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by jstanley 4mo ago
Which text are you referring to? Because the text in this submission is (at least partly) LLM text.
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by jstanley 4mo ago
> If the S&P 500 dropped 20%, that's about a year's growth. But the S&P 500 is currently trading at over 2x its average long-term CAPE: https://www.multpl.com/shiller-pe So it can reasonably be expected
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by jstanley 4mo ago
What evidence would it take to convince you that the name of the website itself is a wordplay on Altavista?
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by jstanley 4mo ago
"LLMs are amazing, I'm so much more productive now" "oh yeah? Show me what you made, you can't, nobody can, it's all just AI psychosis" "I made a pixel perfect Office document viewer" "well.
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by jstanley 4mo ago
> there are keys on the device that would leak if meta opened it up. Are these keys not functionally leaked as soon as you ship the device to customers?
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by jstanley 4mo ago
I'm curious if you can tell me whether you think I'm a crackpot because of the things I've said in this thread, or because of things I've said more broadly? I am definitely high risk for crackpottery, but not sure I&#x27
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by jstanley 4mo ago
Why does releasing infertile males prevent the fertile males from reproducing? Are mosquitoes pair-bonding??
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by jstanley 5mo ago
Noone is the actor there, that's the passive voice.
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by jstanley 5mo ago
Which part? My comment? No. The post we're commenting on? I think pretty obviously it was at least LLM-assisted. That's not to knock the technical content, and not even (necessarily) any more a criticism than if I said I thought t
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by jstanley 5mo ago
It's not being used as an actor in the sentence.
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by jstanley 5mo ago
I was prepared for you to have found examples of me using this pattern (in fact I think better examples are in the comment you replied to, "reads well", and "this post exhibits"). But I don't think the examples you
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by jstanley 5mo ago
In all of your examples, a human author would usually prefix with the word "the". Nobody routinely says the things in your example without some supporting words. And it's not just presence -- it's density. And, to be cle
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by jstanley 5mo ago
It's unusual to use it in the way LLMs do, in the extremely terse style where "noun verbs" or "nouns verb" are basically considered sentences all on their own.
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by jstanley 5mo ago
It's not novel to me! I see it all the time... when talking to LLMs.
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by jstanley 5mo ago
It's not wrong, I tried to make this clear. It's good. It's just unusual, in my experience, for humans to use that kind of wording. Yes everyone says the sun shines and the wind blows, those are specific idioms. Noone says bi
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by jstanley 5mo ago
This post exhibits a specific LLM tell that I haven't seen mentioned before. It's the style where inanimate objects or concepts are treated as actors, using verbs as if they were actually the one doing something. * bias compounds
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by jstanley 5mo ago
People doing ridiculously complicated things to keep scaling CPUs is why it's not come to an end.
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by jstanley 5mo ago
> Moore's Law approaching its end. People have been calling the top on Moore's Law for at least as long as I've been buying computers. (~20 years). I'll believe it when I see it.
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by jstanley 5mo ago
How do you know?
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by jstanley 5mo ago
You can enjoy a book while still noting that the characters in it are not doing good things.
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by jstanley 5mo ago
> Lawyers bill by the hour. It is not in their interest to speed up what they do, because they only have so many clients. This isn't how markets work. If one lawyer starts doing 10x as much work in the same number of hours, then all
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by jstanley 5mo ago
Fair point!
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by jstanley 5mo ago
You're missing that most people are able to buy houses on borrowed money, so their housing investment is effectively levered up 10x or more, at least at the beginning. It's not a choice between $1m in housing appreciating at 3% an
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by jstanley 5mo ago
No, because SMB doesn't support execute permissions. So either all your files are executable or none of them are.
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by jstanley 5mo ago
> She suffered brain damage from shrapnel. [...] > What Trauma Does to a Child's Brain This could just as easily be "what brain damage does to a child's brain", no?
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by jstanley 5mo ago
> not actually recycled but turned into fossil fuels or feedstocks This is such a great claim.
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by jstanley 5mo ago
$1.5 billion is more than $19.5 million though.
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by jstanley 5mo ago
Productivity is why we have hot and cold running water and electricity piped to our houses and internet connections and cars and waterproof clothing.
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by jstanley 5mo ago
If productivity doesn't increase then you don't need to worry about displaced workers.
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by jstanley 5mo ago
We've done this dozens of times before. In the short term some people suffer and that is bad for them. In the long term everyone is much better off due to increased productivity.

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