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by jjaksic 1y ago
How would you make porn that isn't "objectifying"? Would you add an hour of prologue showing actors going to work, hanging out with friends, having hobbies etc, to show they are aren't just "sex objects"? I don
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by jjaksic 1y ago
I don't know if porn really affects population growth. There are so many other factors that do that to a much greater extent, such as: 1) gender equality and women working, 2) education, 3) contraception, 4) lower child mortality, 5) t
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by jjaksic 1y ago
This reminds me of a recent conversation we had at work where someone suggested that at some point all backend APIs are going to get replaced by a single LLM that'll just do anything (if you ask it nicely enough).
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by jjaksic 1y ago
Define "impact on the world". Facebook has massive impact (arguably net-negative). I haven't heard of BASF since 5.25 floppies, though I'm sure they produce some very important things. Did you mean positive impact? Physi
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by jjaksic 1y ago
> It's a big loss if a user has to wait 3 months for a bugfix This is incredibly short-sighted. You're talking about 1 user 3 months, and you think that's "big" ? I'd say it's a much bigger loss if the
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by jjaksic 1y ago
A person who points out flaws is not an asshole. An asshole is a person who breaks rules and who breaks trust. We're talking about the latter, not the former.
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by jjaksic 1y ago
Since when is reasoning synonymous with invention? All humans with a functioning brain can reason, but only a tiny fraction have or will ever invent anything.
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by jjaksic 1y ago
"Solving novel problems" does not mean "solving world problems that even humans are unable to solve", it simply means solving problems that are "novel" compared to what's in the training data. Can you reas
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by jjaksic 1y ago
By that definition is OpenAI also censoring small websites? What about Washington Post, is it censoring small websites? Because I sure can't see them in any of those places.
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by jjaksic 1y ago
Cool. If you do this with an LLM, someone will pay you a lot of money.
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by jjaksic 1y ago
One tech company once made a device similar to this, with a front-facing camera to be worn on one's chest. It worked great in tests. Then right before launch they realized that women had breasts, which made the whole concept useless. W
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by jjaksic 1y ago
I hope you followed its instructions. I'm very curious what this "transaction machine" is. Probably something novel and very cool.
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by jjaksic 1y ago
Netanyahu is most definitely no angel and he's in large part responsible for the current situation including Oct 7 by propping up Hamas for his own political gain. However, what it happening in Gaza is not ethnic cleansing. Ethnic clea
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by jjaksic 1y ago
I am most definitely not justifying Netanyahu and how he's handling this. In fact he helped prop up Hamas and made them as powerful as they are for his own political gain. However, Hamas is a truly awful terrorist organization that def
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by jjaksic 1y ago
I think many people shower too often and needlessly waste water and heating energy. I shower when I begin to itch or smell. Showering when you're not dirty is wasteful.
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by jjaksic 1y ago
I can see some potential value add in this space. Whenever you're going somewhere new and/or you don't already know your exact itinerary upfront, you would (nowadays) typically ask an AI bot for recommendations, and those are
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by jjaksic 1y ago
Yes, I was in this place too when I had a consulting company. We bid on projects with quotes for high quality work and guaranteed delivery within the agreed timeframe. More often than not we got rejected in favor of some students who submit
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by jjaksic 1y ago
GPTs are language models, not "fact and truth" models. They don't even know what facts are, they just know that "if I use this word in this place, it won't sound unusual". They get rewarded for saying things th
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by jjaksic 1y ago
I think AI can be an amazing tool that can help us learn even better when used correctly and when not used as a substitute for learning and understanding. It can be used as a personal tutor. How awesome is it to have a tutor always availab
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by jjaksic 2y ago
One thing that LLMs seem to be missing, even after ingesting the whole web, is the super-basic knowledge that every human learns before the age of 3. Most of that stuff in not written anywhere, because it's totally obvious to anyone wh
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by jjaksic 2y ago
When it starts saying, "I'm sorry Dave, I'm afraid I can't do that," that's when we're really in trouble.
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by jjaksic 2y ago
Yes, this! I wanted to join Threads as an alternative to Twitter, but I changed my mind when it tried to force me to create an Instagram account. I don't want an Instagram account because I think posting or looking at people's p
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by jjaksic 4y ago
The universe is Minecraft with cubes the size of 1 Planck length. How much would it take to simulate that? Another 100 years of Moore's law?
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by jjaksic 7y ago
Startup culture has become fairly mainstream, thanks to shows like "Silicon Valley"; but there aren't any humorous books about "making the world a better place" by becoming seemingly rich, so we decided to create on
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“Life of a Silicon Valley Hipster” Picture Book(kickstarter.com)
5 points by jjaksic 7y ago|1 comments
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by jjaksic 10y ago
Yes, changing requirements, scope creep etc.