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by pj_mukh 5mo ago
Under this logic, would the Pope have built a Hammer? a Knife? I am hoping the Pope has a cleaner view of AI quietly automating the drudgery in the back offices and not just robot dogs with machine guns. And with that view, should we buil
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by pj_mukh 5mo ago
I would love for the Pope to answer this question: If a technology existed that reduced the cost of producing a critical thing (think food, housing, medical care) down to near zero, however, it made the humans currently building the thing r
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by pj_mukh 5mo ago
"promises are pretty scammy in that they may be true at some point in time" You think the Frontier lab revenue reports are faked? [1] [1]: https://cryptobriefing.com/anthropic-revenue-surge-10-billio...
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by pj_mukh 5mo ago
The value in building creative tools (esp writing) for writers and educators will be a rounding error compared to all the back office automation that is eating the lion shares of tokens. I just don’t think the media or mainstream thought is
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by pj_mukh 5mo ago
"AI is hyped well beyond its actual worth, or whether the technology will be used for benevolent or nefarious purposes by American oligarchs." This article is asking none of those questions. It's mostly a high school gossip c
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by pj_mukh 5mo ago
This is a weird fantasy among the literati that AI is a "scam", that we can "expose" them with lots of palace intrigue coverage and SBF or Elizabeth Holmes them away and then everything will be right in the world. Some o
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by pj_mukh 5mo ago
And moreover, The headline is backwards, the companies cutting headcount for AI have already lost , that's why they're cutting. Most of these companies are losing market share or are in dying markets and need to cut headcount. Th
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by pj_mukh 5mo ago
"Don't they have simulators to test every weird and unexpected road condition offline? " I remember when this was brought up in a Cruise (RIP) crash. The situation was that another human driver had hit and run a pedestrian
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by pj_mukh 5mo ago
Do these major publications charge per article? They should, but they don't. So their whole sell is that in aggregate (so access to all, including old articles) they are worth paying monthly for. In which case archive is a major revenu
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by pj_mukh 5mo ago
Isn’t their explicit claim that they’re doing this to extend battery life? I thought this was already litigated? Of course they could give the user options but then they could also let the user swap batteries. Those are just not things Appl
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by pj_mukh 5mo ago
The Jevon's paradox of personal projects. Amazing.
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by pj_mukh 5mo ago
Are you sure you didn't run out credits and set effort to low? This exact thing happened to me when I did that. It just became, kinda lazy.
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by pj_mukh 5mo ago
Wait but that’s the crux of his argument that he was “wronged”. Not “wronged but only once xAI started competing with OpenAI”. He can’t prove the former, if the latter is true. If anyone is/was truly still wronged by OpenAI changing co
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by pj_mukh 5mo ago
“There are federal laws about schools and their agents recording students as it relates to their education” And there is no indication that the professor here planned to violate any of them. “How do you think things like Flock came to be?”
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by pj_mukh 5mo ago
You can’t guarantee any of that in any footage taken in public. Or public school. Just a good faith attempt. Again just want to point out this is a university researcher trying to measure better ways to teach kids not Flock trying to get st
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by pj_mukh 5mo ago
We don’t have to make that number a goal. Contrary to popular pessimistic thought, not everything we measure becomes a goal. Most things we measure are actually ignored. I think to pre-emptively disregard research like this because “well it
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by pj_mukh 5mo ago
“ material for commercial AI products” Where was there any indication this was that?
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by pj_mukh 5mo ago
"The goal of this study is to better understand children’s everyday learning experiences and to develop Al tools that can help assess classroom interaction quality" This..feels like a worthy goal. Just switch the study to opt-in i
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by pj_mukh 5mo ago
Actual generous interpretation: The adaptation required as workplaces adopt AI is the same as the ones immigrants have to go through in a new country. There's new modes of thinking, new workflows and an expanded surface of responsibili
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by pj_mukh 5mo ago
Not for long [1]. [1]: https://openthemagazine.com/india/the-baby-slump-the-fear-of...
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by pj_mukh 5mo ago
I get into the this conversation a lot, when you point out the obvious historical context to "all this change", the response is always "Oh so you want to do nothing?" or "helpless to stop what's happening"
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by pj_mukh 5mo ago
I think the March of Capitalism has been (at least in part) to make the luxuries of yore become commodified middle-class must-haves. 150 years ago, only the lords could afford a wash-up man, a laundry man, a cook, a tailor, a night out at t
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by pj_mukh 5mo ago
Greg Brockman has donated more money to Trump than anyone else . Republicans shouldn't even be bringing OpenAI up let alone let something get to the SEC. Meanwhile low-level thugs get blanket pardons from the administration. OpenAI an
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by pj_mukh 5mo ago
bingo.
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by pj_mukh 5mo ago
and famously this executive doesn't over-reach to protect "its own"?
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by pj_mukh 5mo ago
So, the protection racket is not working? [1] Maybe some folks need to re-think whether this administration is worth "donating" to? [1]: https://finance.yahoo.com/news/openai-exec-becomes-top-trump...
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by pj_mukh 5mo ago
There is nothing in the H1B program that makes these immigrants different from the immigrants that ran IBM, Xerox and HP. Other than the country of origin of course.
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by pj_mukh 5mo ago
Yes, and it's doing so primarily because of immigrant nerds, H1B's and F1 bros who chose America and may not have this avenue in the future. Potentially, making this the last race USA wins.
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by pj_mukh 5mo ago
I mean this is the K-shaped economy. A swath of workers + capital owners with infinite leverage, and another swath of workers still simply exchanging 1 hour of labor, for an hour of results with very little rent to be extracted. The lucky o
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by pj_mukh 5mo ago
Cleo Abrams' YT tomes, albeit much shorter and more attuned to modern attention spans, are getting close to that quality level at least.

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