kerkeslager

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by kerkeslager 1mo ago
I did read it, and I guess if you intended anything other than what you wrote you should've written what you intended, buddy.
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by kerkeslager 1mo ago
Classic advertiser nonsense. Sure, let's entertain the possibility that you're one of the not-very-intelligent people who thinks ads are there to help them, and you like having ads shown to you. That's great for you, have at
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by kerkeslager 1mo ago
The problem with AI is deeper than this, though. The anchoring effect[1] is stronger than most people realize. It's hubris to think that you can read AI output and then come up with your own ideas. The human brain simply doesn't w
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by kerkeslager 2mo ago
Yes! Finally you get it! Not once in my entire 40 years on this planet has a single ad or cold outreach been welcome. Every single one is full of lies and partial information that is vastly inferior to me going out and researching product
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by kerkeslager 2mo ago
The arrogance of thinking targeted advertising knows more accurately what email I want to receive than I do is staggering. No, buddy, I do actually know what email I want to receive.
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by kerkeslager 2mo ago
There's a fundamental disconnect going on here. You're talking about what humans believe are human rights. I'm talking about what human rights are . The right to privacy is a human right, even if no government on the planet
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by kerkeslager 2mo ago
Quoting "It's no inconvenience to you if I help Saudi Arabian gays hide their sexual orientation or help Russians criticize Putin." as "I [..] help Russians criticize Putin" is one of the most bizarre responses I&#x
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by kerkeslager 2mo ago
> Some country has laws that some other country dislikes, therefore they should be able to ignore them? I don't know your political beliefs, but I'll say that conservatives make this nonsense argument all the time. Focus: the p
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by kerkeslager 3mo ago
No, that's not "in fairness", that's misunderstanding the entire problem. Having worked 20 years in this field and managed a few projects, no, I wouldn't make a dozen mistakes, because I would refuse to take on work
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by kerkeslager 4mo ago
I started coding before Stack Overflow existed, and those were the days when coding was most fun for me. Learning HyperCard Basic from the manual that came with the computer was so full of joyful moments. Stack Overflow had it's heyday
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by kerkeslager 4mo ago
When the LLM presents what it learned as its own thoughts without any attribution, that's the theft. And you understand that. You're not stupid. This is the thing: AI is convenient for corporations, so you'll make dishonest a
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by kerkeslager 4mo ago
Donations.
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by kerkeslager 4mo ago
I don't think these complex institutions can be viewed as having a uniform ideology. Yes, any university understands that many (most?) of their students are simply there for a diploma that opens up opportunities, and the parts of an in
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by kerkeslager 5mo ago
> I wouldn't reduce student motivations to career vs. learning. I'm not, that's why I said "Students are at school for a lot of [...] reasons". > College can also be about aspiring to a better society, with th
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by kerkeslager 5mo ago
I think it really depends on how you view our high education system. As a middle-aged man returning to school to switch careers, my entire reason for going to school is to learn, and I'd never cheat because that would undermine my own
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by kerkeslager 5mo ago
> Right because without AI everything you read on the internet is 100% true and correct. The hallucination percentage of referenced sources such as Wikipedia is much better than AI, and for many sources such as the NYT or Al Jazeera, it&
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by kerkeslager 5mo ago
...such as?
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by kerkeslager 5mo ago
> Are cryptocurrencies supposed to be a potential replacement for real life cash? This was my understanding of the motivation behind Bitcoin, at least. This was the original stated purpose, yes. But this works poorly in practice. Hypothe
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by kerkeslager 5mo ago
Side question: what's the least scammy and complicated way to buy Monero these days?
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by kerkeslager 5mo ago
> It's easy to use AI to greatly increase your knowledge of a subject. It's actually not. It's easy to get an AI to say a lot about a subject, but that doesn't mean anything the AI said was true. There's a signif
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by kerkeslager 5mo ago
So what? AI companies are buying laws, and a lot of people thinking that's true doesn't make it less true.
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by kerkeslager 6mo ago
I believe you when you say it mattered to you, but: 1. Your experience is likely an outlier--I'm not saying your experience doesn't matter, I'm saying that your experience and experiences like yours are likely not represented
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by kerkeslager 6mo ago
This seems pretty intent on burying the lead. The long conclusion seems to be that all the conventional wisdom on the subject is not borne out by the empirical evidence. So why spend so much time explaining all the the conventional wisdom?
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by kerkeslager 6mo ago
In theory, vibe coding and understanding don't have to be mutually exclusive, but in practice, I think that the people who have the discipline to actually maintain their understanding of a codebase are few. I've code reviewed thin
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by kerkeslager 7mo ago
> Does anyone ever actually use that line? Yes, I've heard that exact wording from cops. From normal people, the more common way of saying it is along the lines of "well I don't really care if the cops see anything on my c
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by kerkeslager 7mo ago
> If you are a two man startup, burning through runway and pre-product-market fit... then spending a lot of time on tests is questionable (although the cost-benefit now with AI is changing very fast). What's insane that people in 20
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by kerkeslager 7mo ago
> While working on Cutlet, though, I allowed Claude to generate every single line of code. I didn’t even read any of the code. Instead, I built guardrails to make sure it worked correctly (more on that later). The "more on that late
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by kerkeslager 7mo ago
> It would be great if people would drive safely, but they don’t, so that’s why I think redesigning roads is the only real way to change driving behavior. This is really the crux of it: why are you so insistent that we can only redesign
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by kerkeslager 7mo ago
And speediots' data free claims don't ever honestly talk about how they're totally okay with letting thousands of people die every year so they can save a few seconds that they're just going to waste posting their self-c
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by kerkeslager 7mo ago
> That’s reality, you aren’t going to change that unless you start executing people that speed, and that isn’t a realistic solution. This is an adult conversation, please think before you type absurdities like this. If (A) there was enou

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