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by overgard 3mo ago
I wish. I live in the midwest in a stable but unsexy city (probably around like 50th biggest in the nation? So recognizable but not particularly major). 85k is pretty painful here.
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by overgard 3mo ago
Go read "Careless People". The social media people knew exactly how damaging their product was early on, as evidenced by the fact that they wouldn't even let their own children use it. I think AI people understand how damagin
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by overgard 3mo ago
> "starving artist" is not a new concept Exactly, so why make it worse? Why try to automate an industry when the money you make off killing it wouldn't even cover the cost of your research? > AI doesn't stop creati
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by overgard 3mo ago
Yeah, ran into this. I asked it to review a server I wrote for security vulnerabilities and it was "flagged" (after spending some money, of course). Kind of bizarre, there were so many ways a person could look at this and tell it
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by overgard 3mo ago
I think you could make it impersonal sounding. Like, right now ChatGPT throws in a lot of cheeky things. They don't really bother me because I don't anthropomorphize it, but, a lot of otherwise smart people are struggling with ant
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by overgard 3mo ago
I don't think the question is really the dystopian part
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by overgard 3mo ago
"Blame the individual" doesn't really make sense when we're talking about things that have a society-wide impact. As an analogue, personally I'm not on social media, but I am affected by social media because everyon
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by overgard 3mo ago
I am building my own things. But when someone is having a massively negative impact on society because they've bought way more influence than they really deserve, I think it's entirely fair to call them out on it. I mean, the dude
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by overgard 3mo ago
In a personal context, you're not hindered from doing those things, so you're correct in that regard. The problem is economic and social. The AI is mediocre enough to drive the value of those things way down; possibly to zero. Whe
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by overgard 3mo ago
Like a lot of AI things, this seems both cool and kind of creeps me out. I've never used voice interfaces in the past (siri, the google one, whatever is on my tv) so I'm probably not the target market, but this does seem like an i
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by overgard 3mo ago
I think there is an interesting use case for AI in fiction, but it's not spamming publishers and readers with slop books. The thing about fiction is we already have SO MUCH and the good stuff is evergreen, so the number one metric that
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by overgard 3mo ago
It is true that most of us wouldn't look great under a microscope, but the way I see it Elon very obviously wants attention, and he very obviously wants to change the world in dramatic ways that he should be accountable for (whether po
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by overgard 3mo ago
I focus on the negatives because they're so massive. Elon didn't even start Tesla, he was an investor that forced the founder out. I'll concede that SpaceX is a little better, but even then a lot of his ideas are profoundly s
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by overgard 3mo ago
Musk strikes me as a guy that keeps succeeding despite his bad ideas because the system is so rigged that getting wealthy off one good bet can sustain you forever. I mean, his track record this entire decade is proposterously stupid (cybert
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by overgard 3mo ago
You know, even before AI whenever I heard someone be like "my business idea is so revolutionary I MUST KEEP IT A SECRET" my eyes would roll out of my head. I promise you, your ideas are not nearly as amazing as you think they are
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by overgard 3mo ago
> One programmer can know if the program is right I think that's really unlikely on a large software project, or even a medium size one. Mature things usually get big enough that developers specialize in an area. Just as a random ex
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by overgard 3mo ago
Sadly, a lot of peoples definition of progress is "number go up". The stock market is booming and yet most people are poorer than they were in the past because those numbers and that "progress" is only in the interest of
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by overgard 3mo ago
> Perhaps we can get to a system that produces not just the binary but also a machine-verifiable proof that the binary implements some higher-level language description of the program. We don't even have a solution to the halting pr
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by overgard 3mo ago
I think if you use AI to automate talking to customers, you're going to stop having customers. If you use AI to do your engineering and deployments, it's up to you to fix it when it goes wrong. If you use it for accounting, you BE
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by overgard 3mo ago
People love non-deterministic compilers. </s>
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by overgard 3mo ago
Depends on the scale and the technology. If the answer is "all of white collar workers" then I would argue it's very toxic. (I don't think it can do that, but it's hard not to get the impression that it's abs
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by overgard 3mo ago
I don't know if breaking encryption will even matter if we just keep handing over all our data anyway.
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by overgard 3mo ago
The first link is openai, who uh, might be a little biased. The second link looks lab-sponsored. The third link is a blog post of a lot of hype and little substance. (I tried fable twice and I was unimpressed) I'd love to see an exampl
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by overgard 3mo ago
"AI babysitter" sounds more like a minimum wage job, not a career path. Outsourcing your primary skill to a machine creates less leverage. I'm convinced this is why CEO's love it -- even though you can't replace s
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by overgard 3mo ago
An AI traffic light sounds like an excellent way to kill a lot of people
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by overgard 3mo ago
The ultimate goal of this technology is to replace people -- if it's a tool and corporations still need to employ people to use the tool, then the valuations make no sense. So ultimately, you're going to need to hand the car keys
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by overgard 3mo ago
It does sound like a good way to get people to stop talking to you
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by overgard 3mo ago
Yup, that's the weird thing about the booster argument. "We finally achieved it, we're no longer important or the dominant species and Sam Altman and Dario Amodei run what's left of the world from their bunker!" Yay
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by overgard 3mo ago
> You can have something smarter than you which you use as a tool. That sounds like how tech CEO's treat their employees! Kidding aside, I think the notion that you could control something (legitimately) smarter than you is a pretty
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by overgard 3mo ago
I think we're not putting enough emphasis on the importance of human intelligence. Technology is supposed to serve us, we're not supposed to serve technology.

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