some flubbed AI generated code not tanking their share value, but I’m not sure the rest of it is all that different from what engineer at $SOME_STARTUP
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by almostdeadguy 10mo ago
This going from the front page to effectively buried (cant even find it in the first 10 pages) within minutes is not a great look for HN.
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by almostdeadguy 10mo ago
Why are we pretending like his comments about any of these things are as a neutral observer instead of as an investor cheerleading his investments? Why should anyone take Gary Tan seriously as a futurist?
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by almostdeadguy 10mo ago
Most of the money flowing to the big players is from tech giant capex, originally from net cash flow and lately its financed by debt. A lot of these investors seem to now essentially be making the case that AI is "too big to fail"
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by almostdeadguy 1y ago
I love TwixT, I discovered the Bookshelf Games version of this recently (a friend of mine's parents had an old copy at their beach house). Also a big fan of Alex Randolph's Ricochet Robots. Dieter Stein's games are also suppo
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by almostdeadguy 1y ago
Actually what he said was "The MAGA Gang is desperately trying to characterize this kid who murdered Charlie Kirk as anything other than one of them and doing everything they can to score political points from it." and it's b
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by almostdeadguy 1y ago
Waymo would not fight against "people getting rid of their cars", many people in NY who use the incredible public transit system would like to see more car-free streets, which they absolutely would fight against.
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by almostdeadguy 1y ago
The ideology of SV will only get more dangerous the more government contracting becomes ingratiated into the business models there. Extremely scary in our world of Palantir, Anduril, NSO group, etc.
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by almostdeadguy 1y ago
A funny account of spending time with him by Rick Perlstein, who wrote an amazing series of books on the history of conservatism: https://prospect.org/power/2024-04-24-my-dinner-with-andrees...
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by almostdeadguy 1y ago
All the #[derive(Clone)] does is generate a trait impl of Clone for the struct, which itself can be bounded by trait constraints. It doesn't have to know that every use of the struct ensures generic parameters have to/don't h
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by almostdeadguy 1y ago
I love the implicit and totally baseless questioning of motives in this reply.
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by almostdeadguy 1y ago
Very funny to re-title this to something less critical.
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by almostdeadguy 1y ago
> I don't think "acts of war" mean much in real statecraft; there's no referee, things are what people say they are and outcomes are determined by military and economic power. But anyone going down that path has to re
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by almostdeadguy 1y ago
I think this is all common knowledge? A brigadier general of the IRGC was in the room with Nasrallah when he was killed IIRC. I might quibble with "militia", which has legal ramifications I'm sure you're aware of. Maybe
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by almostdeadguy 1y ago
I'm not really sure what point you're trying to make here. Do you think it's not public knowledge that Iran finances and orchestrates Hezbollah? Or is this the terrorism card? Maybe it's different when the US supports al
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by almostdeadguy 1y ago
After Israel assassinated Haniyeh in July and launched an air strike on Beirut that killed 30+ people, some of which were civilians. Keep going on with this game though.
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by almostdeadguy 1y ago
> Whether this understanding of engineering, which is correct for some projects, is correct for engineering as a whole is questionable. Very few programs ever reach the point that they are heavily used and long-lived. Almost everything h
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by almostdeadguy 1y ago
I don’t disagree with this at all, psychological safety is important and abusive jerks don’t belong on any team. It’s also important to try to understand if someone is being intentionally rude and callous or simply being blunt/potentia
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by almostdeadguy 1y ago
Being kind and knowing how to deliver disagreement in a constructive way is important. Human beings aren’t perfect logical subjects immune from emotion (thankfully). Hopefully a good manager can take steps to address this or help mediate co
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by almostdeadguy 1y ago
I regard this the same as the crypto/NFT people saying hate the practitioners not the technology. The only things people seem to do with the technology is to create more and more trash.
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by almostdeadguy 1y ago
Or alternatively it's being used to grift the 1% of instagram users willing to buy vaporware products: https://x.com/KrangTNelson/status/1928446282323894780
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by almostdeadguy 1y ago
I seriously doubt most of the money being made on this stuff is through consumption. There's a big pot of money by tech giants being used to commission and promote this kind of work to attract a user base.
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by almostdeadguy 1y ago
Sturgeon's law is generous to the output of LLMs.
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by almostdeadguy 1y ago
The "just a tool like any other" perspective can't account for how much talentless slop is in practice created by AI. Look at the work spotlighted by Google to promote their new Flow tool: https://x.com/Google
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by almostdeadguy 1y ago
I think most people using these frameworks are aware that DI is just automated instantiation. If your program has a limited number of ways of composing instantiations, it may not be useful to you. The amount of ceremony reduced may not be w
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by almostdeadguy 1y ago
I meant "singleton" in the sense of a single value for a type shared by anything that requires one, i.e. a Guice singleton ( https://github.com/google/guice/wiki/scopes#singleton ) not a value in gl

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