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by coffeefirst 6d ago
No.
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by coffeefirst 8d ago
Because it’s a bad faith argument that presupposes integrating someone else’s work into your algorithm is equivalent to me reading a book. Your rule would be the right way to do all this. You could even have a mechanical royalty that applie
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by coffeefirst 9d ago
Yes. It’s called the ELIZA Effect. It’s fascinating, and arguably the most dangerous thing about these models given how many people it seems to affect.
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by coffeefirst 10d ago
I understand why they built this. They probably should and this is probably the right way to do it. And also yes, I’ve tried Dia and OpenAI’s thing and I can’t for the life of me figure out what to do with the feature. And then it dawns on
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by coffeefirst 12d ago
Uh huh. It can’t be a coincidence that all the targets have been tech services that are likely to engage with them after the fact. Had this gone after a bank or a government agency someone would be going to jail.
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by coffeefirst 14d ago
Yes. They will reach an agreement not to pursue RSI for “safety.” That RSI is utter nonsense in the first place will go unnoticed.
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by coffeefirst 14d ago
Yep. And the kicker is they are genuinely confused when all this lands badly.
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by coffeefirst 20d ago
Out of curiosity what book did you get burned on?
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by coffeefirst 20d ago
Wait, really? As best I can tell, the problem is contained to kindle self publishing and the like, which were always unfiltered. And we buy plenty of new books.
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by coffeefirst 20d ago
I can tell, usually within a few minutes of meeting them, who’s really into social media. There’s a little bit of frenetic emotional dysregulation, and then they say the weirdest stuff to me. I don’t think you could have made a similar argu
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by coffeefirst 21d ago
Sure. But what’s the technical way or meet that requirement? Is there a specific method or is it just that they can but they don’t care because there’s no law?
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by coffeefirst 21d ago
Interesting. What ways? Suppose I wanted to call the governor and say “I have an answer to how to regulate these that solves the noise problem” what would we be asking for?
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by coffeefirst 22d ago
They’re not. You would see this with earlier models where after running too long (too much context) they’d start to derail. In a chatbot you’d give up. But these loops just keep going. Given they’re now reading and writing from the same pla
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by coffeefirst 25d ago
Not complicated, but many people have never learned how to do it or developed a system.
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by coffeefirst 28d ago
Yep. This is my policy. Use whatever tools however they serve you, the standards do not change. If someone makes a sloppy 100,000 line PR in a day the problem is not whether it was generated by Claude or frantically written using VIM and a
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by coffeefirst 1mo ago
It already happened. For a lot of people, social media has been replaced entirely by group chat.
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by coffeefirst 1mo ago
Or even 30 second ads that don’t look like shit. The technology is interesting as an element within the wider process of special effects, animation, and video games. The idea that you’re actually making a movie with the current products—and
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by coffeefirst 1mo ago
Uh-huh. I have a little boy who just saw his first firetruck, and you can see the wheels turning in his head, because BIG RED TRUCK. He doesn't talk yet, but a seed has been planted. Some people operate like little boys. They want the
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by coffeefirst 1mo ago
It’s also circumstantial. Working remote during COVID sucked and felt unmoored. Once I had a robust IRL social life and could go see some live music again, it was great. It also depends if you live in tiny apartment or if you have a house w
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by coffeefirst 1mo ago
Oh yeah. I did this in 2021. I got the list out of 1Pass and just did them in small batches. I hit a few that wouldn’t let you change but nothing important. I had all the important stuff done in a week.
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by coffeefirst 2mo ago
Yes, I would agree that privacy is important, that anonymity is valuable to the freedom of speech, and that OP is also right about the health of the web. Which means we have a big problem.
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by coffeefirst 2mo ago
Yeah, I really dislike this “Thing is has its Other Thing Moment.” For starters, I what the hell does this mean? But it’s also a style of reporting that treats the attention cycle as the thing that must be covered rather than the thing itse
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by coffeefirst 2mo ago
This doesn’t surprise me. Set up whatever online portal or app you want. I’d prefer to just sign in and click a button. If I’m picking up the phone or sending an email it’s because I have a weird problem and I need to talk to a person.
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by coffeefirst 2mo ago
Well there’s a lot of middle ground between “don’t use AI” and “generate everything, exclusively.” When the bill for the latter lands with a heavy thud, moderation and common sense start to look like a pretty good idea.
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by coffeefirst 2mo ago
Correct. If they were doing this with Gutenberg/Smithsonian/some library so there's both a public archive and training the language model, it wouldn't have the ick factor.
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by coffeefirst 2mo ago
Thank you. Some days I feel like I’m going crazy. I use plenty of AI. As best I can tell just believing my own eyes, everything is stagnant except the prices. Which is fine… but the boosters shout “OMG EVERYTHING IS CHANGED YOU ARE BEHIND A
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by coffeefirst 2mo ago
Cool! Which ones? (Replacing overpriced garbageware with something I scraped together in 3 days is my jam. But the specifics matter a lot.)
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by coffeefirst 2mo ago
Oh 100%. On their own, browser tabs, notifications, and IM at work all make sense on their own and are not evil at all. Taken together, there are now 8 people trying to talk to me all day every day, constant alerts unless you go out of your
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by coffeefirst 2mo ago
That's smart. It's also revealing. It was a choice to make technology that absolutely hammers you with information. It was not the right choice. I want to build and use stuff that promotes focus. I only have a vague inkling of w
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by coffeefirst 2mo ago
If you think that’s bad casting, I’ve got some bad news: the guy who plays the cyclops has two eyes.

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