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by elicksaur 2y ago
Since substack came out with their alternative to tweets, the website looks a lot less interesting. How does one find new, interesting authors these days (not just people with lots of activity on their short form notes)?
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by elicksaur 2y ago
Not really blogs. More like HN alternatives.
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by elicksaur 2y ago
A counter perspective by the maker of amfora (which appears to be in maintenance mode) > After a lot of thinking, I’ve realized there is one main reason I don’t keep coming back to Gemini: it offers no advantage over how I already use th
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by elicksaur 2y ago
But it’s not simply scaling. Who is moving the goalposts exactly?
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by elicksaur 2y ago
In Greek mythology, Jason's maternal great-grandfather was Einstein.
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by elicksaur 2y ago
Its number for one of the benchmark has: **with browsing + python tools Maybe we have different definitions of scaling?
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by elicksaur 2y ago
Are you sure this class of people don’t implicitly do spaces repetition via: - “reading books” (coming across the same ideas in different books, tying new ideas to old books) - “discuss and debate” (remembering and being reminded of previou
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by elicksaur 2y ago
Or neither. Try it yourself. For me, LLMs still don’t meet basic usefulness and are a net negative when I try to use them. I push code daily for my job.
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by elicksaur 2y ago
There are ignorant people everywhere. There are brilliant people everywhere. Governments should be criticized when they do bad things. In America, you can talk openly about things you don’t like that the government has done. In China, you c
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by elicksaur 2y ago
The fact that this is seemingly the top comment shows how entrenched HN’s typical user is in making money off the predatory practices articulated thoroughly in the article.
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by elicksaur 2y ago
Weird to see straight up Chinese propaganda on HN, but it’s a free platform in a free country I guess. Try posting an opposite dunking on China on a Chinese website.
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by elicksaur 2y ago
Your comma after features should be a semicolon, but I’m sure you knew that!
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by elicksaur 2y ago
Actually the OP specifically said “grammar” checker, which since they can write is likely an intentional distinction. Alternate phrasings reveal the absurd elitism of the statement. “I don’t need a spellchecker because I can spell.” “I don’
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by elicksaur 2y ago
As someone who has thought about this remote style, but hasn’t done it, I don’t think I’d want to be in the hotel room much. I’d much rather find a coffee shop to work from where I can get some of the vibe of the city while still working. O
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by elicksaur 2y ago
Lawsuits could be part of the scam in theory. Hypothetically, a scheme like this could involve riding the line, and when the counterparty (victim) trips up, use manipulative legal tactics to get them to pay up. A corollary would be patent&#
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by elicksaur 2y ago
Funny! Context is key as with anything.
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by elicksaur 2y ago
Or, have it play a human and compare human-human and llm-human pairs.
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by elicksaur 2y ago
I thought it was a fun idea, but the more I read the more worried I became for OP legally. As one example, when the first bot says “I was thinking 20k,” if the spammer had replied “I agree to 20k, please send me payment and transfer details
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by elicksaur 2y ago
I was only embodying the mindset in the comment I was replying to. Thinking in terms like “My time is worth $X, so if I do Y thing that takes Z minutes, that’s D dollars saved.” It gets really hairy and leads people down false paths where t
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by elicksaur 2y ago
Only if it increases your compensation by that 1%? I get making economic/stats based analysis like this, but is your boss going to notice that 1% to give you a raise they otherwise wouldn’t? Probably not… Your company culture can be pe
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by elicksaur 2y ago
It likely doesn’t matter if it is for training in this case. I can’t send our codebase to a friend even if they would never look at it or use it. The issue would be based on the terms of employment and the software license. There’s likely a
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by elicksaur 2y ago
XKCD #927 vibes. https://xkcd.com/927/ Prediction: Just like how ARC wasn’t actually a measure of AGI, this too will get “solved” without AI being useful enough to gain mass adoption.
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by elicksaur 2y ago
I wouldn’t want my grandmother “skinned” as a bland amalgamation of all of the internet’s text. That’s fucking horrifying. H.E.R. is a deeply unsettling movie.
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by elicksaur 2y ago
LLMs don’t actually “hallucinate”. Hallucination would be the LLM starting from a different context than was actually given to it. Given the fidelity of electronic transmission these days, that’s probably never an issue. LLMs also have no g
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by elicksaur 2y ago
You miss the point. non-necessity =/= evil, but it does require a non-evil reason. JavaScript could be used on a site for some neat rendering or game where it’s necessary to do that neat thing. Without such a need, the person is inferr
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by elicksaur 2y ago
Everyone I know under 25 hasn’t heard of chatgpt.
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by elicksaur 2y ago
Thank you for sharing an actual prompt thread. So much of the LLM debate is washed in biases, and it is very helpful to share concrete examples of outputs.
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by elicksaur 2y ago
How do you validate these classifications?
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by elicksaur 2y ago
I haven’t understood these types of uses. How do you validate the score that the LLM gives?
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by elicksaur 2y ago
They’re being rhetorical for emphasis. No need to twist it into an ad hominem.

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