ericmcer

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by ericmcer 5mo ago
Yeah that was my point, it needs to be taught. The article seemed to indicate that humans have some innate goodness: "Our internal intuition about right and wrong seems to leave us at an early age". If you agree with that then why
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by ericmcer 5mo ago
Hard disagree, have you ever seen a group of 5 year olds interacting? We are little monsters without our parents literally berating us until we develop shame. Small kids left to their own devices will gang up on anyone different or weak and
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by ericmcer 5mo ago
Yesterday it got completely tangled trying to fix a dependency issue across different platforms in react-native. I had to manually undo Claude codes shit, read the docs and install deps in a certain order to make it work correctly. I have n
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by ericmcer 5mo ago
Maybe across the whole population because most people were struggling to eat enough and received almost no education. If we compared average modern humans against average well fed and educated ones from 200 years ago would that still hold u
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by ericmcer 5mo ago
You don't think inundating the media with footage of young (specifically black) men dealing drugs and being in gangs in the 80s/90s had any impact on those young men? Cool take.
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by ericmcer 5mo ago
That doesn't sound as good in meetings. The person who can cut scope and get everyone to the "we did it" back patting phase makes everyone feel warm and cozy. Now combing through analytics to determine whether or not what we
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by ericmcer 5mo ago
Not to mention men in their early 20s now hit puberty during the height of the #MeToo movement. Then they aged into their late teens watching Epstein and all the other creepy men taking the spotlight. Super necessary and important movements
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by ericmcer 5mo ago
Should be easy, just need to figure out which sequence forces it to produce the tokens you want it to output.
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by ericmcer 5mo ago
These articles don't mean anything unless we get info about what steps humans needed to perform. If the steps to hire an applicant are: A human asks AI to write a job posting. Human posts output. Human gathers candidates. Human asks AI
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by ericmcer 5mo ago
Marketing team can vibe out PRs that engineers have to review and then shepherd out to production? Sounds tight I love the direction industry is heading lol.
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by ericmcer 5mo ago
I still play Starcraft 2 & some other games with my friends 1-2x a week when we have time. We do not fear cognitive decline during retirement.
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by ericmcer 5mo ago
Yeah but I mean... My dog gets excited and barks to let me know whenever someone is at the door. It might crush his spirit if he knew he is just a useless pet and his contribution is meaningless.
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by ericmcer 5mo ago
That's enterprise tech also? I wonder what adoption is like at older non-tech companies. The office next to mine is being used to teach a bunch of 20-30 year olds how to be insurance brokers using a powerpoint presentation. Copy paste
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by ericmcer 5mo ago
I... am not sure. Computers are machines that create order (like db tables) from the chaos of reality. Now we have LLMs that make computers spit out chaos as well. They don't have to though, we can still leverage LLMs to organize chaos
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by ericmcer 5mo ago
A woman who I used to talk to when I worked at a grocery store said something similar to me: "People will forget what was said but they never forget how they feel". We do get caught up in like "I shouldn't have said x or
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by ericmcer 5mo ago
you actually don’t want it to immediately stop because people say things like “hm” “yeh” during machine output. Maybe you say “no” to someone next to you and don’t want to interrupt output. To confidently interrupt I would want to assert th
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by ericmcer 5mo ago
I think he’s saying they are doing an insane level of complexity to shave ~100ms off response times in a scenario where that isn’t important and might even be a negative
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by ericmcer 5mo ago
yeh exactly, you cannot get a strong signal that a user is done speaking without some amount of “wait for 500ms of silence”. You could kick of processing and abandon if they continued talking, but that seems over optimized. 1-2s replies fee
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by ericmcer 5mo ago
I use pion thanks for making it! Curious if you thought their approach was necessary, it seemed like a ton of complexity to reduce one of the faster parts of a voice AI setup. Having a fast model and accurate VAD seems way more important th
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by ericmcer 5mo ago
those steps are what a RAG LLM agent setup excels at. If tech companies invested 10% of what they have in AI assisted coding tools into AI assisted legal tools, they would be able to do those steps easily. It is definitely coming.
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by ericmcer 5mo ago
I dunno there are literally 100s of millions (billions?) of people who spend more than an hour per day just scrolling through social media feeds. How much does it cost to send a billion people an hour of video every day? Almost all of the r
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by ericmcer 5mo ago
"Engineering time is very expensive" I always wondered about this statement, like we are generally salaried and there is so many variables that affect how I spend my "time". None of us are machines that can do X work per
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by ericmcer 5mo ago
It is already bafflingly expensive. I interviewed at a place recently where they said the average dev was hitting $2k/mo in Claude code costs. That is no longer a helpful tool... it costs like ~15% of an actual dev. Even if it is helpi
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by ericmcer 6mo ago
It seems almost inevitable... Acknowledge it is normal? Attempt to buy deeper into the delusion ("Yeah my work is awesome and unique!"). Use stimulants to force enthusiastic days every once in awhile?
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by ericmcer 6mo ago
It is a nice thought, but still has a pre-requisite that there are "souls" floating around that get ensnared by human bodies. If that is true then life is a kind of prison we endure before being liberated by death. Even if we assu
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by ericmcer 6mo ago
The warmer ocean thing seems to be blanketing over the real issue: we are overfishing. Which is really heartening to me, because decreasing the temperature of the ocean seems daunting, but not dragging giant nets through the ocean nonstop s
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by ericmcer 6mo ago
They have "Law of Unintended Consequences" on this list which describes the same phenomena. I always liked the fence story better though.
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by ericmcer 6mo ago
DRY and KISS were right next to each other which I thought was funny.
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by ericmcer 6mo ago
Most of them felt contradictory and kind of antiquated. Reading through the list mostly made me feel sad. You can't help but interpret these through the modern lens of AI assisted coding. Then you wonder if learning and following (some
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by ericmcer 6mo ago
I never remotely believed this because I don't even believe in a "me" really. One hard hit in the head can literally change your personality entirely, then you have alzheimers and all the other degenerative brain diseases tha

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