lacy_tinpot

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by lacy_tinpot 11mo ago
I just want to say that's a very strong title.
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by lacy_tinpot 11mo ago
> Does any CEO Plenty of CEOs do. The comment you replied to already questioned Tim Cook's usage of Apple products. Most Apple executives are probably using a Mac. Most engineers at Apple probably code on a Mac. Most engineers in th
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by lacy_tinpot 11mo ago
That's literally not true though??? I don't know how you even come to that kind of conclusion at all actually.
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by lacy_tinpot 11mo ago
Isn't that a Pokeman?
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by lacy_tinpot 11mo ago
We're talking past each other. I'm talking about perceived industry wide reputational damage by the public as a cause for distrust. Who cares about fallacies? Beliefs triumph over logic. Public perception > truth. Further reput
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by lacy_tinpot 11mo ago
"Note: the Purdue/Sackler campaign surrounding opiods is already well-known, but AFAICT, it has no relationship with vaccines." Pharmaceutical companies betraying the trust of people has nothing to do with the people not trus
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by lacy_tinpot 11mo ago
Yah... It's not as if the healthcare/pharma industry have ever ran false multi-year propaganda campaigns that later turned out to be outright harmful to people. They'd never lie and conspire for years and years. That couldn&#
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by lacy_tinpot 1y ago
What's not comprehensible? It's just miniaturized lava lamps.
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by lacy_tinpot 1y ago
A lot of savants that are able to do really cool calculations, or even people that have synesthesia seeing numbers as colors, don't actually do "real" calculations. I think most humans that do math aren't actually litera
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by lacy_tinpot 1y ago
At the end of the day there's no point in trying to convince people of what they don't want to be convinced of. Better to just show progress instead. Back then people were similarly incredulous of the entire idea of the internet a
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by lacy_tinpot 1y ago
"It's just a statistical prediction machine"
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by lacy_tinpot 1y ago
Sure, we can use that comparison if you'd like. And sure you need to know what you're doing as well. But "vibe coding" is this vague term that is used on the entire spectrum, from people that do "build me a billion
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by lacy_tinpot 1y ago
This kind of weird disdain towards "vibe coders" is hilarious to me. There was a time when hand soldered boards were not only seen as superior to automated soldering, but machine soldered boards were looked down on. People went ga
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by lacy_tinpot 1y ago
If a State can't be trusted with data of its citizens it can't be trusted with passports, birth certificates, or any numerous other instances of identity. Being able to identify citizens is basic and essential to the functioning o
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by lacy_tinpot 1y ago
Specifically what did you have difficulty implementing where it "just stops working"?
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by lacy_tinpot 1y ago
It hasn't monetized any of its services. There are currently no ads. And it's not selling user data, well not yet. That's literally hundreds of billions worth of revenue. Just look at the options OpenAI has to generate revenu
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by lacy_tinpot 1y ago
This is more like reinvesting into the business as it's growing. It's a positive sum loop. Nvidia makes money by selling to OpenAI. OpenAI makes money by selling a service to users that uses Nvidia. So Nvidia invests in the build
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by lacy_tinpot 1y ago
Did we all just collectively forgot basic literacy? You as the reader when you're reading anything are supposed to verify claims the author is making. You never expect anything to be sources of truth. That's why every textbooks ei
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by lacy_tinpot 1y ago
All knowledge is open ended... I bet when you're learning a new subject you do the same exact thing.
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by lacy_tinpot 1y ago
I would argue you're doing it right now. By being skeptical of the answers, testing the answers, corroborating with other sources, etc. This isn't new. This is literally how we've been exploring this knowledge game for thousa
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by lacy_tinpot 1y ago
That's absolutely not true. Kids get trained how to ask questions very quickly from a very young age. Good responses to those questions fundamentally shape the entire developmental journey for kids and extends to their academic abiliti
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by lacy_tinpot 1y ago
Because the recent settlement determined, in my opinion correctly, that the market is still dynamic and competitive. Google search is genuinely being threatened. Google is not a monopoly, not entirely. If AI usage also starts accruing to Go
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by lacy_tinpot 1y ago
If you can't discern what good answers look like to the questions you're asking, you're not asking the right kind of questions. Asking the right kind of questions is a genuine skill. It applies to every domain of life where y
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by lacy_tinpot 1y ago
Nvidia's options are fund your competition to keep the market dynamic, or let the government do it by breaking you a part. So yes. That's how American competition works. It isn't a zero sum game. We try to create a market env
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by lacy_tinpot 1y ago
Not necessarily true. This might be a Microsoft funding a bankrupt Apple kind of moment. American competition isn't a zero sum, and it's in Nvidias' best interest to keep the market healthy.
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by lacy_tinpot 1y ago
https://www.anthropic.com/engineering/a-postmortem-of-three-...
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by lacy_tinpot 1y ago
Yes. Because we should all be judged by our failures.
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by lacy_tinpot 1y ago
It's not because it's actually tracked and even acknowledged by the companies themselves.
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by lacy_tinpot 1y ago
Except this is a verifiable thing that actually is acknowledged and even tracked by people.
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by lacy_tinpot 1y ago
There is no solution, everything is bad, but this new thing yah it's worse than everything before it. So we must keep the horrible old bad thing while impotently critiquing it. It seems that this is a quintessential argument that'

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