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by paulcole 1y ago
Oh yeah just simply license all song lyrics. It’s a wonder they didn’t follow through on that simple task.
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by paulcole 1y ago
> I share examples of LLM fails on our company Slack and every week LLMs do the opposite of what I tell them. Must be fun.
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by paulcole 1y ago
Absolutely not.
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by paulcole 1y ago
In practice what would an employer caring look like to you?
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by paulcole 1y ago
Do you want to teach your kids some kind of a lesson or do you want a hobby project for yourself? Just add an actual land line. It’s not that complicated.
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by paulcole 1y ago
In what is it “asynchronous”?
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by paulcole 1y ago
It’s an 11 year old computer. How long specifically do you believe you should be continuing to get OS updates?
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by paulcole 1y ago
I’m sorry. I don’t understand what your comment has to do with mine?
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by paulcole 1y ago
> select for applicants who will be good employees for years to come Why would you do this given the expected average tenure is probably like 18 months to 2 years?
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by paulcole 1y ago
> What these people are doing cannot be healthy Leader in the clubhouse for the 2025 HN Accidental Slogan Contest.
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by paulcole 1y ago
I have no issues with ChatGPT. It’s the most amazing technology of my lifetime so far. I’m confident it’ll keep getting better without me wasting my time thinking about what could be better about it.
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by paulcole 1y ago
I would think that someone who is absolutely sure we are in the middle of a massive bubble would do everything in their power to bet as much as possible against it. Because they are absolutely sure that we are in the middle of a massive bub
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by paulcole 1y ago
Who is thinking that? I think that the person who wrote this blog post is supremely deluded about their ability to identify a bubble.
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by paulcole 1y ago
> There’s obviously a financial bubble in full force. If it’s so obvious, figure out how to bet against it, get rich, and never have to worry about productivity again. > The environmental impact is real. If every LLM disappeared tomor
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by paulcole 1y ago
What you showed me is the equivalent of somebody saying, “People are claiming my life would be better if I drank more Pepsi” and the underlying evidence turned out to be a Pepsi commercial. You understand what YC is right?
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by paulcole 1y ago
> It'd be fun to join in from afar by pledging to do the same things What’s stopping you besides the unsettling truth that it’s more fun to think that it’d be fun to join in from afar by pledging to do the same things than it is to
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by paulcole 1y ago
> How did you keep learning and progressing professionally when your day job wasn't pushing you? In my experience the people who keep learning and progressing professionally when their day job isn't pushing them are intrinsical
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by paulcole 1y ago
If insulin is so great why does my pancreas simply not produce it?
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by paulcole 1y ago
> Just wish there weren’t so many false “studies” promoting benefits of medications that have none What’s an example of such a study?
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by paulcole 1y ago
So this whole discussion started because some guy got triggered by a thinly veiled advertisement on a podcast run by a VC firm? I’ll admit this is not helping the case of “but people are saying…”
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by paulcole 1y ago
> Im sure google will bring it up. It didn’t.
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by paulcole 1y ago
I hire client-facing digital marketing account managers and pay in that range. Anybody with a good work ethic and the ability to interact with other people reliably is hirable. It's rarer than you think! Sales is another field where be
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by paulcole 1y ago
> but I've never found those 10x claims convincing Who's making these claims?
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by paulcole 1y ago
I'm in a similar same boat as you. I'm not a programmer but from time to time would make automations or small scripts to make my job easier. LLMs have made much more complex automations and scripts possible while making it dead si
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by paulcole 1y ago
> Somehow i would rather stay homeless or prostitute myself than throwing my dignity away by letting an a.i. assess me over the whole job interview I guess that's where we differ. If it came down to homelessness or prostitution then
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by paulcole 1y ago
> 1. If I as a human request a website, then I should be shown the content. Everyone agrees. Definitely don't agree. I don't think you should be shown the content, if for example: 1. You're in a country the site owner does
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by paulcole 1y ago
Make them let you go so that you at least have a shot at unemployment. These kinds of places are often terrible at documenting things and contesting unemployment claims so the odds are in your favor.
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by paulcole 1y ago
What does burnout mean?
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by paulcole 1y ago
A real man makes his own luck. Billy Zane. Titanic.
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by paulcole 1y ago
Why do you want to reward effort? I’ll just push a boulder uphill all day and accomplish nothing and then come with my hand out. Also, in your opinion what is the correct proportion of wealth received to legitimate, valuable effort, and vis

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