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by echelon 5d ago
Your link doesn't appear to work for me. In case folks aren't aware, Disney tried to avoid an allergy-related wrongful death lawsuit from a restaurant at Disney Springs (large publicly available outdoor mall that doesn't even
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by echelon 6d ago
That's exactly what "prediction markets" sell themselves as. Super-predictors. Insiders have an edge and can in theory shape the overall distribution of bets such that the real world outcomes are priced in better.
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by echelon 6d ago
Sportscasters do it too. It's all over media. You hear it in movies. I'm pretty sure "an historic" is the norm in American media, not the other way around.
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by echelon 6d ago
I don't think so. This one seems to defy the rule. "A his-toric day" "An his-toric day" Both seem to work correctly with American pronunciation. Journalists and films seem to use "an historic" with an Amer
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by echelon 7d ago
The box office receipts ban is hilarious. I suppose that prevents Kalshi gambling on box office duds?
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by echelon 7d ago
I used Rust extensively pre-LLM, and I'm much happier to serialize my thoughts to Rust than any other language. I prefer to prototype in Golang since it compiles fast and makes for quick iteration, but at the end I ask the LLM to port
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by echelon 7d ago
Everyone is suffering and not getting what they want to some degree. Life is short, and opportunity runs out. People turn this into bitterness and direct it at external things that are going well that they're not a participant in. It&#
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by echelon 7d ago
> lack of willingness to put in effort Do you only buy hand-churned butter? Most fliers put together for community events pre-AI were Microsoft Word or Google Docs plus clip art. The world is getting better, but before everyone realizes
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by echelon 7d ago
The variations the author generates are night and day better than the "piss filter" era slop in the first batch. Some of them would have passed as intentionally crafted by a graphics designer before AI. And let's not forget t
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by echelon 7d ago
We haven't had antitrust enforcement for 25 years. It's high time we did. Google needs to be broken up.
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by echelon 8d ago
Broadly, universities are too expensive, inequitable, suboptimal, not portable, and slow. There's a huge amount of room for improvement. Universities are great for networking, starting projects with other students (not the ones profess
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by echelon 8d ago
You think people are going to stop watching celebrities and influencers just because there are AIs and robots? Do you think people will stop dating, trying to impress mates, buying luxury, etc.? Neither candlelight dinner to a robot no a Di
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by echelon 8d ago
> I think I'm officially too dumb for math. I'm hoping someone develops an interactive tutor that can teach any subject to any depth. The tutor should optimize its pedagogy. It should use online RL to adapt to a learner's
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by echelon 8d ago
The value will tend towards infinity [1] because we can keep building more data centers. This will allow us to apply tokens to solving every problem we can conceive. The cost will tend towards zero because competition is intense and there a
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by echelon 8d ago
The F-35s are for the children and grandchildren. It's to safeguard their future. Democracy is important and it isn't free.
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by echelon 8d ago
The business value will be when platforms can underwrite their LLMs' legal products. That will be a decacorn product or more.
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by echelon 10d ago
Sandbox, ACL, scan, sign, revoke bad actors. We should have web installs by now. The only reason we don't is because Google and Apple like cash and their little monopolies are easy money. Big tech loves to "protect us". See A
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by echelon 10d ago
It's really not. The labs frequently apply their raw models to problems that do not make economic sense for their customers but that demonstrate the power and capability of their systems. These experiments can cost millions of dollars.
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by echelon 10d ago
Try to embrace hacker ethos and stop hating. Y'all seem to miss the point of this forum. Building and hacking and science and engineering. I swear there's a whole lot of you who just like to look down instead of up. There's a
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by echelon 10d ago
I'm stating that certain folks are trying to use the software-generating product as an AGI/ASI and then complaining when it doesn't play chess very well. People are holding it wrong, deliberately or not. Some are inventing ba
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by echelon 10d ago
The AI can write a chess bot program that will beat you. You're thinking about this the wrong way. The system is built and delivered as it is because that's how the providers make the most money. If they cared to have it perform w
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by echelon 11d ago
I would love to be able to download every page of a given domain as an archive, and I'd pay to do this.
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by echelon 11d ago
Reddit blocks anonymous mobile web traffic behind a capcha now. One way to look at this is that the internet is healing. Platforms are closing themselves off to growth and scabbing over.
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by echelon 11d ago
Make it $100k and pay it to me directly. I'm not a fan of Musk, but his driverless cars are already driving around in my city alongside Waymo. His rocketship thing will probably be delivering tanks to the other side of the world within
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by echelon 11d ago
> There is no way to grow the US economy AI and robotics. Engineering is becoming cheaper. Graphics design is becoming cheaper. Lawyering is becoming cheaper. Entertainment, film, and gaming (not hardware) is becoming cheaper. This will
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by echelon 11d ago
> There are dozens if not 100s of ways that mass surveillance can improve human life. There are dozens of ways living in a cage can improve human life. You won't be exposed to dangerous ideas and you might get a calorie allowance. T
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by echelon 11d ago
I'm spending more money on Anthropic and OpenAI than I've ever spent on Google services outside of hardware. I'm sick of the Android/iOS duopoly. Let them cook. The market is so ripe for disruption.
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by echelon 11d ago
We're not scared of your big bad wolf, Dario. Slow down if you want to.
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by echelon 11d ago
To be fair, that's a huge cost reduction and economic boon. And the labor potential of an individual coder has also jumped tremendously. These two simultaneous effects will have a massive impact on economic productivity. It's happ
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by echelon 11d ago
They're making money, which is more than most ICs living in cost centers can say. The human code monkey sometimes thinks too highly of the task of coding. That's never once been the job to be done. Every engineer is going to becom

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