jimbokun

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by jimbokun 5mo ago
I lived two decades before 1990. Life was better then than it is now. But the 1990s were arguably the high point.
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by jimbokun 5mo ago
It doesn’t have to be an American but it does have to be a direct employee of the company ideally working in the same time zone as management and the people defining the requirements.
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by jimbokun 5mo ago
The “American tier” labor of course is distributed across the world and the top performers in every nation find ways to get paid at something approaching American salary levels. Look at all the international FAANG offices paying high salar
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by jimbokun 5mo ago
Legal approvals won’t be in that category. You still want someone whose ass is on the line if they get it wrong.
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by jimbokun 5mo ago
That’s very unimpressive return on investment compared to what was promised.
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by jimbokun 5mo ago
My Dad was in the hospital, and just wanted to watch the Pirates play. The TV was filled with apps, some of them free to watch, others demanding a subscription and log in once you selected something. None of them had the Pirates game. I wa
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by jimbokun 5mo ago
I doubt having to replace every single chip in your data center every time you release a new model will bring down costs.
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by jimbokun 5mo ago
That’s on the order of 1% to %2 of global GDP per year just to pay for their hardware commitments.
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by jimbokun 5mo ago
And then you go out of business because you were busy rewriting Netscape Navigator while Microsoft was churning out new versions of Internet Explorer.
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by jimbokun 5mo ago
It’s in the same spirit of citing your sources in academic writing. Indicating what you’re taking from a prior source and which parts are your individual contributions.
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by jimbokun 5mo ago
Maybe it’s part of the things required by their job description to understand.
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by jimbokun 5mo ago
I’m just wondering how those people don’t understand they are strongly signaling their job can be fully done by an LLM.
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by jimbokun 5mo ago
You should abso-fucking-lutely use sources and cite them when trying to answer questions. What is this macho bullshit of pretending like you have memorized all information you might ever need and looking something up is a sign of inadequacy
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by jimbokun 5mo ago
Humans are already forgetting how to Human.
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by jimbokun 5mo ago
I’ve had similar experiences with Spring Boot Java applications. Methods in stack traces that don’t exist in source code but are magicked into existence by annotations.
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by jimbokun 5mo ago
I’m sure the LLM that translated the code was ecstatic!
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by jimbokun 5mo ago
Makes sense as priming is at the core of how an LLM is trained. “Given these words, predict the next word.”
528.
by jimbokun 5mo ago
This is dumb. The way a psychopath’s brain works will be far more similar to another human brain than an LLM will.
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by jimbokun 5mo ago
We know other humans reason something like us because we know how we ourselves reason through the most direct experience possible and know that our fellow humans are very similar to us.
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by jimbokun 5mo ago
I’m just using the term those people use to identify themselves.
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by jimbokun 5mo ago
Even if you do think the other side is evil in many of their beliefs and actions, you still may need to work with them on issues where you find agreement. Like diplomacy with regimes you find reprehensible may still be preferable to war.
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by jimbokun 5mo ago
Agree to disagree. I don’t think “global” fixes ever work well. In practice throwing out everything and starting from scratch just makes the overall situation worse. Sustainable, lasting progress happens incrementally.
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by jimbokun 5mo ago
I think this is the best descriptor for the philosophy of the Abundance movement.
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by jimbokun 5mo ago
Oh, just “fix government”? Glad there’s a simple, easy to implement solution to solve this problem! One that hasn’t been considered or tried before!
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by jimbokun 5mo ago
We need to force the executives and engineers working at Anthropic and other AI companies to read this encyclical and pass an exam demonstrating that they read it.
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by jimbokun 5mo ago
People meeting the definition of Software Engineer while having that title may be rare, but we certainly need more of them.
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by jimbokun 5mo ago
I’m only through the introduction but this encyclical makes clear everyone bears some responsibility to act, including but not limited to the builders.
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by jimbokun 5mo ago
You are welcome to your opinion, but human civilization was even more biased towards instrumentality before the broad spread of Christianity. I am well aware of the abuses and scandals of Christian churches throughout history. I am also aw
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by jimbokun 5mo ago
You are referencing prehistoric times because there is no evidence to confirm or refute your claims. Most likely the same kind of Machiavellian political maneuvering was effective in those groups as well.
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by jimbokun 5mo ago
We need to find an organization to which software engineers can report corporations abusing these principles, that can then take legal action or at least disclose those practices to the general public.

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