leggerss

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by leggerss 5mo ago
She... isn't posing as a programmer? """ Growth, marketing, product management, sales - these used to feel like crafts. You built intuition over years. You learned what great looked like. You got good at pattern recognit
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by leggerss 7mo ago
This type of financialization should be illegal
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by leggerss 8mo ago
You could say he's also learning from human feedback
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by leggerss 8mo ago
Something that strikes me every time I encounter SV Rationalism presented this way is the self-annihilation of it: tastes and preferences are to be optimized out as cognitive biases, grey uniforms mandated in lieu of individual expression (
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by leggerss 8mo ago
I'm gonna get philosophical (because that's what art should make us do, right?): this points to arguably _the_ deepest question we can ask about LLMs right now—are they conscious? It's a personal decision, and what matters is
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by leggerss 8mo ago
It feels worth separating two things here that have unfortunately become commingled: crypto pump and dumps and AI-enabled spikes. Haven't we learned by now that all crypto coins are pump-and-dump schemes? Unless you're HODLing BTC
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by leggerss 8mo ago
Thanks for the thoughtful reply!
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by leggerss 8mo ago
I don't understand: why aren't there automated tools to verify citations' existence? The data for a citation has a structured styling (APA, MLA, Chicago) and paper metadata is available via e.g. a web search, even if the pape
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by leggerss 9mo ago
This is satire, right? Or reasoning by analogy... right?? I looked up "SCP object", and boy that was a rabbit hole. Interesting and entertaining, sure. But if you "fully believe" in anything on that website, please try t
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by leggerss 9mo ago
Neat, they built py-spy into the stdlib