paradox242

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by paradox242 2y ago
> so their customers get distracted from the fact that they are paying $500+ per user per month for a shitty web UI on top of 4 database tables. Oof, I felt that cut in my bones and I was only a customer.
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by paradox242 2y ago
MY GOD ITS ALMOST LIKE THEY TRAINED THE MODEL FOR THE BENCHMARK INSTEAD OF FOR GENERAL APTITUDE! WHY WOULD OPENAI DO THIS?!?
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by paradox242 2y ago
Elon wants this for the same reason he will inevitably use his role in the Trump administration to dismantle union protections; he prefers a cheap, easily cowed workforce that he can use and then throw away as needed. Trump shares this mind
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by paradox242 2y ago
How far has it gone
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by paradox242 2y ago
Because everything was going real well up to now.
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by paradox242 2y ago
Have you... never seen a Kubrick film? That's seems wild to me, but probably that's becoming more a generational thing than anything else.
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by paradox242 2y ago
You seem to be woefully out of touch with the sentiments of the average person.
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by paradox242 2y ago
I can tell you from first hand experience that yes, absolutely it is.
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by paradox242 2y ago
His appeal would likely be mocked as he and Hitler might as well be on two completely different planets, so distant is their world view. At one point Ghandi even basically says "might doesn't make right" to which Hitler could
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by paradox242 2y ago
When leaders without the requisite technical knowledge are making decisions then the question of whether AI is capable of replacing human workers is orthogonal to the question of whether human workers will be replaced by AI.
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by paradox242 2y ago
I don't see how this is sustainable. We have essentially eaten the seed corn. These current LLMs have been trained by an enormous corpus of mostly human-generated technical knowledge from sources which we already know to be currently b
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by paradox242 2y ago
Seems like there is more gain on the adversary side of this equation. Think nation-states like North Korea or China, and commercial entities like Pegasus Group.
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by paradox242 2y ago
I suspect you both actually agree. What they are highlighting is that the incumbents are actually slower to update or adopt newer technologies, often because they enjoy a position as you described where they don't feel normal market pr
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by paradox242 2y ago
We are well into diminishing returns territory with high resolution textures and 3D models, but most games are still using comparatively crude lighting technique. Raytraced lighting, when combined with the above high-fidelity game objects c
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by paradox242 2y ago
I just want to keep slamming ^ to keep this permanently at the top of this site. In the course of my day I have the occasion to visit the documentation of many software projects. Some created by mega corporations (AWS), some more humble ope
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by paradox242 2y ago
I already do this in the US.
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by paradox242 2y ago
He is the same now as he was then. I don't understand all the fawning over the guy (I mean, I do, they want to be him and live his life, which I suppose means they are as morally corrupt as he is).
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by paradox242 2y ago
Aping Steve Jobs without anywhere near the same sense of style. A perfectionist of crafting the mediocre experience. Also the line about caring that they were "humans" and not "users" is particularly rich. I am not doubt
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by paradox242 2y ago
Does anyone else's neighborhood get flooded with contractors and other roofing/repair companies every time it rains or the wind blows? Sarcasm aside, it seems to be a regular scam where they try to talk you into colluding with the
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by paradox242 2y ago
Even assuming this isn't abused as in your experience, it would seem sending people with guns to the home of someone in such mental distress that involuntary admission to a psychiatric facility is necessary is probably not the ideal ap
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by paradox242 2y ago
I took the same journey. I wanted something simple to use but that did note taking well, that stored files locally, and did not use proprietary formats. This lead me to Obsidian, and I have not looked back since.
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by paradox242 2y ago
Except it's not even summarizing, it's generating new and creative ways to be wrong.
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by paradox242 2y ago
The money is certainly pouring in and people like Nvidia are making a killing on the speculation, but nothing I have seen so far indicates that any of these AI tools so far are capable of anything on the order of magnitude of the industrial
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by paradox242 2y ago
My son is 4 and saw me watching one of his videos with the colorful Pi characters and was intrigued. After multiple repeated requests to watch "Pi friends" we ended up getting him one of the plush Pi creatures which he still loves
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by paradox242 2y ago
The only thing unsafe about these models would be anyone mistakingly giving them any serious autonomous responsibility given how error prone and incompetent they are.
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by paradox242 2y ago
You are thinking of the dude with the mustache.
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by paradox242 2y ago
I had a friend in high school who's brother was like this as a toddler, would speak to his family lucidly and with detail about another life he remembered. No one was sure where he would have even gotten some of the stories he told. Wh
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by paradox242 3y ago
Liquibase and Jenkins.
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by paradox242 3y ago
Even in the black market of SIM swaps, that is a lowball offer.
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by paradox242 3y ago
A guy a worked with once did some time as an IT contractor at one of the large hospitals here in town (they are almost all now owned by the same organization) and he was telling me how this works in practice. Since they have to spend all of

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