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by pllbnk 5mo ago
Learning isn't. Models are not learning, it's just a metaphor for the lack of better words to describe the process of ingesting data and adjusting weights accordingly. My point is, they took all this data for free without paying
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by pllbnk 5mo ago
Claude has a research mode. I tried using it multiple times in the domains that I know quite well. Basically, used it with the hopes to save me time by aggregating the information I needed. I used it multiple times with different approaches
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by pllbnk 5mo ago
The main brunt of the taxes in percentage terms still falls on the regular employees. Companies and wealthy individuals find ways to avoid them same as everywhere else, hence the feeling of injustice.
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by pllbnk 5mo ago
So, what happened here is they stole all public works ever created and took them for themselves. All copyright laws were ignored without any repercussions, all the litigations of the past (Aaron Swartz for example) have been ignored. And th
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by pllbnk 5mo ago
The companies are now so often looking for "AI engineers" or "engineers with AI experience" which is crazy given how current generation of AI tools are in very early stages and spending a lot of time mastering them might
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by pllbnk 5mo ago
I think that it's because noise is regulated in terms of decibels while humans only perceive noise by the sound's frequency and profile. For example, a fairly low frequency constant 30 dB low-frequency sound might be perceived ver
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by pllbnk 5mo ago
UBI is a scapegoat, an easy answer to handwave the question about the job losses. People can't just live like that doing nothing and they won't. Before the current AI evolution the pro-UBI crowd would claim that in this utopia peo
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by pllbnk 5mo ago
I would like the focus to be on harmful content creators, not so much on the platforms. Platforms have incentives to bubble this content to the top because it's desirable but there is content that is simply illegal and it's being
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by pllbnk 5mo ago
Not from my experience. It's true that it will always find new issues in a new session but it is happy to say so when the code is good.
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by pllbnk 5mo ago
The problem partially is that AI can also fix AI slop. At this point I am in doubt whether code quality matters anymore in most non-critical software. You can ask an LLM if the code has quality issues and refactor to a _better_ version. It
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by pllbnk 5mo ago
It won't be the case that a global scale ocean current collapses and its impact is local. It's like a butterfly effect where the butterfly is the size of an ocean - its wing flap will resonate throughout entire world with unpredic
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by pllbnk 5mo ago
I think AI movies (or shorts for that matter, since I am not aware of any feature length movie) currently are not bland, they are simply of very low quality because they are pushing the limits of the current technology. However by the time
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by pllbnk 5mo ago
For most people who are not doing their day to day jobs it's just a prompt of their idea roughly sketched out and a miracle happens - LLM fills in the blanks. Every time it's different but it works, sometimes even better than init
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by pllbnk 5mo ago
So the end game for the current generation of AI companies won't be productivity improvements but gambling, just like everything else nowadays. That's why they want to get us all into these massive casinos they call data centers a
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by pllbnk 5mo ago
Also have those fake accounts verified for a good measure, just like all the scammer accounts on LinkedIn.
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by pllbnk 5mo ago
I think SaaS pricing model has long been abusive. So, you have a platform, which takes real money to build and maintain. But then you build features on top of that platform, where some features are build-once and require not a lot of mainte
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by pllbnk 5mo ago
Hey guys, Richard Stallman is on HN!
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by pllbnk 6mo ago
Maybe I am unlucky but I had worked with too many developers who couldn't make a good decision if their life depended on it. LLMs at least know how to convince you of their decisions with strong arguments.
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by pllbnk 6mo ago
I think it’s a mistake to think that we will be blindly going in this direction for many years and then suddenly collectively wake up and realize what have we done. It’s a great filter and a great opportunity. If LLMs stop improving at the
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by pllbnk 6mo ago
It's the reddest of the red flags to have such CTO. Modern incompetent CTOs are measuring performance by token spend. They are in the same bucket though - coming up with some dogmatic ways with extremely thin foundation.
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by pllbnk 6mo ago
What would prevent Anthropic or Open AI take one of the open source models, tune it to "feel" like one of their models and expose them under their respective names (GPT or Claude) to save on training and inference, but keep their
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by pllbnk 6mo ago
AI still sucks where it truly matters. Ask any SOTA LLM about medications for your child for example. Now that you got the answer, ask again - it might be subtly or not so subtly different. Push back slightly, you will get "I am sorry
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by pllbnk 6mo ago
They are investing big fat 0 in safety features. The only money they spend is on facade of safety. I have reported many times obviously fake scam bot accounts that would send me private messages and at best I would receive feedback that the
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by pllbnk 6mo ago
I think a lot of people have already experienced that LLMs are useless by themselves. Ultimately what can make them useful are humans who are directing them, who understand their work and have concrete goals, who know how to verify LLM outp
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by pllbnk 6mo ago
Mid-20's tech guys vigorously prompting LLM agents in the race to burn as many tokens as possible during 72-hour work week (9 am-9 pm, 6 days per week) in order to, paradoxically, not need to work anymore once AGI is achieved.
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by pllbnk 6mo ago
They optimize because their work requires them to. 100k tokens is a few bucks and a couple minutes, then 15 more minutes to verify that the output does what it's intended for reasonably well, so it's more like $50 in total cost. F
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by pllbnk 6mo ago
Blame the fashion industry. Every year they come up with something new that is fashionable that year - a style, a color. Year over year it doesn’t have much impact on majority of people but over several years it compounds and your clothes b
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by pllbnk 6mo ago
There are no wars, just military conflicts. Palantir doesn't care how they are called, as long as they get the government's contracts. They are not interested in fewer wars/conflicts.
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by pllbnk 6mo ago
I am definitely not against plastic pollution, but against narrowly targeted regulation. When the regulation is very specific, the workarounds are trivial. One funny example: Lithuania banned alcohol advertisement, so the advertisers starte
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by pllbnk 6mo ago
I find it so weird that European regulation targets very specific niches while avoiding generalization. In order to reduce plastic pollution, they forced manufacturers to make attached bottle caps (terrible idea) but go to the supermarket a

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