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by powera 3y ago
Many of the "power users" were outright liabilities for Reddit, and they should consider their departure a good thing.
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by powera 3y ago
(from November 13)
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by powera 3y ago
It seems you have three choices: 1) Fire him. 2) Convince him to join another team within the company (which is presumably how he ended up in his current position). 3) Do the work to manage his work.
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by powera 3y ago
Nope. I must object to this paragraph: "To be honest, I’m not particularly convinced by the analytic arguments above. It’s only by using real data that I can understand the problem with the Dunning-Kruger effect. So let’s have a look a
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by powera 3y ago
A lot of these "disabilities" seem to be "I don't like going to work and can come up with a medicalized excuse for that which you aren't allowed to criticize".
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by powera 3y ago
No. This is a bad concept for a product. There is no situation where your business should be guessing people's genders at-scale: it is a recipe for getting things wrong in a way you will find embarrassing later on. If it matters, ju
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by powera 3y ago
No. No it isn't. The board-aligned argument seems to be "destroying the company is the right thing to do if it helps the cause of AI alignment". Whereas the pro-Altman side seems to be "if you have the most successful s
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by powera 3y ago
This is insane. "They had to fire Sam, because he was trying to take over the board". First: most boards are accountable to something other than themselves. For the exact reason that it pre-empts that type of nonsense. Second: t
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by powera 3y ago
I applied today; hopefully it will be a short wait. (and, hopefully, they won't hold my "I don't know what business I can build on this until after I try it" opinion against me)
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by powera 3y ago
"if they were mostly written by his secretary then Stanford wouldn't have paid to have them archived." - that is straight-up incorrect. Archiving emails is very cheap. And the redactions look to have been done programmatica
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by powera 3y ago
This appears to be a reference to https://epadd.stanford.edu/epadd/collection-detail?collectio... - a collection of "Don Knuth" emails. The public versions are very redacted, but: 1) they seem to all be from
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by powera 3y ago
The same article was posted here yesterday. And it is pure mumbo-jumbo; I haven't talked to anyone and I could have told you "Microsoft has a legal team that will be looking into this", which is all the article actually says.
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by powera 3y ago
This is a work of fiction about writing fiction, and it is full of "purple prose". Not recommended.
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by powera 3y ago
This is indistinguishable from fiction, and also off-topic.
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by powera 3y ago
The first sentence: "Some investors in OpenAI, makers of ChatGPT, are exploring legal recourse against the company's board, sources familiar with the matter told Reuters on Monday, after the directors ousted CEO Sam Altman and spa
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by powera 3y ago
Yeah, I don't see any argument here. There is just an assumption that "an effective person identification system is bad", and a bunch of words distracting from the fact that they are begging the question.
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by powera 3y ago
This sure reads like "troubled young adults lashing out against large institutions because that's where the money is" rather than any legitimate cause for legal action.
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LLM Embeddings and Outlier Dimensions(shragafeivel.com)
2 points by powera 3y ago|0 comments
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by powera 3y ago
Everything is dangerous. Especially those people who take "everything is dangerous" to mean "we should ban everything".
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by powera 3y ago
The single-minded insistence in the article that various news outlets should "link to the video they are citing" is completely wrong. They talked to Hamas directly, they aren't just repeating what they saw on Twitter. (at l
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by powera 3y ago
I accomplish something similar by typing with my eyes closed (or simply looking away from the screen). And, despite the "you can't edit" marketing, you can use the backspace key for typos. (which is good)
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by powera 3y ago
New tech in the server space comes out slower than it used to. Moore's Law has almost dried up. Fifteen years ago, you could assume that you would have 50% larger hard drives and significantly more FLOPS/watt with each year'
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by powera 3y ago
Artists like using Ticketmaster because they can blame Ticketmaster for fees. And, more broadly, blame Ticketmaster for the unavoidable problems that arise because there isn't an unlimited supply of tickets, and artists want to genera
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The machine reads a letter about LLMs(shragafeivel.com)
1 points by powera 3y ago|0 comments
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by powera 3y ago
I've seen this tale too many times to believe it. Nine times out of ten, the "asset" will be something that is shady at best. (Especially when it's from a completely new HN account)
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by powera 3y ago
Sometimes, discrimination based on age is a good thing. So long as the law pretends otherwise, there will be stupid court decisions as a result.
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by powera 3y ago
Nope, not signing up. The trend from Google continues to be towards "if you lose your phone with your credentials, you will be unable to log in". And Google refuses to create a scalable system that allows you access to your accou
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A Letter from Burning Man(shragafeivel.com)
1 points by powera 3y ago|0 comments
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by powera 3y ago
If everyone looks at a trade like this as prima facie evidence of insider trading, why are these options even for sale? It is like a casino, except if you win the jackpot you get arrested. Because we run our economy under the law that re
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by powera 3y ago
No, there won't. I must assume he is exaggerating for the clicks.

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