maplethorpe

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by maplethorpe 5mo ago
It's not intelligent. I could theoretically do the same math on a piece of paper to generate a list of tokens, then decode all the tokens into a sentence and read the sentence I generated for the first time at the very end of the proce
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by maplethorpe 5mo ago
> And they sure are effective—it’s very difficult to walk by a billboard that appears to be popping out of the wall without being captivated by it. This isn't really how they work, in my experience. In reality, people on the street
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by maplethorpe 5mo ago
I used to be proud to say I worked in tech. Now I look around me and I'm surrounded by scam artists and grifters. Where did it all go wrong?
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by maplethorpe 5mo ago
I can't tell if you're being facetious, but a future AI really may be able to fill in a missing database. Like, if it knew some of the entries, it could infer the rest.
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by maplethorpe 5mo ago
Mythos apparently wrote a poem so beautiful it made Dario cry.
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by maplethorpe 5mo ago
A user is someone who uses your product, not someone who wants your product.
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by maplethorpe 5mo ago
Think about it on a micro level. Do you work better when your coworkers are thoughtful, or when they're thoughtless? Now multiply that by a billion, and that's why it's good for the economy.
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by maplethorpe 5mo ago
Don't have a billion users if you can't offer them support?
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by maplethorpe 5mo ago
I didn't say you said all technology was good. I'm addressing the part of your argument where you point to past events as evidence that the automation of labor will always continue to be good in the future. I used an extreme examp
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by maplethorpe 5mo ago
This + NFT integration will be the real game changer. Like it's Breaking Bad, except Walter White is decked out like one of your Slonks. Or it's Indiana Jones stealing a Bored Ape instead of the idol. Possibilities are endless.
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by maplethorpe 5mo ago
I'm not trying to argue whether AI is good or bad. I'm only pointing out the flaw in your philosophy. Like, there will one day be a technology invented that could indeed wipe us all out in 5 years. On a long enough timeline, it&#x
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by maplethorpe 5mo ago
Theoretically, if a technology came along that destroyed the human condition in a four year time frame, your "let's wait longer than four years and see" philosophy would kill us all.
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by maplethorpe 5mo ago
Mine was a joke too, sorry. I was just trying to go along with your bit.
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by maplethorpe 5mo ago
I don't know if you're joking but FartCoin hasn't shown returns all year.
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by maplethorpe 5mo ago
It's the same reason young men are drawn to crypto. Younger generations are faced with an economy that prices them out of the housing market, so they feel the need to explore alternative wealth-building pathways if they're to achi
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by maplethorpe 5mo ago
They should try releasing one with a futuristic space-age design and flashing rainbow lights. Maybe give it a name like HARDTEK and put some random techy shapes all over it.
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by maplethorpe 5mo ago
> And this line to me is meaningless unless we have specific definitions of what the Christ Wedge meant by "animation" and "just effects" I'm not really sure what you're trying to say, sorry. What else do yo
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by maplethorpe 5mo ago
Thanks so much for this! I still haven't got around to building my own language model yet, so I'm a bit fuzzy on the details, but if I imagined a thought experiment where I did all the math by hand on paper, I just couldn't s
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by maplethorpe 5mo ago
Oh.
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by maplethorpe 5mo ago
Can someone explain why this is? Do LLMs somehow contain a true random number generator? Why wouldn't they produce the same outputs given the same inputs (even temperature)? edit: I'm not talking about an LLM as accessed through a
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by maplethorpe 5mo ago
Abstraction has a specific meaning in computer programming. I don't think he's misrepresenting it. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abstraction_(computer_science)
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by maplethorpe 5mo ago
I found some more details about this, for anyone interested. It looks like critics of Tron's visual effects mistakenly thought the computer was generating it all for them, with little human input, when it was actually quite a laborious
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by maplethorpe 5mo ago
I read through some of the sources in your link, but they don't paint as clear a picture as you claim. Yes, the cost of inference appears to be coming down, but we so far don't really know why that is and what the largest contribu
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by maplethorpe 5mo ago
HN is an interesting case, because a lot of those types of comments are likely to be either astroturfing, people who work at those companies, or people who are invested in them. I wouldn't extrapolate too much to the rest of humanity b
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by maplethorpe 5mo ago
> If nothing else, to have a shared experience with other people. A lot of the value for people is derived from the fact that they can talk about the same song with someone else. If it's all individualized you lose that. While I agr
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by maplethorpe 5mo ago
In the Uber Eats app I can't even request a refund for an incorrect order anymore, because the UI doesn't allow me to scroll down to the "submit" button. It's been like this for months. I finally got my explanation.
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by maplethorpe 5mo ago
Why isn't Claude coding that stuff too? Is Claude only good at coding Claude?
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by maplethorpe 5mo ago
What are all their SWEs doing, if Claude is coding itself? And why are there hundreds of open SWE positions on their careers page?
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by maplethorpe 5mo ago
I don't think I'm really following your analogy. Did I put it out on the side of the road because I didn't want it anymore, or did that person steal it off my property? From what I can tell, the million dollars does not belon
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by maplethorpe 5mo ago
What about something you've made for fun but haven't made any money from? Should someone else be allowed to sell and profit from your work? I'm not expecting to be "passively paid" for my hobbies. But I'm expec

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