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by dougmwne 4y ago
It seems like a valid possibility, but no threat in the here and now. I’m not dismissing the potential. I have played with these models and I am gobsmacked. But fundamental capabilities like being truthful have not been unlocked and we are
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by dougmwne 4y ago
There’s a balance between capital and labor. During some periods labor is strong and you get unions, 40 hour workweeks and OSHA. During some periods capital is strong and you get child labor and stoking the blast furnace in your underwear.
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by dougmwne 4y ago
I think these are great questions. Certainly one answer could be “don’t do anything, don’t change anything, consider using LMMs on par with cheating and plagiarism.” And in the short term, that’s seems like an OK answer. This is very new te
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by dougmwne 4y ago
Oof, no please ask. 15 years in and manners still matter.
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by dougmwne 4y ago
Is there any precedent for that happening?
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by dougmwne 4y ago
There are no stakeholders, there is only Larry and Sergey. Due to the innovative IPO, the founders keep voting control of the company with only 3% ownership and the shareholders come along for the ride.
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by dougmwne 4y ago
I understand the strong temptation to think like this. One very specific thing that I am sure has declined is journalism. The ad-supported model that was basically a patronage to writer-artist-philosophers is dead. As a result, I think we h
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by dougmwne 4y ago
That’s fair advice, it’s just that it can be quite difficult for many people to keep their expenses cut to the bone. Many people don’t even know what they are spending. I think a first step is to understand your budget, maybe then make some
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by dougmwne 4y ago
Study up for technical interviews. Do some real interviews for practice. Update your resume. Network. Build a larger emergency fund. Check your budget and plan through how you could lower your expenses if the hammer falls. Think through alt
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by dougmwne 4y ago
I have seen some really fascinating recursive approaches to GTP where formal logic and flow are used to conditionally re-prompt GTP to keep refining the answer. I think there will be an incredible power in combining the “intuitive” abilitie
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by dougmwne 4y ago
Hacker News is for any kind of intellectual curiosity. It’s right there in the community guidelines. And who knows, maybe this bit of creative immune system hacking will inspire a security researcher.
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by dougmwne 4y ago
Yeah those lazy builders need to stop working from home and put on a damn tie!
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by dougmwne 4y ago
I know where you are coming from, but I don’t agree. Voice Assistants were always a toy. It was pretty clear from day 1. Using LLM as a replacement for search is an intriguing possibility. I have started using it alongside Google and Wikipe
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by dougmwne 4y ago
But it’s not just about compute. OpenAI did a lot of work to tame a wildcat. GTP-3 is a monster not fit for public consumption. ChatGTP is a kitten. Along the way OpenAI discovered that including code into the training corpus improves the g
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by dougmwne 4y ago
Or mute them, which is an excellent solution.
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by dougmwne 4y ago
Yes, VR is online, but it’s a weird embodied immersive presence version of online that can feel a bit like hanging out in meatspace. And it has a off button.
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by dougmwne 4y ago
Shutting down AltSpace should be a loud warning bell for Meta’s Horizon Worlds. Horizon is basically a badly executed AltSpace. AltSpace was super niche, but some artists and marginalized people seemed to find a home there. It was like an o
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by dougmwne 4y ago
Also I have used this company to monitor things like road and other infrastructure construction. Images most of the planet daily. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Planet_Labs
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by dougmwne 4y ago
Sundar is a hired gun. Ask who hired him.
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by dougmwne 4y ago
Sundar has been hired by the voting share owners, Larry and Sergey to run their company. This is 100% their fault for being uninterested in the company they control.
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by dougmwne 4y ago
Yes. I was 30 when I took a major step back to reevaluate. I had some positive professional experiences that I was able to use as building blocks, but I was severely underpaid and underchallenged. I was on the road to nowhere, and certainly
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by dougmwne 4y ago
Sounds like you need to throw a party instead of waiting for someone else to throw one. You don’t need an excuse!
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by dougmwne 4y ago
And the paper clip factories churn on.
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by dougmwne 4y ago
True, most people don’t need any kind of specific performance at all and could probably keep a modern laptop for 10 years. The people paying attention to performance benchmarks may have more performance oriented workloads that might benefit
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by dougmwne 4y ago
I think it is quite similar to EVs. No established player in the auto industry had any interest in developing them because it was seen as a risk to established business and partnerships. The EV1 was a great early start from 1996 that was li
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by dougmwne 4y ago
To me it looks like Google never intended to turn its AI research into products. It probably sees these LLMs, that it itself was instrumental in inventing as a competitor to search and nothing that could ever get green lit as a product due
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by dougmwne 4y ago
Oh that is so interesting! I always thought robot was a false cognate with the Polish word for doing/working. I knew it couldn’t have been a loan word even though the meanings felt oddly connected. Turns out it was a loan word after al
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by dougmwne 4y ago
Because the new process will deliver a good step forward in performance and efficiency. We will have to wait for the M3 chips to get a significant improvement. These M2 chips seem to be about a 20% CPU and 30% GPU improvement which is not g
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by dougmwne 4y ago
But once you run through all the complexity, you are usually left with “elections have consequences.” None of these problems are unfixable, but solutions do require leadership and competence.
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by dougmwne 4y ago
If you run the density backwards far enough, eventually everything in the visible universe is effectively at a single point, in some theories this was modeled as an actual infinite singularity, but it’s quite possibly unknowable since our f

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