jimbo808

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by jimbo808 4mo ago
We could also just not start wars and we wouldn't need to worry about missile production
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by jimbo808 4mo ago
No, I'm implying that people who maintain their own cars do it more efficiently. The simple stuff like cleaning has to be done by someone. It's not about doing a "worse job," it's about doing a more expensive job. W
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by jimbo808 4mo ago
I'm implying that drivers are more efficient at cleaning and maintaining, refueling, storing, repairing, and replacing their cars they own than the complex systems of personnel maintaining a much more expensive fleet of cars they don&#
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by jimbo808 4mo ago
Not a valid analogy. At all.
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by jimbo808 4mo ago
Not comparable at all. Autonomous driving isn't obviously a viable business. It's not because computer programs can't drive well, it's because the and workforce infrastructure required to maintain and operate the expensi
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by jimbo808 4mo ago
The huge disadvantage they have over people is that their cars cost $250k, require a workforce of people to retrieve and repair them, maintain them, clean them, monitor them, etc. They are more expensive to operate than a normal car with a
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by jimbo808 5mo ago
As far as businesses go, I'd say Palantir finds itself somewhere between "extremely ethically dubious" and "overtly, transparently evil."
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by jimbo808 5mo ago
It's a U.S. domestic surveillance operation, disguised as a defense contractor. Or really, it's not disguised at all. The company is named after Tolkein's palantíri, so they weren't being shy about it. It's a compan
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by jimbo808 5mo ago
Ha. That's what everyone thinks before they've needed the police.
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by jimbo808 5mo ago
Could be accurate but governments can be profoundly incompetent even with great capability at their disposal
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by jimbo808 6mo ago
AI is massively asymmetric in its benefits, which are overwhelmingly concentrated among those with extreme capital, and the authoritarians they're aligned with. The benefits for them include: - replacing workers with lower quality (but
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by jimbo808 6mo ago
It's your point of view.
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by jimbo808 7mo ago
Maybe I'm insane or it's my age, but I can't watch new movies/shows without just seeing propaganda agendas at every turn. Really kills it for me.
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by jimbo808 7mo ago
You're right that world models are the bottleneck, but people underestimate the staggering complexity gap between modeling the physical world and modeling a one-dimensional stream of text. Not only is the real world high-dimensional, c
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by jimbo808 7mo ago
They can't really not talk about it, it's a world war unfolding. It's going to affect every person alive. But as much as it can be, it is absolutely being mitigated in traditional media.
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by jimbo808 7mo ago
> until it's too late. I'm afraid it's far too late.
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by jimbo808 8mo ago
They already got a clear signal when they fired him. It's baffling that they did an about face when the red flags were all there.
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by jimbo808 8mo ago
It sounds better in the news when you do a raid. These things are generally not done for any purpose other than to communicate a message and score political points.
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by jimbo808 8mo ago
It's a pretty easy category to identify, some warning signs: - You rarely write loops at work - Every performance issue is either too many trips to the database or to some server - You can write O(n^n) functions and nobody will ever no
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by jimbo808 8mo ago
Also, the assumption that you can do ___ thing (tests, some dumb agent framework, some prompting trick), and suddenly magically all of the problems with LLMs vanish, is very wrong and very common.
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by jimbo808 8mo ago
Internal tools do suck as far as usability, but you can bet your ass they work if they're doing things that matter to the business, which is most of them. Almost every enterprise system hooks into the finance/accounting pipeline t
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by jimbo808 8mo ago
I have read this same comment so many times in various forms. I know many of them are shill accounts/bots, but many are real. I think there are a few things at play that make people feel this way. Even if you're in a CRUD shop w
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by jimbo808 8mo ago
Forced? It's been a delight. I'd say if anything, I've only ever felt forced to use MacOS or Windows, never forced to use Linux.
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by jimbo808 8mo ago
Who could have possibly anticipated this?
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by jimbo808 8mo ago
As long as you pretend these didn't happen: Iran (1953) - overthrow of the Shah by the CIA Guatemala (1954) - overthrow of an elected government on behalf of US corporate interests Cuba (1961) - invaded Cuba via proxy forces, attempted
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by jimbo808 8mo ago
A$ap Rocky's music videos have some really good examples of how AI can be used creatively and not just to generate slop. My favorite is Taylor Swif, it's a super fun video to watch. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=
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by jimbo808 8mo ago
I think we massively downplay the experience and expertise required to ask the right question.
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by jimbo808 8mo ago
Yep - no doubt that LLMs are useful. I use them every day, for lots of stuff. It's a lot better than Google search was in its prime. Will it translate to massively increased output for the typical engineer esp. senior/staff+)? I d
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by jimbo808 8mo ago
Humans are unreliable in predictable ways. This makes review relatively painless since you know what to look for, and you can skim through the boilerplate and be pretty confident that it's right and isn't redundant/insecure,
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by jimbo808 8mo ago
> which is going to blow out the economics on inference At this point, I don't even think they do the envelope math anymore. However much money investors will be duped into giving them, that's what they'll spend on compute

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