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by palmotea 4mo ago
> Boy, was it controversial. I could not believe how hard some people were pushing back in the comments. I've spent very little time on LinkedIn, but what I have read struck like individuals writing in the voice of a corporate commu
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> A team member sent me a zip file with about 30 LLM generated documents in it the other day and asked if I could review them right away. And a lot of it was just repetition and/or stuff that was just out of left field, made-up, hal
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by palmotea 4mo ago
Oh good, so now the prices of used RAM can go through the roof, too. Man, I hope the price of a PC goes back to being equivalent to a car. So many monetization opportunities there.
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The thing with AI and AI-enabled automation is that it may lead to a world where the rich don't need anyone else anymore. I could totally imagine things shaking out where the rich and everything important is so-well defended that eve
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> Calculators were treated as threats to learning, even though they ultimately freed students to focus on higher-level math and provably improved their abilities across many different studies. Oh fuck that bullshit. I was a dumbass to be
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> Honestly, and this is my "hot take of the decade" but I think we're going to get some sort of AI modulated/managed form of capitalism that will approach socialism in some regards but still allow for people to try to
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> I wouldn't call social media relaxing. Neither did I.
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The brief nightmare where workers had enough power to demand better conditions is thankfully ending, and we can return the happy days where workers would slave away for just enough compensation to sustain themselves, and they'd be happ
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by palmotea 4mo ago
> I read while lying on the couch, my head resting on a pillow. Is that not passive enough? Obviously I meant mentally passive, not physically passive.
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by palmotea 4mo ago
Just cleaning up the links for future searchers and adding the first part: Steve Ciarcia, CIARCIA’S CIRCUIT CELLAR BYTE Octover 1988, A Supercomputer Part 1. Steve begins a supercomputer project by looking at multiprocessing basics. https:
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by palmotea 4mo ago
>> who has the time and the energy to read a long novel today? > Anyone who has the time and energy to spend on YouTube, TikTok, Facebook, Instagram, Twitter/X, or for that matter, anyone who has the time and energy to spend w
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> bygone times when the world moved at a much slower pace, but who has the time and the energy to read a long novel today? Capitalism is "fixing the glitch" of workers having space energy. I hope soon we'll achieve the ide
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by palmotea 4mo ago
Do you have a link? As far as I can tell you're referring to a BYTE magazine article, but I can only find vague references to it, not anything specific enough that would allow me to locate it.
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by palmotea 4mo ago
> When you have a headline that does not say what the actual topic is, and you are forced to click the article to find out the topic, that is called "clickbait". I don't think it's clickbait, but it's still a poo
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by palmotea 4mo ago
> #1 is a net-better outcome for everyone else than doing nothing. You kill some corrupt guy, just to replace him with another corrupt guy who's in the leader's good-graces. How is that "a net-better outcome for everyone e
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> But, are these sort of things just examples of selective prosecution? Would the inner circle members of CCP leadership realistically face the same prosecution and sentencing, if they were to be caught doing the same? > thus celebrat
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by palmotea 4mo ago
> ‘Just following orders’ is derided for a reason. For things like murdering people and genocide. When you're talking about controversial/gray areas, where there is no crime or clear consensus on punishable immorality, then
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> Using a vocabulary that is known only to themselves. So? Almost all professions have jargon known only to themselves. You think most people have any clue what a garbage collector is?
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> They made them a specific way, and will be stained with the consequences, because they were cowards who took the easy way out. One thing I've gotten tired of as I've gotten older is self-righteous judgement like that, when di
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>> The rank and file engineers and designers and PMs doing the work were all morally correct people > Then why didn't they quit? I can't speak for those people, but decisions like quitting your job aren't one-dimensi
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> Funnily enough AI is the one discovering all those glaring issues now, and everyone is overwhelmed with getting it fixed. You could allow AI to attempt fixing it, but even though all of it was human written it is still hard to review,
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by palmotea 4mo ago
> It is not obvious to me that determinism is a requirement for an abstraction But it is a requirement for them to be an "abstraction just like" assemblers or compilers, which is what was being claimed.
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> LLMs are an abstraction just like machine code -> assembly -> C/JVM -> some lang -> LLMs? People keep trying to make that analogy, but it doesn't really work because LLMs aren't deterministic like compilers a
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> ...and [1] codebases for production code will be so low in quality that they will be unintelligible to humans, and [2] LLMs, too, will have trouble maintaining them. [3] At that point, coding will become a valuable skill again. You are
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>>> I went out to enjoy the Half Moon Bay 4th of July parade, occasionally checking in and prompting the next step for Fable from my phone. >> This intensification of work will not be good for workers’ health. Like, put your
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> Fun fact- Country with highest terminal density per person? Vatican. Hail Mamon That's just the quirky result of a global organization having its headquarters being a sovereign state with a tiny population. The error is treating i
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> And you think this is that? Oh dear. I don't care how it starts. I'm tried of the kind of people who ideologically oppose government control. > Freudian slip? Autocorrect typo for companies, obviously.
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I am happy with this. There needs to be more democratic control of the economy, as the people who have been running American countries have been consistently making decisions that are against the national interest. There's risk to it,
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> Although it's just anecdata, after spending $600 on the console, I certainly was dismayed to find 10-year old games only being sold at their original prices. Surely they should at least track inflation? Honestly, Sony should just
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> Man what a showcase for Opus this is. I take it you mean this Opus ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Opus_(audio_format) ) not that Opus ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Claude_(AI) ). I read almost

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