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by palmotea 3mo ago
> About teachers: some amount teaching profession can be automated, but the parts that cannot (in any reasonable way in the foreseeable future) are perhaps the most core aspects of teaching. Yeah, but "we" (note the scare-quote
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> I a lot less than that. Most people don’t have jobs that can be done remotely, which I think is a good proxy for the ceiling of who can be replaced by AI. Almost nobody on my block besides me is going to be replaced (beer brewer, sever
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by palmotea 3mo ago
> The PLC is usually in a control cabinet that can be opened by a control cabinet key: As far as I can tell, that thing's $50. Why would Joe from shipping have one? > Usually, a lock with a real key is only used to temporarily pr
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by palmotea 3mo ago
> You mean like, just hang a thumb drive on a lanyard inside of the cabinet -- with source code and such? This guy is very happy when someone literally does that: https://www.youtube.com/@Cursed_Controls (great channel b
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by palmotea 3mo ago
> In your example, humans are the horses And, frankly, fuck 'em if they can't keep up. It's truly the best and most ethical outcome for everyone if the people the economy no longer needs to the way of work horses. Maybe th
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by palmotea 3mo ago
> Overpopulation is not solved. Many African and Middle Eastern cultures continue to have a dozen children per wife. It will be (eventually) when the worldwide birth rate drop below replacement. And it's close to that now : https:
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by palmotea 3mo ago
> And if that is the argument, there are plenty of local business billboards in the Bay Area as well. I don't have an argument, it's just what you describe doesn't match my experience.
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by palmotea 3mo ago
> If you drive through farm country, all the billboards are about the local cash crop. Have you ever driven through farm country? I do fairly regularly (on an interstate). There's like one billboard for a (cattle) vet on my route.
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by palmotea 3mo ago
Struggling with things is important for understanding and thinking about things, and AI gives you a way to bypass that struggle. People will take that bypass, because to resist it takes willpower. It makes it harder to follow the path you n
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by palmotea 3mo ago
I use one of these to check the wiring of the USB cables I get, especially if I'm getting a weird one. I've always been a little freaked out by the story of that Google employee who posted very trusted USB-C cable reviews to Amazo
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by palmotea 3mo ago
> However government officials might find themselves in a courtroom having to demonstrate how they applied the law equally, and would be subject to discovery to see if they were being corruptly influenced (there is organization and inter
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by palmotea 3mo ago
> Whoever thought it was ok to approve the purchase of xAI by SpaceX deserves to be hung, dug up, hung again, and repeated 4x over. I want this person's liver on my dinner plate. Did Musk even need approval? At the time weren't
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by palmotea 3mo ago
> Yes, and big part of it is public is ok with that. For example, did you protest while Uber was breaking many local laws while growing? I never supported what Uber, either. Why would you assume anyone did?
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by palmotea 3mo ago
> Technologists would be thrilled to build them in California? I'm certain none of the people actually ordering these things would be thrilled to have them anywhere near where they actually live. If they could build them in Californ
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by palmotea 3mo ago
> The rumor is going around on X that foreign enemies of the US (especially China) are trying to influence Americans through social networks against building data centers. X is owned by a guy who builds data centers. Also I don't tr
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by palmotea 3mo ago
> The point of industrial capacity is a positive externality for the country not that it makes someone's backyard prettier. Yeah, that' true. What's the problem with building them in Atherton, then? The nation will get the
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by palmotea 3mo ago
> It's sad. For all the lamenting that the US is losing industrial capacity (or lost it long ago), we can't even handle some of the lightest industry possible. A big building that hums and releases slightly warm water, and the
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by palmotea 3mo ago
I don't think that would work. Per your article: > While many theme park fans may initially believe there is only one ‘magical’ go away green color that was developed by Imagineering, that couldn’t be further from the truth. There a
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by palmotea 3mo ago
> One under-discussed topic is whether Americans hate data centers in their neighborhoods, or whether they actually just hate gas turbine generators running 24/7 in their neighborhoods. Actually, Americans hate Silicon Valley and AI
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by palmotea 3mo ago
> ...which resulted in an increase in local air emissions that was technically illegal. Isn't it technically legal, but obviously offends the spirit of the law (and being a good neighbor) by driving a bus through a loophole?
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> I don't think we can sweep the worst parts of it under the rug because the bad impacts are only happening to "the poors". We can and we will. If you read HN for any period of time, you'll probably read at least 5
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Does this include the several stupid "thin wrapper on ChatGPT to 'help' people with depression/ADHD/etc." startups that I recall from about two seconds after ChatGPT came out? Basically: "I want to be a fo
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by palmotea 3mo ago
>> When I see pictures of food on a menu, I expect them to be real pictures of an example of the actual dish I'd get > I don't get who would think that's a good idea. It's super helpful to the customer, becaus
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> Yesterday I encountered AI-generated food photos on a menu for the first time. I immediately felt grossed out before even realising why. Their generated focaccias didn't even look like food, just off-putting trypophobia triggers.
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by palmotea 3mo ago
> Are you speaking in the abstract, or would you, personally, like that when reading a blog? It's better than the current status quo, where people post LLM writing without attributing it to the LLM, hoping you'll get tricked in
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> If they can exhaust all their firepower in a couple weeks fighting Iran, China would have no reason to feel threatened in the first place. I think the reason China has no reason to be threatened is the US outsourced most of it's m
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by palmotea 3mo ago
> When I was learning to code at college, by myself (I did a Business degree), I bought a book on iOS development[0]. This book mandated that you type all the examples out line-by-line. I thought the idea was a pretty silly one, but I st
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by palmotea 3mo ago
> ...Unfortunately people sometimes get defensive against this take. But I think treating the LLM as you described can make you a better LLM user and help get better output. It helps understand the failure modes better, and moderate one’
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by palmotea 3mo ago
> Current frontier models are absolutely sci-fi AI by any measure that existed up until the late 2010s. Sci-fi is Lt. Cmdr. Data, HAL, Skynet, Culture Minds... > Current frontier models are absolutely sci-fi AI by any measure that exi
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by palmotea 3mo ago
> But also, don't count out OpenAI and Anthropic, no matter how shaky the numbers. The market has also demonstrated how to price SPCX so if they IPO, they will see their free market FMV and I'm sure it's >0 and much muc

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