captainkrtek

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by captainkrtek 11mo ago
I can try to expand on this a bit, and respond to your thoughts. > What you say makes total sense. But for some personal reasons the social part of the job has always been my weak side and I'm just not interested in playing that gam
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by captainkrtek 11mo ago
Agreed. I've also found the proliferation of "AI film director" created "films" funny. The output is a strung together set of 2-3 second clips telling some story. The characters changing between clips, the scenery c
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by captainkrtek 11mo ago
I think still images have improved remarkably, though some things still look off for people (they look too-flawless). Whereas video suffers from the strange fluidity and unnatural motion of things.
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by captainkrtek 11mo ago
I'm about 12 years in myself and can provide some thoughts on this, though I'm not 20+ years senior. My first few roles were in startups, where I got to be very hands on, learn a bunch, and mostly focus on the craft of software de
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by captainkrtek 11mo ago
I'm an EMT w/ a fire dept, we run a local flu shot drive for our community for free. Check for other resources like this for example in your community, or perhaps at the county level.
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by captainkrtek 11mo ago
Agreed. The double-edged sword of "giving everyone a voice" online means we also gave platforms to hate speech, low quality content, dangerous misinformation, the extreme optimization of extracting attention/money from people
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by captainkrtek 11mo ago
I think in all of those other examples you provide, a person still had to do something. - take a photo of a subject - paint something - pick up a guitar Whereas asking the computer in the lowest effort possible to do said thing for you “dra
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by captainkrtek 11mo ago
I always assumed they were just a deterrent given the flashing blue lights and audio “this area is being monitored”, and less of an actual threat.
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by captainkrtek 11mo ago
>GenAI is not used to replace or generate new talent performances >> This is 100% a lie. We’ve had CGI for decades and generally don’t mind. However, the point at which AI usage becomes a negative (eg: the content appears low qua
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by captainkrtek 11mo ago
They also mention reputation / image in there. If I can’t tell something is generated by AI (some background image in a small part of a scene), it’s just CGI. But if its the uncanny valley view of a person/animal/thing that i
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by captainkrtek 11mo ago
That’s an interesting way to put it, which asks the bigger question of (perhaps?): Do we want a society where everyone can masquerade as an “artist”, flooding society with low-quality content using AI trained on the work product of actual a
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by captainkrtek 11mo ago
Is there a way to see where they are located? Or which cities are installing them? Hadn’t heard of them til this week
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by captainkrtek 11mo ago
This reads like a reasonable policy. More broadly speaking re: AI content: Sure, boomers scrolling facebook will continue to enjoy their AI slop baby and animal videos, but I think the fact that the term "AI slop" has become so co
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by captainkrtek 11mo ago
For sure, as long as the product keeps selling and it stays up, great, the business is still viable. I think its more analogous to a car with some problems that may be going unchecked; it still drives and gets you from A->B, until it doe
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by captainkrtek 11mo ago
> 'But only I can fix that complex race condition, that popped up half a year after development' - well if it was good enough with the bug for people not to notice it for half a year, it's going to be good enough for anoth
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by captainkrtek 11mo ago
It makes more sense through the lens of advancing the short / medium term interests of corporations under the guise of “helping people”. When we’re all brain rotted and unemployed, how will we spend money on corporations? Its a spiral.
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by captainkrtek 11mo ago
Do tyrants care about law? They find ways to work around law, write new law, and rule by decree. Democracy is largely following norms and tradition of respecting the people and laws, but it can also be ignored when those in power shift.
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by captainkrtek 11mo ago
Especially if you donate money to politicians in power, extra perks
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by captainkrtek 11mo ago
Or ICMP is blocked on your network
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by captainkrtek 11mo ago
That makes sense! Its easy I think to also go overboard and analyze too much, causing stress as you suggest.
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by captainkrtek 11mo ago
Interesting, thanks for sharing!
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by captainkrtek 11mo ago
A relevant anecdote. I’m very athletic and skinny, eat well, have a resting heart rate in the 40s, but was recently prescribed a statin at 30, due to my very high LDL cholesterol and lipoprotein A. My family has a history of cardiovascular
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by captainkrtek 11mo ago
Cause there always needs to be news.
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by captainkrtek 11mo ago
Relevant interesting tangent: “Most People Don't Know How Bikes Work” https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9cNmUNHSBac
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by captainkrtek 11mo ago
I feel like this sums up the AI problem at large. The marketing and hype from every tech company is that its game changing, but more softly spoken is “hey dont trust it for anything important” as a CYA disclaimer. The problem is the masses
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by captainkrtek 11mo ago
That, combined with the confidence any of its output is communicated back to the user.
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by captainkrtek 11mo ago
Wasn’t trying to dodge, I misunderstood the premise. If this was in person, then no I likely wouldn’t fail them. However, In all my in person interviews I’ve conducted, I’ve never seen that even from the best candidates, that’s why I also f
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by captainkrtek 11mo ago
It’s not a rubric I’m checking off for interviews. And in person it’s more straightforward to assess a candidate than questioning if they are using any aids over video… whats your point?
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by captainkrtek 11mo ago
It depends, I had some interviews like this that I suspected. For context, most of the interviews I conduct are technical design related where we have a discussion, less coding. So in those it is quite open ended where we will go, and there
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by captainkrtek 11mo ago
Yeah that is definitely something that is subject to the interviewers opinion and maybe company culture. To me, question asking is a great thing, though the candidate eventually needs to start solving.

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