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by estearum 3mo ago
What do those residential electricians do then? Become baristas?
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by estearum 3mo ago
You don't work in construction do you? Lack of skilled tradesmen is a widespread problem and a major source of project delay (on top of massively higher housing production costs). I assume next comes the zoning-causes-all-shortages and
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by estearum 3mo ago
You should! Indeed it was generous.
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by estearum 3mo ago
You're using a lot of words to describe the same dynamic that I just described. Yes, they want to put these things near existing power infrastructure (ie cities), but per NIMBYs they cannot. To the extent they can use existing power
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by estearum 3mo ago
Putting fucktons of energy infrastructure in the middle of nowhere for a gigantic room to employ like 100 people is not really the positive-externality dream of previous infrastructure booms
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by estearum 3mo ago
Considering we are in a gigantic housing shortage, it would be great if a house didn't have to compete for talent with a data center.
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by estearum 3mo ago
Getting more and more fun to see the "full steam ahead" people contort into more impressive shapes. Hint: If the labs making these technologies are incentivized to create or allow attacks on other services, then that is actually
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by estearum 3mo ago
I don't think the "bottom line" of "a model escaped containment and then successfully attacked someone else's production infrastructure" is a description of the specific vulnerability and exploit. That's l
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by estearum 3mo ago
The government does help (to the tune of trillions of dollars per year) with their health care.
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by estearum 3mo ago
Cute snark but no you don't, nor does anyone else who speaks to you. People self-repair their speech in 10% to nearly 40% of speech turns. The upper end is for cognitively demanding communication but the lower bound is very normal. Goo
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by estearum 3mo ago
Yes virtually every person I've ever talked to about this had the same initial reaction
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by estearum 3mo ago
You are struggling to hold the thread, I'm afraid. Have a good night!
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by estearum 3mo ago
You just said like two comments ago you have no experience with this. Not sure why you keep acting like you do.
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by estearum 3mo ago
Maybe you lost the thread, but this is a conversation about using dictation (specifically modern dictation tools like Whisper derivatives) to prompt coding agents.
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by estearum 3mo ago
Right. So the crux of the issue here is you have no experience with what's being discussed, while I do. Sheesh, imagine thinking you choose not to rewind time and "edit" the speech that has already come out of your mouth lm
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by estearum 3mo ago
But it's literally not. You already correct yourself and revise your speech in an append-only rolling edit. You do it all day every day for decades. Versus never writing in this way. Have you tried the voice-based prompting, as I&#
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by estearum 3mo ago
How frequently do you write in a stream of consciousness and not hit backspace? Maybe give a ballpark estimate of characters typed per week in this manner versus characters typed where you are doing some combination of: 1) thinking about wh
528.
by estearum 3mo ago
Correct, it's no different from how you normally write, except for the ways in which it is. We agree.
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by estearum 3mo ago
I mean we don't need to do any epidemiological studies here or anything. If someone hasn't tried it, they should. It's probably quite different from how they're expecting, might be great, and costs basically nothing. Try
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by estearum 3mo ago
Seems much harder to learn how to write how you never write, versus just learning to speak to a computer the same way you speak to anything else.
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by estearum 3mo ago
I highly recommend getting a boom mic that you can keep right up against your mouth and literally whisper into. Take a few weeks just doing stream-of-consciousness prompting into it like this. Don't worry about editing or backtracking
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by estearum 3mo ago
These are all interrelated points and the sibling comment is correct: it's a skill. The key thing with these voice systems is that you do not need to edit anything. You can literally just stream of consciousness into them, no editing,
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by estearum 3mo ago
Have you tried using Wispr or Willow (or any one of a thousand alternatives?) A little odd at first but absolutely amazing for the purpose of piling context into an LLM.
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by estearum 3mo ago
Uhh... there's a truly gigantic gap between the shit end of "has confounders" and the good end of "has confounders", and locating where a particular study lands on that spectrum is a foundational skill to evaluating
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by estearum 3mo ago
If you actually copy/pasted the "quoted" text from my comment, you will have found I said something different from what you claimed. Virtually any study has an obvious potential for selection bias. That's why people writ
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by estearum 3mo ago
Not sure. Sounds like more study is warranted.
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by estearum 3mo ago
What gave you the impression I'm mad? I'm providing a useful comment explaining why the answer to the zero-value "controlling for confounders right? harharhar" top Reddit comment is always "no." Unless it'
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by estearum 3mo ago
> Obviously reading improves reading and if kid has phone it doesn't read (books), but plays games or watch videos. We've been wrong about "obvious" things many many times before. And even in this article they refer t
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by estearum 3mo ago
Why don't you read the study and raise the specific confounders you think are missing? The answer is universally "no", there's no such thing as "controlling for [all] confounding variables" without blinded rand
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by estearum 3mo ago
> So yes, kids growing up in areas where Oxycontin abuse is prevalent will be much, much, more aware of what that technology does (both the good and the bad) than an adult who is encountering it for the first time. The adult will be way

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