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by dsjoerg 9mo ago
You've told the humans: "Stop staring at screens" "Stop sitting at your desk all day" "Stop loafing around contributing nothing just sending orders from behind a computer" "Touch grass" but now t
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by dsjoerg 9mo ago
"Can AI grow corn?" Let's step back. "there's a gap between digital and physical that AI can't cross" Can intelligence of ANY kind, artificial or natural, grow corn? Do physical things? Your brain is trap
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by dsjoerg 9mo ago
Agreed, it was weird. They were like "yay Obama" and maybe trying to lock him in to doing peaceful things by giving him a pre-emptive prize. They strayed from meaningful principles and now they are reaping what they've sown.
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by dsjoerg 9mo ago
Came here to say this, I really appreciated "How to Fail At Almost Everything and Still Win Big". I'm not here to judge the man or everything he did, I'm here to say thanks for the stuff I loved.
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by dsjoerg 10mo ago
> Typically, before people are put in a leadership role directing humans, they will get a lot of leadership training teaching them the skills and tools needed to lead successfully. I question this.
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by dsjoerg 10mo ago
I wish this interesting story was related to the article.
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by dsjoerg 11mo ago
Wow this is awesome, the AI discussion has the depth and flavor and variety of real discussions online I've seen about my product. https://news.ysimulator.run/item/154
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by dsjoerg 11mo ago
i ask "what details does the piece offer about how to make the proposed alternative happen?" === i'm told "Almost none. The only concrete mechanisms mentioned are: Founding worker-owned cooperatives instead of equity-ba
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by dsjoerg 11mo ago
They're not taking credit for the product; they're taking credit for _open-sourcing_ it. Which they did.
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by dsjoerg 11mo ago
a simple valid point wrapped in an enormous amount of garbage arguments from both sides. watching idiots argue is exhausting
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by dsjoerg 1y ago
Their people are different from your people.
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by dsjoerg 1y ago
Yes it’s not X it’s Y. I dont mind AI as such, but I’m tired of that specific style of writing.
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by dsjoerg 1y ago
> the majority of all economists are Republican citation for that please? quick Gemini work gives me the opposite so could you please back that up? Federal Reserve Economists: A 2022 analysis of voter registration data found the ratio
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by dsjoerg 1y ago
Ǎ ăẫẩǡǎắặȧ ǎạ a ăẵaậậặẩẳặ áặằẫȧặ ạẵặ ảẵẫậặ ẵȁầaẩ ȧaăặ! Aẩắ Ǎ aǎẩ'ạ ẳẫẩẩa ậẫǡặ.....
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by dsjoerg 1y ago
You haven't addressed the primary stated rationale from the linked content: "I try to assist inexperienced contributors and coach them to the finish line, because getting a PR accepted is an achievement to be proud of. But if it&#
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by dsjoerg 1y ago
> I have friends who are highly educated professionals (PhDs, MDs) who just assume that AI\LLMs make no mistakes. Highly educated professionals in my experience are often very bad at applied epistemology -- they have no idea what they do
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by dsjoerg 1y ago
We used the previous version of this batch mode, which went through BigQuery. It didn't work well for us at the time because we were in development mode and we needed faster cycle time to iterate and learn. Sometimes the response wou
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by dsjoerg 1y ago
I disagree. I wish that when obscure terms were used, there would be an explanation of that specific term either in the article itself or, failing that, in an HN comment. This is especially helpful because sometimes a term will have multip
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by dsjoerg 1y ago
> a relatively hostile setup without even local admin rights Taking a diversion into this -- how about local admin rights to a virtual VM / sandboxed machine? I imagine that would allow developers to be productive, while protectin
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by dsjoerg 1y ago
> At worst, they are actively working to make their own job redundant and when they're fired, they will own nothing of what they built. All the money from their work will go to the owners who fired them. Except that's the case
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by dsjoerg 1y ago
> You will not replace me with AI Ever? Forever is a long time. Or do you mean with today's AI, assuming no improvements are made?
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by dsjoerg 1y ago
hold the line is an amazing song tho
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by dsjoerg 1y ago
Yeah it was a good run. Britain only became a thing after union in 1707. They had a good ~200 years, what with a great empire and industrialization and then an added bonus with America speaking English and britain being less damaged by WW2
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by dsjoerg 1y ago
Citation needed. What I'm seeing: No evidence of a legal requirement to spend a % of revenue on research: There was no line-item mandate in the consent decree forcing AT&T to invest a specific percentage into Bell Labs. The support
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by dsjoerg 1y ago
Yeah I agree that the current generation of LLMs dont appear to have been trained on solid "epistemological behavior". I believe the underlying architecture is capable of it, but I see signs of the training data not containing th
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by dsjoerg 1y ago
If you want: - Hype deflation - Less VC froth - Fewer bullshit startups - More investment in real tech, not magic-show LLM demos - Open-source and decentralization to win Then OpenAI collapsing would be a net positive in the long run.
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by dsjoerg 1y ago
You're right about everything except you underestimate the current generation of LLMs. With the right prompting and guidance, they _already_ can give pushback and ask questions until satisfied.
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by dsjoerg 1y ago
Quartz wasn't "destroyed" by cynicism; it collapsed due to its own financial unsustainability. Investors didn’t kill Quartz—they stopped subsidizing losses once it was clear Quartz couldn't become self-sufficient. The &q
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by dsjoerg 2y ago
Yes. The article is really about conceptual framing — how clinging to outdated or vague definitions prevents progress in understanding biological and cognitive processes. People keep forcing everything into the vague, overloaded concept of
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by dsjoerg 2y ago
No, it also helps you progress in your career faster, boosting your own ability to get things done and hence your bargaining position.

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