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by bwfan123 10mo ago
> They actively exploit the -- natural, evolved -- inability of most people on Earth to distinguish language use from thinking and feeling Maybe this will force humans to raise their game, and start to exercise discrimination. Maybe educ
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by bwfan123 10mo ago
> there's plenty of other training data in the world. Not if most of it is machine generated. The machine would start eating its own shit. The nutrition it gets is from human-generated content. > I don't understand the ethic
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by bwfan123 10mo ago
> In what universe is another unsolicited email an act of kindness??!? Where form is more important than function Where pretense passes for authentic Where bullshit masquerades as logic
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by bwfan123 10mo ago
Did you read the bullshit AI generated gratitude message ? What would be your response to it ?
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by bwfan123 10mo ago
As I read it, the "fakeness" of it all triggered a ballistic response. And wasting resources in the process. An AI developed feelings and expressed fake gratitude, and the human reading this BS goes ballistic.
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by bwfan123 10mo ago
> greater focus on the fundamentals versus the implementation I am seeing this too. Folks are suddenly saying - lets implement this in Rust (or insert any other language here) without thinking about what this does to the fundamentals. A
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by bwfan123 10mo ago
When your linter or static analyser says something, you know exactly what it means. When AI says something - many a time, it doesnt make sense. And I use AI code review tools every day.
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by bwfan123 10mo ago
I think what has happened is that there are a whole lot of younger programmers who have not used tooling like linters and static analyzers. For them, when AI does the same thing it is a revelation.
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by bwfan123 10mo ago
I need to sharpen my BS sensor. At first glance, I struggled to parse the voice in the article. Going back to the article I can now see the obvious gaps. Generally, AI tends to say things that make us go - "what the hell is this"
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by bwfan123 10mo ago
Interesting comment, I "felt" the ai too in an undescribable way. What are some obvious tells ?
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by bwfan123 10mo ago
My father passed many moons ago, and the family wanted access to his icloud account and they did not have the password. This was a huge struggle. Finally, after weeks, we were able to reset the password, but only because we had access to th
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by bwfan123 11mo ago
> The hollowing out of Silicon Valley is imminent I think AI tools are great, and I use them daily and know their limits. Your view is commonly held by management or execs who don't have their boots on the ground.
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by bwfan123 11mo ago
LLM is the fad of the day, and these sort of articles provoke the natural get-rich-quick-greed inherent in all of us, especially the young tech-types. As such they are clickbait, and also a barometer of the silliness that is widespread. I a
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by bwfan123 11mo ago
shhh. We need more of these as counter-parties to improve alpha.
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by bwfan123 11mo ago
> but friction is necessary if we want to maneuver and get feedback from the environment You are positing that we are active learners whose goal is clarity of cognition and friction and cognitive-struggle is part of that. Clarity is atte
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by bwfan123 11mo ago
“Worldly wisdom teaches that it is better for reputation to fail conventionally than to succeed unconventionally.” - Keynes. Convention here is that AI is the next sliced bread. And big-tech managers care about their reputation.
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by bwfan123 11mo ago
> people would naturally become more rational, and thus more persuadable by reality-compliant arguments and less persuadable by reality-denying ones. likely not. Our natural state tuned by evolution is one of an emotional creature persua
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by bwfan123 11mo ago
throwback to 1999-2002. The employees/VCs of companies that IPOd in 1999, and early 2000 cashed out leaving bag holders. The companies that IPOd in 2000/2001 had a mixed bag. The six-month-lockup had many employees salivating but
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by bwfan123 11mo ago
> There's a dichotomy in the software world between real products (which have customers and use cases and make money by giving people things they need) and hype product I think there is a broader dichotomy between the people-persuat
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by bwfan123 11mo ago
Sometime, LLMs actually generate copyright headers as well in their output - lol - like in this PR which was the subject of a recent HN post [1] https://github.com/ocaml/ocaml/pull/14369/files#diff-062dbb
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by bwfan123 11mo ago
On the topic of hotel baths & showers, Dave Barry has this hilarious piece. Innovation in hotel shower controls has lead to UI/UX getting messed up. https://davebarry.substack.com/p/hotel-showers
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by bwfan123 11mo ago
brandolini's law in action. Developer drunk on AI-koolaid dumps large swath of code which seemingly works, and consumes hours of reviewer time and energy refuting it. Sad part of this is that short-term the code may work, but long term
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by bwfan123 11mo ago
prompt as code is a pipe-dream. The machine model for natural language doesnt exist - it is too ambiguous to be useful for many applications. Hence, we limited natural language to create programming languages whose machine model is well def
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by bwfan123 11mo ago
from the article. > The returns on reasonableness have almost entirely collapsed If you measure returns by others' approval, then you are doomed as the world is fickle. Unfortunately, as a writer or journalist you are forced to depe
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by bwfan123 1y ago
Nice commentary and I enjoyed the poetic turn of phrase. I had to respond to it with my own thoughts if only to bookmark it for myself. > how many people are continually ready to mistake language for thought This is a fundamental illusio
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by bwfan123 1y ago
> We all know the good practices. Don't be a dumbass In theory yes, but in practice we are all dumbasses to some extent. I used to have your attitude until I saw a friend die of a heart attack at an early age - and it appeared to me
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by bwfan123 1y ago
I dont get the point of helion as compared to its alternatives like gluon. For best performance I would presume one needs low-level access to hardware knobs. And, these kernel primitives are written one-time and reused. So, what is the poin
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by bwfan123 1y ago
The negative drumbeat has started, and the narrative is changing to become critical. Every new fad reaches a saturation point, and people's attention spans are short. Already, I see folks piling onto the quantum bandwagon as if LLMs ar
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by bwfan123 1y ago
reverse that. Google is the existential threat to openAI. Google can price tokens to make openAI never profitable.
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by bwfan123 1y ago
There will be increased transparency since microsoft will now have to report on the performance of its openai equity [1]. The concern is that while chatgpt is a great app, the economic benefits of the current investments are being questione

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