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by feoren 3mo ago
"You can't possibly be right about something being mean, because you're negative about things". Do I have your argument correct?
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by feoren 3mo ago
As much as I hate the veneration of Steve Jobs, this is one thing he was good at. Does anyone seriously think the iPod and iPhone would have ended up the way they were if he was putting half-assed music players with bare wires in the hands
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by feoren 3mo ago
> Turns out I have ADHD You just magically found this out when the Mental Health Diagnosis Fairy visited you one night? You spent thousands of dollars for a neuropsych evaluation where the result was 40% reality, 40% chance, and 20% how
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by feoren 3mo ago
> If you never ship, how can you iterate? Our discipline has swung way too far in this direction. The useful insight of "watch your users use your product -- you will always be surprised about something" has turned into &quot
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by feoren 3mo ago
> you don't like to read? I assumed that people who enjoy software would be into intellectual stimulation but I've learned that this is wrong. So HN is OK with being extremely condescending toward others as long as it's a
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by feoren 3mo ago
> If a few CEO's wind up working at 7-11 to make rent money, all the better. There are CEOs who have only ever failed abysmally their entire careers, and they generally only ever make more money. Accountability is for losers.
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by feoren 3mo ago
> UBI is non-starter no matter what Sam Altman believes. Do you mean it's a non-starter in the current political climate? Or that you personally just don't think it will work?
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by feoren 3mo ago
I am criticizing a common pattern of thought that I observe, including in the post I responded to. "I'm against X in general, but in this case X is warranted" is a very dangerous thought process, and I believe a good way to
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by feoren 3mo ago
> there are plenty of software developers who offer lifetime purchases. In fact there was a time that subscriptions for software were virtually unheard of. There's a big difference between software you buy, run on your computer, an
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by feoren 3mo ago
I've taken the stance that garbage is garbage, whether written by a human or an AI. It's not like the internet wasn't chock full of insipid philosophy and astroturfing before LLMs were around. It seems like people are startin
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by feoren 3mo ago
You're not in favor of adding regulation, except when it comes to issues you understand and care about. All the oversight and regulation about everything you don't care and/or know about is big bad government overreach. Every
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by feoren 3mo ago
> all I heard was Biden-flation Listen to different sources then. It's weird to complain that when you listened to overt pathological liars, all you heard were lies.
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by feoren 3mo ago
> the best way to get cars off the road is to replace many if not most of their occupants with AI. I'm so confused by this. Instead of one person driving a car to the store and parking, now the car is driving itself to the store wit
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by feoren 3mo ago
What a hellscape we've created for ourselves. My job is to get out of the way of an AI agent? People were writing bad code before, but at least they were looking at it. It is very difficult to judge whether the code AI spits out is c
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by feoren 3mo ago
> They want it their way, despite there being multiple ways to Rome, and will cut off the conversation with orders, not arguments I don't know about your experiences, but insisting on this point can be a death sentence. I've sp
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by feoren 3mo ago
The difference is that Squenergy is not conserved.
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by feoren 4mo ago
A good abstraction? As in one? I'd go so far as to say the process of discovering and refining abstractions is the most important part of software engineering. A large project has dozens of abstractions, and some of them are "wron
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by feoren 4mo ago
Measuring output is what this whole post is about. 1. "If you have poor output, you won't last long. Here's what 'poor output' looks like..." 2. "But what if they have poor output because they're work
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by feoren 4mo ago
> I am the furthest thing from an Anarchist I know this is beside the point but I'm quite amused by this statement. Are you saying you're a totalitarian? I'm not trying to poke at you here; I'm genuinely interested wh
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by feoren 4mo ago
Absolutely: missing in-person learning due to COVID. Less attention span due to growing up in a distracting environment. A lower bar to entry due to removal of standardized testing and indirectly from No Child Left Behind. Changes in parent
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by feoren 4mo ago
The understanding is inside of the system, in LLMs and in the Chinese Room. I agree with Daniel Dennett that it's preposterous to say that Chinese is not understood in any meaningful sense in the Chinese Room scenario -- it's just
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by feoren 4mo ago
It is clear that consciousness is independent of the substrate if you don't believe in magic. We could make a very dumb biological calculator out of a few genetically-engineered neurons that would very obviously not be conscious. It&#x
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by feoren 5mo ago
> Are you conforming/obeying when you believe the Earth is round? That the sky is blue? No, I am incorporating multiple different lines of evidence from multiple sources, including my eyes, into a framework of knowledge that I am co
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by feoren 5mo ago
> remember, they were pulled over for driving erratically Maybe. Or they were pulled over for being black, or having tattoos, or being really hot, or because they criticized police brutality on social media, or because the officer needs
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by feoren 5mo ago
I mean, what I describe absolutely does exist, that's how LLMs work. The question is whether the relative weights are actually a good measure of confidence, and as the other reply to my comment points out, there are examples where it&#
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by feoren 5mo ago
> inhibit the police's ability to arrest drunk drivers They have breathalyzers and blood tests. Field sobriety tests are not there to help police arrest drunk drivers, they're there to help police arrest whomever they want to
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by feoren 5mo ago
The final output of the neural network part of an LLM is a vector with weights for every token, that is then usually softmaxed and picked from. Can we not quantify the uncertainty by looking at the distribution of weights of the top 10 opti
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by feoren 5mo ago
I think you're conflating opinions about when math is useful with opinions on the nature of math itself. Formalism does not assume that "all rules are equally valid". You can be a staunch formalist and yet still believe that
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by feoren 11mo ago
If this doesn't happen, are you going to accept that you were wrong, or are you going to ignore it and be off spreading unfounded anger about some other imagined offense?
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by feoren 11mo ago
Anyone can decide a statement is "ideological" just by disagreeing with it. The statement "the government can and should provide services to its people if those services are important to its future and the free market is inca

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