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by myhf 9mo ago
I mean, people who use LLMs to crank out code are cranking it out by the millions of lines. Even if you have never seen it used toward a net positive result, you have to admit there is a LOT of it.
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by myhf 9mo ago
If an app makes a diagnosis or a recommendation based on health data, that's Software as a Medical Device (SaMD) and it opens up a world of liability. https://www.fda.gov/medical-devices/digital-health-center-ex...
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by myhf 9mo ago
The Land of Eternal Motion in HyperRogue is an example of a hyperbolic snake game. You can continue moving indefinitely with an infinite tail. https://hyperrogue.miraheze.org/wiki/Land_of_Eternal_Motion
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by myhf 10mo ago
Small correction: AI was not invented and it did not arrive.
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by myhf 10mo ago
it's physically painful for me to stop talking about my topic
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by myhf 10mo ago
It's certainly a problem when circular investment structures are used to get around legal limits on the amount of leverage or fractional reserve, or to dodge taxes from bringing offshore funds onshore.
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by myhf 10mo ago
Because discounted dollar bills are still a tangible asset, but churning language models are intangible?
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by myhf 11mo ago
To say the even quieter part out loud, datacenters are colonial encampments (like energy projects). Space has no indigenous people to colonize.
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by myhf 11mo ago
There's only one electron. It looks like separate ones because it's traveling backwards and forwards in time.
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by myhf 11mo ago
self-cleaning oven
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by myhf 11mo ago
it's not surprising that you've picked up some unsubstantiated protestant dogma disguised as economic theory, if you are hanging out on facebook neighborhood groups
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by myhf 11mo ago
smh, keyboard warriors with no background in tailoring deciding whether the emperor has clothes or not
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by myhf 11mo ago
Designing a system with deterministic behavior would require the developer to think. Human-Computer Interaction experts agree that a better policy is to "Don't Make Me Think" [1] [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/w
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by myhf 1y ago
Azure outages: happens all the time, understandable, no way to prevent this AWS outages: almost never happens, you should have been more prepared for when it does
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by myhf 1y ago
Is there a genuine use case for today's models, other than for identifying suckers? You can't even systematically apply an LLM to a list of text transformation tasks, because the ability to produce consistent results would make th
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by myhf 1y ago
FLOP/s/$ is still increasing exponentially, even if the specific components don't match Moore's original phrasing. Markets for electronics have momentum, and estimating that momentum is how chip producers plan for invest
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by myhf 1y ago
I stopped paying for Kagi because they added AI.
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by myhf 1y ago
This concept doesn't require the Law of Excluded Middle that classical boolean values do.
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by myhf 1y ago
OmniGraffle user spotted
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by myhf 1y ago
Circular reasoning can be used to "prove" anything, so it's not helpful as a basis for policy making.
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by myhf 1y ago
Why should anyone honestly critique an app that nobody could be bothered to write?
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by myhf 1y ago
Is the LLM-doc integration some kind of monetization scheme where they expect users to pay them to disable it?
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by myhf 1y ago
LLM training is not fair use. It would cost trillions to genuinely secure the rights to use any data set that could include any excerpts of copyrighted work. The millions and billions you hear about in copyright "settlements" are
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by myhf 1y ago
The purpose of customer support is to convince the customer that it is not worth their time to pursue support. A worse experience achieves that goal faster. Using GenAI is a huge breakthrough in this field, because it is a socially acceptab
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by myhf 1y ago
In the 1940s, the CIA wrote the Simple Sabotage Field Manual [1] explaining methods to damage their rivals' operations through largely bureaucratic means. Today, we have fully automated the methods from this manual in the form of LLM C
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by myhf 1y ago
2023 was fifty years ago
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by myhf 1y ago
More investment -> more return on investment -> "AI is increasing worker efficiency" -> This is good for AI. Less investment -> more layoffs -> "AI is replacing workers" -> This is good for AI. A comput
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by myhf 1y ago
Do you think that the more refined version is somehow less of an insult to life itself? It wasn't a statement about how refined the art style is. It's about the meaning and intentionality that goes into deliberate communication, a
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by myhf 1y ago
> the useful things it does It's weird how AI-lovers are always trying to shoehorn an unsupported "it does useful things" into some kind of criticism sandwich where only the solvable problems can be acknowledged as problem
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by myhf 1y ago
Counterpoint: the main motivation for installing brain chips is to be able to do those things to subordinates.

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