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by lukev 1y ago
Really? By definition, a bullshit job could be replaced by simply eliminating the job , so "replacing" it with an AI seems like an obvious fig leaf for that kind of move.
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by lukev 1y ago
Hypothesis: any job that is currently being replaced by AI is a Bullshit Job ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bullshit_Jobs )
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by lukev 1y ago
To be fair, doing even the most basic task in Entra as an authenticated user is also "high complexity", so the difficulty of attacking it can only go up from there.
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by lukev 1y ago
> If I forget to update OpenJDK, Oracle could come after me. What?
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by lukev 1y ago
More new programs should be written in Java/on the JVM. Most of the reasons Java dropped out of popularity no longer apply, and at this point it is an incredibly stable and mature ecosystem. I can come back to a Clojure program I wrote
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by lukev 1y ago
Is it bad that my primary motivation for considering an upgrade is getting my notes as Markdown?
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by lukev 1y ago
It's pretty clear this is happening. The question is... is this based on existing capability of LLMs to do these jobs? Or are companies doing this on the expectation that AI is advanced enough to pick up the slack? I have observed a
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by lukev 1y ago
If we are going to create a binary of "understand LLMs" vs "do not understand LLMs", then one way to do it is as you describe; fully comprehending the latent space of the model so you know "why" it's givin
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by lukev 1y ago
I'm 40 and I'm clinging to my 13 mini until they offer something comparable, even though the battery is getting old enough I'd really like an upgrade. I can't be the only one.
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by lukev 1y ago
The VC economy depends on a hype cycle. If one doesn't exist, they'd manufacture one (see web 3.0), but LLMs were perfect.
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by lukev 1y ago
This is just "no true scotsman" for AI. Because something could very easily pop soon, but this article is just laying the groundwork for an argument that "it wasn't AI popping, that was the belief you could run a AI ad
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by lukev 1y ago
Spotify is definitely one of those tools that has some ethical issues, but that is so damn convenient it's hard to imagine giving up. I could do something like what the article describes, but it'd definitely be a lot of work. So
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by lukev 1y ago
What are you talking about? Tons of people run personal blogs/websites, with an enormous variety of hosting structures. I call that working in practice. The fact that any individual self-hosted site could not survive a DDOS does not ne
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by lukev 1y ago
Well if that's true, by all means. But saying "This AI system may cause harm" reads to me as similar to saying "This delightful substance may cause harm." The category error is more important.
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by lukev 1y ago
Hmm, I actually think complexity is a red herring here. Postulate that you have a viable software business, and work backwards from there. Everything else: every purchase and every pay period you pay someone to work for you is a cost , fro
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by lukev 1y ago
That would not help in the slightest, any more than a "surgeon general's warning" helps stop smokers. The problem is calling it "AI" to start with. This (along with the chat format itself) primes users to think of i
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by lukev 1y ago
But this problem isn't fatal, and can be mitigated directly. The internet itself is extremely decentralized and while both of these things can be issues, it works in practice. I disagree that building economics into the protocol is t
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by lukev 1y ago
This is completely right from a product point of view, which is Carmack's argument. But I have wondered why one of these companies with billions of dollars to burn hasn't tried to create something new as a strategic initiative.
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by lukev 1y ago
I mean it's funny you mention Descartes, because I find the argument that consciousness is the ONLY thing you can really know exists for sure to be pretty compelling. (Descartes then significantly loses the thread, hah.) I agree with y
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by lukev 1y ago
How can you say there are no world models, when I can literally draw out a simple one for you on demand? You can argue that's they're not the governing principle of cognition, but it seems farcical to say they don't even exis
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by lukev 1y ago
One way I've been talking about this with people is that LLMs let you participate in a single-person echo chamber, potentially at a greatly accelerated pace. It's not surprising that some people end up diverging pretty widely from
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by lukev 1y ago
It is entirely uncontroversial that mental states affect the physical body. You've probably observed this yourself, directly, if you've ever had headaches or muscle tightness related to mental or emotional stress. We can use MRIs
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by lukev 1y ago
Things are moving too fast to meaningfully talk about unit economics here. My consumer-level MacBook Pro can run inference locally on models that would have been state-of-the-art anywhere just a little over a year ago. Yet, hosted inference
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by lukev 1y ago
Yes. Although the privileged tax status of a 501(c)(3) does come with the restriction that they cannot engage in direct political campaigning or endorsement of candidates, they are still a private entity fully protected by the first amendme
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by lukev 1y ago
Yes. Because there are laws against those things. There are no laws about bias in political content published by private entities. Because of the Constitution.
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by lukev 1y ago
Should any administration be investigating a private entity for bias? Whether there is bias or not is entirely immaterial! The government should not be the Ministry of Truth!
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by lukev 1y ago
Ok but I have to point out something important here. Presumably, the model you're talking about was trained on chemical/drug inputs. So it models a space of chemical interactions, which means insights could be plausible. GPT-5 (an
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by lukev 1y ago
What other form of "AI" would be remotely capable of even emulating therapy, at this juncture?
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by lukev 1y ago
I agree with your conclusion, but what you characterize as therapy is quite a small part of what it is (or can be, there's lots of different kinds.)
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by lukev 1y ago
Good. It's difficult to imagine a worse use case for LLMs.

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