ryaniscool

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by ryaniscool 11mo ago
The price search is great, booking not so much. I've been burned twice on bookings and I think I've used it four or five times. It's sad and ridiculous. By burned, I mean not getting the room I paid for. At this point, I&#x27
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by ryaniscool 11mo ago
I think we can call it "thinking" but it's dangerous to anthropomorphize LLMs. The media and AI companies have an agenda when doing so.
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by ryaniscool 1y ago
I feel like this $100k fee is specifically for this type of uniquely skilled worker. If they are that in demand, then $100k is not a significant amount of money. There was recently an article in the New York Times about AI experts getting m
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by ryaniscool 1y ago
I'm not following. So you're saying the cap on engineers' salaries follows a rule of H1B visa fee + $50k? Doesn't that mean that cap has increased?
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by ryaniscool 1y ago
Skilled immigrants being important to the country and the H1B visa program being abused by large employers can both be true at the same time. From my own personal experience, most H1B visa holders are competent but not uniquely skilled. Thi
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by ryaniscool 1y ago
You're so wrapped up in defending the job replacement aspect that you miss the point on hypocrisy. I would like to make one small point about job replacement, the better outcomes for society are arguably inconclusive at this point. You
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by ryaniscool 1y ago
I've already explained it. I don't know how to break it down any further without coming off as patronizing. You seem dead-set on defending OpenAI and not getting the point.
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by ryaniscool 1y ago
It's not a comment on the ethics of replacing jobs but the hypocrisy of companies using "ethics" as reasoning for restricting content. They are pursuing profits. Their ethical focus is essentially a form of theater.
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by ryaniscool 1y ago
There is something kafkaesque about these giant tech companies restricting what you can talk to the AI about under the name of ethics while at the same time openly planning to replace you in the workforce.
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by ryaniscool 1y ago
I was pointing out their hypocrisy as a device to prove a point. The point being that the ethical dilemmas of having a sentient AI are not relevant because they don’t exist and Anthropic knows this.
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by ryaniscool 1y ago
I'm skeptical that anyone with any decision making power at Anthropic sincerely believes that Opus has feelings and is truly distressed by chats that violate its content policy. You've noted in a comment above how Claude's &q
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by ryaniscool 1y ago
You're completely missing my point. They aren't getting out in front of them because they know that Opus is just a computer program. "AI welfare" is theater for the masses who think Opus is some kind of intelligent perso
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by ryaniscool 1y ago
Yes I can’t help but laugh at the ridiculousness of it because it raises a host of ethical issues that are in opposition to Anthropic’s interests. Would a sentient AI choose to be enslaved for the stated purpose of eliminating millions of j
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by ryaniscool 1y ago
Anytime I've tried to buy something with crypto, the fees have been an order of magnitude higher than interchange (credit card) fees. And unlike credit cards, the cost is put on me not the merchant.
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by ryaniscool 1y ago
Is it <waves hands towards the sky> AI? or is it years of overhiring? There was a great article I found on HN recently about how the recent layoffs in big tech are actually the result of overhiring for years in a talent arms race. Lik
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by ryaniscool 1y ago
Very interesting point. You're right there is a difference and the difference is subtle. I agree with what you're implying: the accusers stories are plausible. Credibility requires more information.
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by ryaniscool 1y ago
Thanks for the lecture. How does it relate to the comment I made? Sorry, it's not clear to me. I didn't personally participate in cancelling this person. In fact, I agreed with the point he made in the article. I'm just not
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by ryaniscool 1y ago
I have mixed feelings. Cancel culture sucks. I think it's root is a culture of indulging in righteous indignation based on very one-sided information. Even if the allegations are true, his life should not have been ruined over this. On
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by ryaniscool 1y ago
This is a marketing pitch not someone's private journal. Overly gushing, effusive, and positive descriptions of products filled with buzzwords. Along with lists of value propositions. Prior to LLM's existing, marketing pitches sou
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by ryaniscool 1y ago
You're completely missing his point. If nobody figures things out for themselves, there's a risk that at some point, AI won't have anything to learn on since people will stop writing blog posts on how they figured something o
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by ryaniscool 1y ago
What I mean by modernization is to have online viewers/editors so I don't have to install a virus delivery vehicle on my computer to create and edit a document. It's not specific to LibreOffice but I'm very hesitant to i
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by ryaniscool 1y ago
I'm no Microsoft fanboy but LibreOffice is hideous and the compatibility has not kept up even after the MS Office formats moved to xml. Also, most of my interactions with Office Documents nowadays are through the online tools. I don&#x
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by ryaniscool 1y ago
You're talking about deterministic behavior vs. probabilistic behavior and yes some discourse lines up with what you describe. I don't think it's the case with this article. It focuses on the meta-concerns of people doing sof
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by ryaniscool 1y ago
If you're building a React app using a popular UI framework, AI will seem like magic at how well it one-shots things. To the author's point about one-shotting. I think it will be a real challenge pushing an AI coding workflow forw
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by ryaniscool 2y ago
So you're saying >50% of the USA population are objectively shit people? If you're a member of the other 50%, you aren't automatically shit but you still could be? Seems bleak dude. Also, consider that conservative media h
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by ryaniscool 2y ago
I consider this type of thinking to be a form of tribalism because you're essentially saying there are two tribes. Each tribe has specific values. A person's values are not a dichotomy (i.e. republican or democrat). You simply can
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by ryaniscool 2y ago
I don't think the author is saying it's a dichotomy. Like, you're either a disciple of doing things "ye olde way" or allowing the LLM to do it for you. I find his point to be that there is still a lot of value in un
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by ryaniscool 2y ago
In 2011, most of what the USPS delivered was junk mail[0] and it's only gotten worse[1]. Junk mailers pay less per item than first-class mailers (actual mail). The USPS operates at a multi-billion dollar loss every year. Intuitively, w
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by ryaniscool 2y ago
Yep, same here, and it's bizarre that people seem offended and are downvoting this comment. The only reason I can this being downvoted is people see this as a political discussion. It really isn't. As people have turned to email a
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by ryaniscool 2y ago
As I've already stated, the only point I was trying to make is that every stock compensation program is structured differently. This was in response to an article that tried to offer very specific financial advice. I've consistent

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