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by ff317 2y ago
There's two issues here still, IMHO: 1) The LLM owners really can't guarantee that it won't directly plagiarize without attribution or licensing. Your code may contain a unique algorithm or method for solving something, and
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by ff317 3y ago
Yeah this is the angle I look at the most, the Humans+Internet combo. I don't believe LLMs will really get us much of anywhere, Singularity-wise. They're just ridiculously inefficient in terms of compute (and thus power) needs to
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by ff317 3y ago
Maybe rather than focusing so much on how to detect AI-generated content, we should instead focus on our general ability to validate the truthiness of content regardless of source. I don't really care if an AI wrote it, so long as the
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by ff317 3y ago
Personally (as someone who was high-school aged in the early 90s): 1. FidoNet BBSes were one early pre-Internet form ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FidoNet ). Even once the early Internet was up and running for some,
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by ff317 3y ago
I generally agree, but I tend to turn the perspective around to this: truly "Free Markets" are basically the natural, unevolved state of affairs when you don't have a better system in place. The whole reason we invented thos
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by ff317 3y ago
I have no data, but I would hypothesize that the generational advantages do not disappear easily, even if a large chunk of the monetary value does. Even just looking at from a purely monetary angle: maybe generation two manages to "los
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by ff317 3y ago
I bought a new-construction place, and I was around during the process. After they were done with all the plumbing/wiring/etc, but before they filled in the insulation and sheetrock, I walked the whole house and took cellphone pi
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by ff317 3y ago
We don't need M&Ms in the checkout aisle to feed and house 8B people on this planet. Don't conflate what I'm saying with a general anti-business sentiment. There are many kinds of economic transactions that occur. The b
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by ff317 3y ago
The whole sugar/candy industry is unethical in my mind. It may take some decades for society to catch up, but eventually eating sugar the way we do today will be seen like smoking and the tobacco industry.
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by ff317 3y ago
I should make responsible decisions as an adult, but it's still fair to call that grocery store's actions unethical, and that maybe they should be regulated if they can't be ethical on their own.
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by ff317 3y ago
Arguably, adults are worth protecting as well. A lot of marketing and even design intent for adult products is also extremely misleading and intentionally designed to prey on our collective fallibility. In that sense, it's at the ver
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by ff317 3y ago
I can give a real datapoint: Family of 4 in TX, suburban neighborhood, and we drive a ton of mileage (~25-30K/year) running kids around town and the occasional roadtrips. ~2 years ago, we financed solar panels on the roof, and around
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by ff317 3y ago
I'll still write bash, but only if it's very trivial (~ <= 10-ish lines, no super-complex conditionals, etc). For anything else, it's worth stepping up to just about any more-robust language. If you don't like the h
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by ff317 3y ago
[Disclosure: I'm an engineer at Wikimedia involved with this project] Wikimedia hasn't actually formally launched or announced this project. We've been working on it in the background for a long time, and we've just rec
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by ff317 3y ago
I think we'll never stop extracting oil in the foreseeable future, we'll just be doing a lot less of it. There will always be corner cases where diesel or other oil derivatives (or NG) are the /only/ reasonable option f
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by ff317 3y ago
As they age, you're going to find a whole different level of arguing about how to raise kids on an every-other-week rotation with conflicting influences/decisions. Trust me, I've seen it. It can work, but you're gonna
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by ff317 3y ago
I think at the heart of that debate, there lies a kernel of the essential progressive vs conservative debate on "progress" (and I mean these terms in the abstract, not as a reference to current politics). Even if you buy into the
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by ff317 3y ago
No personal offense intended, but I really /hate/ this justification. "Open Source" should not be equated with "Hobby Projects". It should be possible to run large-scale important things on pure open source.
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by ff317 3y ago
The salaries are much larger than what gets put in the "hosting" line, which merely covers things like leasing cage space in datacenters and paying for transit/transport/peering links. I'm not gonna do another deep
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by ff317 3y ago
The hash is keyed and rotates once a day, so it's not a long-term history. And in any case, nobody's trying to build a unique tracker out of it on the other end, which is the main thing (even in our internal analytics, we even th
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by ff317 3y ago
I'm not saying it's easy or perfect, but Wikipedia does tracker-less analytics, and yet still produces https://stats.wikimedia.org/#/all-projects . We do use cookies for part of the analysis, but they're
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by ff317 3y ago
My retort would be: If you have a singular employee doing a certain unique job, or a very small handful, then it's pretty trivial to instead manage them directly on a human level. You don't need Orwellian tech tools to have conve
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by ff317 3y ago
I have yet to see any convincing argument for monitoring employee behavior/attentiveness/time, for any job role or level, really. The whole world needs to hurry up and learn that what matters is what your employees really accompli
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by ff317 3y ago
Someone has to link this here, so it may as well be me :) https://steve-yegge.blogspot.com/2006/03/execution-in-kingdo...
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by ff317 3y ago
Not to knock the amazing contributions of Tim, but IMHO Gopher and HyperCard had already laid a lot of the important concepts down in various suboptimal ways. I think there were enough smart people using both in the 90s that it was virtual
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by ff317 3y ago
Yes, but those are "real". Most peoples' life patterns are actually altered by week and weekend boundaries. Mar 1 this year fell mid-week on a Wednesday. It made no difference to most lives except that it made everyone&#x2
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by ff317 3y ago
I hear you, but: good software/services require continuous investment. It's kinda hard to set an up front one time price that covers that without it being ridiculously high. You're not buying one copy of a static piece of s
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by ff317 4y ago
I'll nitpick the "gold doesn't have intrinsic value" part: There's a limited supply of elemental gold on the planet, it takes some effort to extract it, and it has unique electro-chemical properties that make it pro
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by ff317 4y ago
Yeah, I figure if a bash script goes over ~10-20 lines, or involves really long lines, or quotes within quotes within quotes of different kinds, it's time to move on to Python or similar.
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by ff317 4y ago
Seems like it would be simpler to fix this with regulation on housing "investment". Don't allow large corporations to buy up giant counts of single family homes (taking them off the market and jacking up real estate bubbles)

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