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by bgwalter 1y ago
Now the AI rainmakers are infighting about the best public relations for their hot air products. It is encouraging though that Ng admits that dealing with AI "coding" is like wading through a swamp and leaves you exhausted. Regard
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by bgwalter 1y ago
I complained in the apnews.com thread, because the apnews.com verification, which is annoying by itself, did not work at all this time. That is hardly unrelated.
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Downvoting this comment and flagging the submission does not address the serious issue. These verification dialogues make the Internet unusable.
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It does. Another question is why do we get these dialogues always from Cloudflare and never from Akamai in the first place?
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Thanks Cloudflare for blocking apnews.com! Thanks LLM scrapers that ruin the Internet and make that necessary!
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I think this discussion boxes new students into the mediocre category right from the start. Do we really want to tell Fabrice Bellard that he isn't productive enough? If you want to train people to become fungible factory workers on th
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by bgwalter 1y ago
No, I didn't try to claim that. I seem to see the influence in many people's writing and verbosity though. It could be as simple as a counter reaction: If an LLM is allowed to be verbose, so are humans. It could also be that peopl
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by bgwalter 1y ago
Well, the author's previous blog posts were shorter (e.g., https://lucumr.pocoo.org/2022/1/30/unsafe-rust/ ) and more succinct. I've no idea what he is saying here. It is all about vaguely defin
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Some people cannot do anything without a tool. These people are early adopters and power users, who then evangelize their latest discovery. GitHub's value proposition was that mediocre coders can appear productive in the maze of PRs, r
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Also the same NHS that gave Palantir a contract: https://www.theguardian.com/society/2023/nov/21/patient-priv...
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And often you are still supervised by sometimes rude security guards who demand the receipts. So you have the worst of all worlds: You pay the supermarket, do the work and are treated like dirt.
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What should be going on? A regular Google search for "openai persona verify organization" shows withpersona.com in the second search result.
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> experts will probably still be much better than novices, as long as they embrace the new tools. Sure, we'll all get a subscription and subject ourselves to biometric verification in order to continue our profession. OpenAI'
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They could simply restore the search quality they had in 2010. No one wants these "AI" summaries except for people looking to get promoted for "having an impact" inside Google. What Google is doing right now is sabotage
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Just read Mearsheimer and the think tank policy papers if you want to know what is actually going on. Go to the Stanford Hoover Institute if you want to sell what is actually going on to the American public. Why would LLMs help, unless
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"We need a license to allow us to make some of the basic functionality of Firefox possible. Without it, we couldn’t use information typed into Firefox, for example." This is really bad. "Basic functionality" is typing so
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Sure, tptacek will outprogram all of us. With his two GitHub repositories, one of which is a POC.
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DDT was a very successful insecticide that was outlawed due to its adverse effects on humans.
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I notice a couple of things in the pro-AI [1] posts: All start writing in a lengthy style like Steve Yegge in his peak. All are written by ex-programmers who are on the management/founder side now. All of them cite programmer friends w
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by bgwalter 1y ago
A rabbi and a priest are sitting next to each other in a plane on the Sabbath. The priest notices that the rabbi keeps on his seat belt for the whole journey. Finally, overcome by curiosity, he asks: "Rabbi, why are you traveling on th
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by bgwalter 1y ago
I missed that the article is talking about Gulf monarchy autocrats instead of U.S. autocrats. That is very simple: First, dumping graphics cards on trusting Saudi investors seems like a great idea for Nvidia. Second, the Gulf monarchies dep
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The U.S. may be a nominal democracy, but the governed have no influence over the oligarchy. For example, they will not be able to stop "AI" even though large corporations steal their output and try to make their jobs obsolete or m
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Direct your bewilderment at the conspiracy theorists of the NYT! https://www.nytimes.com/2025/06/06/technology/elon-musk-trum... "The spat was revelatory, it was epic, it was historic, at least acco
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There is so much theater and reality TV in the Trump administration that it's hard to conclude anything. Most of the theater is there to play to his MAGA base. First there was the (staged?) row with Zelensky. A couple of months later n
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However inappropriate the reaction to the SQL question may be, tweeting in a thinly anonymized manner about the incident is worse or perhaps even illegal. As for management, perhaps we should coin the term "agreeable assholes" as
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Calling someone a "disagreeable asshole" just for saying that something is a dumb question is a bit strong. So he went out for challenging management on an internal document and he was 100% correct according to that tweet. Seems t
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Richer customers don't pay more, but they have the influence to keep public transit nice and functioning because they use it themselves. I suppose that in New York and London richer people use the subway to escape traffic jams. They ca
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It's a joke. The previous German Foreign Minister Baerbock has used 360° when she meant 180°, which became sort of a meme.
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Ad targeting, user profiling etc. Post Snowden we can reasonably assume that the NSA will get an interface.
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I've criticized the NYT and paywalls many times myself, but first of all OpenAI itself has all your data and we know how "delete" functions work in other places. The Twitter users quoted by Ars Technica, who cite "boomer

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