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by ori_b 6mo ago
> and spend more time on the parts of the job that actually matter i.e. framing problems, making tradeoffs, spotting risks, creating clarity, and producing original insight. What makes you think AI won't do those parts of the job?
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by ori_b 6mo ago
> but it's not clear What better way to find out than to just try it and see if we end up with runaway warming? That surely can't cause any harm.
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by ori_b 6mo ago
Yes, realizing the fact that most jobs have low standards, and adapting to LLMs being good enough for these low standards is certainly a friction point. Giving up caring is hard.
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by ori_b 6mo ago
The advantage of computers was that they didn't make human errors; they did things repeatedly, quickly, and predictably. If I'm going to accept human error, I'd like it to come from a human.
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by ori_b 6mo ago
Meh. That's fine if you really don't want to build things, and are mainly concerned about increasing your market value. If you like creating, buying software from Anthropic is boring as hell.
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by ori_b 6mo ago
I'd pay more for deterministic, explainable, and fast software without agents. The value of computers is that they do tasks repeatably, reliably, and at blinding speed. This stuff is negative value.
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by ori_b 6mo ago
Are you claiming that software is unaffordable? I get the sense that it was so cheap people were unhappy with how much was shoved into places where it was unwanted.
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by ori_b 6mo ago
Where's the fun in purchasing an app from Anthropic?
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by ori_b 6mo ago
We keep setting houses on fire so that we can roast marshmallows, and wonder why the people living in those houses are unhappy. As we do this, we promise that if we set enough houses on fire, we'll build hell. And imagine how rich we&#
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by ori_b 6mo ago
And what do we gain by leaving things on the table?
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by ori_b 6mo ago
What art have you produced? I did a little googling, and I can't find anything of note in public.
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by ori_b 6mo ago
> I really don't like the conflation of all meta staff with the strategy of the massive multinational corpo-monster that is meta itself. We can separate it out. The things at Meta that had no staff working on them can be blamed on
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by ori_b 6mo ago
Sounds dystopian. If I was tasked with designing hell for musicians, I would be inspired.
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by ori_b 6mo ago
Can you explain why that makes it ok to cover up accidents and lie about the recordings of the event being corrupted?
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by ori_b 6mo ago
The majority of examples in the document you linked describe 'person without<skill> can do thing needing <skill>'. It's very much selling 'more output, less skill'
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by ori_b 6mo ago
I suggest you read the sales pitches that these products have been making. Again, when I say that this is the selling point, I mean it: This is why management is buying them.
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by ori_b 6mo ago
Yes, you certainly can argue that, but you'd be wrong. The primary selling point of LLMs is that they solve the problem of needing skill to get things done.
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by ori_b 6mo ago
Yes, and plan 9 solved this; you open /dev/draw and start drawing.
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by ori_b 6mo ago
Graphics. They're network transparent, and take over the terminal. Terminal apps were obsolete once we had invented the pixel. Unix just provides no good way to write one that can be used remotely.
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by ori_b 6mo ago
By that token, Rust is also memory unsafe: array bounds checks and stack overflow are runtime checks.
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by ori_b 6mo ago
It's very clear to me that many people have achieved peak civilization -- no evidence of thought remains.
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by ori_b 6mo ago
Some people like roasting marshmallows. Others think that setting the house on fire may have downsides.
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by ori_b 6mo ago
It's micromanaging an idiot savant. Except the fun part of management, the reward for a job well done, is seeing the personal growth of the managee. In this case, there's no person to grow. It's an overly talkative calculator
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by ori_b 6mo ago
> LFS/BLFS. Which BSD has that? That comes with the system. Here's the manpage: https://man.openbsd.org/release
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by ori_b 6mo ago
The history stack shouldn't be controlled by any loaded sites. The browser needs to treat websites as hostile.
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by ori_b 6mo ago
I ssh in multiple times. If I really needed to, I suppose I could use vnc.
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by ori_b 6mo ago
Thanks. Dtach is definitely closer to what I want than tmux, I'll be trying it out this week.
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by ori_b 6mo ago
Once I discovered window managers and graphics, I stopped using half-baked features to emulate them in the terminal. I use tmux to reattach to programs after the network connection dies, and not really anything else. I would welcome a versi
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by ori_b 6mo ago
We're racing to build hell.
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by ori_b 6mo ago
If the promises of AGI pan out, there will be nothing a human will be able to do better than an AI. If humans can't contribute economically, what else could things look like?

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