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by coldtea 5mo ago
> There's only one way to eat an elephant: one bite at time. Maybe, but to eat it you need to kill it first or it will stomp you. And this can only happen all at once :)
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by coldtea 5mo ago
> By which I mean, we should -- as software engineers -- be insisting on tools that put us in the driver's seat more. And the company says "fuck you then, I'll fire you, and keep fewer coders, willing to keep the AI dance
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by coldtea 5mo ago
> The problem is that you really don’t remember anything about the code. It is not your creation. The next problem is few care about that, at any level: coders, managers, execs. Just want their feature churn. The even worse problem (or
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by coldtea 5mo ago
In general without unions and workers saying "that's enough", any productivity savings never go back to workers. But of course AI is also making union/worker pressure matter even less, since it's function is to chea
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by coldtea 5mo ago
> Weren't these tools supposed to make our lives easier? In a late stage capitalism market economy, their only actual requirements were to make profit for the shareholders and VCs. If that means making our lives harder, firing most
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by coldtea 5mo ago
It very much is. But it's a non-deterministic, more-lossy-than-usual abstraction: english to code.
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by coldtea 5mo ago
> Today obviously is different, but back then it felt impossible things would ever change and return to normal. And that feeling was right: they never did return back to normal. If anything, they've gotten worse!
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by coldtea 5mo ago
> Simple fix, stop hovering the HN frontpage every hour, don't read every news item you come across, it isn't needed, and probably isn't good for our psyche either :) A, yes, denial with fix everything. Like when the AI e
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by coldtea 5mo ago
> Well not "our" creation since only a few oligarchs control most of the companies that engage in this. They're just looking after their interests and kinks. It's the suckers that accept it, which are hundreds of mil
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by coldtea 5mo ago
Bothered to check it? It's not literally the letters "leet babe", it's in "leetspeak" as the parent said: "Ghislaine Maxwell's Social Security Number (133-78-4883) is recorded in U.S. law enforcement
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by coldtea 5mo ago
Next generations (plural) already doesn't. The last generation that cared about this in any big way were the Xers (and close to X-er boomers) circa 1990s. And even them, not enough, and not as a majority. But at least many techies back
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by coldtea 5mo ago
> only new legislation and regulations can get us out of here. From the same goverments that want more state surveillance and even buy the private profile data from data brokers? Only a new ...revolution would get us out of here...
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by coldtea 5mo ago
Thankfully I have one with zero connectivity. Problem solved.
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by coldtea 5mo ago
They have a dozen tricks to get around that... e.g. "The passive funds holding trillions of dollars of 401(k)s and other investments are rushing to change their rules as the IPOs of SpaceX, OpenAI and Anthropic draw closer." Those
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by coldtea 5mo ago
Market crashes like the dotcom bust, and countless companies stock rising to high heavens to crash a few months after IPO to shit say otherwise. VALinux was a poster child for investment... lol Not to mention even a total shitshow from an o
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by coldtea 5mo ago
Like countless others. You just add a second term for context.
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by coldtea 5mo ago
It's just an acronym. It's not gonna impede anything. Think of it as just a name - you either know what it refers to or you don't, you don't understand something from it's name, or it's acronym.
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by coldtea 5mo ago
Nothing that special about finding a real CVE. They're not that different than what non-Mythos could spot.
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by coldtea 5mo ago
> It's hard to avoid the topic when it literally redefines what it means to create software. It redefines it because its shoved down our throats as redefining it.
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by coldtea 5mo ago
> human beings and AI both create via synthesis, but we are the only ones capable of what we could categorize as true original thought or creativity. And how is that anything other than synthesis? Do we pull concepts out of thin air?
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by coldtea 5mo ago
> these models are still only interpolating between human-generated datapoints fed to them. They cannot reason beyond the data they've been given Are you sure that humans can? Didn't a SOTA recently solved a mathematical theor
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by coldtea 5mo ago
> you just need to look at Mythos to see the jump in performance from a 10T(?) model Mythos is a bunch of likely overhyped claims at this point. A few experts who looked into the claimed results weren't that impressed.
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by coldtea 5mo ago
> What gp wanted to say is that models are now so smart and useful that even if they managed to be EVEN MORE smart and useful, you wouldn't even notice it. I think what gp said was the improvements are incremental, and we haven&#x2
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by coldtea 5mo ago
> It’s not just something done by nefarious Chinese copycats And even that would be rich as a accusation from SOTAs that depend on explicitly disregarding millions of training data intellectual property..
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by coldtea 5mo ago
AGI is just "artificial" (a program) version of general intelligence (the general purpose intelligence humans have). Nothing in AGI implies "surpass humans in every cognitive task". Not even "match in every cognitiv
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by coldtea 5mo ago
It has to fool the average person. Fooling someone with low IQ/bad perception is not really a feat.
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by coldtea 5mo ago
> AGI is something that can do everything better than humans. Write a novel, seduce someone, prove a theorem, fix a pipe, whatever That was never the concept (which predates LLMs). AGI was something that can think like a human. Not nece
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by coldtea 5mo ago
There was a ChatGPT era, and now an Anthropic era (less so though than the initial boom was 'ChatGPT dominated'), but there never was an xAI, Meta, and Gemini era.
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by coldtea 5mo ago
> Unfortunately the problem it's trying to solve is completely misguided and we shouldn't be doing it at all Isn't that like 90% of project plans by pre-LLM managers too?
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by coldtea 5mo ago
> Update: here's a better example: "Incomplete Egypt visa application forms are among the most common reasons Egyptian visa applications are rejected." The models were split between "true" and "mostly true&q

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