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by parpfish 8mo ago
something i wonder about with AI taking jobs -- similar to the ATM example in the article (and my experience with ai coding tools), the automation will start out by handling the easiest parts of our jobs. eventually, all the easy parts will
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by parpfish 8mo ago
I remember an art exhibit by an online privacy activist made where it’d ping people’s phones to get a list of “known WiFi networks” and then display them on a screen in a room. Each person would get a unique fingerprint of named network loc
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by parpfish 8mo ago
I’d love to see one of the AI behemoths put their money where their mouth is and replace their C-suite with their SOTA chatbot.
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by parpfish 8mo ago
the "latent space containing all voices" may give you the ability to parametrize voices and make an infinite number of unique voices. BUT... people have a limited ability to distinguish points in that space. in perceptual psycholo
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by parpfish 8mo ago
I’m torn about this. I agree that employment is “value extraction” and people without upfront capital (or risk tolerance) are selling off their IP to other people. It’s unfortunate, but in most cases I’d struggle to even call it exploitatio
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by parpfish 8mo ago
There’s the issue of the job itself being more demanding, but also the managers in “low skilled” jobs being ultra-demanding petty dictators. As a white collar computer guy, I can waste some time on Reddit. Or go for a walk and grab coffee.
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by parpfish 8mo ago
But once they replace gas engine with electric motor, car has NO engine. Gotta slip in a game engine.
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by parpfish 8mo ago
So many problems on the internet stem from products trying to be “free” and funding themselves with ads. I’m starting to think that we need to push for more of the internet going behind paywalls, which is weird because I’ve always been some
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by parpfish 8mo ago
No, it’s like being a micro manager. I don’t just give somebody a bit’s ticket a let the go. I give them a ticket but have to hover over their shoulder and nitpick their design choices. Tell them “you should use a different name for that
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by parpfish 8mo ago
I love the flow state, and I’m pretty sure it’s fundamentally incompatible with prompting. For me, when the flow state kicks in, it’s completely nonverbal and my inner dialogue shuts up. I think that’s part of why it feels so cool and fun w
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by parpfish 8mo ago
For me the fatigue is a little different— it’s the constant switching between doing a little bit of work/coding/reviewing and then stopping to wait for the llm to generate something. The waits are unpredictable length, so you neve
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by parpfish 9mo ago
> I'm constantly disengaging FSD for doing silly and dangerous things. You meant “I disable FSD because it does silly things” I read “I disable FSD so I can do silly things”
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by parpfish 9mo ago
If we just want to front load a bunch of construction jobs, I vote for some megalithic stone structures. Let’s give something to the archeologists 5,000 years in the future.
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by parpfish 9mo ago
In 15 years, the youths will become obsessed with that strange yellow cartoon style. They will crave that “vintage ChatGPT aesthetic”.
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by parpfish 9mo ago
That’s still a little mind boggling. They don’t make anything or directly help somebody else make something. they provide a platform that can maybe sometimes nudges an individual purchasing decisions in one direction.
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by parpfish 9mo ago
Do data centers create that many jobs? Especially if you break it down by jobs per sqft, I can’t imagine it compares well to any other type of industrial development
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by parpfish 9mo ago
Over my life I have learned “you must be useful to be valued” and I’m desperately trying to unlearn it. Reason one is that I should learn to chill out and relax. Reason two is that I know old age will hit me very hard once I feel “useless”
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by parpfish 9mo ago
i hate the single season dumping at once for a big binge. it always feel like i'm plugging into the content trough and gorging myself to pass the hours. you can't talk about a show with somebody until they're also done bingin
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by parpfish 9mo ago
it feels like you're advocating that "unless everybody can form a shared connection through common culture, nobody should for a shared connection through common culture".
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by parpfish 9mo ago
I was on a road trip a few months back and took a slight detour to pass through centralia, and there was enough smoke that I could see it from the road. Some local had set up a lawn chair and chained it to a tree so passers-by would know wh
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by parpfish 9mo ago
who cares if there are professional organizers? the accusations of fake/paid protests are about the crowds and participants, not the people that paid to print the posters and get some permits. both sides have paid activists because it&
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by parpfish 9mo ago
I assumed it was going to be about tensorflow
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by parpfish 9mo ago
But the thing is… nobody is doing the replication to falsify it. And if the did, it wouldn’t be published because it’s a null result
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by parpfish 9mo ago
In theory, asking grad students and early career folks to run replications would be a great training tool. But the problem isn’t just funding, it’s time. Successfully running a replication doesn’t get you a publication to help your career.
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by parpfish 9mo ago
That’s part of the reason that artists have made a bigger push toward selling merch as a means of making a living. But that feels so arbitrary and unsustainable to me. Why should I buy a tshirt from somebody because I like their music? Fash
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by parpfish 9mo ago
Their prorata payment scheme isn’t inherently good or bad. If I listen to obscure indie band all month, some of my money will go to Taylor swift. But all those swifties are also paying obscure indie band.
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by parpfish 9mo ago
This is also a big party of why artists don’t earn shit. Spotify will never be able to pay out enough if people don’t think this music is worth paying for. They want access to every new album but refuse to pay how much a single new CD would
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by parpfish 9mo ago
I’m an em-dash lover but always (and still do) type the double hyphen because that’s what I was taught for APA style years ago
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by parpfish 9mo ago
I’m really curious how UBI would interact with the base emotional responses that drove a lot of our politics. The anti-freeloader impulse is one of the easiest ways to spur people to action. Would that go away or be intensified under UBI? w
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by parpfish 9mo ago
As somebody who does host and doesn’t get a ton of reciprocity, the problem isn’t burn out (because I love doing it). The problem is second guessing whether this is something the group enjoys and whether they are just humoring me.

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