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by ketzo 3y ago
No way OpenAI cares meaningfully about losses right now. They're literally the hottest company in tech, they can get stupendous amounts of capital on incredible terms, and the only thing they should care about is growth/getting mo
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by ketzo 3y ago
That can be true, and we can still be lacking. Passenger rail usage rates are abysmal.
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by ketzo 3y ago
I mean, “fleet” semantics aside, surely $150,000 of servers is enough for at least one full-time person to be maintaining them. The point is that there are absolutely maintenance and ops costs associated with these servers.
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by ketzo 3y ago
I gotta disagree there. The bigger the team is, the more important consensus building becomes -- and the more of a task it is.
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by ketzo 3y ago
Oh man, I just watched this whole video and I am in awe of this guy.
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by ketzo 3y ago
I mean, I definitely hear (and feel) a lot of worry about AI taking away work that we find meaningful and interesting to do, outside of the pure money question. I really like programming to fix things. Even if I weren’t paid for it, even if
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by ketzo 3y ago
I think that is kind of orthogonal to the point I don't think encouraging national unity and encouraging strife and polarization are the same thing at all, and in fact I would bet the latter is easier at scale Maybe they're restri
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by ketzo 3y ago
It is psy-op 101 to push people to any extreme you can; left, right, up, down, doesn’t matter as long as they’re mad as fuck.
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by ketzo 3y ago
Not trying to be a dick or anything — how is it not customer acquisition? Google knows that there is some percentage of iPhone users who will only ever search with the default Safari engine. Google really wants those users. Google is pa
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by ketzo 3y ago
I understand your broader point, which is that progress in this space will be discontinuous and hard to see until it’s already happened. But two years ago, GPT-3 was already astounding. ChatGPT made some pretty huge gains, and GPT4 more sti
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by ketzo 3y ago
Hey, fair enough, more power to you then. Have fun touching some grass, friend!
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by ketzo 3y ago
It’s way too late to pretend AI won’t have an impact on programming as a profession. Better to be excited and learn the tool as it develops than to stick your head in the sand. A world where AI has put literally everyone “out of a job,” m
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by ketzo 3y ago
No, but it is the dictionary definition of “continuously pursuing growth.”
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by ketzo 3y ago
Does he have a special dispenser at his desk? Does he have one strip he chews on throughout the day, or does he get a new one after every meeting? Is it folded up, balled up? So many questions. So, so many.
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by ketzo 3y ago
Every business’s highest cost - labor - will tend to grow every year. So will the cost of most other inputs. If you stop pursuing some amount of continuous growth or price increase, you stop making money.
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by ketzo 3y ago
Having a kitchen on vacation has been such a life-changer for me! Cooking meals is a big part of how I relax.
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by ketzo 3y ago
Ehhh. I’ve seen some pretty egregious cleaning instructions. Obviously it’s wildly subjective, but there’s a line. I’m totally happy to take out the trash on my way out, or strip the linens and leave them in the laundry area! Scrubbing toil
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by ketzo 3y ago
Time to train * flops per chip * number of chips in training fleet You can estimate it quite accurately, actually
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by ketzo 3y ago
That… seems objectively like a bad situation for the world. It would be way, way harder to make software if you had to pay people that much.
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by ketzo 3y ago
My final paragraph addresses that, but to expand: Devs have been worried about offshoring/immigrants replacing them/lowering their wages for decades. The only outcome we have ever observed from having more people building softwa
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by ketzo 3y ago
Edit: I read H1-B as a generalization for “skilled immigration” - I now see that people have issues with the H1-B program, specifically. The H1-B thing is kind of a non-sequitur. I think anyone involved in tech (software, hardware, anything
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by ketzo 3y ago
This is a huge straw man/whataboutism that contributes nothing to the discussion. Yes, bad software modifications are bad and should be punished wherever they arise. Homebrew modifications make it way easier for bad stuff to happen,
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by ketzo 3y ago
Congrats! My goal for a winter-time / holiday project this year is to launch a site that brings in at least $1 of revenue. I’ve been working as a programmer for years, but never actually had my own paid service. Baby steps.
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by ketzo 3y ago
Deepfake porn and AI voice extortion are real harms from these technologies that are having a meaningful impact on people’s lives already. I don’t think they’re society-ending, but that doesn’t mean we shouldn’t acknowledge them.
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by ketzo 3y ago
I so appreciate Julia’s authorial voice. She does such a great job writing content that’s super valuable for even veteran devs, while maintaining a tone that’s friendly to the newest people in the field and actively includes them rather tha
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by ketzo 3y ago
> Advertisement used to be fact based Instantly invalidates everything you said Attributing all of these ills to better ads is just comical
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by ketzo 3y ago
Ehhhh. Sure, I doubt every student will walk away with all that info. But laying a foundation is super valuable. Just knowing what’s out there in the world is a big deal.
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by ketzo 3y ago
No personally identifying information in the dataset, so I imagine you would have to find some way to deanonymize yourself from clues in the data.
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by ketzo 3y ago
Wars have been won and kingdoms lost in the space between “pretty much” and “complete”
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by ketzo 3y ago
That’s fair, but that is… what, 1% of all software engineer hires?

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