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by gwright 3y ago
This seems to be a very naive view of the way people and organizations work. It is quite typical for managers to delegate projects/efforts/initiatives to a subordinate for the express purpose of giving them an opportunity to devel
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by gwright 3y ago
If we are going to expand the discussion to general inaccuracy in human communication we are going to need a much larger thread. I do agree with you that "serverless" is a misnomer and not a useful technical term. I'm guessin
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by gwright 3y ago
I think "fabricate" is much less aligned with cognition. It is completely reasonable to say that "This machine fabricates widgets." or "This algorithm fabricates pseudo-random song lyrics." without being worrie
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by gwright 3y ago
Maybe you are a large language model?
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by gwright 3y ago
That is an interesting point. I'm not sure why, but "hallucinate" doesn't bother me as much as "lie". Maybe it is because of all the ancillary baggage that "lie" has related to our current culture w
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by gwright 3y ago
I think it confuses things immensely to anthropomorphize large language models. LLMs don't lie or tell the truth they just spit out text that is in alignment with the training model. Don't give them agency they don't have.
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by gwright 3y ago
I noticed something similar while visiting Texas last year. We have an Amber alert in my home state but it is triggered maybe 3 times/year. When I was in Texas I received the alert 3 or 4 times in a couple of days. The people I was vi
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by gwright 3y ago
I'm a little rusty in this area, but I'm pretty sure you'll have a hard time getting a direct IP allocation (vs from your transit provider) unless you are multi-homed, which apparently they were not. There is a nice tick up
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by gwright 3y ago
> Its a language model and it fooled DH. It hasnt gotten smarter than us yet. Its just faster at repeating what other humans verbally said. One of my take aways from LLMs is that humans very often just repeating what other humans have sa
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by gwright 3y ago
Hofstadter makes the claim that "these LLMs and other systems like them are all feed-forward". That doesn't sound right to me, but I'm only a casual observer of LLM tech. Is his assertion accurate? FWIW, ChatGPT doesn&
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by gwright 3y ago
FWIW, we started using https://conventionalcomments.org a while back and found it to be a useful tool for making it easy to communicate what is an issue that needs to be fixed, a suggestion to consider, or a nitpick to optionall
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by gwright 3y ago
Nope, I'm actually pretty cynical about intentions. But the government can detain me, arrest me, tax me, fine me, etc. A corporation can't do any of that. I'm not sure what you really mean by "monopoly" or what sor
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by gwright 3y ago
Ok, now explain how free market economies have improved the quality of life and lifted more people out of poverty than any other economic system in history.
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by gwright 3y ago
Monopolies can only exist with government support via protection from competition. Expansive government power makes monopolies more likely and more stable than minimal government power.
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by gwright 3y ago
How do you define ‘power’. The unique aspect of government controls is that we grant the government a monopoly on force (imprisonment, seizure of property, etc). That is not the case with private actors and that is a significant and consequ
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by gwright 3y ago
One reason to advocate for a government with minimal power is to avoid the temptation to legislate preferential treatment. If the government has been granted more expansive powers, it is inevitable, and arguably rational, for those affected
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by gwright 3y ago
> In America, the socioeconomic class of people of non-white races has been systematically kept as low as possible, through racist systems. Affirmative action (race based admissions quotas) is one tool to breach that ceiling. According t
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by gwright 3y ago
> Burn it all down imo and let something else take its place. Probably hyperbole, but catastrophic failure of our economy/institutions/society isn't something I would choose to experience. This nihilistic attitude is dange
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by gwright 3y ago
Right, because nationalized industries/companies have a wonderful track record of environmental concern and practices? I'm not sure what the solution is to these problems (or this particular problem) but "nationalizing"
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by gwright 3y ago
I don't know how to easily quantify these things but your analysis ignores the other part of the transaction. The consumer of the photos (or ML generated text) benefits through the lower cost, easier access, increased project velocity
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by gwright 3y ago
This makes no sense to me. Tech workers have way more flexibility than many other types of workers. If you aren't comfortable with your employers practices, go find another employer. No need for a union to do that.
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by gwright 3y ago
> Mr. Geist also accused the government of burying the change, by putting it near the bottom of a nearly 450-page budget bill last spring. The government didn’t highlight the copyright act changes in any of its documents about that bill.
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by gwright 3y ago
All things are "the same" at some level of abstraction. But if you have to reach to a high level of abstraction to illustrate that the things are the same, I don't see that as a particularly insightful comparison. Sameness is
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by gwright 3y ago
That is quite the stretch to think those situations are "a bit [a]like".
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by gwright 3y ago
That math doesn't work -- at least until someone can demonstrate cost effective grid scale energy storage systems. In other words it is not cheaper and perhaps not greener (it isn't clear how green the production and long term
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by gwright 3y ago
https://cucumber.io/docs/guides/overview/
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by gwright 3y ago
Thank you for that example. I've been thinking a lot about how difficult it is to persuade people to change their mind. Most people seem impervious to incorporating new facts or ideas into their internal narrative (myself included). C
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by gwright 3y ago
I feel like your observation that this "isn't a complicated question" is leaning on an implicit assumption that ChatGPT is a general AI and not a LLM. It is just generating text based on probabilities -- it isn't "
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by gwright 3y ago
> But the internet seems a very biased sample. It also seems to me (acknowledging my lack of expertise) that LLMs trained from online resources are likely to weight text that is frequent vs text that represents "truth". Or per
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by gwright 3y ago
> I disagree with your confident assertions about its "agency" and "intent" when there's no goal post for what those things mean in humans to begin with. I'm not sure how confident I am! I think the success

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