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by danaris 1y ago
Well, if a given LLM has an email interface, and it receives, say, a Nigerian Prince scam email, it will respond as if it were a human who believed it. Because that's the most likely text response to the text it received. What LLMs w
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by danaris 1y ago
Sure, "ChatGPT" has entered the common consciousness as the name of LLM chatbots as a product. But does that mean that all of the people who talk about "asking ChatGPT" are actually asking ChatGPT, from OpenAI? How man
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by danaris 1y ago
> My scheme is not targeted at reducing poverty, although that will be a second order effect. I am mainly interested in building a more stable society with overall more prosperity for the common man. ...Regardless of the feasibility of y
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by danaris 1y ago
"Revealed preferences" are like "the free market". They make sense in theory, or when you've got a wide array of competing choices that people can pick between at will. When you have monopoly, duopoly, or oligopoly;
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by danaris 1y ago
To be fair to countries that are not Norway, my understanding is that their sovereign wealth fund is significantly funded by their oil fields. (Otherwise, 100% cosigned.)
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by danaris 1y ago
> There's nothing inherently wrong with inequality If you're talking about a spherical economy in a vacuum, no, there isn't. When we actually turn our attention to the real world, we find that, in fact, there is. Because w
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by danaris 1y ago
Yes, and that fact—if not the precise proportions—would likely remain true regardless. The rich are in a position to buy up the shares distributed this way, while the non-rich are mostly in a position to need cash most of the time. If you w
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by danaris 1y ago
...The post I replied to specifically said "It [questioning people's self-evaluation of productivity] is only asked by LLM skeptics, about LLMs". Naming another example outside of LLM skeptics asking it, about LLMs, is in
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by danaris 1y ago
I don't have to know how smart the average person is, because I know that an LLM doesn't think, isn't conscious, and thus isn't "smart" at all. Talking about how "smart" they are compared to a person—
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by danaris 1y ago
There's a big difference between needing a tool to do a job that only that tool can do, and needing a crutch to do something without using your own faculties. LLMs are nothing like a computer for a programmer, or a saw for a carpen
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by danaris 1y ago
As a counterexample to your assertion, I've seen it a lot on both sides of the RTO discourse.
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by danaris 1y ago
That "if" is doing literally all the work in that post. Claude is not, in fact, smarter than the average person. It's not smarter than any person. It does not think. It produces statistically likely text.
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by danaris 1y ago
It doesn't have to be. It can also be the opposite. Making yourself indispensable. Being the one who shows up for people (not as in "comes in and does a lot of unpaid work", but as in "helps out when other people need it
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by danaris 1y ago
That only works when the governing party cares about governing . The Republican Party has made it painfully clear over the past decade that they care more about winning than governing . The initial stages of this were when they vowed no
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by danaris 1y ago
> - extremes make extremes and neither is good for the US Which would be more salient if there were, in fact, an extreme left in the US. Think about this for just a minute: What would extremes on both sides look like? On the left, it wou
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by danaris 1y ago
> too far left can have its own other problems. If you think that any of the names you mentioned are remotely as far left as the current administration is far right, you have been swallowing propaganda whole.
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by danaris 1y ago
However, while you're absolutely right about the optics, that's fundamentally not how the US government operates. We are not a parliamentary system, and elections happen on a fixed schedule. Unless Congresspeople die or resign, th
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by danaris 1y ago
This comment is saying "the percentage of any given 200 programmers applying for a job that are, in the end, reasonably fit to do the job depends on the job being applied for ". If the job is a mid-level C++ programmer job at an
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by danaris 1y ago
> Your guess that ~24/200 will be "good enough" is unfortunately wrong in my experience. In my last go, only 10/200 were able to demonstrate sufficient knowledge of the required skills to be hireable, and by that I me
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by danaris 1y ago
It's not about being "told to be nice". It's about setting a shared understanding of norms. It's about whether the kinds of jokes allowed among members are "as raunchy as you please", "polite jokes on
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by danaris 1y ago
Can only a master chef tell you that your chicken is undercooked? Can only a trained programmer tell you that it's a bug when you press the "OK" button, but your program does the "cancel" action? Can only someone wh
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by danaris 1y ago
> The way I see it, the people who would cause friction anyway won't be stopped by a CoC. > And the people who wouldn't cause friction are already behaving so they don't need one. Both correct. By definition, in fact. C
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by danaris 1y ago
> he’s obviously not doing that because he wants to cheat in elections No, that's exactly why he wants to do it. Requiring voter ID makes it much harder for poor people—disproportionately likely to be minorities, vastly more lik
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by danaris 1y ago
Well, first of all, most likely dozens of them, at least, are good programmers. In fact, most likely dozens of them will be perfectly good hires for the position. The idea that you must hire only the single best possible candidate can l
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by danaris 1y ago
I genuinely believe that, at this point, that starts to stretch the definition of the word "represents." It's readily apparent that no president for the past decade has clearly represented a majority of the country (as oppo
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by danaris 1y ago
> I've never seen one have this effect. How do you think you would see it? Under normal circumstances, what it would look like from the outside is just...someone not causing friction, because there is a code of conduct. Or someone c
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by danaris 1y ago
You realize that no more than a third of the people in the country actually voted for said president?
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by danaris 1y ago
> If someone is behaving poorly, first of all, a CoC will not deter them. I'm sorry, but that's just not true. You're treating humanity as if it's divided into two distinct sections: Those Who Behave Well, and Those W
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by danaris 1y ago
> thinking that their employer is their enemy and that they have to approach the workplace like they're going into battle with evil managers. Given how many managers are strongly steeped in the mindset that every IC is an innately l
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by danaris 1y ago
I think we need to stop seeing "can program" as being equivalent to "is an expert computer user", because those are genuinely two different, if related and overlapping, skillsets. There is no particular reason that an ex

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