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by jacobr1 3y ago
Blindly following a trend will likely not end well. But even with previous hype cycles, those companies that identified good use cases, validated those use cases, and had solid execution of the projects leaped ahead. Big Data was genuinely
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Well, if I see a clip on youtube claiming to be from Disney ... it really might not be. If I see a photo on twitter claiming to come from the Washington Post, it might not be. If I see a photo in my facebook feed of a rioter, did it come fr
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That ... might be all we get though. If anybody can produce artificial, but realistic content that is indistinguishable from something the real thing, then all we might have is our willingness to trust any given originator/distributor
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CAI is roughly the kind of scheme I was suggesting. Thanks for the reference. My take is that proving authenticity might not be something we can do with any degree of accuracy in a general sense. So if that is infeasible, then we need _some
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Yeah, you need adoption for it to work, and that in tern means there needs to be some kind of financial or regulatory incentive. But it does seem to me to be more technically feasible. Fingerprinting AI seems ... just not workable at this p
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I think you'd need device levels keys. You couldn't trust any particular image ... but you could perhaps know where it came from, which you gives you a better substrate upon which to infer trust.
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We need to focus on the other direction. How can we have chains of trust for content creation, such as for real video. Content can be faked, but not necessarily easily faked from the same sources that make use of cryptographic signing. The
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Part of the problem is that we have very vague notions of what "reasoning" actually means. If you mean simple deductive logic ... LLMs can often perform such operations today, albeit highly inconsistently. If you mean inductive re
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A sci-fi series I read on occasion uses term "artificial stupids"
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Manufactured goods are genuinely higher quality and/or cheaper. Services are more expensive. Zero-sum type good (housing in most metros) are higher, for complex reasons, but boiling down to the ratio of availability to demand. But if y
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It just shows the tension in improving efficiency. You can use the gain to do the same thing with lower cost. Or you can spend the same, and get more. For most people, it seem we are psychologically disposed to use the improvement for more.
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I find this position is usually more along the lines of "I want my choices curated for me"
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>I think that the article posted is people acting rationally based on the incentives and markets in their life. The position is that many people do _not_ act rationally. So the argument is make the choices that are best for most the defa
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by jacobr1 3y ago
I've enjoyed both environments. Having an in-person, highly engaged, collaborative environment is fantastic. Having a remote first, well-considered remote team is great. But having a mostly in-person, and some-people remote setup, wher
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Sure, but the problem is that the UAW is likely wrong. Their work, relative to its substitutes is of lower value to the company on the margin. It is also why the NBA doesn't compensate, say the concessions workers millions, they can mo
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Because the pool for a CEO hire is much smaller, than "people with MBAs" as has been floated in thread elsewhere. If you want to hire a CEO, you either usually are looking either at A) A CEO of another company with experiences rel
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Or for this audience, the tech industry, where in-demand skills are often bid up in the form of higher salaries.
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That is generally how it works though. The buyer wants to pay as little as possible and seller wants the maximum. That works in most circumstances. In the case hiring, in a tight labor market, there are more open roles than people, so the c
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The problem is that even if the only thing you care about is money ... this is often a poor strategy. Because, achieving the "same result" is rarely something that is actually accomplished. The expertise provided by senior folks a
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Right, even if they disagree with a particular trend, they probably have tremendous pressure to to conform. Going an independent path is very difficult and requires strong leadership skills and political capital.
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The bigger problem was deadwood employees, but deadwood projects and middle-managers who built out their fiefdoms. The smarter approach would have been to do a better job moving around the best employees in more comprehensive reorg. But tha
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One thing to consider for SFDC, the layoffs took a while to percolate. It was many months before the international employee base was impacted, especially in the EU, do to local labor laws.
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I agree with the feeling everything still seeming to be unsettled, but the interest rate environment is actually closer to "normal" today than the recent past. The extreme low-rate environment was the outlier, not today. The chang
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In those cases, they always would be in caps. So you get LAA and IAA, which are indeed distinct in the typeface. Nevertheless they (and most other typefaces) should have avoided the ambiguity.
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They built Arcade+ in part to provide alternative to microtransaction games.
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But for the qr-code manuals, how often do you refer to them? I see those regularly too, but pretty much never use them. Similarly for restaurants - in my area, while there temporarily were big a few years ago - I don't really see any p
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> you've failed Yes, and this is very common > potentially stoppable So this is a key difference. ShapeUp is much more focused on Actually Shipping vs `potentially`
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One of the bigger issues with Scrum style agile, is that very rarely does it reach the maturity where "everything is delivered within a sprint." Even if you complete all the cards without carryover or other issues, the product isn
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Yes this is the hard part. Any change to existing rights is very politically difficult to accomplish.
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There is already a great way to do this: prices! The market isn't perfect, but with commodities it really does seem to function. We don't need artificial usage limits, we just need to charge for water on the open market. Reserve w

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