bayarearefugee

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by bayarearefugee 16d ago
> Still, it does benefit the hiring company Not sure it benefits the hiring company when they are artificially reducing the pool of applicants to only people who don't already have jobs. Not that there's shame in not having a j
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by bayarearefugee 23d ago
As long as you are backed by sufficient wealth you never have to be in trouble for anything anymore, just blame whatever happens on that rascally AI.
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by bayarearefugee 23d ago
>>crumbling national infrastructure > depends; California and New York yes, Texas no lol. lmao. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2021_Texas_power_crisis
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by bayarearefugee 26d ago
Probably the same way Sam Altman "acquired" millions of Loopt users.
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by bayarearefugee 27d ago
> AI "could kill all humans" After all the decades of work we've put into orchestrating our own demise through climate change, here comes AI to steal another human job.
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by bayarearefugee 28d ago
Well, sure, but on the other hand Peter Thiel thinks she might be the antichrist, and he has an awful lot of money which means he is an expert on everything.
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by bayarearefugee 29d ago
> you're probably thinking of chiropractors. Even then, the amount of physical strain the manipulation puts on their body is minimal and can be adapted to. True. By way of comparison it is much more damaging on your body to get your
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by bayarearefugee 1mo ago
> The asteroid currently hitting front end web development ...is the same asteroid currently hitting all forms of knowledge work and even more theoretical pursuits (math research, etc). Different sets of people are just noticing/re
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by bayarearefugee 1mo ago
> You have to beat the models at something And for the rest of your career* you'll be running on a treadmill trying to stay ahead of them! (* probably like two years if you're one of the lucky ones)
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by bayarearefugee 1mo ago
Perhaps everything is fine and this person and the bunch of other recent high profile OpenAI departures just really hate money.
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by bayarearefugee 2mo ago
> We want consumers to consider cost when evaluating what services to buy, though. A lot of medical care involves inelastic demand because your options are 1) pay this or 2) suffer and/or die. "The market" does not functio
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by bayarearefugee 2mo ago
Entire global society collapse is probably less than 25 years away due to climate change spiraling out of control. Relative to that the US national debt hardly even matters.
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by bayarearefugee 2mo ago
Shouldn't some of these AI company higher ups be arrested and brought up on Computer Fraud and Abuse charges? Any individual running a local LLM that hacked a company would absolutely be held responsible for the LLM's actions, and
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by bayarearefugee 2mo ago
> One would imagine that a Silicon Valley legend like Larry Ellison - who built his business empire on the basis of proprietary software products and services - would understand this better than anyone. When you are worth as much money a
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by bayarearefugee 2mo ago
> How can people in Hacker News still doubt AI's benefit The internet and railroads were highly beneficial, still crashed the economy.
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by bayarearefugee 2mo ago
Oh, I'm not exactly a huge Joe Biden fan. I just think it is ridiculous that nobody "on the right" calls Trump on using him as a universal scapegoat for everything as we continue to fumble into an economic situation that Tru
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by bayarearefugee 2mo ago
And somehow this situation is all Joe Biden's fault, and Trump is still going to fix it, any day now. A very significant amount of American voters believe this. To this day. And their belief in this is still being reinforced by the v
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by bayarearefugee 2mo ago
> You all knew how it was going to end, for decades, and did nothing. And the same is true for global carbon-related climate change, for which the real bill will become increasingly due over the next 10 years. We are all insanely fucked
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by bayarearefugee 2mo ago
I wouldn't use a device like this for a lot of reasons, but the fact that what they are doing might be taking advantage of the incredibly predatory digital advertising system is neutral to positive for me, if I'm being fully hones
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by bayarearefugee 3mo ago
> I don’t know if the public would be as accepting of a bailout for AI companies That's putting it mildly, IMO. An AI bailout would be a poison pill that would electorally doom whichever party was behind it for decades.
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by bayarearefugee 3mo ago
> If the software engineers strike, who’s going to be left to wrangle the AI? The scabs who don't strike? I'm pro-union and unlike the person you are responding to I'm not sure things are "dead in the water", but
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by bayarearefugee 3mo ago
What "training" do you have to do to get a professional developer to switch LLMs or harnesses? Its literally just download the other one, point it to your code base and start typing into that text box instead of the other one.
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by bayarearefugee 3mo ago
Sure, they worked out pretty well, but those were 12 and 14 years ago at this point, and aren't the only calls Facebook has made over the years: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_mergers_and_acquisitio... IMO
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by bayarearefugee 3mo ago
> It is insane that police do not enforce laws against these criminals. Not that I've known a ton of people who work for local police departments, but the majority of the ones I have known are exactly the type of people who are li
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by bayarearefugee 3mo ago
> How will he do that? Through the evil power of socialism!! (/s)
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by bayarearefugee 3mo ago
> On the flip side, IS this a good thing for senior engineers? Doubtful. You'll be expected to produce much more, you aren't likely to see raises commensurate with the increased productivity, and the AI tide is still rising and
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by bayarearefugee 3mo ago
> A year ago AI wrote roughly 0% of my code and now it writes roughly 100%. Did the amount of money you or your employer make rise by anywhere near 100% as well? Because that is really the primary question behind articles like this focus
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by bayarearefugee 3mo ago
> This article is probably not accurate. AI allows me to create hugely complex apps. To prove the article wrong even within the context of AI coding (which wasnt the focus of the article) you would have to present proof that creating the
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by bayarearefugee 3mo ago
> If physical AI and super intelligence can do "everything" (work with me here) you're free to do small scale things you love. You're also free to raise children at home, work on mega projects, explore the world. Soun
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by bayarearefugee 3mo ago
> The entire rest of the section where you lifted this quote from directly addresses the thing you’re claiming no one will ever even try to address. Please point me to what I asked for, an example of what this magical new job actually lo

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