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by brookst 6mo ago
It’s still rhetorical sleight of hand. I could have a stroke that leaves me unable to program. Does that mean I am not truly free to program today? Those are risks, but they do not change the on-the-ground reality today, and the claim was t
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by brookst 6mo ago
Many people believe it’s true. My hobby projects have 100x more tests than they used to, because LLMs are great at writing tests. And my subjective experience is that the net quality has increased as a result. YMMV, but it’s certainly a com
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by brookst 6mo ago
Did you just move the goalposts from “you can’t run arbitrary code today” to “hypothetically, in the future, Apple could prevent running arbitrary code”?
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by brookst 6mo ago
IDK, not really a fan of redefining computer to make a rhetorical point. It seems counter-productive to tell people the computing device they think as a computer isn’t really a computer. It’s like saying my car isn’t really a car because I
845.
by brookst 6mo ago
Yes. Roads are subsidized; the true cost of building and maintaining roads comes from general funds, not just from vehicle registrations and gas taxes (which of course Waymo doesn’t pay, being righteously electric). So you pay Waymo, they p
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by brookst 6mo ago
And if you had done that 10 years ago we wouldn’t hve EUV at all. You’re proposing ending future development to make today’s products cheaper.
847.
by brookst 6mo ago
Companies like Google are too large to have single, clear motives. I think it is appropriate to judge their actions, but I am not sure any simplistic “good motives/bad motives“ discussion can be fruitful.
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by brookst 6mo ago
It’s an agreement between a public company and a highly scrutinized private company. Several of the provisions will change what happens in the marketplace, which everyone will see. I imagine the thinking was that it’s better to just post it
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by brookst 6mo ago
And they aren’t being objective and rational about the polls, they are funding and cherry-picking poll data that tells them to do what they want to do. There’s no principle, no strategy, no goal. We’re living in the political version of Cu
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by brookst 6mo ago
You don’t see any issue with insecure drivers for obsolete hardware, exactly the kind of thing that is most prevalent in an industrial control type applications? Stuxnet should have been a wakeup call to everyone: the boring, obsolete, “saf
851.
by brookst 6mo ago
That’s reductionism, not generalization. Generalizations that lose accuracy are not valid. “Ice cream is sweet, and candy is sweet, so food is sweet” is reductive.
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by brookst 6mo ago
Would your ideal world apply to humans as well? Like if I see some art in a museum and it inspires me to create some of my own, I would need to pay a licensing fee to the original artist? And what about the artists that inspired them ? The
853.
by brookst 6mo ago
Exactly, and we all know those are pronounced mooze, nooze, and cabooze.
854.
by brookst 6mo ago
If demand is less than supply, definitely not. If every latest-gen is booked solid and there is still unmet demand, why would you decommission?
855.
by brookst 6mo ago
So it’s not a binary thing, there’s context and nuance?
856.
by brookst 6mo ago
Yes. The oauth ID is indisputable. It it seems to be context.ai. But suppose it was a fake context.ai that the employee was tricked into using. Or… or… Better to report 100% known things quickly. People can figure it out with near zero effo
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by brookst 6mo ago
Wait, how does PowerPoint do emotive storytelling in a way that a human driving an AI tool could not? It sounds like you’re confusing my argument that AI can replace PowerPoint tools like gradient, layers, fonts, etc, with an argument I did
858.
by brookst 6mo ago
Like, they break? Or it just becomes more profitable for the data center to replace them?
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by brookst 6mo ago
Before they cut back on human programmers?
860.
by brookst 6mo ago
Yes, I have often paid more than that to have someone else develop a personal side project.
861.
by brookst 6mo ago
Fair, I was hand waving to make a point. “If it generates more than $1100 + (resale price * WACC) + opportunity cost from physical space/etc” would have been more accurate. But the point is — you don’t decommission profit generators ju
862.
by brookst 6mo ago
It’s hazardous to blend fixed and variable costs.
863.
by brookst 6mo ago
Sure. But if that fully depreciates, $1100/year GPU produces $20k of economic benefit, would you decommission it as long as there is demand?
864.
by brookst 6mo ago
I just don’t see it. Both professionally and personally I’m producing so much more now. Back burner projects that weren’t worth months of my time are easily worth a few hours and $20 or whatever. Why would I pull back?
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by brookst 6mo ago
I’m not sure tax depreciation rates are the best measure here. Those GPUs will be used for much longer than 6 years, and the returns from the businesses will be an order of magnitude longer.
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by brookst 6mo ago
PowerPoint is the poster child for the class of applications that AI totally obsoletes: * A large application whose outputs are independent of the all (people still print slides; when presenting nobody knows or cares what app was used) * Co
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by brookst 6mo ago
Do we know why it works for humans? Models are trained on human outputs. It’s not super surprising to me that inputs following encouraging patterns product better results outputs; much of the training material reflects that.
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by brookst 6mo ago
It’s a really good article if you read it. The people who got rich were not the poor people.
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by brookst 6mo ago
Traits like ethics? Yes, that was my point.
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by brookst 6mo ago
I agree. It’s kind of like secure boot, in reverse: the high level stuff has to be complete and correct enough that the next level down has a chance to be complete and correct.

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