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by eloff 4y ago
You’re going to develop this software in house and not allow your engineers to use AI in that process? That’s not only unenforceable, it’s business suicide.
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by eloff 4y ago
I went with a mechanic in a chair lift once. He was very nervous, saying he knows the kind of people who maintain these things, and he knows the kinds of things that can go wrong. I feel the same way about automation, whether it be self dri
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by eloff 4y ago
I’m a big fan of this library, using it at work and on my own stuff. It’s faster, leaner, and most importantly, safer than OpenSSL for a reasonable definition of safety. It gets less eyeballs and use than OpenSSL, but also fewer issues and
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by eloff 4y ago
I thought it was less than 5%, what’s the numbers on that?
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by eloff 4y ago
He did get out. He went back. If he did that of his own free will is another question. China has reach well outside its borders. They were getting to activists in Vancouver, Canada. They’re also happy to lean on your relatives who stay behi
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by eloff 4y ago
Yes, I’ve been using it at work and on my side project. It’s better, but it’s still just a tool that improves my productivity. It’s not going to replace me.
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by eloff 4y ago
History is full of inventions that changed the game for the people in a specific industry. Sometimes they allowed one person managing the machines to replace a team previously doing manual labor. I don’t think that’s the right metaphor here
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by eloff 4y ago
The same way you would with a human developer. Plan it out, break it down into bite sized tasks, give the AI each task or parts thereof and plumb it all together yourself.
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by eloff 4y ago
Bank runs are incredibly rare, rating it 1 out of 5 on likelihood it’s really overstating it by a LOT. I’m with the AI on this one.
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by eloff 4y ago
If you don’t need to learn anything you also don’t need to do anything. You’re obsolete and taking up resources, and the universe will correct that and make you extinct sooner or later. That’s post singularity AGI territory, and nobody real
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by eloff 4y ago
I think calculus has very limited utility these days. Rather learn something else. The problem is not the extra effort for that 1%, the problem was the wasted effort overall. I’m homeschooled, I found college pointless, and I dropped out an
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by eloff 4y ago
The author addressed that rather at length in the article. Don’t. Trust. Code. That it originated from ChatGPT instead of any number of other sources doesn’t change that.
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by eloff 4y ago
Socializing is fine, but school just seems about the worst possible expression of it.
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by eloff 4y ago
While that is true, and there are always exceptions to the rule, being older and more mature when you’re exposed to those things definitely helps.
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by eloff 4y ago
That’s not necessary. There’s no reason you can’t socialize your kids via the usual extracurricular sports and activities that they’re going to do anyway.
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by eloff 4y ago
How do you weigh that against the risk of public school, peer pressure, bullying, drug & sex culture, and a middling career as a corporate drone? I don’t think it’s as cut and dried as you make it out to be. There are risks on both path
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by eloff 4y ago
You have a decent argument, but your example of calculus is about the worst you could have picked. I got 99% in calculus at UBC in the first semester, and then I set the ridiculous goal of beating that in the second. I did get my 100%, but
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by eloff 4y ago
Over the short term, sure. Over the long term, nothing concerns me more than AGI. I’m hoping I won’t live to see it. I’m not sure my hypothetical future kids will be as lucky.
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by eloff 4y ago
I can be confident we’ll screw that up. But I also wouldn’t want to bet our survival as a species on how magnanimous the AI decides to be towards its creators.
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by eloff 4y ago
AGI is a conscious intelligent alien. It will want things the same way we want things. Different things, certainly, but also some common ground is likely too. The need for resources is expected to be universal for life.
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by eloff 4y ago
So they’re just going to call Hindenburg dirty liars trying to manipulate the stock price to make a buck? I think Hindenburg has a pretty solid reputation at this point. So what they should do is refute their points one by one with data. It
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by eloff 4y ago
I don’t think iterations on the current machine learning approaches will lead to a general artificial intelligence. I do think eventually we’ll get there, and that these kinds of concerns won’t matter. There is no way to defend against a su
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by eloff 4y ago
> The concerns are, in the short-term, ability to pay debt service out of current revenue, and, in the longer term, assuring the GDP grows faster than debt. Neither of those requires balancing the budget. I agree. I don’t mean balancing
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by eloff 4y ago
Slight inflation is not going to cut it to balance the federal budget.
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by eloff 4y ago
Who is losing their deposits?
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by eloff 4y ago
I’d rather not have a government run by the same quality people who barely manage to operate the local Burger King. The government is already bad enough.
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by eloff 4y ago
It was 9 billion. UBS is on the hook for the first five billion in losses, the Swiss National Bank for the next nine, and UBS anything else above that.
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by eloff 4y ago
Yes, there’s limitations to hedging. The problem here is making a huge directional bet that interest rates won’t go up, not adjusting that bet as it becomes clear they will go up, not adjusting as they start going up, etc. It’s like you bou
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by eloff 4y ago
No, it was the long dated part that was the issue. It magnifies the losses when interest rates go up.
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by eloff 4y ago
And failed to hedge or prepare for higher interest rates despite seeing them coming from 18 months ago. It’s like standing at the mouth of a train tunnel, hearing a train, seeing the reflections from its lights, and deciding to walk through

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