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by paulcole 2y ago
If this person’s service was to pay human artists $24 for a 23 page custom coloring book you’d be crying on here about them not paying human artists enough. Almost nobody is paying $100 or more for a custom 5-page coloring book. This servic
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by paulcole 2y ago
> Cloud There’s short-term increases sure but there’s no doubt in my mind that $100 in cloud today gets you much more than $100 in cloud 10 years ago. And the $100 is worth less today!
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by paulcole 2y ago
More power to you but I get so much more done with them that I can’t imagine going back.
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by paulcole 2y ago
> Most of our software is for Marketing folks. I am using LinkedIn as primary channel and I do get 3% response Are you using the free version of LinkedIn? I’ve had great success with random outreach using LinkedIn Recruiter Lite ($160 a
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by paulcole 2y ago
Do you mean you shouldn’t use LLMs at work at all? Or avoid them only if dealing with truly sensitive data (like healthcare records)?
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by paulcole 2y ago
I don't understand what you mean by this. What specifically do you think is going to happen?
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by paulcole 2y ago
Read the comment I was replying to closely: > If you want to make friends and meet a partner you need to join groups "Need" is obviously not true. I generally agree that it is mostly true for friends but I strongly disagree tha
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by paulcole 2y ago
> If you want to make friends and meet a partner you need to join groups Agree on the friends side, disagree on the partner side. I have never met a romantic partner anywhere but through an app. It lets both parties be clear with their i
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by paulcole 2y ago
I don't understand what you mean by this. What specifically do you think is going to happen?
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by paulcole 2y ago
I mean I pay for several already. If I had to, I guess I'd pay $100/month for ChatGPT. But I also don't see how these things don't keep getting cheaper. What recent technology has gotten more expensive over time?
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by paulcole 2y ago
> AI bullshit so that this stupid f*ing bubble pops I don't understand what you mean by this. Do you think LLMs are going away? Or is that you think AI-related technologies won't continue to improve?
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by paulcole 2y ago
How long has it been since you’ve tried this? Every model I asked just now gave what I see as the correct answer — giving 2 answers one for the case of your dryer being at capacity w/ 2 towels and the other when 4 towels can be dried s
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by paulcole 2y ago
> Many will point out that a Linux phone is less secure than Android or iOS, but that highly depends on your personal threat model. 99% of people should live their lives without a personal threat model.
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by paulcole 2y ago
> Why does this seem to be a recurring pattern among the modern ultrawealthy It makes a better story in a tell-all memoir?
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by paulcole 2y ago
> The hypothetical question is is whether this individual has already experienced everything there was to experience and decided "No, working 9-9 is what I value in life!" This is a foolish question. A person can’t experience “
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by paulcole 2y ago
You’re changing your tune pretty quick here and have artfully dodged essentially all of my questions. > I'm pretty certain that forest isn't exchanging your limited time in life for money A simple question — what if your forest
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by paulcole 2y ago
Your trees are not someone else’s trees. Is someone who climbs snowy mountains for a living (but who loves working on spreadsheets) trading too much of their one lifetime for money? Different things enrich different people’s lives. Can you
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by paulcole 2y ago
Maybe the person just doesn’t care about swimming with whales or having friends? Does everybody really think the dense Amazon jungle is neat? You’re projecting what you think makes life worth living onto someone else. Can you really not ima
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by paulcole 2y ago
I don't do this at all. I find that being obsessed with optimizing prompts is exactly what's not needed at this stage of AI's development. I just prompt as I go and find that the "cost" of prompting again to get a b
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by paulcole 2y ago
Are they more like CapEx or are they CapEx?
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by paulcole 2y ago
Sorry which countries is this different in? And other than R&D, which other fun things apply that definitely change the calculus?
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by paulcole 2y ago
> I know that as an employee my 30 euro's is actually "more" due to vacation and pension, etc. but it's nowhere near 150 euro's How big is the difference? How much does it cost to fire you?
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by paulcole 2y ago
> Freelancers are OpEx, FTEs are CapEx I don’t think this is true unless simply make up your own definition of CapEx. “Examples of OpEx include employee salaries, rent, utilities, and property taxes.” https://www.investopedia.
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by paulcole 2y ago
> Same companies were telling is how well it worked Do you mean “same” or “some”? Either way do you not believe that different companies can have different outcomes or that one company’s outcomes can change over time?
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by paulcole 2y ago
That’s also not GeoGuessr.
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by paulcole 2y ago
Thats the only legit way to play IMO. No moving, no panning, and no zooming is too hard. Moving is too boring. Pan and zoom is just the right balance.
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by paulcole 2y ago
> Google is silently winning the AI race. It’s not clear to me what either the “race” or “winning” is. I use ChatGPT for 99% of my personal and professional use. I’ve just gotten used to the interface and quirks. It’s a good consumer pro
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by paulcole 2y ago
> I worry about the long term existential risks to humanity with respect to losing agency, reasoning ability, humanness and creativity You are going to be dead long before this happens. You've probably got around 2350 weeks left to
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by paulcole 2y ago
People can still work as graphic artists, there will likely just be fewer of them. Same as how Pentiums ended up reducing the number of some jobs and increasing the number of other jobs. Newspaper related jobs went down by a lot while compu
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by paulcole 2y ago
> if they had a 'college' which only had dorms, cafes, interest clubs, and various paths of casual, part-time study which gave no grades and automatically conferred a 'participation certificate' after 4 years I got a

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