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811.
by jprete 3y ago
Employees gets legal protections that contractors can only dream of. Also, most contracts have specific terms of completion and duration. If the contractor screws up, you can sue them, withhold payments for lack of specific deliverables, or
812.
by jprete 3y ago
It’s not solved for the music industry at all! Publishers are perpetually looking for ways to give artists crappy deals on residuals, and artists make almost all their money on touring and merch. And that’s for the successful ones, most mus
813.
by jprete 3y ago
This would be nice if I didn't believe that it would be enshittified before it ever got off the ground. E.g.: * There will be a monthly fee for the interface; you owe the monthly fee as long as you have it, so you need surgery to stop
814.
by jprete 3y ago
I took one look at the snippet, saw a floating-point log operation and divisions applied to integers, and mentally discarded the entire snippet as too clever by half and inherently bug-prone.
815.
by jprete 3y ago
AI isn’t going to do better in current paradigms, it has exactly the same flaw.
816.
by jprete 3y ago
> I much prefer modern society over what they had. Commonly available running water, electricity, heating, insulation, the internet are some pretty nice things. This is totally, completely, utterly irrelevant to the GP's point.
817.
by jprete 3y ago
It’s known as promissory estoppel. The main reason promises are often not binding is that you can’t prove the other party said it. If you can prove the other party said it, and you “reasonably” relied on their statements, and suffered damag
818.
by jprete 3y ago
You mean like prompt engineering? What you’re describing as “clinging to an old way of things” is how every single thing has been, ever, new or old.
819.
by jprete 3y ago
When dealing with a tech where people have credible reasons to believe it can be enormously harmful on every possible time scale, maybe it would behoove them to not rocket down the interstate at 200mph?
820.
by jprete 3y ago
I personally don’t like speech-to-text because then you’re broadcasting every word you write to everyone around you. It might be better with a specially-trained model that uses stenographer-style compression that only you know, so drive-by
821.
by jprete 3y ago
A lot of the problem (for me at least) is that phone text-selection UIs are way too stateful. It’s very easy to mistime a tap and get a word select instead of selecting a different spot. It’s also very easy to misposition a tap and select t
822.
by jprete 3y ago
> As for cursor positioning, holding down the space bar on iOS works pretty well — although it took me a few years to learn about it. I did not know this and it’s a godsend. I have otherwise found iOS cursor positioning to be awful, espe
823.
by jprete 3y ago
I don’t know what would help you. But I do know that I avoid hard things by doing “productive” and easy things too much. It’s a good way to avoid failure, but it’s even better at avoiding success.
824.
by jprete 3y ago
What this does is create an entire generation conditioned to believe the camera is the reason they shouldn’t do that.
825.
by jprete 3y ago
Knowing you’re always being watched means that you can never figure out who you actually are because you’re continuously putting on a performance for the cameras.
826.
by jprete 3y ago
Sure, but you snuck an assumption in there. Just because AI is possible, or someone else will do it, doesn’t obligate us to build it. If we can’t make AI without risk of significant or existential harm, then we shouldn’t do it at all.
827.
by jprete 3y ago
I didn’t realize, I thought it was an ironclad rule to use the original title. Thank you.
828.
by jprete 3y ago
Leaving aside the convenient assumption that AI will take every job except CEO…this sounds insanely competitive and most people don’t have it in them to do this.
829.
by jprete 3y ago
The correct title is “Dirty Secrets of BookCorpus, a Key Dataset in Machine Learning”.
830.
by jprete 3y ago
X-risk concerns have been around for a long time and were not invented by AI marketeers. I agree that the marketeers are abusing the concept to try for regulatory lock-in and to make their products look maximally impressive.
831.
by jprete 3y ago
I think I remember there being an organizational structure where the outer organization was a non-profit and they separated out what is now OpenAI into a for-profit subsidiary with a profit cap of 100x investment. I still can't believe
832.
by jprete 3y ago
> As swyx observed, the “content flippening” — an event horizon when the majority of content you choose to consume is primarily AI generated/augmented rather than primarily human/manually produced — has now gone from unthinkabl
833.
by jprete 3y ago
I dislike OpenAI because they were founded to work on AI safety, and the most anti-safety thing you can possibly do is encourage competition over AI capabilities, which is exactly what they are doing over and over again.
834.
by jprete 3y ago
I don't know how long such a phase will last, and I don't think anyone should count on it.
835.
by jprete 3y ago
Claiming that someone doesn’t like collaboration because they don’t want to use ChatGPT is a very unreasonable and biased take.
836.
by jprete 3y ago
I’ve observed for a long time that there’s a lot of value in making a seed, a starting point, for the thing a group needs to create. And that’s exactly the reason - new text is harder than criticism of the old.
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by jprete 3y ago
Eh. I think the peak of computer ability was GenX. I’m not in that group but made up for it with sheer intensity. If you grow up on a phone you’re not getting any of the mental modeling to get close to what the machine is doing and you’re o
838.
by jprete 3y ago
I think a lot of the drudgery is lack of language quality. But this is still a better argument than I’ve seen before for using it.
839.
by jprete 3y ago
This doesn’t require AI, it requires higher-level languages than we have that can express intent more directly.
840.
by jprete 3y ago
For a bit there it didn’t sound too bad!

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