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by lowsong 1y ago
> To agree with his arguments you have to explain how the people investing are being fooled The people with insider knowledge are also the people who are financially invested in AI companies, and therefore incentivized to convince everyo
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by lowsong 1y ago
This says more about PwC and what M&A people do all day than it does about ChatGPT.
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by lowsong 1y ago
> using a programming language you have not used before But why would I do that? Either I'm learning a new language in which case I want to be as hands-on as possible and the goal is to learn, not to produce. Or I want to produce so
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by lowsong 1y ago
I think that you've made my point really quite well. I gave perhaps the most basic possible example of accommodation, adjusting a single word with no impact on other project members and you were still able to argue about it. > Maybe
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by lowsong 1y ago
> For software projects that are overwhelmingly conducted online the very concept of "marginalized group" is close to irrelevant I wish this were true, but it simply isn't. If a group is full of white cis heterosexual guys
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by lowsong 1y ago
A big part of a CoC that this article, as most discussions on the topic, miss is that they provide a signal to new contributors from marginalized groups, who may have faced abuse or violence in other spaces, that this community will be safe
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by lowsong 1y ago
Effectively everyone, including Sam Altman [0], is saying we're in a bubble. The only questions left, the only ones that matter, are: - When is it going to pop? Tomorrow? Next year? 2030? - How hard is the crash going to be? Only a bun
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by lowsong 1y ago
They are very much earned, but don't take my word for it when DHH says it himself. > In 2000, more than sixty percent of the city were native Brits. By 2024, that had dropped to about a third. A statistic as evident as day when you
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by lowsong 1y ago
Notion's USP was always simplicity . Anyone could use it, anyone could find data in it, the lack of features was a selling point. But, as you say, the attitude changed at some point from aggressive simplicity to feature bloat and now
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by lowsong 1y ago
We can debate about how legally culpable OpenAI is for their products and if they did enough to ensure safeguards functioned, but if you can’t agree that “a machine that encourages and enables suicide is dangerous and morally wrong” without
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by lowsong 1y ago
Falsehood in... what exactly? This is a horrible tragedy, and you've taken the opportunity to complain about your perceived bias in a news agency instead of engaging with the actual topic. From one of your other comments in this thread
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by lowsong 1y ago
This is just sad. Assuming you’re not simply a troll or LLM, please introspect your behaviour.
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by lowsong 1y ago
Do AI apologists, like you, live in some parallel universe? One where it's acceptable to call the suicide of a vulnerable teenager "media attention bait". You should be ashamed of yourself.
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by lowsong 1y ago
I'm not disputing that they believe that these models are "as good as a junior engineer", by whatever metric you want to measure that on. My point is the very fact that someone uses that as an argument in support LLMs is... p
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by lowsong 1y ago
> it works about as well, if not better, than a human junior engineer. I see this line of reasoning a lot from AI-advocates and honestly it's depressing. Do you see less experienced engineers as nothing more than outputters of code?
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by lowsong 1y ago
Perhaps this is a difference in terminology, but in no way do you need a LLM for fuzzy search. Semantic search, fuzzy keyword search, and text to speech have existed for years and predate the technology for an LLM. In your use-case, do you
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by lowsong 1y ago
> YouTube gaining an “ask a question about this video” button, this is a perfect example of how to sprinkle AI on an existing product. > Extremely slow, but the obvious incremental addition of Gemini to Docs is another example. These
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by lowsong 1y ago
It doesn't matter. These limitations are fundamental to LLMs, so all of them that will ever be made suffer from these problems.
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by lowsong 1y ago
> I recently started a company in another field and haven’t done any real development for about 4 years. Don't take this as an insult, but "people who used to be full-time engineers, and are now a bit removed" are exactly
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by lowsong 1y ago
> the future of software engineering will inevitably have more AI within it Probably not. We're deep in the hype bubble, so AI is strongly overused. Once the bubble pops and things calm down, some use-cases may well emerge from the
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by lowsong 1y ago
A blog post published by a company that's built their business on AI (Final Round AI), extrapolating from a comment by a CEO who's also in the business of AI (GitHub) and actively wants to sell you more expensive AI options, tells
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by lowsong 1y ago
Is this intended as satire? Even if the position is so blatantly indefensible and ill-informed to be realistic, it's an unfortunate reality that there are people who actually do believe this.
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by lowsong 1y ago
We're not even close to passing the "peak of inflated expectations". This is the monster at the heart of the AI industry, that it just doesn't provide value. The "trough of disillusionment" will not be a mino
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by lowsong 1y ago
The death spiral begins as OpenAI frantically scrambles for a business model.
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by lowsong 1y ago
> VCs are risking money they manage, it's not like they're putting anyone else at risk. They're putting everyone at risk. As others in this thread have pointed out what these VCs do is make wildly risky gambles. When it
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by lowsong 1y ago
It's nothing to do with Thinking Machines as a company, it's to do with a VC that's content to bet two billion dollars on a company that has shown absolutely nothing, and the sorry state of affairs that represents.
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by lowsong 1y ago
This article is a bizarre mix of center-right economic ideas and completely unfounded assumptions about the nature of AI technology, to the point where I'm genuinely not sure if this is intended as parody or not. > We’re navigating
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by lowsong 1y ago
I appreciate that when you're on the extreme end of far-right anything less extreme looks like "leftist propaganda".
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by lowsong 1y ago
> the possibility that we’re in a massive bubble thats quite divorced from any kind of fundamentals I'm astounded that anyone still genuinely believes we're not in a massive bubble. Of course AI company CEOs are going to say we
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by lowsong 1y ago
> Literally nobody is doing what you are saying. The paper we're discussing is literally about this. It's the second sentence in the abstract: "In this paper, we investigate the use of LLMs to replace mental health provi

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