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by eli_gottlieb 2mo ago
> I am curious why LLM writing has such an uncanny valley feel to it. Because it's trained to talk like a marketing committee.
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by eli_gottlieb 2mo ago
It's not, IMHO. When I have kids, I will not send them to any such institution, and I do not advise students that I mentor to go to such institutions.
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by eli_gottlieb 2mo ago
> I don’t even know of a high school around me that starts at 7:30AM. My high school had us in the building and starting homeroom at 7:30AM, back in ~2003-2007, and that was in upstate NY for a B+ student with nothing special going on.
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by eli_gottlieb 2mo ago
Hire from state schools.
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by eli_gottlieb 2mo ago
Theocrats have not been known to believe in a power higher than themselves. They just believe that you believe.
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by eli_gottlieb 2mo ago
But I don't want Claude to become conscious. I want Claude to help me write good code.
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by eli_gottlieb 2mo ago
I wouldn't entirely call that cynicism considering a lot of people just come out and say it.
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by eli_gottlieb 2mo ago
> some people have to be the relatively poor compared to the rest Why? And not why in terms of a trivial statistical tautology, where a bell curve has to have a left tail. Why , in terms of, what downstream causal effect of deliberat
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by eli_gottlieb 2mo ago
> Before 200 years ago we lived as hunter gatherers, and we did it sustainably for millions of years Neither clause in this sentence is true.
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by eli_gottlieb 2mo ago
_The Condition of the Working-Class in England in 1844_ would be a classic on the subject: https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/17306
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by eli_gottlieb 2mo ago
> The real winners will be everyone who destroyed their own oil demand. I went out and bought an EV in May to replace an ICE vehicle, and the other car in the household hasn't burned through a full tank in the months since. They may
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by eli_gottlieb 3mo ago
"More jobs" and "more productivity" are more-or-less opposite goals under capitalism.
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by eli_gottlieb 3mo ago
> Will it ever get done? I wouldn’t hold my breath. “It’s easier to imagine the end of the world than the end of capitalism.” Well except that Mark Cuban is out here proposing the first steps towards the end of capitalism, namely collect
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by eli_gottlieb 3mo ago
Tax the land. Legalize housing. Or just nuke San Francisco from orbit.
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by eli_gottlieb 3mo ago
> In the mean time, I will gladly switch to Codex. IME Codex had a bit of a big head/ego about writing what it thinks I ought to want rather than what I actually ask for, and I've had to spend some time cleaning up its slop.
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by eli_gottlieb 3mo ago
"[W]hat earlier century had even a presentiment that such productive forces slumbered in the lap of social labour?"
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by eli_gottlieb 3mo ago
Culture my foot! It's a difference of law. American employment is "at-will", meaning they can legally fire you for "any reason or no reason", with the only asterisk being that "any reason" cannot violate
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by eli_gottlieb 3mo ago
> Our regulatory agencies have either been completely gutted by DOGE, or just no longer have an appetite to do any kind of proactive enforcement Well yeah. That's what they ran on, and people voted for it.
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by eli_gottlieb 3mo ago
If I didn't want companies focused on making money to exclusively target the life sciences, I would simply fund literally anything or everything else commensurately with how much money is thrown at the life sciences for the sheer garba
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by eli_gottlieb 3mo ago
Most of what's impressed me in working with LLMs is just how much "intelligence" you can get out of the agent iteratively refining something it looks back at with each turn, without its ever actually exhibiting human-level in
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by eli_gottlieb 3mo ago
Matplotlib? Ha! There are loads of academic fields where you still write data analyses by hand, one at a time, in Matlab, without proper version-control or libraries.
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by eli_gottlieb 4mo ago
Ok so get rid of the investors then.
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by eli_gottlieb 4mo ago
No, he's arguing that if it's not legal, it's not enforceable by men with nightsticks.
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by eli_gottlieb 4mo ago
> Why isn't it automated yet? You delay your rent and your door key stops working. 1) Because screw you, that's horrible and you shouldn't do it. 2) Because all these digital key systems are horrendously insecure and much
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by eli_gottlieb 4mo ago
Society isn't supposed to run on philanthropy.
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by eli_gottlieb 4mo ago
Don't worry: they'll tell you.
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by eli_gottlieb 4mo ago
I'd like to try and give you some sympathy, but my last landlord was a well-regarded property management firm who left me with no heat from the end of October to the weekend of Martin Luther King Day in New England, effectively only fi
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by eli_gottlieb 4mo ago
I mean, to be fair, having your population semi-permanently depleted by two major wars and a fundamental loss of national economic centrality and prestige will help you keep a fixed stock of social housing lasting longer.
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by eli_gottlieb 4mo ago
Why use a German word for "scapegoat"?
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by eli_gottlieb 4mo ago
Also, evaluating complicated functions with numerical stability and automatic differentiation is hard .

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