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by jprete 3y ago
The difference between all of those other mechanisms and surge pricing is customer expectations and control. All of the discount systems you talk about are predictable, so the customer doesn't need to spend any energy re-evaluating the
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by jprete 3y ago
In this case her late husband left that specific direction.
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by jprete 3y ago
It's a difficult pivot to make because it really is not the same job, one of them is still fundamentally about tech and the other is not.
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by jprete 3y ago
Spreadsheets aren't fundamentally different from programming, though. It's one thing to have a nice neat way to see all (or many of) the variables at once and do computations on them. It's quite another to have fuzzy AI progr
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by jprete 3y ago
I actually like this answer way better since I don't have to wade through three paragraphs of the medical version of corpspeak.
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by jprete 3y ago
I think that case is complicated at best, because a lot of things people say are group identity markers and not statements of truth. People also learn to not say things that make their social group angry with them. And it's difficult t
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by jprete 3y ago
This is more or less Pournelle's Iron Law of Bureaucracy. https://www.jerrypournelle.com/reports/jerryp/iron.html
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by jprete 3y ago
Why, exactly, do you believe that AI will be more just than human judges?
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by jprete 3y ago
I'm talking about ML training. I think human training is expressly covered by fair use (i.e. copying for educational purposes). Sorry for the confusion, I misread your comment.
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by jprete 3y ago
I can't understand how anyone thinks we're capable of aligning AGI when we can't even align tech founders. Corporations are a proto-AGI, and they're the least aligned entities I can think of.
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by jprete 3y ago
The blockchain merely robbed naive people of their money. Stuffing AI into dating is an even stronger way to commodify people than dating apps themselves were.
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by jprete 3y ago
Lots of people have said that it's illegal to train on copyrighted material without a license to it. Also, performance licenses for movies, plays, recorded music, and copyrighted scores are all required. The lack of copying is not rele
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by jprete 3y ago
OpenAI built it for a combination of their own gratification and cold hard cash. What do you think motivates AI researchers? What do you think motivates OpenAI employees now? Sam Altman? Microsoft?
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by jprete 3y ago
But that's the thing, prompt formulation is not engineering in the sense I'm talking about. We know why a plane flies, we know why an engine turns, we know how a CPU works - mostly. We don't know how GenAI gets from the promp
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by jprete 3y ago
It's sad that you cannot even get through the workflow that gives them money. They must be in absolutely terrible shape.
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by jprete 3y ago
I think the idea is that if Google makes it easier to find human-authored content on Reddit, astroturfers and other spammers will have even more reason to post there.
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by jprete 3y ago
Do you have a reference on this?
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by jprete 3y ago
AI is not an engineered system; it's emergent behavior from a system we can vaguely direct but do not fundamentally understand. So it's natural that the boundaries of system behavior would be a topic of conversation pretty much al
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by jprete 3y ago
Sam Altman is one of the founders, so for your impression to be right he'd have to be sidelining his own hopes.
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by jprete 3y ago
If you use a calculator without knowing what addition or multiplication mean, then that's also a serious problem.
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by jprete 3y ago
This is why I find chatbots to be very creepy. I can't help but have some kind of empathy for it, even though it's a machine and doesn't have feelings. I really do not need that kind of confused thinking in my brain. (Similar
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by jprete 3y ago
Cheats and hacks aren't the same as bots. Even a cheater wants to engage with other players. Bot players are only there to farm items or leveled characters for sale as quickly as possible.
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by jprete 3y ago
The interpretation is not correct, according to this comment: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39422210
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by jprete 3y ago
I'm reminded of a recent news story where scammers used multiple AI deepfakes on video calls to convince someone in a financial corporation to transfer them some 25 million dollars. So I'm thinking it's possible to do this _r
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by jprete 3y ago
I don't think the parent comment is suggesting anything about trying to make the Middle East democratic.
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by jprete 3y ago
Good point.
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by jprete 3y ago
You mean like they stopped trusting the Internet, or YouTube videos, or newspapers, or old broadcast TV news? Except they didn't, because it's impossible to live life successfully without information sources beyond one's eyes
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by jprete 3y ago
Have you considered what an enormous jump in career that is? Or that all the people who already started building AI products are being obsoleted by OpenAI a year after they started?
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by jprete 3y ago
I can't imagine Paul Graham actually thought through the scenario he's describing. The kids of the parents who lost their jobs, throwing their lives into disarray and desperation, are not going to be the primary recipients of the
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by jprete 3y ago
I've abandoned all online content sources except HN, Substack, and YouTube. The latter two are aggressively filtered and still feel like they're getting less interesting over time. HN isn't the best habit, either, but it&#x27

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