operatingthetan

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by operatingthetan 3mo ago
>Ironically, the audience that values all that structure the most is now LLMs. LLMs are not people and they don't have values.
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by operatingthetan 3mo ago
>I'm fatigued by it all at this point. This is the prevailing opinion of people even outside of tech.
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by operatingthetan 3mo ago
Yes and that can manifest in a very different kind of personal crisis.
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by operatingthetan 3mo ago
He's got "tech brain" where he thinks everything either serves tech or is tech. But you are correct in pointing out that he's just complaining about inconsequential cultural trends, probably because he's somewhat s
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by operatingthetan 3mo ago
Eh not really. It's more like it starts explaining to the user that they are very special, and they discovered this unique intellectual thing in the AI slop that no one ever has, then starts convincing them it's mystical or simil
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by operatingthetan 3mo ago
That doesn't even mean it's wrong.
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by operatingthetan 3mo ago
The result is that everything in the american economy is getting squeezed.
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by operatingthetan 3mo ago
Yeah this thread is making a lot of assumptions. Maybe the machine has been ordered, or they need to do HR type onboarding for the first few hours, or any number of reasons. Every job I've ever started I bring my own machine just in
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by operatingthetan 3mo ago
Nice attempt at recovery but your comment still doesn't make sense. You were talking about Seattle, and then suggested Bellevue was "greener pastures." Not that Seattle was "greener pastures" from Bainbridge lol.
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by operatingthetan 3mo ago
I think you may be the only person in the world who thinks Lynnwood has better energy than Seattle. Complaining about Seattle being too suburban and then praising its suburbs is too contradictory to take seriously.
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by operatingthetan 3mo ago
>Even Lynnwood WA -- a suburb -- had more energy. I'm sorry but this is so beyond the pale. Also your comment complains about the energy of the city (that it is too suburban feeling) and then you say you like Ballard the most -- whi
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by operatingthetan 3mo ago
>If you haven't lived in Seattle, it's hard to understand the problem. [...] >greener pastures (literally) east across the bay Well obviously you haven't lived in Seattle because if you did you would know the body of wa
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by operatingthetan 3mo ago
I installed this a while back and honestly I almost never touch it. It turns out that for me searching my history doesn't really replace a search engine at all. The built in extractor list is pretty limited and adding them seems lik
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by operatingthetan 3mo ago
> murder in moderation, meth in moderation, punching grandmas in the face in moderation I know these are your extreme examples but this is literally how society functions in each one. Meth in moderation = prescription stimulants for ADHD
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by operatingthetan 3mo ago
Explain what a "good generalization" would be to you?
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by operatingthetan 3mo ago
All generalizations are fragile at the edge cases, that doesn't make them pointless, especially if you know they are generalizations.
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by operatingthetan 3mo ago
Isn't the industry's idea that 'prompt engineering' is over and anyone can use this stuff effectively? There seems to be a literal trap where people are too trusting of the LLM and take its word on code or whatever is be
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by operatingthetan 3mo ago
>"Tiktok is like meth", would you advocate for moderation of meth? This is an absurd statement. If someone is trying to talk about the middle cases, redirecting the conversation to the edge in order to dismiss their general co
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by operatingthetan 3mo ago
Truisms fail when you get to the edge cases. This is well known and you aren't pointing out some massive flaw in their reasoning when it comes comes to classroom AI use.
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by operatingthetan 3mo ago
> I believed this so strongly that my company built an entire product around this concept. I used to tell folks that "session transcripts were the new oil," that they were more valuable than the code itself. This is pretty funn
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by operatingthetan 3mo ago
Voting isn't some vanguard against political corruption. Voting can and is easily manipulated with completely legal means.
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by operatingthetan 3mo ago
Nadella only understands SAAS/Cloud and everything looks like a SAAS/Cloud nail to his hammer. They threw Copilot at every single thing they could think of with no discretion and now Copilot is the worst brand in all of AI. They
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by operatingthetan 3mo ago
I think the general public is already kind of bored of AI and the phase of corporations writing blank checks for frontier models is over. The top labs keep doing shady marketing stuff (and various embarrassing stunts) and it's diffic
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by operatingthetan 3mo ago
Why are AI boosters turning around and trying to suggest AI now won't take our jobs? Or less jobs than previously stated? Meanwhile Meta has so much AI compute that they don't know what to do with, and they are ready to lease it o
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by operatingthetan 3mo ago
That is called a leading question and it is not "perfectly reasonable." Resisting your attempts at bad faith discussion is not "reacting badly." I agree though that we should cease discussion.
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by operatingthetan 3mo ago
Thank you for saying succinctly what I could not. If your consciousness and knowledge fundamentally does not change from your ongoing experience, then you are not learning. This is how the LLM currently functions.
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by operatingthetan 3mo ago
I want to say I really appreciate that you are putting a lot of thought into this, you certainly have interesting concepts here. However I think it seems a bit far off from the discussion I'm trying to have, and I do not have the bandw
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by operatingthetan 3mo ago
Please stop trying to police what the subject is to suit your own arguments.
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by operatingthetan 3mo ago
>which is what we're talking about. You are anyway, I don't see anyone up the chain saying that.
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by operatingthetan 3mo ago
A very important callout. It's the crux of the whole thing really. Humans are easily susceptible to deception by statements that are structured to be believable.

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