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by overgard 2mo ago
Personally, I would fight hard against that kind of outcome. While I don't mind self driving cars on the road if they drive safely, being able to own and operate a vehicle is a huge deal for personal freedom. Part of why I refuse to ow
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by overgard 2mo ago
It's kind of fascinating how toxic the EA/LessWrong/Rationalist stuff has become. I remember reading it back in the early days (~2010 or so) and finding a lot of good ideas mixed in with some dorkiness (Harry Potter fan ficti
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by overgard 2mo ago
The real problem IMO is for most SV companies, the audience is the investors and the press, not the actual customer. Which I guess kind of makes sense structurally -- if the idea is to grow fast and exit, then you gotta know who butters you
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by overgard 2mo ago
I think something that doesn't get talked about a lot is how bad most large tech companies are at creating new products, in general. Like, if you look at most big tech companies, they have their core offering that got them to be really
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by overgard 2mo ago
I'm mostly going off the tweet, it could be I just don't understand, but how do you managed shared data if everyone has their own copy of the code and they can add whatever features they want? I mean, I'm assuming that any so
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by overgard 2mo ago
I don't think you can just look at the statistics though. What I mean is that, the main issue is that the category of mistakes they make are going to be inherently different from the category of mistakes that humans make. IE, humans ar
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by overgard 2mo ago
Funnier when you consider what Loopt amounted to.
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by overgard 2mo ago
God, I still cringe every time I see that.
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by overgard 2mo ago
> Apple is cutthroat in business too. Sure. Also, don't care. Lets focus on the devil currently doing harm.
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by overgard 2mo ago
I think the biggest problem we have right now is our billionaires essentially live in a completely different society from the rest of us. Some of these guys are building doomsday bunkers! From their perspective, if things get really really
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by overgard 2mo ago
You can be careless in a way where it's obvious you'll cause harm, but you just don't do anything about it because you don't care. Drunk driving for instance. SV is the equivalent of a societal drunk driver right now bec
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by overgard 2mo ago
I think his predictions for 2025 were pretty accurate: https://garymarcus.substack.com/p/six-or-seven-predictions-f...
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by overgard 2mo ago
And yet Sora folded because it's way too expensive to run a service like that. A lot of his predictions have held up very well.
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by overgard 2mo ago
That's just not true, at all.
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by overgard 2mo ago
Mate, if you don't like Gary Marcus that's your call, but you're completely just lying when you talk about his qualifications. He is not "just" a psychologist, he's done a lot of AI research and even started AI
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by overgard 2mo ago
> other people are getting carried away with the result That is the intended purpose of hype. He's polite, but he's basically saying there's potentially a lot of smoke and mirrors. I agree.
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by overgard 2mo ago
Nobody is saying it doesn't have an impact. What we're saying is the near-religious fervor isn't warranted. AI boosters always speak in the future tense, which is extremely telling because we have right now is basically &quot
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by overgard 2mo ago
That's a lot of ad hominem with no actual explanation attached. I don't agree with this idea of "creeping goalposts". Here's the pattern I see: 1. Labs make a press release, cherry picking results and using very car
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by overgard 2mo ago
People get brushed off as being haters when they point out that a lot of SV is morally bankrupt. It has nothing to do with "achievement" to point out that a lot of the people running the show are people that intend a lot of harm o
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by overgard 2mo ago
https://garymarcus.substack.com/p/openais-amazing-but-vastly... https://garymarcus.substack.com/p/two-critical-updates-re-as... As always, PR hype. Goalposts have not moved. Guys, please use criti
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by overgard 2mo ago
It can be annoying when someone you disagree with is frequently right!
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by overgard 2mo ago
Gary Marcus' has a good take on this: https://garymarcus.substack.com/p/openais-amazing-but-vastly... https://garymarcus.substack.com/p/two-critical-updates-re-as... Not that there isn't
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by overgard 2mo ago
The way I see it their fundamental business model is not something we should tolerate. This is basically just stalking with a lot of money put behind it and barely any legal accountability. This is just not a thing we should tolerate in a f
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by overgard 2mo ago
This is such an evil company; they should be regulated out of existence.
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by overgard 2mo ago
Oh god, please leave video games alone, we have enough slop.
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by overgard 2mo ago
I think testing is really important (even without LLMs). Currently I have 2247 unit tests across 132 files in a ~150K LOC codebase (test code included in that count). It takes about 50s to run. There could be more, but it's not nothing
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by overgard 2mo ago
Sorry, my original phrasing was confusing which you should not be downvoted for. I've edited my original comment to clarify what I meant (hopefully).
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by overgard 2mo ago
I was a bit hazy on numbers because I don't scientifically record them, but I guess what I'll say is the fixing and verifying takes a lot longer than writing the initial code. This was true before LLMs, but when writing code by ha
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by overgard 2mo ago
I have to admit, I asked ChatGPT to do a TLDR summary because I found the writing meandered quite a bit. I think the overall point is sound: > "Developers become attached to tools like Vim, Emacs, or an IDE because years of experien
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by overgard 2mo ago
Uhm, removing code once it's in there and load bearing REALLY hard, and breaks a lot of things. You can't just be like "well, I'll just remove the parts with copyright issues". Plus, all those parts with copyright i

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