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by kypro 4mo ago
I don't think HN is anti-AI anymore? Your perspective is the most popular perspective here. When I was saying that we were getting agents to code junior-level stuff mid last year and that we'd probably be able to do similar with s
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by kypro 4mo ago
> The fact the whole world is going down with me is of some help actually. I can't stop the world. There is no preparing for that. We'll figure something out and if not, then not. Depends on the scenario. If most humans are eco
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by kypro 4mo ago
> 1) How long has full self driving been just six months away? The last mile often tends out to be the hard part. I agree. I'm not arguing there will be no human drivers, no human coders, etc. I'm arguing there will be much, mu
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by kypro 4mo ago
This was a good summary. I feel similar. At this point I think 95% of the skills I've developed over the 2 decades are basically useless. Prior to 2023 I felt like every new skill only made me more employable, but now I don't real
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by kypro 4mo ago
There isn't one. I suppose the first was just learning about NNs and realising that this was the first time I'd ever heard a way to make computers theoretically think like humans. Deep neural networks working in the early 2010s wa
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by kypro 4mo ago
This is actually true? Facebook bans users who talk about contraception and HIV? I don't use Facebook so no idea if this is true or not personally, but ChatGPT seems to think this isn't true and that if it does happen it's pr
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by kypro 4mo ago
I'd argue that for some time now it's made increasing sense to start to diversifying away from large cap-weighted index funds. Historically indexes like the S&P500 were much less concentrated and more diverse in its holdings a
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by kypro 4mo ago
You're probably in the US? Doesn't work here in the UK like half of the internet these days.
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by kypro 4mo ago
What does it mean to submit confidentially – what's the process there? I assume it be made public when approved by the SEC?
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by kypro 4mo ago
Several years ago I built a simple snake game and wrote a DQN from scratch to learn how to play it. I was really proud of it at the time because I had to do a decent amount of reading and research since I wrote all of the NN code from scrat
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by kypro 5mo ago
Maybe I'm old but I feel like actual tech meetups died well over a decade ago... They used to be full of geeks building cool stuff and people would genuinely be interested in what you were doing. I made a lot of friends back in the day
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by kypro 5mo ago
Do you feel the same about homophobia, height discrimination, fat discrimination and other discriminatory behaviours? Or do you feel these are different enough that they should be treated differently? I think I disagree with you on this, bu
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by kypro 5mo ago
This is literally my biggest fear. The idea that my biology or consciousness could be keep alive and in a state of suffering for years, decades, centuries or longer via neural simulation or biological intervention. I do wonder if AI advance
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by kypro 5mo ago
I am a hardcore AI doomer and have been for years. I've been actively prepping for very bad economic and political scenarios, plus some doom scenarios for about 5 years now. My assumption is that white collar unemployment will become a
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by kypro 5mo ago
> The second one was for specifically racist messages - i.e. breaching hate speech laws - not just being mean. Can you provide a definition of "hate speech" which doesn't also apply to "mean words"? Are you sugge
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by kypro 5mo ago
Do you live in the UK? This isn't true. Here in the UK it is illegal to be grossly offensive online. Racism for example will have you charged under the Communications Act 2003.
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by kypro 5mo ago
Not UK but in Germany you can face criminal prosecution for insulting the chancellor, https://x.com/Pirat_Nation/status/2056692341399081235 While here in the UK you can be arrested and charged for saying mean thin
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by kypro 5mo ago
> FiveThirtyEight gave Trump a 30% chance. I know I'm being super conspiratorial here but why wouldn't all forecasters predict just between 30% - 70%? That way if they're "right" they can take the credit for it a
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by kypro 5mo ago
This time isn't different. History has repeatedly shown us isolated examples of completely replacing the need for human labour. The industrial revolution did destroy jobs, but back then labour was incomprehensibly unproductive. So much
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by kypro 5mo ago
There will be more software in the same way there is more agricultural output today. The idea that productivity gains which result in more of something being produced also create more demand for labour to produce that thing is more often wr
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by kypro 5mo ago
Also, it's not necessarily true that there will be other great careers available. This seems to just be an assumption people are making. Of course, there are jobs that will still require human labour for some time yet, but in reality a
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by kypro 5mo ago
> I learned over these 7 months 7 months ago was early November. Coding assistants were getting very good back then, but they were still significantly poorer at making good architectural decisions in my experience. They tended to just fo
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by kypro 5mo ago
I worry and feel so much for people younger than me. As someone who entered the workforce during the GFC things were hard, but I always felt like you could make smart decisions, make decent money and build a decent life. Additionally there
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by kypro 5mo ago
Is this a new problem? There's always been low effort comments and content, here and all over the internet. A decade or so ago people used to write comments like "this" a lot to farm upvotes off another popular comment. In co
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by kypro 5mo ago
> My early jobs were at startups startups with limited resources. Every decision to build something or hire someone was carefully made after much consideration. This story would have looked like fiction to me at the time. This was pre-20
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by kypro 5mo ago
Polish people are some of the most pragmatic, straight-forward, hardworking and intelligent people on the planet in my opinion. They have all the fundamental human-capital strengths of economies like Germany. It's really no surprise th
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by kypro 5mo ago
2008 really wasn't that bad if you were in tech... No idea about 2001, but I've heard it was fairly rough. More recently I've seen people say now it's harder to find work today, I think in part because in 2001 it was mos
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by kypro 5mo ago
I was a few years ago, but not so much any more. My p(doom) is now so high and I feel the singularity is so close that I've decided I'm just going to make the most of the little time I have left when my job ends. The consideration
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by kypro 5mo ago
No, because you're misunderstanding how this works. Technical teams still need to design and build out the infra. Technical teams still need to think about how to design and secure the backend systems. The only thing that changes is th
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by kypro 5mo ago
You're definitely doing something wrong if that's the case at your company.

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