coldtea

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811.
by coldtea 5mo ago
AI bot comment? especially with the "13 days ago" creation date
812.
by coldtea 5mo ago
You need to free yourselves told to slaves. Well, to who else you'd say it?
813.
by coldtea 5mo ago
Bad argument. > Through systematic quantification of distinguishable conscious states and their historical dependencies, we establish that the minimum information required to specify a conscious state exceeds the physical information cap
814.
by coldtea 5mo ago
> There was NO relationship between that and canceling grants. And I didn't say it was (though, such scoring has been also a powerful weapon against certain grants being granted, the scoring criteria not always interpreted and used
815.
by coldtea 5mo ago
Both happened, and ideologically alligned people controlled or influenced both steps of the process (and more).
816.
by coldtea 5mo ago
> But what percentage of grant proposals were reviewed by an appointed political officer whose sole job was to screen out wrongthink? It did happen, but it was ad hoc and amateur. Small consolation for those excluded. It wasn't &qu
817.
by coldtea 5mo ago
Visionary, yes. Behind the Macintosh project, yes. Behind the Mac, as in, behind the Mac as it actually shipped, no. His ideas had little to do with it - it was almost entirely stuff designed by others when he was out of the project.
818.
by coldtea 5mo ago
> I think the USG spends over $900 Billion every year. Europe spends about 1/10th of that Way off, it's way closer, even if we're just talking EU. EU (the body) alone is about 200 billion/year. EU member states are
819.
by coldtea 5mo ago
What? They had more features that we gave up, including native platform integration.
820.
by coldtea 5mo ago
My contention, which I stated quite clearly is that saying otherwise while not paying them, not giving them work, etc, and leaving them to rot, is an empty platitude. "Go die homeless, but remember, you have intrisic value just for bei
821.
by coldtea 5mo ago
The people that send that crap are the guys who one-off it, not the guys who have a carefully crafted context, skills, and local references on top of the prompt.
822.
by coldtea 5mo ago
That's the most contrived counter-argument... We've been writing business emails for 40+ years. Anyone with -2 stddev IQ and above would know to tweak a 10-word prompt to a more polite version before sending it
823.
by coldtea 5mo ago
Yes, but would also be better if everybody got a free pony with supplies for life or met true love, etc.
824.
by coldtea 5mo ago
AI will only make “contribution to society” even stronger criterion, and help create permanent "not needed" underclasses.
825.
by coldtea 5mo ago
> I'm dyslexic. I put every comment through the LLM, or other tools. Including this comment. What we said here applies to the general population, not such special cases. Of course, if a dyslexic lets it do more than correct typos a
826.
by coldtea 5mo ago
Or to have to live all their lives with slop thrown at them left and right...
827.
by coldtea 5mo ago
Nope, I would prefer getting the prompt. I would also prefer anyone sending me the AI output and not either their ideas or their prompt, to not contant me ever again. If I wanted the output of the AI, I'd ask it myself. You're jus
828.
by coldtea 5mo ago
> “Humans are valuable.” You can just say it. As a human yourself, I advise you to. You do not need to qualify it. This is a robust1 statement that is not conditional on a point-in-time snapshot of the leading frontier model’s score on s
829.
by coldtea 5mo ago
> Most of the governments you are talking about are voted on by the people. And when the people care, the governments change. People have been getting the opposite of what they explicitly vote for, for ages... Just some recent examples:
830.
by coldtea 5mo ago
> I did check but did not find the reference. What exactly are you quoting? I mean man, I didn't ask you to search for my verbatim quote (it's an one-off llm answer). Search for her SSN. You can google it, it's here on the
831.
by coldtea 5mo ago
What did they do in 1789?
832.
by coldtea 5mo ago
Nope, the same single meaning. English to program is the same kind of abstraction as going from assembly to program to C to program to high level scripting to "4G languages" and so on, and hiding all kinds of details behind a much
833.
by coldtea 5mo ago
> Electron is an artifact of the richest companies in the world prioritizing their platform monopolies and trying to increase their stranglehold on businesses by forcing them to write platform specific code, which is hysterically expensi
834.
by coldtea 5mo ago
> Perhaps its the apprehension/anxiety that makes it feel bad then? It's a big part. But the erosion of what coding means is another big part for some. > I like coding (building things) and couldn't care less about bus
835.
by coldtea 5mo ago
A few firings of those that do under this job market convince the rest not to.
836.
by coldtea 5mo ago
If you just like talking and some program comes out (aka "business problem solving") you might like it. If you like coding (aka "problem solving"), it feels like crap. And if you like still having an IT job in a couple o
837.
by coldtea 5mo ago
> Try identifying what made it feel like a "passion." Was it problem solving and discovering new things on your own by piecing things together? Then yeah, AI probably has something to do with that in regard to software developm
838.
by coldtea 5mo ago
Being unemployed and unemployable with depleting savings is even less easy however. So being financial independent even if undecided on what you want to build is still way better.
839.
by coldtea 5mo ago
What's worse, companies might be fine with "devaluing their own IP", since companies are not deciding, execs are. And those execs will get their bonuses anyway, and will be drinking their champagne far away from their executi
840.
by coldtea 5mo ago
> I'm sure I'm not alone in feeling the "deep expertise" OP laments was actually deeply inconvenient to many people. And I'm sure I'm not alone in feeling that the convenience from ignoring the "deep e

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