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by clnq 4y ago
I'm a software engineer working with AI for a living. Although I work in a branch of artificial intelligence not dealing with conversational language models, I have been following OpenAI's work very closely. GPT-3.5 isn't gen
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by clnq 4y ago
> A final story to those that will say I am an ist or ism. A little more fuel for you. Why would telling kids play time is over be fuel for -ists and -isms? It seems like the author is approaching this from an angle where that story is s
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by clnq 4y ago
I initially read it as just a random example situation as well, but the disclaimer clarifies the intended meaning.
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by clnq 4y ago
Wow, the attention-seeking in this blog post is really something. "Piss-weak parenting", "-ism" and "-ist" bait. And the point is presented with no nuance, just "TikTok bad, other parent bad, I am good.&qu
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by clnq 4y ago
I'd be joyed if there was any meaningful fallout. Magical thinking in science only benefits click-deprived blogs (which some people call mainstream news outlets, despite "news" implying journalistic integrity). But where is t
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by clnq 4y ago
This is very interesting. In a limited but substantial way, transplanting parts of the photosynthetic cell system could help with a lot of cell-centric metabolic deficiencies in people, from T1 diabetes to hypoxia in general. The delivery m
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by clnq 4y ago
> What EU firms? All dealing with personal data, not just tech. Hotels, hospitals, retailers, banks, government organizations, insurance brokers, education institutions, and so on.
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by clnq 4y ago
Masking seems to have a negative connotation. Usually, and indeed in the Wikipedia article above, it's presented as a boundary or defence mechanism against societal pressures. But interestingly, etiquette involves a lot of masking and
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by clnq 4y ago
Jack Shafer in their book "The Like Switch" says that there are 4 elements in building a friendship: proximity, intensity, frequency and duration of interaction. Similarly to work and school friends who are very proximal and spend
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by clnq 4y ago
> It's pathetic to some people, sure, but ... what's the harm? Hmm, pathetic doesn't mean harmful. It's closer by meaning to "feeble", which I agree with in the case of Reddit moderators. I don't think
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by clnq 4y ago
Interesting, thanks for sharing.
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by clnq 4y ago
Not sure if it's autism or edgy angst.
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by clnq 4y ago
Summary: It's bad enough that some people have anxious, provocative, and attention seeking personality that comes out as fringe tech elitism. Yet it's even worse that this is nothing new.
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by clnq 4y ago
Most people are much too self-important. If you think at the global scale, each of our existence (except those in position of extraordinary decision-making power) is pretty unimportant/inconsequential outside of the realm of chaos theo
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by clnq 4y ago
Code switching is completely natural to me, I would not know how to express myself with just one language to some people. What did you learn about it that impacted you the most?
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by clnq 4y ago
Moderation seems to be best at getting rid of low-hanging fruit. There is much less easily accessible gore, shock and radical content online these days. But thanks to the very large scope of the internet, there's plenty of more insidio
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by clnq 4y ago
Looking at you, social fabric of society.
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by clnq 4y ago
What qualifies as "a friend" to you? I find it's much easier to make friends online. But we seem to have different definitions for friendship.
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by clnq 4y ago
GPT-3.5 is an extremely knowledgeable junior who will never grow past entry-level skills. Which is something of very little value to tech companies. There's a reason why entry-level positions are non-terminal - you must either be promo
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by clnq 4y ago
I don't think so for several reasons. First, there's the uselessness of entry-level engineers. They are hired for their growth potential (that every human has, but language models don't) and are expected to grow into mid-leve
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by clnq 4y ago
Emotional labor is a problem, not a feature. A receptionist only needs to be polite with the guests. But unfortunately, receptionists are often subject to emotional abuse. We've never had glorified chatbots like GPT-3 or GPT-3.5. I&#x2
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by clnq 4y ago
If anything, we'll need more engineers to help GPT-3.5/ChatGPT eat most receptionist, customer support, and similar customer-facing entry level jobs. That itself could become a very healthy and large industry.
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by clnq 4y ago
I've recently seen many good and curious comments "answered in downvotes." Maybe I can't read the room, but why does that happen? Is there a way to phrase statements that challenge others in a way that leads to conversat
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by clnq 4y ago
Yes, people with diarrhea of the mouth make most conversations dry, one-sided, and very dull after you already know what that person's side of the story is. It's much worse if that side of the story is self-serving. That is a go
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by clnq 4y ago
You say that another entity deciding what you, as an adult, can interact with is unacceptable. But the government has many laws that prohibit interactions with many things. You cannot trespass in many places, for example, to make things eas
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by clnq 4y ago
We are not building the Great Chinese Firewall. That is a slippery slope-style assumption and fallacy. Many people are in support of banning propaganda websites and for good reasons. They sow fear, uncertainty, and doubt and advance foreign
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by clnq 4y ago
There are also other smart pointers, like std::'s weak ptr and proprietary stuff. You can avoid multi-ownership problems of shared ptrs with weak pointer member variables (which only need to be turned into shared in a given {} scope).
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by clnq 4y ago
> if rewriting chunks of code were enough in its own right, they would never have had so many critical security flaws. Reducing defects is one of the main reasons (others being maintainability, readability, better integration, and simila
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by clnq 4y ago
Yes, there are more examples of smart pointer initialization than just std::make_. I couldn't find instances of "absl::Make" in Android Code Search. But your point still stands, and I should add that not all new-delete pairs
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by clnq 4y ago
Slack does feel like slower Discord with fun disabled.

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