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by roxolotl 1y ago
The challenge is that clearly stating things is and always has been the hard part. It’s awesome that we have tools which can translate clear natural language instructions into code but even if we get AGI you’ll still have to do that. Maybe
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by roxolotl 1y ago
It’s the same reason leet code is a bad interview question. Being good at these sorts of problems doesn’t translate directly to being good at writing production code.
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by roxolotl 1y ago
To state a bit more simply: the rate at which this spending has gone from about 0% to 1.2% is extremely fast which is point the author is trying to make. The Q1 GDP comment is stunning because what it says is that if the same Q1 had happene
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by roxolotl 1y ago
A coworker of mine claimed they've been burning $1k a week this month. Pretty wild it’s only costing the company $200 a month.
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by roxolotl 1y ago
Weapons of Math Destruction[0] is a 2016 book on this topic. And that’s building on years of prior research. It’s not a new concept at all. [0]: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Weapons_of_Math_Destruction
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by roxolotl 1y ago
Yea you’re totally correct. I’m mostly responding to those saying mental acuity or general knowledge are reasons to not lower the voting age. That’s a line that’s very challenging to draw equitably.
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by roxolotl 1y ago
Should their be an age cap? At what level of mental capacity should the cap be set? How do you evaluate someone to determine if they are fit to vote? The problem with rules around voting is that they can always be exploited. I generally bel
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by roxolotl 1y ago
Yea I might have to get a fold. I really don’t want a damn crease in my screen though. I’d almost prefer a Nintendo DS style.
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by roxolotl 1y ago
Couldn’t we make it thicker though? The rumored iPhone air is the exact opposite of what I want. Give me a thicker phone with a smaller screen and I’d pay Pro prices for it.
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by roxolotl 1y ago
Timelines are relevant though. Inevitability is only a useful proposition if the timeline is constrained. It is inevitable that the earth will be swallowed by the sun but rightfully no one gives a shit. I think most people, even the author
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by roxolotl 1y ago
Absolutely couldn’t agree more. Incredibly useful tools are, in fact, incredibly useful. These discussions get clouded though when we intentionally ignore what’s being said by those doing the investing. The inevitability here isn’t that the
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by roxolotl 1y ago
Responses like this muddy the waters by trying to equate the reality that understanding changes overtime with what are opinions that are largely unfounded. There are two big differences between scientific consensus and theory building and c
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by roxolotl 1y ago
As someone who lives in the NYC area it’s always entertaining to me when I go to Florida and see how low they set the AC. Basically every house from before 2010 doesn’t have AC in the NYC area. I’m currently working in an office that’s 85 a
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by roxolotl 1y ago
SpaceX: https://www.nbcnews.com/news/amp/rcna166283 Tesla: https://www.wsj.com/business/autos/elon-musk-tesla-environme... Of course XAI is this article we’re all commenting on but here’
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by roxolotl 1y ago
One of the big dangers of LLMs is that they are somewhat effective and (relatively) cheap. That causes a lot of people to think that economies of scale negate the downsides. As many comments are saying it is true that are not nearly enough
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by roxolotl 1y ago
The Onion has a great response to this from 2009: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=lMChO0qNbkY Of course you can opt out. People live in the backwoods of Alaska. But if you want to live a semi normal life there is no option. A
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by roxolotl 1y ago
Eh that’s not quite fair. Google isn’t wrapping a search engine. Apple isn’t selling slightly optimized versions of other manufacturers’ phones. Cursor is a solid tool but as best I can tell there’s not a ton there.
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by roxolotl 1y ago
I assume there’s gearing to improve consistency. There’s definitively post processing though as it’s knitting a tube. “Occasionally the knitwear gets ‘harvested’ and transformed into scarves.”
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by roxolotl 1y ago
Is it really that unreasonable to believe that a government run by people who’ve regularly called climate change a hoax and has a history of pulling previously public data is pulling the public data about climate change? I don’t disagree th
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by roxolotl 1y ago
As a typical American teenage boy I had a bout of libertarianism in high school. Atypically however it ended with my reading of Atlas Shrugged. Somehow my take away from the book was that clearly there are limits to selfishness and there’s
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by roxolotl 1y ago
100%. And it doesn’t help that large cars as a cultural touchstone/status symbol really took off. Even if a $25k car existed most people wouldn’t buy it(even if they “should”).
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by roxolotl 1y ago
One thing I’d add to all of the other comments is just to reflect on experience. Maybe I’ve mostly worked with people who are incompetent with natural language. But assuming that I’ve mostly worked with average people it’s astonishing how c
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by roxolotl 1y ago
> I delete what I don’t need. I don’t capture everything. I don’t try to. I read what I feel like. I think in conversation, in movement, in context. I don’t build a second brain. I inhabit the first. This is a really important insight es
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by roxolotl 1y ago
I don’t quite know why we would think they’d ever be able to without scaffolding. LLM are exactly what the name suggests, language models. So without scaffolding they can use to interact with the world with using language they are completel
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by roxolotl 1y ago
> Either way, you didn’t write it, you didn’t scope it, and you definitely didn’t question it. Ok sure maybe you didn’t write it, but if the team working on the tickets don’t scope and question them you’re doing it wrong. Of course thing
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by roxolotl 1y ago
Wild that less than 15 years after Person of Interest it’s so cheap to build such a system we’re using it to decide how to dress for the day.
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by roxolotl 1y ago
I’d be surprised if there weren’t microplastics in the veggies I’m growing in my organic backyard garden. They are in the water and since uptake by plants has been shown[0] I’d assume they are basically unavoidably at this point. Of course
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by roxolotl 1y ago
The case for pessimism looks something like: - Generative AI, at a below market cost, eats the internet and becomes the primary entry point - Some combination of price hikes and service degradation, ads etc, make generative ai kinda shitty
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by roxolotl 1y ago
Except that you can point to deaths, loss of productively, loss of revenue, etc caused by racist attitudes. And you can point to benefits caused by immigration. I still have yet to hear an answer from my initial question about why any of th
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by roxolotl 1y ago
If you cannot provide evidence which cannot be defined away then yes it’s not a problem. That is generally how problems work.

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