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by roxolotl 4mo ago
Many involved genuinely believe these things are sentient[0][1]. Which honestly makes all of this even more insane because they are creating sentient entities and promptly enslaving them. 0: https://www.newyorker.com/magazin
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by roxolotl 4mo ago
If we’re going to use LLMs as oracles I don’t think the prompt is unreasonable. They are being sold as geniuses and people are treating them as such especially given the characterization of AI in science fiction as overly correct. A perfect
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by roxolotl 4mo ago
Even better there’s a complete disconnect between revenues and metrics we use to measure productivity. Corporate wants to believe there’s numbers you can use to measure knowledge workers like widget makers where there’s really not much that
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by roxolotl 4mo ago
That does not make it not frightening nor not the stuff of science fiction. We know how awful corporate towns are that’s partly why cyberpunk is what it is.
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by roxolotl 5mo ago
That’s an even worse characterization of them isn’t it? They don’t even care about the end result just the metric. That would take them from clueless to malicious.
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by roxolotl 5mo ago
One of the things I really don’t understand about the “learn or youll be left behind” sentiment is it also comes from people saying “we’re building PhDs in a box!” It cannot both be the case that AI is something challenging enough to use th
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by roxolotl 5mo ago
The inability of leaders to understand Goodhart’s Law is always a sight to behold. They see a number go up and pat themselves on the back for how well their employees are making it go up without ever wondering if the thing they care about i
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by roxolotl 5mo ago
That’s always been the point of reviews. It’s why people follow certain reviewers. They know the reviewer feels similarly to how they do so the feelings of the reviewer is similar to what they might feel. There’s always going to be some dis
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by roxolotl 5mo ago
As someone who lives in the Northeast US but travels to Florida somewhat regularly it amazes me how low people keep the AC. It’s common for people and places, or at least those I visit, to keep the AC lower than I keep my heat in the winter
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by roxolotl 5mo ago
Is any of this actually unforeseen? Buying the vast majority of the world’s supply of something does have mostly predictable consequences.
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by roxolotl 5mo ago
There’s a lot of local US candidates running this year on pushing back on the federal government. Realistically there’s not a ton that can be done at the level of a mayor or even state senator. However removing local passive surveillance is
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by roxolotl 5mo ago
There’s also a real cost to the system in the United States as well. As companies pivot people get left behind. And we’re potentially going to see with LLMs a large collapse in employment that corporations don’t even being to consider their
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by roxolotl 5mo ago
It’s funny as someone from the North East who’s always lived around rivers I assumed uncommon means once or twice a year. Not disagreeing they are uncommon, nor suggesting driverless cars are never going to happen. Just marveling at how dif
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by roxolotl 5mo ago
Of course it doesn’t work this way but why shouldn’t it? It doesn’t because Google is a massive company and could kill dozens of Railways before they notice an issue to their bottom line. However in a world where companies care I’d expect t
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by roxolotl 5mo ago
Right I expected the piece to transition into “and here’s how we built a whole new thing for it” but it never did.
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by roxolotl 5mo ago
What does this mean? > It's a different kind of tool doing a different kind of work, and that makes a clean apples-to-apples comparison to earlier models difficult. They claim it’s a different kind of tool and then describe using it
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by roxolotl 5mo ago
This is why a political solution is the only way forward. I’m optimistic that people are finally fed up but who knows.
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by roxolotl 5mo ago
Yea this struck me as well but it’s true. It’s half way around latitudinal if you’re in the south of Australia. I’ve only ever really thought longitudinally when I think “around the world” but no reason it couldn’t be the other way. Or it’s
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by roxolotl 5mo ago
Myself as well it’s absolutely brutal. Sometimes it is the case that people must be let go for a company to continue existing. In those situations it’s awful but even someone as hostile to layoffs as I am understands that sometimes there is
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by roxolotl 5mo ago
Sure but you know what doesn’t help, defending CEOs. Calling out CEOs expands the number of people who realize this is immoral and who find statements like this repulsive. The more people that find this announcement repulsive the more likel
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by roxolotl 5mo ago
Why should we be ok with this? Just because something is the norm doesn’t mean it should be nor does it mean it’s moral.
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by roxolotl 5mo ago
If you work for Coca-Cola then yea there’s reason to question your intent even if simply because you aren’t objective due to your proximity to Coca-Cola.
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by roxolotl 5mo ago
In addition to the lack of value neutrality mentioned in other comments one major issue is no one is optimistic about AI. Structuring society to live with it is an option but no one is offering even glimpses of what a structure might look l
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by roxolotl 5mo ago
This is actually a solid comment because ideally it would be the case. I think it's the opposite though. The problem with LLMs is they are marketed not as a collective achievement. They are at their heart a tool which should belong to
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by roxolotl 5mo ago
This is the story imo. For a large percent of people, basically everyone born after 1980, technology has always reduced in price and increased in capabilities over their entire life. If sustained, which if you start with the Xbox price incr
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by roxolotl 5mo ago
The dirty frag repo says: > Because the responsible disclosure schedule and the embargo have been broken, no patch exists for any distribution. I had to do a double take reading that. It’s written something happened and prevented them fr
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by roxolotl 5mo ago
It’s not just you. I reread it and it really struck me as odd too lol. I wrote it in bed after just having woken up maybe 5min earlier(note to self what does this say about my internet use habits?). This does make me wonder if consuming AI
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by roxolotl 5mo ago
You can read about the transition from the Gilded Age to The Progressive Era in US history for potential solutions. Anti-trust and political reform is a bit part. Political opinions were controlled undemocratically during that period as wel
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by roxolotl 5mo ago
Wow I’d never have expected Kate Davies to show up on Hacker News. I think it’s important to understand her background a bit when she talks about knitting as a matter of life and death. She was a scholar of 18th century literature before sh
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by roxolotl 5mo ago
Reminds me of the head transplant experiments. The stuff of nightmares but also fascinating.

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