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by madrox 2mo ago
When crypto rage was at its peak and people had done math to figure out precisely the energy impact it had, people were up in arms about how much it used. I tried to point out that we're only talking about this because the public ledge
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by madrox 2mo ago
It is dangerous to admire or despise anyone for who they are; it's ok to say someone did something good or bad.
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by madrox 2mo ago
This is poorly written with an unclear outcome. This starts as talking about how to make 1:1s more productive. It ends with, I must presume though it is unclear, losing a lease with no backup. This is not more productive. Compromise is abou
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by madrox 2mo ago
We've been talking about taste for a year now as it relates to AI, so I'm going to counterpoint it: if competitors can reproduce your features, UX, and visual decisions within days, your taste is not really an advantage. How many
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by madrox 2mo ago
I think there’s a lot to that. Hollywood is very relationship driven.
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by madrox 2mo ago
Arguably everyone was. Certainly no one was doing it for the money. I suspect there is a myth among most people that executives -- especially Hollywood ones -- didn't get to that position by being smarter or harder working than others,
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by madrox 2mo ago
Tangential to this, I worked in Hollywood for a while. The studio I worked at had a gaggle of unpaid interns. There was a mix of normal kids and the sons/daughters of prominent Hollywood execs. I would agree, in many respects, that unp
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by madrox 3mo ago
I am, mostly, aligned with the author here, though I don't think that talking to AI about how to not get caught for killing your wife is really going all the way in. Going all the way in is talking to it about planning a mass shooting.
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by madrox 3mo ago
Especially when you have a passionate community willing to work for free to preserve things, am I right?
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by madrox 3mo ago
I had shoulder pain about ten years ago. Had an MRI. Found evidence of a tear. Was told I would need surgery and referred to a sports medicine doctor. He looked at my MRI and said the real problem was my shoulder was frozen, and he could do
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by madrox 3mo ago
The rhetoric around AI has been insane for years now. AI will kill us all. AI will take all our jobs. SaaS is dead. AI is too dangerous to even release. It's really no surprise at all voters hate data centers, no matter how useful they
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by madrox 4mo ago
I've never heard of the Doorman Fallacy before. I like it. That said, not everything changes because some businessman wants to cut costs. Splitting bills has always been a pain, and while a lot of apps suck, at least it's consiste
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by madrox 4mo ago
If you think any attempt at a solve goes immediately to 11, sure, but I hope you believe in nuance or else we’re all lost.
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by madrox 4mo ago
That sounds like a great idea, but I think we should also try to solve human trafficking online.
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by madrox 4mo ago
I think the lie is to look at the problems we have that the internet has enabled and say "things are ok as they are don't try to do anything to solve it."
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by madrox 4mo ago
I'm pretty sure this is a "pick your poison" problem. We as a society are damned no matter what we do or do not do. For my part, we need to do something, because things are not fine the way they are, including the half ass Au
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by madrox 4mo ago
This takes me back. In the 90s there wasn't exactly a lot of web app programming going on, and it was hard to find a web host willing to let you run scripts through CGI. This was my first introduction to perl and the idea of dynamicall
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by madrox 4mo ago
I wonder how much of the knee-jerk cynicism comes down to it being Midjourney doing this in a way where it feels like "practicing medicine without a license." The irony is I believe that if a medical devices company announced this
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by madrox 4mo ago
I used the roundabout the game is modeled after the other day. This is at the freeway exit used to get to the Costco AND downtown in Kirkland. I've seen pileups here for no reason. It's insane. To be fair, I'm not sure there&
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by madrox 4mo ago
I was responsible for overseeing a Sierra AI implementation to replace our tier 1 support bot, which was not AI but a basic heuristic bot. Containment from the bot alone shot up past 50%. Customer satisfaction with support went through the
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by madrox 4mo ago
I wouldn't say so. Once upon a time, a PlayStation 2 was too powerful to export: https://www.pcmag.com/news/20-years-later-how-concerns-about... ChatGPT 2 was once too powerful to release. AI has been moving faste
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by madrox 4mo ago
This is a new form of Gell-Mann Amnesia: https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Gell-Mann_Amnesia_effect
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by madrox 4mo ago
I tend to agree. My first reaction to this post was to check the date, because I would have assumed this had been published around 2014. Google's moral compass was gone long before this man even joined. That doesn't make them part
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by madrox 4mo ago
I'll give my own interpretation, which is different from the parent though maybe we arrive at the same place. Blindsight dismantles a lot of noble myths about what it means to be human and human exceptionalism. The things you read and
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by madrox 4mo ago
No one has ever made me feel horror and despair like Peter Watts. His books stare directly into the abyss. I think it's what makes the hope you feel at the end seem earned. If you haven't read his work but you spend time thinking
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by madrox 4mo ago
I suspect it'll go on the subscription plan once other providers have similar benchmarks. As annoyed as I am about this move, I get it. Users flood the newest, best model whether they really need it or not, and are efficient at using t
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by madrox 4mo ago
I get the impression Apple designers don't actually use AI, and so have no idea what to build, since users don't know what they want from AI yet either.
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by madrox 4mo ago
I wish the Christians would hurry up and get here
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by madrox 4mo ago
Building a henge, are we?

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