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by ryanklee 3y ago
There's more to comment on than just the topics confined to the context of the article. This, for instance.
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by ryanklee 3y ago
> I think the problem is that they aren’t mind-blowing, but an improvement. You seem to be doing what GP is pointing out. GP's claim is that the relative improvement itself is mind-blowing, not that the tech is mind-blowing in an ab
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by ryanklee 3y ago
It happens on both sides in equal measure.
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by ryanklee 3y ago
I didn't make any claim other than that threads on this topic systematically disregard existing knowledge and research. And also, that I don't think it's justified.
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by ryanklee 3y ago
Yeah, disagree. I read most threads on these topics, and although I can't characterize people that don't post, I can certainly attest to the generality I'm pointing out. I haven't seen any discussions that defy it. They
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by ryanklee 3y ago
Yes, true, however, what I find egregious in this case is the comparative lack of standards. Among the other technical and scientific topics often discussed here, there is a basic general expectation of grounded reference to existing resear
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by ryanklee 3y ago
Generally, people in HN don't let that small detail get in the way of making strong assertions on these matters. These threads are always massive, embarrassing trainwrecks of naive takes on cognition and consciousness. It's like H
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by ryanklee 3y ago
The kind of incorrect information I am referencing is not pathological, but the type that is generated by cognitive bias and woven into the functional fabric of everyday life. It is pervasive and most people don't notice it (even when
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by ryanklee 3y ago
I didn't say that they did. What I'm responding to is the strong tendency to discount our very long history of dealing with factually incorrect information and the ascertainment of truth from sources both dubious and trustworthy.
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by ryanklee 3y ago
I do. So do others. Others will come to do the same. Some others will not. Not sure that your generalization is true here.
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by ryanklee 3y ago
> the human method results in fewer routine hallucinations. I'd love you to produce data to back this up. My guess is that you are wrong, on the basis of how often I discover that I'm full of shit and how often I discover other
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by ryanklee 3y ago
Intelligent people can fill the void of ignorance with plausible sounding but factually incorrect information. They are apt to engage cognitive biases in such a way that the biases produce assertions that are deeply indistinquishable from f
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by ryanklee 3y ago
People are vastly everestimating how unique this problem of hallucinations is. It seems to me it relies mostly on discounting just how much we've already had to deal with this same problem in humans over the millenia. The problem of pr
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by ryanklee 3y ago
How is this any different from the mountains of shitty code produced every hour by millions of shitty developers everywhere? This form of argument appears in every thread about LLMs: They are fallible, what will we ever do?! As if people ha
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by ryanklee 3y ago
Actually, glass 100cm thick would be pretty difficult to see through.
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by ryanklee 3y ago
I find the idea that everyone gets to hoard and constrain the value of their own output sleazy.
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by ryanklee 3y ago
People have been reasoning about this stuff for thousands of years and SWEs act like they can just make shit up. Same for psychology of mind and consciousness. AI has thrust the tech industry into fields they've been ignoring, and now
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by ryanklee 3y ago
The paper is about generating art. The paper makes claims about the subjective value of the art. Seems central. If the art is not good, but commercial kitsch, then that matters. Now that software engineers are in the business of making soft
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by ryanklee 3y ago
This isn't magic. Identify the skills you need. Acquire them. Identify people who need them. Show them. Repeat until hired. This works in every industry, to a certain extent, but in tech, it works very well.
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by ryanklee 3y ago
People will continue to make art for non-monetary reasons just as they've always done. Some will manage to make money doing it and most won't. Seems to me like that's been an unchanging story throughout human history. Chess h
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by ryanklee 3y ago
I think one of the points that the author is trying to convey is that there's no simple "no" available. The only "no" is one of two bad options. My guess is that given the having to say "no" in this contex
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Ask HN: How did Valve avoid Enshittification?
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by ryanklee 3y ago
Wtf am I even paying these parasites for. Navigating this world is such a pain in the ass.
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by ryanklee 3y ago
I wouldn't assert that the confusion is non-existent. But I think the audience for a post comparing technical differences between logging and tracing is unlikely a junior one. But again, I do think the (brief) post marks out the differ
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by ryanklee 3y ago
As far as I can tell, you haven't offered any actual concrete criticisms. Rather, you've simply said "those words don't make sense" (they do, and I've spelled it out) or "those are empty statements" (
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by ryanklee 3y ago
I've never encountered this confusion anywhere, so I wouldn't ever think to dispel it. Which isn't to say that I disagree with the more general point that defining your terms is good thing. In any case, the post itself (which
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by ryanklee 3y ago
If you put money into reseach into a certain subject, you will learn things about that subject. What you learn can and should inform policy. This is not nonsense. This one of the key mechanisms behind good policy. If you are pointing out th
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by ryanklee 3y ago
Which part of it? Get evidence around how to support and encourage these structures. Figure out how to provide access to those mechanisms. Put it into policy. With all due respect, none of that is gobbledygook and it's just rephrased.
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by ryanklee 3y ago
Depends on the supplement.
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What kind of places are you even going where "tipping culture" intervenes in such a way that it affects your enjoyment? I am not at all a fan of the economics of tipping, and I've spent tens and tens of thousands of dollars o

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