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by cgio 10mo ago
These inefficiencies are akin to having some “wrong” weights in a huge model. Corporations also average over their individual contributions, positive or negative. And negative feedback loops may be individually detrimental but collectively
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by cgio 11mo ago
It might involve US sending out trillions worth of stuff. The question is what stuff would that be, could be e.g. bombs.
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by cgio 11mo ago
The point is for it to be hard.
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by cgio 11mo ago
He was also working for Valve for a while.
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by cgio 11mo ago
A positive outcome of LLMs. Regardless if the specific article is AI generated or not, we become increasingly intolerant of shallowness. While in the past we would engage with the token effort of the source, we now draw conclusions and avoi
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by cgio 11mo ago
Autistic here, and passionate about people’s experience.
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by cgio 11mo ago
I assume that’s why the original argument is that it’s not been a net positive. I.e. the assumption is that lots of work can be good and necessary, while even more that is evil and excessive can end up with a net negative.
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by cgio 1y ago
I think you partially answer to yourself though. Is the value in the depreciating chips, or in the huge datacenters, with cooling, energy supply, at such scale etc. ?
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by cgio 1y ago
Single point of failure?
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by cgio 1y ago
I was surprised by how accessible the writing was for something so technical, even for a novice like me.
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by cgio 1y ago
Is it supposed to work. I am in the spectrum and I feel like while energy may go to zero, there is in reality a separate resilience masking, where you actually keep up for the rest of the day. Also cannot relate to medication. I don’t think
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by cgio 1y ago
A phrase does not mean anything by itself. People mean something when they use it. You could argue that expressions carry some meaning, by virtue of shared use. But your definition does not align with the meaning most people make of this
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by cgio 1y ago
Not sure about that, we are happy to assume that a stochastic process such as evolution culminated in advanced life forms but reluctant to admit that our own creations could be the outcome of a stochastic process on communication patterns.
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by cgio 1y ago
While I agree, making the assumption that our GP was not indeed using an LLM, that has a lot to say about the essence of the article’s argument. We were maybe already stochastic parrots and are just building tools to be more efficient at it
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by cgio 1y ago
And to be honest, the real leader was not even in the room, it was the one who brought us together and threw us in a room to do it.
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by cgio 1y ago
Kind of, but with a different motivation at inception at least. In a perverse bike shedding variation, in a room of experts, disagreement will tend to root in bringing every matter under the lense of individual expertise. No one wins there,
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by cgio 1y ago
I have my claim to a minute expertise in this domain. Was assigned to lead an initiative for something that was not achieved in 3 prior attempts. I was given the 6 strongest, most genius engineers from 6 different teams. Everyone, including
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by cgio 1y ago
If you put ETL and ELT in the same layer you have missed the essence of data platform architecture schools in the last few years. DW is ETL. Data lake is ELT. Then you mix and match (e.g. lakehouse etc.) The distinction between transformati
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by cgio 1y ago
Being an immigrant, I think it’s net positive for everyone. I brought skills that, at the moment I immigrated, my home country could not leverage, even though it paid for my free education. I built on these skills and if my home country eve
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by cgio 1y ago
That’s interesting! What other crazy types of bargains have we seen before or could someone imagine?
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by cgio 1y ago
Maybe the thinking is that if you stop waiting for your turn and remove yourself from the table, someone will move your issue up the road to get you back to the table.
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by cgio 1y ago
Programming is not in text. Yes, formulas have textual representations but can be graphically defined if you are not an advanced user (e.g. click to select parameters including ranges). Also, other than formulas, there are e.g. iteration se
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by cgio 1y ago
I wonder why people always seem to miss the most successful visual programming interface, excel, in their analysis.
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by cgio 1y ago
Maybe anecdotal, but in solution design I have often encountered designs that try to be generic for the sake of generality, also designs that complicate a simple repeatable task to accommodate arbitrary potential complications. I would argu
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by cgio 1y ago
None of the improvements of the past you outline were advertised as capable of replicating agency. They were sold as tools. Note that I am not making any claim about actual capability for agency, there’s other people more qualified than me
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by cgio 1y ago
That would be an extreme criterion for exceptional intelligence, akin to asking for there to be no unknowns.
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by cgio 1y ago
I only ever had a laptop from Compaq, and it was the most robust and minimalist thing, like a solemn thinkpad, which is as impossible a statement as sincere. Then they got bought and I got one from their HP days that I returned straight awa
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by cgio 1y ago
To me the propaganda is still blatant and there is only an engineered illusion of diversity, only inasmuch as it keeps people opinionated on the things that don’t matter. There’s also no foundational or universal desire for diversity, so al
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by cgio 1y ago
I think the article would be much more useful if the author applied the principles to design a good design document.
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by cgio 1y ago
My uncle went from a village in the middle of nowhere to a Stanford PhD in Physics thanks to this program. Went on to become a pretty important physicist. This is real and valuable contribution, not just short-sightedly for US, but for all

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