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by ineptech 4y ago
Man, you weren't kidding, thanks for posting this.
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by ineptech 4y ago
...the same could be said of call center and phone support jobs, which will affect about a zillion times more people than professional voice actors.
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by ineptech 4y ago
> https://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=Cohencidence : A play on 'coincidence' and the common Ashkenazi Jewish surname Cohen. Used to imply that Jews are behind certain events or movements that are pur
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by ineptech 4y ago
> ... nonhuman minds that might eventually outnumber, outsmart, obsolete and replace us... loss of control of our civilization... I don't think these concerns are very likely, but I find them considerably easier to imagine than a
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by ineptech 4y ago
> what happens if there's an error in your app? How do you identify sensitive data that needs to be handled differently to "basic" data? Nothing happens, and you don't. That's what I meant by "bad software&
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by ineptech 4y ago
Writing requirements is not usually done by staff+ engineers, is it? An awful lot of working software, the majority I'd guess, is built from requirements written by a non-technical PM who wasn't even in the software industry thre
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by ineptech 4y ago
I agree, people thinking about using LLMs to make apps that they can then sell are missing the forest for the trees. The more interesting question is, once non-technical people are able to auto-generate their own apps, what backend will the
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by ineptech 4y ago
I don't think your intuition is ambitious enough. We have 12 year olds making roguelikes and platformers today, with templates and toolkits. Sure the initial LLM-made apps will suck, the initial everything sucks, but a couple years o
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by ineptech 4y ago
It seems like we're pretty close to the point where LLMs will be able to create simple client apps. When anyone can make, say, an android note-taking app to their own specifications for free, it's not hard to imagine the impact o
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by ineptech 4y ago
> If i worked at openAI and had full access to everyones chats, I would get bored within five minutes and not even want to read anymore. No one is going to actually read them, but try "ChatGPT-5, please compile a list of the ChatG
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by ineptech 4y ago
Copyright-wise, why would the weights be any different from a video file? At the end of the day, LLaMa's weights and fast_and_furious_11.mp4 are both just strings of binary data that some company made to sell.
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by ineptech 4y ago
His whole schtick is that he engages with ideas, even terrible ones, on their own turf rather than just dismissing them. He was never "for" neoreaction, he started out against it and wrote lengthy essays from that perspective (it
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by ineptech 4y ago
Can anyone involved describe, perhaps more frankly than the linked site, what drove this? I think of unions as typically being a response to some kind of abusive behavior from management, and am wondering what it is in this case. Most of
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by ineptech 4y ago
Voice chatbots will replace phone trees in ~2 years, and most call-center workers within 5. Within a decade it will be almost literally impossible to look up a phone number associated with a business, call it, and speak to a human.
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by ineptech 4y ago
I don't think the author quite groks the map/territory distinction that Korzybski goes on and on about. > A map shows you everything at once. The order of events matters on a journey. Knowing your way around a place isn't
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by ineptech 4y ago
It might be helpful to read this recent HN submission and its comments: > Stop the Medicare “Advantage” Scam Before Medicare Is Dead https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35001728
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by ineptech 4y ago
I don't think oversight comes from shareholders or the CEO, it comes from the customers, right? The desired outcome here is for the companies that banked with SVB to demand more caution from their next bank, meaning they'll pay h
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by ineptech 4y ago
Nothing about what I'm proposing would make you easier to track.
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by ineptech 4y ago
First, I don't think you're being realistic about how tracking works nowadays. Google will will link your new "anonymous" account to your established tracking profile as soon as you access it from a device or geographic
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by ineptech 4y ago
> ...That must never be allowed to happen. I empathize with these concerns but think they're outdated by a decade or two. We already have universal tracking IDs, we just don't see them because they're opaque and proprieta
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by ineptech 4y ago
The hard part isn't storing it, the hard part is updating it. What do you do when the automated process fails due to a corner case, like your angry ex using your phone to reset your credentials? The government solution might be annoy
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by ineptech 4y ago
Nobody really wants government-run auth, but we need it nonetheless. For extreme cases like having your identity stolen, the solution of last resort is "go to a place and talk to a human." No tech company will pay all those sala
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by ineptech 4y ago
There's probably some middle ground between "bank-scale KYC" and "people don't steal credit card numbers, do they?". You really think their current process can't be improved on? With all of their billio
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by ineptech 4y ago
According to whom? The organization that can't distinguish bad actors from good? I mean, you may be right, but he point is, they could do it, they just choose not to because it would be unprofitable.
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by ineptech 4y ago
Lacking a technical fix, isn't this fundamentally a KYC problem? There's an arms race of fraud against banks and financial companies, but it seems like they're managing okay.
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by ineptech 4y ago
Wave equations don't exist in the real world, nor do they collapse. The photon doesn't decide which slit to go through when you look at it. Electrons don't spin. Quarks don't have colors. Those are stories we tell ou
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by ineptech 4y ago
I liked the essay, but I don't think I'm "falling for it" because it's not trying to convince me of anything. It's proposing a way of looking at things that may or may not be useful. You don't judge mode
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by ineptech 4y ago
The point is that the popularity of that joke will make life hard for a hypothetical questioner that asks that non-jokingly, i.e. looking for actual examples of sticky brown things.
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by ineptech 4y ago
I think you're taking it way too literally. The author is proposing a model that [allegedly] does a good job of explaining why we see unexpected behavior, not a description of what they think is happening. I think charitable reading
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by ineptech 4y ago
This makes it sound like the wealthy colluded against the masses, which I don't think is accurate. It's a coordination trap: each individual is doing what's in their individual best interest, but the result is collectively b

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