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by dougmwne 4y ago
Boy, if this wasn't literally true before, it's going to be literally true now. One very refreshing thing about VR metaverse apps like Altspace (which just shut down) was that they were very much populated by real people since it
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by dougmwne 4y ago
I'm interested in what you expected vs. what you have seen? The goalposts have been dancing all over the place lately with everyone I talk to.
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by dougmwne 4y ago
It is not. Every 6 months, I type back in my credit card number tap a button to load the eSim. Literally nothing else I have to do. I also can let my service lapse when I am not in the country.
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by dougmwne 4y ago
It's going to take a big tech company or partnership wit a tech company to compete in this space, given the massive compute requirements. Apple is a hardware company and it's doubtful they will ever be a direct competitor. Google
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by dougmwne 4y ago
Check out visible, which is a Verizon sub brand. 25 bucks if you are ok with being deprioritized, 35 if you want high priority. I think it’s the next best deal on the market after Mint, and if t-mobile doesn’t work well in your area, you ar
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by dougmwne 4y ago
I use Mint. The only reason I use it is because they are a price leader for the whole industry. They run regular promotions and I get service for about 8 bucks a month. I have been cycling through their new customer promotions for years. My
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by dougmwne 4y ago
To me that is an oxymoron. Humans are the source of meaning and value. Nothing could make us worthless. We are the ones who assign value, without us the concept does not exist.
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by dougmwne 4y ago
This is actually an excellent point. Also why I think we will eventually all be back in the open office, even though I enjoy working in my pajamas.
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by dougmwne 4y ago
Somewhere out there are a million people much better and smarter than you and me. Why is this software causing you existential dread instead?
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by dougmwne 4y ago
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35162879 I doubt there any other option besides abstinence. Since that won’t happen, I plan to enjoy the ride.
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by dougmwne 4y ago
Considering the LLaMA release, I’d guess the end of the week.
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by dougmwne 4y ago
It is pretty close now. I got access through Poe. The censorship is light as long as you avoid sex and violence. It can do some sex though, for example I was able to generate a collection of pillow talk for a specific cultural context.
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by dougmwne 4y ago
Have access to both. Bing feels like a shackled version of GTP-4 with convenient prompt automation. You can see moments of GTP-4 power, but they are buried beneath the AI ethics and brand safety. If you formulate a prompt carefully, you can
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by dougmwne 4y ago
Kill it with fire.
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by dougmwne 4y ago
Prompt: My business partner had an idea to create an AI model that would rewrite your emails to be more emotionally intelligent, and to suck up better to your boss. His theory was that most workers are self important, jerks, and have diffic
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by dougmwne 4y ago
I should probably start doing that. I’m a self-important jerk usually.
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by dougmwne 4y ago
That’s better than a lot of professional engineers can do, but I agree that it is unlikely to get hired in a senior FAANG role.
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by dougmwne 4y ago
I think it can actually do all those things reasonably well. I’d like to start getting meeting summaries that tell me my action items based on a transcript. And it can generate infinite boot-licking butt kissing if you just ask it. Generate
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by dougmwne 4y ago
Yes, I am trying to separate out complexity of reasoning from knowledge base and speed. A language model is like a person who has access to Google and several hours or days to research a response. Even a model with poor reasoning, ability c
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by dougmwne 4y ago
GPT 3.5 was certainly not, even though it knew a great many facts, it was like a 12 year old child with a search engine. GPT-4 feels like an adult of average intelligence, again with a search engine. But it’s fast and it never gets tired or
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by dougmwne 4y ago
Short term: painful disruption. Medium term: the Industrial Revolution for intelligence. Long term: the solar system, then the stars. Our world is broken and unfinished. We are using up all the physical resources of our world and are stress
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by dougmwne 4y ago
These tools cannot act on their own and still need professionals to be responsible for their application. If the promise of LLMs comes true, there will be much new work created in tuning models and integrating them into every worker’s job i
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by dougmwne 4y ago
This must be some kind of Washington pork negotiation. The original plan was to use a progress capsule. Seems plausible to use a dragon capsule as well.
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by dougmwne 4y ago
I think this is a great point. Why do people use excel? I think it’s because they take not old obsolete software, but actually one of the best ways for non-technical people to create simple applications. You can basically turn out a custom
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by dougmwne 4y ago
I think this equally applies to all knowledge workers. LLMs are not going to cut the human out of the loop just yet, but building them into the workflow is going to end up being so powerful that anyone not using an LLM will be uncompetitive
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by dougmwne 4y ago
How are you going to do training on that machine in a reasonable amount of time? Most of the utility of these models are unlocked after fine tuning.
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by dougmwne 4y ago
First catch is that someone needed to spend the enormous up front cost to train the base model, then release it under a flexible enough license for your use case. The second catch is that you would get much higher quality out of the 65b mod
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by dougmwne 4y ago
Waiting to be able to feed a LLM a transcript of an ongoing meeting, then ping me when my attention is needed with the context summarized.
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by dougmwne 4y ago
More therapy. Different therapists. You have this vision of who you want to be that seems to be disconnected from who you are. I have seen happiness defined as making progress towards an ACHIEVABLE dream. It does not sound like you have loc
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by dougmwne 4y ago
From what I understand, a PHD is absolutely not worth it for the vast majority of people. There may be a few exceptions for a small number of hyper specialized occupations that require a PHD. Most of the people I know who got a PHD did it f

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