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by cootsnuck 9mo ago
> The whole concept of buying services from people is either that their time is worth less than yours And if everyone else's time has become more valuable then too has the time that is being saved by buying services. If my time as a
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by cootsnuck 10mo ago
Yea I've been seeing very similar behavior from people. They think of themselves as static, unchanging, uncreative but view LLMs as some kind of unrelenting and inevitable innovative force... I think it's people's anxieties a
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by cootsnuck 10mo ago
Very well said. I think it's hard for people to understand that ADHD is simultaneously over diagnosed and under diagnosed.
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by cootsnuck 10mo ago
This does make sense given modern understandings of ADHD are that it's not about it being a deficit in attention but rather a deficit in self-regulation and executive functioning.
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The Comforting Myth of Effortless AI(insidevoice.ai)
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by cootsnuck 10mo ago
> For transparency, a single software engineer budget is $670K+. Are you saying that the costs to employ a single software engineer is $670K+? If you mean something else then nvm. Otherwise that's a ridiculous number to use unless y
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by cootsnuck 10mo ago
> My concern is that, even if the exercise is only an amusing curiosity, many people will take the results more seriously than they should, and be inspired to apply the same methods to products and initiatives that adversely affect peopl
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by cootsnuck 10mo ago
The RES (Reddit Enhancement Suite) browser extension indirectly does this for me since it tracks the lifetime number of upvotes I give other users. So when I stumble upon a thread with a user with like +40 I know "This is someone whom
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by cootsnuck 10mo ago
To be clear...prior to this recent explosive interest in LLMs, this was already true. Snowden was over 10 years ago. We can't start clutching our pearls now as if programmatic mass surveillance hasn't been running on all cylinders
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by cootsnuck 11mo ago
I personally don't think belief in an afterlife should be necessary to believe it's worthwhile to not be shitty to people. "What goes around comes around" suffices for me. Call it "ethics", call it "maximi
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by cootsnuck 11mo ago
Yup. I'm starting to wonder if the startup space has a pretty big blind spot not realizing that how easy it is to build mostly/semi functioning software is not a unique advantage... I left an AI startup to do tech consulting. What
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by cootsnuck 11mo ago
This is pretty cool. I like using snippets to run little scripts I have in the terminal (I use Alfred a lot on macOS). And right now I just manually do LLM requests in the scripts if needed, but I'd actually rather have a small library
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by cootsnuck 11mo ago
It's State Capitalism. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/State_capitalism
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by cootsnuck 11mo ago
We already know distillation works pretty well. So definitely would make sense Opus 4.5 is effectively smaller (like someone else said, could be via MoE or some other technique too). We know the big labs are chasing efficiency cans where
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by cootsnuck 11mo ago
Yup, I've realized similar. "You are what you eat" and also "You are what you think". But like you said, it's not about scrutinizing every single thing you think/eat but more about recognizing patterns and
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by cootsnuck 11mo ago
Weirdly enough I'm having to install some window film on a new office space I just got. The windows are large so I'm going to have to splice pieces together. I looked up how the pros do it and it's exactly what you're sa
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by cootsnuck 11mo ago
Yea I own first.last@gmail.com for my name too and I get emails for who I think is the same person fairly often. Like job stuff, professional education emails, etc. I used to reply to them saying wrong person but have given up...the guy mus
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by cootsnuck 1y ago
Yea, this really needed to happen. Idk if this specific branching type of interface will stand the test of time, but I'm glad to see people finally braving beyond the basic chat interface (which I think many of us forget was only ever
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by cootsnuck 1y ago
Yea, actual "human-like" consciousness would be an ethical nightmare. Any sane company should not be legitimately pursuing this. My most generous interpretation of Anthropic's flirting with it is they too think it would be a
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by cootsnuck 1y ago
Some people draft stuff in different places, different devices, or whatever and then copy paste, just a heads up.
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by cootsnuck 1y ago
What's your point? House prices are at all time highs too. That doesn't mean the housing bubble never happened.
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by cootsnuck 1y ago
Kinda. It's just an LLM that performs function calling (i.e. the LLM "decides" when a function needs to be called for a task and passes the appropriate function name and arguments for that function based on its context). So y
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by cootsnuck 1y ago
I knew before clicking it was going to be Michael Levin. His lab is doing really interesting work.
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by cootsnuck 1y ago
We still don't understand the placebo effect. But definitely better to accept it's a thing and move on than believe grifters actually know what they're talking about.
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by cootsnuck 1y ago
I think it also just creates a lack of "urgency" problem. I live in a blue city in a red state. Constituents expect results because we can't rely on our state gov. Local officials know this. There's more competition from
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by cootsnuck 1y ago
Nah it's that size. You need an individual modem for each SIM card because you need a unique IMEI. It's possible each of those SIMs are eUICCs as well which means basically that each card is like a "wallet" with multiple
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by cootsnuck 1y ago
...no one thinks it's weird for the supposedly most transformational digital technology ever invented to need manufactured demand?? None of us think it's strange that a startup currently vying for a half a trillion dollar valuatio
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by cootsnuck 1y ago
I would call it skepticism, not cynicism. And there is a long list of reasons that big tech and big AI companies are met with skepticism when they trot out nice sounding ideas that require everyone to just trust in their sincerity despite p
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by cootsnuck 1y ago
It's the "secret" that kind of flies in the face of much of the type of grit-your-teeth-motivation type of self-help and advice. There's nothing broken, nothing wrong with our current selves. In fact, we already have goo
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by cootsnuck 1y ago
Makes me think of all the abandoned mines turned into commercial space and the like in Kansas City: https://www.kcur.org/arts-life/2022-07-02/kansas-city-underg...

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