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by borski 7mo ago
Yes, actually! (Minus the woo) Most of my best short stories were written precisely this way. For creative writing, I find that works really well. I also do a version of this now, which is simply record myself speaking extemporaneously abou
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by borski 7mo ago
If you let it, sure. But I don't go into a session asking 'what should I write.' Rather, I ask it to help fight me on my ideas, so that I can stress-test the logic behind them, which is precisely what I do with humans too. On
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by borski 7mo ago
I can do it. It's not like I'm not capable. I've spent 38 years 'strengthening that muscle', heh. But I also have an automatic car, even though I know how to drive stick. Tools are tools, and how you use them is t
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by borski 7mo ago
Yeah, I've used dictation at times for the same reason. I don't like how LLMs write. I like how I write. But I do like that LLMs get me to write . People seem to miss that a lot, because most of the "AI slop" you se
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by borski 7mo ago
Yeah, precisely. My "Bobby" knows my voice, but is not me, and is bad at using it. It is aware of all the tropes, and I've built a writing skill that describes, in great detail, how I write. I have also set it up to challenge
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by borski 7mo ago
I think you missed my point. I don't go back and have AI re-edit my drafts, on average. I have it give me some words that are on a page so I can say 'this sucks' and engage in writing myself, as opposed to continuing to stare
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by borski 7mo ago
I have worked plenty of corporate jobs; Morgan Stanley, KBC Financial Products, Apple, Synopsys, the intelligence community (not corporate, but just as bad). Never once was I "one misunderstood message" away from getting canned.
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by borski 7mo ago
> Remember, you're always one misunderstood message away from being fired. If this is true, you really want to be fired. That is a horrendous work environment, and you should quit if at all possible. Most workplaces (any certainly a
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by borski 7mo ago
I find that AI is very useful for getting me past the 'blank page' writing block, but inevitably it writes in ways I would never, and so I end up editing it heavily. But, for me, a boy with ADHD, editing something is infinitely
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by borski 7mo ago
Of course it did. War is hard, and lots of people die in it. The parent comment said always . I am saying that always is not true. I made no suggestions it was easy.
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by borski 7mo ago
Not necessarily. If the factories that build the robots are taken out, for example. Someone (even a robot) still has to build them.
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by borski 7mo ago
…if you’re typing from left to right. :)
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by borski 7mo ago
Came here to say this.
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by borski 7mo ago
“Any legal use” is an exceptionally broad framework, and after the FISA “warrants,” it would appear it is incumbent on private companies to prevent breaches of the US constitution, as the government will often do almost anything in the name
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by borski 7mo ago
I'm not being dismissive or trying to minimize anything, I promise. But most people aren't 'losing their jobs to AI' in the short-term as much as you might think. The layoffs have not been due to AI "taking jobs,&qu
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by borski 7mo ago
Agreed on all points; and I think that's precisely what this post argues people should do. > The days of rent seekers are coming to an end. But not because there will be no more rent seeking, it’s because rent seeking is a 0 sum gam
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by borski 7mo ago
Sure, but we are not talking about evaluating your contributions daily. Over a lifetime, people find new ways to provide more value. Life is long, and that is how adapting works. We don't all sit at typewriters anymore either, but form
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by borski 7mo ago
> In fact, to make money, you have to play a positive-sum game and bring value to others. That is simply untrue; the opposite is the literal definition of rent-seeking behavior, which produces gobs of money, but provides no (or very li
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by borski 7mo ago
You've constructed a strawman; geohot never argued you shouldn't ever receive returns. He argued you shouldn't worry about them , which is not the same thing. His argument hinges on the idea that creating surplus value will
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by borski 7mo ago
Unlike profit-seeking, which creates value, rent-seeking redistributes existing resources, often through lobbying for subsidies, tariffs, or favorable regulations, causing economic inefficiency and higher prices. So geohot's argument i
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by borski 7mo ago
TurboTax is a prototypical example of rent-seeking.
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by borski 7mo ago
> we are at our best when we have deadlines and clear targets to reach I'd argue we are at our best when those deadlines and clear targets are intrinsic rather than extrinsic , and that intrinsic motivation of that sort is actual
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by borski 7mo ago
Only if you're stuck in the comparison trap. The point isn't to compete about who can offer more value - the point is simply to offer more value (or create more value) than you consume. That's it. What others do is actually i
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by borski 7mo ago
You misunderstood. All geohot is saying is the same thing Scott Galloway constantly says - your job is to create surplus value. Provide more value than you take, over your lifetime, not over any specific one period, either. The argument is
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by borski 7mo ago
I think what you're describing are those who are able to learn to be present, versus those who are cynical. I also think there are more than just those two kinds of people in the world; it is far, far more varied than just this binary,
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by borski 7mo ago
I have built plenty. Some of them even make me money. I never said LLMs didn’t have their own quirks. You can mitigate for those quirks. You can just switch the models. It’s just not as simple as a one-line change. But that isn’t what we we
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by borski 7mo ago
> They switch between AI providers (OpenAI → Google) like you can "just change the LLM bro" You can. They’re not the same, but you can absolutely “just switch the LLM, bro,” and most consumers would never notice a difference. A
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by borski 7mo ago
> What he's describing is fairly normal and is just to do with blood pressure in your ears, from what I've subsequently read. That’s called tinnitus. And I agree, it isn’t rare. From TFA, roughly 15% of people have it (that rep
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by borski 7mo ago
Touché.
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by borski 7mo ago
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