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by edanm 1y ago
There's no "r" in the word in Hebrew. I think "aliyah" comes closest to how a Hebrew speaker would say the word.
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by edanm 1y ago
If ChatGPT has helped people be saved who might otherwise have died (e.g. by offering good medical advice that saved them), are all those lives saved also something you "attribute" to OpenAI? I don't know if ChatGPT has sav
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by edanm 1y ago
That is not what the Innovator's Dilemma is, as academically defined and researched by Clayton Christensen. His version is actually far more interesting, even though it often gets misrepresented, and explains why it's called a
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by edanm 1y ago
I agree. I'm a big fan/proponent of AI assisted development (though nowhere near your amount of experience with it). And I think that 2x-10x speed up can be true, depending on what you mean exactly and what your task is exactly.
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by edanm 1y ago
I used to believe this (as did many people) but no longer do. The amount of extra calories burned with a higher muscle mass is just not significant enough to make this a relevant idea. Of course, there are many, many other reasons to lift
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by edanm 1y ago
> The amount of mental gymnastics performed by these guys to justify hilariously stupid physical decisions is simply colossal. This is a very ungenerous and incorrect take. It is their prerogative to decide what outcome they want to maxi
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by edanm 1y ago
I'm going to push back on this a bit, though I agree with some of the sentiment.; to the average person wanting to lose weight, I think the best advice is obviously to eat less via whatever diet works for them (I personally recommend c
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by edanm 1y ago
> And I had to comment because it is beautifully ironic. Almost as if that paragraph in your comment is, itself, AI slop lol Glad to be of service :) I think that's the first time a comment of mine has been accused of being AI slop.
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by edanm 1y ago
Idk. Maybe that's true today (though even today I'm not sure) but how long before AI becomes better than just finding random text on a website? After all, AI can theoretically ask follow-up questions that are relevant, can expla
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by edanm 1y ago
I mean, Git was a massive improvement over those other systems though. It was absolutely worth learning, and worth pushing companies to adopt. (Same with Mercurial, obviously.)
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by edanm 1y ago
Yes, I'm similarly surprised. Intuitively I'd think that it's much better to train on using Lean, since it's much easier to do RL on it (Lean gives you an objective metric on whether you achieved your objective). It also
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by edanm 1y ago
> The excuse "but you earn six figures, what' $200/month to you?" doesn't really capture the issue here. Why? If I want to pick up many hobbies, not to mention lines of professional work, I have to pay for tools
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by edanm 1y ago
> When it pays off they make billions of dollars in profit and congratulate themselves for their foresight and the power of capitalism. When it doesn't they go cap-in-hand to the federal government, saying that if they're allow
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by edanm 1y ago
Ah yes this is the "classic" bug that was in the Java standard library undiscovered for twenty years, iirc. I find this topic really interesting, thanks for sharing. I doubt I could code a binary search without any bugs from scrat
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by edanm 1y ago
You can say the same about most science research. In fact, many people do say the same, scrutinizing many different avenues of research as pointless. There are countless examples of "pointless" research ending up being useful. (
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by edanm 1y ago
They don't "use" pension funds, pension funds can choose to invest in VCs if they decide to do so. I think most usually invest low single digits of investment in VCs, mostly as diversification.
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by edanm 1y ago
Yes, but when you put it as "why are you investing in these bad ideas? Invest in mine, it's obviously much better", it sounds a lot more self-interested (and far more likely to be wrong).
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by edanm 1y ago
Yes, same, that's a fascinating question that people are pretty tight-lipped about. Note he was specifically on the team that was launching OpenAI's version of a coding agent, so I imagine the numbers before that product existed c
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by edanm 1y ago
Yes. VCs invested money. It ended up a flop. And this hurts us... how exactly? Other than some VCs losing their money on a bad bet, who cares?
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by edanm 1y ago
> It's nothing to do with Thinking Machines as a company, it's to do with a VC that's content to bet two billion dollars on a company that has shown absolutely nothing, and the sorry state of affairs that represents. Why d
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by edanm 1y ago
Oh interesting, where can we read about the bug that was there?
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by edanm 1y ago
> Wordpress was 10% about coding and 90% about community. I completely agree. I just didn't think we were talking about that aspect, just how long it takes to actually build the code of WordPress. You might be saying that making the
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by edanm 1y ago
> Only if you compare create a website in PHP 20 years ago vs using wordpress. But to create a project like wordpress from zero now is as difficult as it was 20 years ago. Roll to disbelieve on this one. There's no way that creating
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by edanm 1y ago
I appreciate you keeping up the fight for correct terminology! I think at this point though there is a "standard" definition of agent - an AI that can actually utilize external real-world tools to do things on behalf of users. Tha
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by edanm 1y ago
Either humans are not generally intelligent, or they are, in which case they're an existence proof of general intelligence. Math really has nothing to do with it beyond the most basic statements of logic.
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by edanm 1y ago
Umm, it's a pretty fundamental theorem (that's assumed to be true) that all computation is equivalent to Turing Machines. Unless we're very wrong about fundamentals of CS here, we'll never see anything that is more p
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by edanm 1y ago
Yes, agreed on basically everything.
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by edanm 1y ago
I've been programming professionally since around 2003. I'd say I caught the late-stages OOP craze (or maybe after-craze) though not really the origin or rise of OOP. My first job was in a C++ codebase, and I spent a lot of time
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by edanm 1y ago
> I know with only 5 years experience this may not be obvious, but this is only the first of many “revolutionary” technologies making everyone around you lose their minds that you’ll have to deal with in your career. While this has some
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by edanm 1y ago
I think the Where's Waldo example, while not technically zero knowledge, gives a pretty good intuition of the idea behind it. It certainly gives a "layperson" example of being able to prove you know something without reveal

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