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by jebarker 2y ago
> Would you still call them an artist if they commissioned another human actually skilled instead of an AI model? Nope, I'd call them a patron
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GenAI Art Is the Least Imaginative Use of AI Imaginable(hai.stanford.edu)
138 points by jebarker 2y ago|143 comments
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by jebarker 2y ago
Bookmarked - I don't want to miss a thing.
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by jebarker 2y ago
I'm really tired of the word "moat".
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by jebarker 2y ago
In principle I agree, in practice I haven't found an OS based filesystem mount that works as reliably as vscode. In particular, I mean the connection is relatively robust, reconnects automatically most of the time after an outage and e
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by jebarker 2y ago
Ugh, I know this feeling too well. I've been pretty successful in life so far by societal standards but have always felt inferior and like I'm failing. Always. I think partly that's responsible for the drive that enabled earl
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by jebarker 2y ago
One point in your story that I think is worthy of kudos is that you left Google. I’m not sure how certain the riches were at that point, but presumably you could have chosen to just ride that wave longer. That’s a really hard thing to do.
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by jebarker 2y ago
> partner, house, possessions, etc) - then you’ve got multiple other problems to solve I get the intent, but this made me laugh
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by jebarker 2y ago
This is really interesting (to me who knows nothing about procedural generation). I keep thinking that game development (being the most obvious use case for this) is the ultimate playground for polymaths.
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by jebarker 2y ago
Why did you quit?
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by jebarker 2y ago
The post I originally commented on literally made that comparison when describing the models as a massive productivity boost.
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by jebarker 2y ago
Thanks - this all makes sense - I still don't feel like this would constitute a massive productivity boost in most cases, since it's not fixing time consuming major issues. But I can see how it's nice to have.
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by jebarker 2y ago
Is that true? I'd like to think my commits are less burdensome to review than a fresh out of boot camp junior dev especially if all that's being done is fixing linter issues. Perhaps there's a small benefit, but doesn't
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by jebarker 2y ago
> code still needs to be reviewed and tested, at least as much as you'd scrutinize the code of a brand new engineer just out of boot camp > ..._massive_ boost to productivity. ~20% of the commits to the OpenHands codebase are now
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by jebarker 2y ago
They definitely don't visualize 24 dimensional spheres. When I did my PhD in pure math I found that gradually I just became comfortable working without any visual or spatial intuition and instead relying on the (algebraic and topologic
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by jebarker 2y ago
My pet theory is that this is the natural lifecycle of almost all companies and the reason for that is that they underappreciate the luck involved in their first success. There are a few exceptions in the form of zombies (typically relying
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by jebarker 2y ago
Good point
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by jebarker 2y ago
> Earning a couple of years of FAANG money opens one up to then just travel the world. If you can resist lifestyle inflation
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by jebarker 2y ago
This is a very pessimistic view of the world. In return for contributing to the needs of the colony you benefit from all the colony has to offer.
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by jebarker 2y ago
This isn't what the article proposes. The article is about top-down organization/planning versus individual programmers having the autonomy to figure out the next right thing to work on based on indicators left by prior work, e.g.
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by jebarker 2y ago
No it doesn't. It might involve giving up some of your individuality, but I don't think that's true either.
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by jebarker 2y ago
The backlash Wolfram always gets bugs me a little bit. He's certainly verbose and self-aggrandizing, but he's thinking deeply about interesting questions. There are endless blog posts from dilettantes speculating about LLMs withou
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by jebarker 2y ago
The stages of life breakdown feels a bit too cookie cutter. Certainly it's a common progression, but it's also possible that choices in your 20s/30s mean that you need to make up for lost career/financial time whilst sti
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by jebarker 2y ago
I don't believe that we should all be off in the woods on our own. Quite the opposite. I think human society is an incredible thing but it requires contribution from those involved in it.
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by jebarker 2y ago
As others have commented, this seems way too hard to achieve. But it warms my heart to see web developers caring about performance.
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by jebarker 2y ago
> Most of them are happy with that, but most of them also remember the freedom they had in college The freedom you have in college is a shallow, parasitic kind of freedom. College is the apex point of your being an uncontributing member
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by jebarker 2y ago
He should put his money where his mouth is. Give it all away. That'll really change the world for the better and then he'll get to prove his entrepreneurial greatness by doing it all again without that gnawing sense of security.
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by jebarker 2y ago
You're making an assumption that OP has the financial security to follow their desires rather than needs.
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by jebarker 2y ago
Figuring out what your company cares about can be surprisingly challenging
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by jebarker 2y ago
Not to mention that so much more modern software will fail due to requiring network connectivity to non-existent services

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