rdiddly

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by rdiddly 7mo ago
Commenting strictly on the metaphor in the title: Did you mean to say ladder? Bridges don't get pulled up. Edit to say: Yes I did think of drawbridges. And Batman is a scientist. But drawbridges are simply "opened" or "r
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by rdiddly 7mo ago
So yeah, our job that we were all interested in has transformed into a different thing (directing), which some people are also interested in, and some aren't. There's no substantive difference between directing an intern and dir
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by rdiddly 7mo ago
That's not what made it sound like Yoda. It was sticking "has been" at the end, and I agree there was a better choice stylistically: "Crazy how effective this admin has been at making everything worse."
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by rdiddly 7mo ago
It would be nice to know what comments the CEO decided to make in those same official channels though. The article doesn't say, except to quote someone as saying he angrily told people off. What was the communication, and should it be
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by rdiddly 7mo ago
This is the perfect job for AI, in that it's handling work the human didn't care enough to do manually. Although of course I don't care either. No value judgment there, just an observation. Imagine a place - a field let'
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by rdiddly 7mo ago
When you disappear from the historical record, that's called you becoming irrelevant. The world moves on, and pays attention to someone else. Not sure why the Times doesn't seem to see this angle.
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by rdiddly 7mo ago
OK, I was probably never going to visit Japan, and this convinced me the rest of the way.
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by rdiddly 7mo ago
They're not that far apart, honestly.
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by rdiddly 7mo ago
Crucially those are all investments. Just like creating AI or buying data centers to run AI is an investment. Whereas merely using AI feels more like being in the general population of consumers. The shape of the outlay for it is un-investm
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by rdiddly 7mo ago
OK, it's lawsuit time.
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by rdiddly 7mo ago
Great point! You are so right to call me out on that! Here's the no-nonsense, concise breakdown, it's coming soon I promise, right after this, here it comes, no fluff -- just facts! (Sorry, couldn't resist.)
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by rdiddly 7mo ago
I don't believe that's always true, and I suspect it was left out of the guidelines deliberately, and I wish people receiving suggestions would stop interpreting it that way. Of course people suggesting grammar corrections and tre
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by rdiddly 7mo ago
Yeah unfortunately I suspect the authoritarian surveillance is the whole point. Protecting children is obviously not a priority for the Epstein class.
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by rdiddly 7mo ago
I have a suspicion that saddling a chat context with all this instruction would paradoxically produce worse results due to being overconstrained. But I haven't tested this. It's just that some of these are legitimate writing techn
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by rdiddly 7mo ago
Boy, that was fragmented. What should I have done for years leading up to today to prepare for reading this? Gaming? Doomscrolling social media? Chugging Mountain Dew? Reading poetry?
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by rdiddly 7mo ago
You can't say someone has achieved artificial general intelligence for some specific subset of tasks or parameters; it's a contradiction.
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by rdiddly 7mo ago
AI won't replace the best of us, but it has already transformed my job into something much less enjoyable, so I have still been pondering this question. I once had a career in one of the "real" engineering disciplines, maybe
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by rdiddly 7mo ago
It would democratize sports, while making sports worthless and unremarkable. It would collapse the market for sports.
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by rdiddly 7mo ago
"The situation is made more complex because TikTok has long faced accusations that ties to the Chinese state may put users' data at risk." And yet, it's even more complex than that, since it's now owned by cronies
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by rdiddly 7mo ago
"You pay and it's yours." Which is exactly why, having paid for an ad-free service, people are miffed when ads appear anyway. I'm not going to take on the responsibility of educating you as to the examples that exist, be
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by rdiddly 7mo ago
Us bribing them: fine Us taking the contract, working for them and enabling them: fine It being renamed the Dept. of War in the first place: totally fine, we loudly and bootlickingly repeat it Anthropic being blacklisted: whoa there, we hav
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by rdiddly 7mo ago
Unfortunately, you can't dismiss it based on that. Most of what this administration does is an absurd stretch with no basis in fact or history.
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by rdiddly 8mo ago
Well it only took until the 2nd paragraph, and the words "DJI’s remote cloud servers" for me to be forehead-slappingly disgusted again. Obviously proper diligence wasn't followed with this product, and obviously this is going
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by rdiddly 8mo ago
You're probably right but I no longer try to guess what's AI-written. LLMs learned all their bad habits from humans in the first place after all. But for sure I can still tell good writing from shit, so that's how I still loo
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by rdiddly 8mo ago
Never underestimate the lengths people will go to, just to avoid reading their damn email! :)
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by rdiddly 8mo ago
"Doctor, heal thyself!"
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by rdiddly 8mo ago
So toward the end of last year, the FBI was after archive.today, presumably either for keeping track of things the current administration doesn't want tracked, or maybe for the paywall thing (on behalf of rich donors/IP owners).
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by rdiddly 8mo ago
The Luigi Mangione method? United Healthcare's brief couple-week spasm of not being complete dicks and borderline fraudsters to people with legitimate insurance claims, was encouraging in this regard. Unfortunately, to take this positi
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by rdiddly 8mo ago
From the capitalization I can tell you and the parent might not be aware it's "minimal GNU for Windows" which I would tend to pronounce "min g w" and capitalize as "MinGW." I used to say ming. Now it'
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by rdiddly 8mo ago
Yes, I think that's how it will go, like all those other industries. There will be an artisanal market, that's much smaller, where the (fewer) participants charge higher prices. So it'll (ironically?) end up being just anothe

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