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by rafaelmn 2y ago
Depends on who's calling the shots. Last few years dev market was so crazy management walked on eggshells to avoid pissing off engineers in most places I've worked at. As a result I've seen plenty of situations where abstract
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by rafaelmn 2y ago
I mean drug trade is also huge but you won't find many people praising it here (the second part of the sentence you quoted)
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by rafaelmn 2y ago
I don't think it's about novelty - heck people here will praise Unix and C regularly. It's more that crypto initially had potential, at this point it's been tried and failed to deliver - at least from the value perspecti
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by rafaelmn 2y ago
> As in, a person who has used and learned a dozen plus languages but only tacitly used C++ suddenly will be a complete invalid when trying to write in C++? I've switched at least 5 languages professionally and used probably 5 more
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by rafaelmn 2y ago
Apple is the last company I want a VR headset from. Like I'd buy iPad instantly if it could run a real OS (like a surface pro) - but Apple loves the app store margins soo much they will fight tooth and nail too keep you locked in, at h
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by rafaelmn 2y ago
Control over AI ? What money ? Money is just a tool to facilitate cooperation. If you have superhuman AGI you don't need anyone else to do things - they are just a threat for your control - so you eliminate that threat either by destro
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by rafaelmn 2y ago
You realize that in this mode your best bet for survival is becoming a pet of people controlling AI/AI itself if it's self motivating ? Why would anyone share access ? It's a one shot prisoner dilemma - whoever controls the b
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by rafaelmn 2y ago
There's no such thing as post scarcity society - physical would is finite and society exists because cooperation > individual. Once you add competing superhuman intelligence to the equation the second assumption does not hold.
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by rafaelmn 2y ago
> If you have "mild problems, which would normally heal on their own", buying no medication at all would be even cheaper. But placebos actually outperform no intervention.
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by rafaelmn 2y ago
> I partly blame Hollywood and their incessant humiliation of software/IT people, while creating endless leading roles for doctors and lawyers, effortlessly weaving their complicated terminologies into fascinating storylines, which
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by rafaelmn 2y ago
Sounds plausible if they can redirect more energy to motion vs skeletal stress.
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by rafaelmn 2y ago
Modafinil doesn't really affect decision making ? Being exhausted is probably way bigger impact, even under Modafinil.
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by rafaelmn 2y ago
Problem is world isn't fair, some people do get it all for free, absurd/perverse scenarios happen all the time. I think what's different in this generation is that it's becoming much more visible to everyone, so even if
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by rafaelmn 2y ago
I mean it's to his point that US companies are willing to pay for top talent unlike EU.
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by rafaelmn 2y ago
Electric car could be a big chunk of that.
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by rafaelmn 2y ago
It's interesting that Jensen seems to be selling this "software development is dead to AI" story when that means his profitability moat (software) is dead as well. All AMD needs to do is "hey Copilot rewrite this CUDA co
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by rafaelmn 2y ago
> The thing with programming language evolution is that quite often everything except the error handling gets faster over time. Funny I was just reading this the other day : https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/dotnet&#
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by rafaelmn 2y ago
Umm sorry but that's nonsense - externalities of your property impacts your neighborhood and having rules upfront about what's acceptable is a good way to deal with conflicts and setting expectations. Laws have to be defined for t
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by rafaelmn 2y ago
But that's why the analogy is flawed - it's dealing with a single problem that gets clearly worse by the action. Global warming and sulphur pollution are two separate (but realated) problems - it's possible that by making one
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by rafaelmn 2y ago
Your analogy is flawed because knife wound was the original problem that would be exacerbatedby reinsertion. A better analogy would be having some infection that's somehow preventing a cancer from metastasis - you treat the infection a
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by rafaelmn 2y ago
You could give similar numbers for crypto (powerplants, custom chips, billions invested, R&D) and yet it amounted to nothing. Not saying it's the same - just that your argument isn't very strong. Ironically Nvidia is riding bo
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by rafaelmn 2y ago
That doesn't really help you with EF because there's plenty of stuff shared at context level. So depending on the order of queries in the context the same query can return different data. I hate EF and everything it stands for. :)
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by rafaelmn 2y ago
Unit cost of reactor not unit cost of power ?
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by rafaelmn 2y ago
Also they can be very vegan about it.
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by rafaelmn 2y ago
Because I would want to put a NN as unreliable as GPT4 in control of my car ... They are struggling to put in guardrails and make it politically correct with text. I guess AI truly is the new crypto because I'm seeing all the same hype
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by rafaelmn 2y ago
The EU model is basically "keep the peasants from rebelling while maintaining the aristocracy". Everything is stacked against class mobility in exchange for some safety nets.
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by rafaelmn 2y ago
It can spit out some rehash of sudoku it had in it's training data. LLMs are terrible at coding.
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by rafaelmn 2y ago
Ryanair charges for that - small bag included in the price, additional carry-on is extra.
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by rafaelmn 3y ago
Gimp is a classic example of OPs point. Mozilla really ? Lack of vision and focus driving Firefox into irrelevance. And also started on the back of a commercial product. Blender started as a commercial software and is being spearheaded by T
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by rafaelmn 3y ago
So if you ran build without test files it would fail. I get that this is hindsight thinking - but maybe removing all non essential files when packaging/building libraries reduces the surface area.

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