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> Strange question, why would you "just" ignore all the information out there? Some of the information out there is many, many people saying they do use Genai products and find them valuable. You shouldn't ignore that in
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Why not just... use the product and see if it's useful? What does it matter what it's called, what does it matter if it's hyped or not, what does it matter if investors are or aren't throwing too much money into it. You,
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> Do you expect this to influence their profits significantly? If yes when? (Context - former Autodesk employee, though obviously all views here are my own, and I'm not commenting on anything I had any involvement in or direct knowl
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The Knowledge was nice, but I found Ryan North's book to be much better, at least as a book. Far funnier, with a very nice through line of laughing at how slow humans were to come up with some pretty obvious ideas. (Often, humanity i
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I don't think this accurately defines transhumanism, at all.
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> I've still never bought a single physical product from Amazon. In the context of this thread, do you think that statement means anything? Amazon is (and I can't believe I have to say this) incredibly successful at selling p
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I write production code, I also work lots in Jupyter notebooks. Personally, I think the fact that notebooks are usually easier/funner for me to work with is a big problem. I'm by no means a Clojure expert, but I did do a semi-larg
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I'm intrigued - I didn't listen to the post but wonder what kind of best practices you're talking about. Do you have this written down anywhere or on video anywhere? I'd love to learn more about what you mean.
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I doubt it's that. But he also talked to people outside of these ai companies. The person he interviewed on the podcast was in the Biden administration.
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I've been interviewing people for fifteen years, yes. And while it's true that many people don't understand much, I don't think this applies to many people working at frontier model or AI companies. Especially not the hi
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> If you have a revolutionary intelligence product, why is it not working for me? Is programming itself revolutionary? Yes. Does it work for most people? I don't even know how to parse that question, most people aren't programm
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This article is only an opinion piece with no real evidence to back it up. I disagree with most of it. I'd argue against specifics, but there are no real specifics in the article, so I'm not sure I can do any better than say &quot
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> but he doesn’t understand the field and the entire premise of the long discussion was that LLMs are going to get us to AGI. You might disagree with this assessment, but it doesn't show that he doesn't understand the field, si
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Totally might be the case. I'm not sure, but I think I've seen good reasons to think this doesn't exactly line up though - increased wealth in different countries didn't match exactly, timeline wise. But I'm far fro
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> Calorie intake is up. Don't overcomplicate it. You're doing the opposite - oversimplifying it. Why is calorie intake up is a legitimate, important question.
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What do you mean, false? The article makes a claim about the outcome of an experiment. He is making a different claim about the outcome of an experiment. What makes his false?
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> I'm looking to avoid erythritol these days though. Why? My loose sense of the current thinking on this is that erythritol is one of the "safer" alternatives.
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Thank you! This has been driving me crazy ever since I switched to Firefox.
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I've been using SizeUp for 15 years too, but I just switched to Rectangle a few months ago. Mostly because it's faster. You wouldn't think it matters, but for some reason it does.
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I'm not an expert or part of the community and haven't been following too closely. But I vaguely remember there was a story where he said he transferred control of some aspect of WP to a non-profit organization not controlled by h
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What? Quite the opposite. AI is the original and broader term, ML is a subset of AI. Deep Learning was the "hot" terminology around 2015-2018, and since 2022/Chatgpt, LLM has become the trendy word. Yes, people now talk about
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> When we put people out of work, we—both society and technologists—have an ethical responsibility to ensure there's a plan to mitigate the harm from that. This is my major disagreement with the argument. I think she's giving t
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Wait, that's not at all true. A country could change the laws, but it has to actually do that . Otherwise a country would automatically win every single lawsuit it brought forward, which is not the case. Part of the very reason we e
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OK, first of all, really cool. I don't think I knew this! Thank you. But how about a next step that I use LLMs for - taking this text from a document and reformatting it as, say, bullet points. E.g. I literally had this in a Jupyter no
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How likely do you think this is Simon? I don't really know myself, but I think there's a decent change that most developer jobs will actually disappear. Your argument isn't wrong, but when we're nearing (though still f
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Yes. But this article argues two things at once - that the technology is itself not useful and not used , and that this won't change in the future. And it also argues that this is a bad investment, at least in the form of OpenAI. I ha
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You're really comparing an IDE's autocomplete with something that can, at minimum, write out entire functions for you? You're either completely misremembering what IDEs have been able to do up until 3 years ago, or completely
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> The article is about how the economics of the LLM market is making all tech look bad. No, it's not. The first half of the article talks about how useless the actual product is, how the only reason we hear about it is because the m
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And yet many, many people - including me - were shouting from the rafters that this is nonsense, that Blockchain has no real use case (aside from cryptocurrencies), and that this was all a massive bubble. Most of those some people - again,
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> Maybe I can finally learn what I'm suppose to be using generative AI for to be more productive. So many things. It's a general-purpose "thing doer" in many situations where you otherwise wouldn't have one. Let

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