martindbp

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by martindbp 2y ago
? Why wouldn't you want to automate tasks? Current level AI will be able to automate quite a bit, it just takes time to proliferate, there is a lot of inertia in organizations.
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by martindbp 2y ago
> My theory is that every person in this thread who thinks this is simple doesn’t have children. As always. "Why don't you just..." Minecraft has been great for my 6 year old, learning fluent English etc, but I have to be
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by martindbp 2y ago
And when the insurance companies fail due to heavy unforseen losses?
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by martindbp 2y ago
> With 1m people leaving in a year, it clearly has its issues - but lots of the comments here are a good example of how your country's media and propaganda can significantly colour your opinions. What? 10% of a country leaving in on
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by martindbp 2y ago
It's also a great way to filter out anyone who has any kind of commitment like kids, aging parents to take care of, or have health issues themselves that makes it hard to cram leet code non stop on top of a busy career. For companies t
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by martindbp 2y ago
Thanks, I'll check it out, it's a fascinating topic and can probably teach us how we can make AI think (or how it does think).
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by martindbp 2y ago
Yeah, most things lend themselves to visualizing, but even things that don't I have to visualize something, the answer doesn't just come to me unless I have something to look at if that makes sense. Let me ask, when you decide wha
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by martindbp 2y ago
Most coding is not rocket science, just drudgery. Still, 7/10 implies some very junior level tasks.
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by martindbp 2y ago
Is this the norm? I can have an internal dialog but I mainly visualize things, I'd say that 90% of my thinking is visual. I'm not even sure how you'd solve, for instance, an algorithmic problem without visualizing the process
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by martindbp 2y ago
Hype or not, evaluate the tech for what it is. Just because there's too much hype doesn't invalidate the tech. The hype is directionally correct, although the magnitude may be off. Or maybe not. We have very smart AI/RL resea
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by martindbp 2y ago
I just don't understand how you can look at the current state of AI and the rate of progress and think "this is just like the expert systems hype". "Just a pile of linear algebra", "just curve fitting", &q
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by martindbp 2y ago
I know this is controversial, but here's my take: self made rich people live in reality. Whatever ideas they have about reality will be tested relentlessly, otherwise they wouldn't have succeeded at business. Government bureaucrat
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by martindbp 2y ago
Maybe it's similar to Tinder. In the past you got a few local applicants and you made your pick, but now you get hundred of applicants, so you narrow your requirements while probably filtering out good matches, just like girls who filt
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by martindbp 2y ago
It's certainly an acquired taste
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by martindbp 2y ago
You don't think everyone saying they don't want kids because "I don't want to bring a child into this world" is making a moral statement?
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by martindbp 2y ago
I want to dislike brutalism and generally prefer older European architecture, but after seeing a brutalist library on a sand beach in China I kind of learned to like it. Maybe it was the surrounding nature in combination with it that made i
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by martindbp 2y ago
I think, in particular the younger generations, have been let to believe that being pessimistic about the state of the world and it's future is some kind of moral virtue.
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by martindbp 2y ago
I have one of those catalogs from 1996 with an index of web pages for different topics. Maybe I should scan it and do the same experiment
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by martindbp 2y ago
Except according to Elon Musk on X "It's way higher than 2%. Please" Before you retort with "Musk lies", this is a very specific claim and not a prediction, and would land him in legal trouble as said by an CEO of a
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by martindbp 2y ago
Unfortunately, AI could lead to more verbose everything, because it also enables us to distil huge amounts of text. Forgot where I read about this, but it has been shown that digitalization has enabled the tax code to go from something one
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by martindbp 2y ago
LLMs need to either be extremely good with insane context or LLM output has to be conditioned by and translated into formal logic, like Prolog or Datalog to make sure it's compatible with the rules and state of the world, and determine
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by martindbp 2y ago
8 hours is a long time to be bored every day.
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by martindbp 2y ago
Capitalism and technology will make it cheaper over time, if we just let it. Africans without reliable electricity has magic pocket devices straight out of Star Trek. We can find a way to make personalized medicine dirt cheap too, but you c
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by martindbp 2y ago
What do you think would have happened to the automobile if Ford had to take liability for every accident? There will be a few years when FSD is worse than human drivers, and then it will be super human. But to get there you need data. Or yo
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by martindbp 2y ago
Maybe just FSD.
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by martindbp 2y ago
By nagging every 30 seconds and giving you a strike against the account if you look away for more than a few seconds. Older cars dont have a cabin camera, but the nags for newer vehicles are frequent. At some point you have to give liabilit
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by martindbp 2y ago
It's clear that what's missing is flexibility and agency. For anything that can be put into text or a short conversation, and I'd have to chose between access to ChatGPT or a random human, I know what I'd chose.
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by martindbp 2y ago
Yeah, I was there for three months right before the end of restrictions. Not very excited to go back after that.
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by martindbp 2y ago
I wonder how much of that is due to Covid, but I remember some stat like the number of people learning Chinese since 2008 was down at least 50% even before Covid, and that includes people studying in their home country.
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by martindbp 3y ago
I still don't see any data from school maximalists that schooling is anything more than signaling (beyond basic math and literacy), and that kids wouldn't be much happier if they could spend time on projects and pursuits they were

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