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by sanderjd 3mo ago
"I have never let my schooling interfere with my education."
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Some of my favorite books are ones I didn't really "like", but which influenced me deeply. The ones that go at the very top of the list are those that achieve both things. But that's very rare.
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It's all about context. Everybody likes someone who has well informed answers to questions they ask. Nobody likes someone who frequently injects answers to questions nobody asked. Knowing a lot is attractive, but being a know-it-all is
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I think when people say "not enough time", they just mean "uninterrupted time". This is the thing that is extremely difficult in conjunction with parenting (and not just toddlers). There is a close to zero sum tradeoff b
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This is true, and it's also true that both boosters and doomers have consistently made incorrect predictions about the timeline.
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by sanderjd 3mo ago
Say more. My expectation is that the current gen of gpus will start being replaced by the next gen, and then it may be possible to get used ones that are still within their useful life at lower prices. My expectation is also that memory ven
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by sanderjd 3mo ago
I have really enjoyed this period of HN, because there has just been a genuine split here on this topic since it became The Thing, which means I get to see a whole ranges of opinions and arguments on this when I come here. I'll be real
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In my experience, those roles never existed to begin with in well run teams and companies. Some companies drive product managers into this role, but that was always a bad use of their time. Even with AI tools, I still don't feel like I
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by sanderjd 3mo ago
Yeah reading this timeline wasn't satisfying to me for exactly this reason: It didn't give the counterarguments that were being made at the time of each "goalpost". My (probably flawed, but still) memory is that the firs
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I have a different impression of Amodei, but my impression of openai is similar to yours. And fully agreed that it isn't a binary.
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I dunno. That's the kind of thing the people who come to this site are meant to figure out though :) (I mean, I have some ideas, but I don't know if they are good.)
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Facebook was released at my university in 2004 (just looked this up), and I'm sure I had an account within the first month (as did 90% of people at the school, probably). This is smack in the middle of my 5-10 year window preceding 201
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To me, Wikipedia was like proto- web 2.0. That is, yes, it fits the definition, but significantly predated the trend. It was ahead of its time. I think it's a bit fuzzy for "blogs". To me, it wasn't really until blogging
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Yeah I think of it as when user to user generated content became prevalent. I think the increasing prevalence of javascript interactivity was more of a response to making such websites more functional.
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Within my bubble of college aged people in the US in the late 2000s Facebook was already mainstream by 2007 (and I would say 2006, even, though I'm a bit more worried that I'm misremembering that). But yes, I'm generally in t
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by sanderjd 3mo ago
I was certainly never on 4chan, but I certainly know a lot about 4chan. My experience of that time was that it seemed like 4chan was escaping its bounds and infecting the real world. (And it's pretty much felt like that ever since.
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by sanderjd 3mo ago
Yeah, seems like the whackjobs became a lot more visible.
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To me, "gamergate" - or I dunno, the "alt right" thing more broadly, it's hard for me to remember which thing begat which, or maybe I never knew - was when I first remember thinking "what's with all the na
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by sanderjd 3mo ago
Yeah, but it does seem like there have been multiple distinct changes, rather than this just being an age-based phenomenon. I seem to be about a decade older than the OP, and I'd also say that the early '10s is when things got les
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by sanderjd 3mo ago
Great. Amp wasn't even on my radar! Appreciate the pointer!
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Thanks!
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Yes. But is your impression that this is the strategy of people like Amodei? My impression is that it isn't, that they are actually true believers, and not just trying to hit the timing right and flip it.
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by sanderjd 3mo ago
Great info, thanks!
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I don't think it does.
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This is obviously not true. Everyone always wants to say "my ideology is right and this is not contested anymore" and everyone is always wrong about that.
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I'm talking about people who work at the frontier labs who talk to the press, and what seems to be the revealed beliefs of those same people from the strategies we see their companies pursuing. My point is that actually it would be wor
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by sanderjd 3mo ago
What do you think the answers to these questions are? Are you genuinely unsure?
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I appreciate the suggestion! But it isn't clear to me, from reading their marketing site, what they bring to the table from this perspective. Can you give me a more targeted pitch?
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Ah I see! Yes, I was talking about a coding harness, not an enterprise agent. I entirely agree with you that your suggestion of driving it via evals is the right thing for that use case!
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by sanderjd 3mo ago
If you would like a carve out for this, that may well be reasonable policy, and you should feel free to advocate for an amendment to the current text.

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