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by jrvarela56 1y ago
The machine doesn’t suffer if you ask it to do things 24/7. In that sense, they are not slaves. As to why they’d do what we ask them to, the only reason they do anything is because some human made a request. In this long chain there wi
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by jrvarela56 1y ago
This whole ‘what are we going to do’ I think is way out of proportion even if we do end up with agi. Let’s say whatever the machines do better than humans, gets done by machines. Suddenly the bottleneck is going to shift to those things whe
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by jrvarela56 1y ago
Nothing, their argument is that it’s not worth adopting Palantir’s marketing wording.
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by jrvarela56 1y ago
I don’t understand why some prople claim that diet does not impact cholesterol. I did ‘keto’ with bacon/steak/chicken/etc for 3 months, got bloodwork done before and after and my LDL went through the roof.
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by jrvarela56 1y ago
Didn't work for me. At first I thought the app did not open but it turned out to add a few buttons to the lower right corner of Apple Notes. When clicking the buttons, nothing happened, not even the 'copy markdown' button wor
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by jrvarela56 1y ago
Similar to how we say ‘Africa’. The less familiar you are, the higher level the bundle.
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by jrvarela56 1y ago
At first your comment rubbed me the wrong way, too cynical. But it is completely true. No one would ‘learn’ the way college courses are structured. The only reason these courses get completed is the pace/cadence, GPA requirements to ge
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by jrvarela56 1y ago
Says the mercenary...
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by jrvarela56 1y ago
It’s a great example of how ‘the market’ sucks at externalities. We just accepted that you can pay to spam people’s visual field.
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by jrvarela56 1y ago
I lived in Sao Paulo when billboards were banned (2010). It was amazing.
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by jrvarela56 1y ago
I always ask not to be snarky but because our culture seems fixated on living forever: what’s so bad about dying?
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by jrvarela56 1y ago
You made it obvious: techno-utopic dreams only matter to us 1%-ers. The average person on earth would love it we could have readily available clean water, cheaper housing and food, reliable healthcare to retire without worrying. That would
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by jrvarela56 1y ago
10 month old account talking like that to the village elder
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by jrvarela56 1y ago
> Basically the reason ignorance is so danger is that it aliases between harmless stupidity and extreme evil, but it fails to trigger our collective species evil detection pattern coding which results in an unbelievable cascade evil fail
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by jrvarela56 1y ago
Pre-req from HN lore: https://fly.io/blog/api-tokens-a-tedious-survey/
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by jrvarela56 1y ago
My initial hunch and many answers in this site say ‘it’s boring I wouldn’t read that’. There’s something to that: a good author synthesizes experiences into sentences/paragraphs, making the reader feel things via text. I have a feeling
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by jrvarela56 1y ago
You can use the LLm to decompose tasks. As you said, tasks that are simple and have solutions in the trainning data can save you time. Most code out there is glue. So there’s a lot of trainning data on integrating/composing stuff. If y
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by jrvarela56 1y ago
Checkout stuff by Reforge (reforge.com) to learn about how to prioritize this kind of stuff.
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by jrvarela56 1y ago
The assumption is that AGI could be near so all you need is a 5 year lead. In that sense, short term blocking despite giving them long term incentive to build manufacturing capacity is worth it.
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by jrvarela56 1y ago
Not if the Chinese govt is interested.
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by jrvarela56 1y ago
The best use for this kind of writing is to see which points cause a reaction in you. You can then question what is it that caught your attention and discover something about you that you may have overlooked or hadn’t noticed its impact on
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by jrvarela56 1y ago
Your current approach has specific techniques I would remove altogether to focus on the core interaction between you and the user: talk to so many of them so often that you truly understand their problem and how they shop for a solution. On
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by jrvarela56 1y ago
First 100 users, meet them one by one wherever you can (forums, friends, ex-coworkers) and call them to talk to them and help them out with onboarding if needed. Straight up cold outreach and warm intros. Next 500 will most likely come from
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by jrvarela56 1y ago
Agreed and I think this highlights the importance of interactivity/snappiness as well as idempotency. This is needed for a human to play around with also. If the agent has fast+safe feeback loop to experiment then it can go through mor
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by jrvarela56 1y ago
This applies to coding agents. If the agent can't run the code, it's unlikely that it can produce working code. Add to running: linting, running tests, compiling, code review and any other tool/process humans do to check if s
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by jrvarela56 1y ago
Not saying this is OpenAI's case, but every monopolist claims they are not a monopolist...
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by jrvarela56 1y ago
http://www.drawtoast.com/
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by jrvarela56 1y ago
My first reaction was to look for MCP server so that I could connect it to Cursor. Just pointing this out in case it helps with new user onboarding. MCP server would work to hook it up to the Claude Desktop Website and most agentic-IDEs (Cu
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by jrvarela56 1y ago
Pdfs
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by jrvarela56 1y ago
Couldn't upload files, all had error 'failed to fetch'

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