kakapo5672

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by kakapo5672 28d ago
Well, at least the AI market is validated now.
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by kakapo5672 4mo ago
You can't reduce people to their behavior ... As a first approximation, why not? Behavior is generally all we have in front of us, plus any other assorted social signals. Internal mental states are invisible, as is the personal histo
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by kakapo5672 5mo ago
Yeh, my sense as well. I'm just out of college, and can tell you people my age use AI all the time and will probably be happy with this change. There is a diehard anti-AI group, but it seemed smaller all the time over the past couple y
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by kakapo5672 5mo ago
Tesla is profitable, as a matter of public record. And SpaceX is, by all accounts, extremely profitable.
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by kakapo5672 5mo ago
No, the benefits are that something can be mass produced magnitudes faster and easier, which in turn also creates more latitude for creativity and new spaces. It's a true state-change, which makes the argument pretty compelling IMO.
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by kakapo5672 7mo ago
What if the braincell-vibe JS libraries turn out pretty much identical to the legacy human JS libraries, aside from being better-commented. That might lead to an existential crisis for some folks.
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by kakapo5672 7mo ago
Exactly. Clearly, some white-collar jobs will be replaced. Hard to argue against that, given it's already beginning to happen. So the question becomes what is the eventual rate of conversion and what is the subsequent economic impact
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by kakapo5672 7mo ago
Columbia. Challenger.
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by kakapo5672 7mo ago
Yep, and the same with the internet. During the 1990s and 2000s, people kept wondering why the internet wasn't showing up in productivity numbers. Many asked if the internet was therefore just a fad or bubble. Same as some now do wit
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by kakapo5672 7mo ago
This is actually an old syndrome with technology. It takes a longt ime for the effect to be reliably measured. Famously, it took many years for the internet itself to show up in significant productivity gains (if the internet is actually
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by kakapo5672 8mo ago
I've got people in my social network who firmly believe that every car is, in fact, "driven by Indonesians". Apparently a widespread belief. I've pointed out that these vehicles are quickly become more prevalent, here a
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by kakapo5672 8mo ago
My goodness. Please introduce me to this "plenty of people". I'm in the field, and none of them work with me. But I can tell you that statistics and parametrized functions have absolutely nothing to do with it. You're w
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by kakapo5672 8mo ago
Same demographic, same experience. AI has been incredibly liberating for me. I get all sorts of things done now that before were previosly impossible for all practical purposes. Among other things, it cuts through the noise of all the lay
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by kakapo5672 9mo ago
Adding to their sins, many of those airports are in "historically black neighborhoods", you know!
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by kakapo5672 9mo ago
Whenever someone tells me that AI is worthless, does nothing, scam/slop etc, I ask them about their own AI usage, and their general knowledge about what's going on. Invariably they've never used AI, or at most very rarely. (
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by kakapo5672 9mo ago
You should let Google know, given their business is really humming nowadays. Along with their stock price.
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by kakapo5672 9mo ago
Recently I needed to summarize about a thousand lengthy documents, and then translate those summaries into Mandarin. I spent about a minute composing the prompt for this task, and then went for a cup of coffee. When I got back the task was
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by kakapo5672 9mo ago
There's a financial AI bubble for sure - that's pretty much a mainstream opinion nowadays. But that's an entirely different thing from AI itself bubble-collapsing. If you truly believe AI is simply going to collapse and dis
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by kakapo5672 9mo ago
I see this logical pairing a lot. 1) AI is basically useless, a mere semi-random word generator. 2) And it is so powerful that it is going to hurt (or even destroy) humanity. This is this is called "having your cake, and letting it ea
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by kakapo5672 10mo ago
It seems we have found the One True Artist on this thread, the gatekeeper and judge for all that is worthy. Humble obedience in thy presence.
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by kakapo5672 10mo ago
Very broadly, AI sentence-structure and word choice is recursing back into society, changing how humans use language. The Economist recently had a piece on word usage of British Parliament members. They are adopting words and phrases common
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by kakapo5672 10mo ago
For one: modifying existing images in interesting ways ... adding characters, removing elements, altering or enhancing certain features, creating layers, and so on. Things that would take a while on Photoshop, done almost instantly. Really
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by kakapo5672 10mo ago
Bad comparison. Investment in fusion is huge and rising. ITER's total cost alone will be around $20b. And then there's Commonwealth Fusion, Helion, TAE and about a dozen others. Tens of billions are going into those efforts too
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by kakapo5672 10mo ago
The concept does have a certain appeal. But it seems to me that the acid test, as always, is successful prediction. If one day a digital model makes a prediction that is experimentally demonstrated, and not accounted for via other models,
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by kakapo5672 10mo ago
Yes, and I've had similar results. I'm easily 10x times more productive with AI, and I'm seeing the same in my professional network. The power of AI is so clear and obvious, that I'm astonished so many folks remain in vi
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by kakapo5672 11mo ago
It's not accurate to say we "wrote the code for it". AI isn't built like normal software. Nowhere inside an AI will you find lines of code that say If X Then Y, and so on. Rather, these models are literally grown during
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by kakapo5672 11mo ago
Because companies are not some monolith, all doing identical things forever. If someone sees a new angle to make money, they'll start doing it. Data General and Unisys did not create PCs - small disrupters did that. These startups wer
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by kakapo5672 1y ago
I worked with Greg many years ago, back at EO. Very smart and all, but what stood out most was that he was just a really good person. Very sorry to hear this news.
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by kakapo5672 1y ago
I suspect you're right. The more I work with AI, the more clear is the trajectory. Humans generally have a very high opinion of themselves and their supposedly unique creative skills. They are not eager to have this illusion punctured.
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by kakapo5672 1y ago
As an aside, that is happening in China right now in commercial vehicles. I rode a robotaxi last month in Beijing, and those services are expanding throughout China. Really impressive.

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