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by sdwr 3y ago
Going to stake my claim to the most interesting conversation. I'm proud of the robopsychology in the middle a la Asimov's Susan Calvin: https://chat.openai.com/share/a6c6b2be-18f8-49e5-aedc-c84c97...
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by sdwr 3y ago
Thank **ing god! Hiding behind jargon and "the process" is an indicator of having nothing to say. I see this as a rolling up of the metaphorical sleeves, a sign that stuff is actually happening.
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by sdwr 3y ago
I think what the comment is saying is that the job is not taken seriously by reporters. White canes are a reference to props used in old-timey vaudeville acts (?). https://youtu.be/zgwG5wA5s3Y The whole thing makes no sense
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by sdwr 3y ago
That would be neat. Flip the script, have an AI manager instead of AI assistant. It could: - keep track of todo items - assist with progress - check in on mental + emotional state and down the road - keep track of state over time - give fee
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by sdwr 3y ago
That's that self-awareness shit! We superintelligent now. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BdSIngO0ivk
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by sdwr 3y ago
Yeah looks very promising. Naively, it multiplies computation time by a factor of 20x though? If they are taking 5x samples per step, and multiple steps per problem. https://imgur.com/a/VbpQZRm As this gets explored fu
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by sdwr 3y ago
It's very useful to be able to guarantee every person only has 1 account. Things like voting and giveaways only work when people can't make 100 accounts out of thin air.
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by sdwr 3y ago
First time I've heard anyone say that! It's all coming together baybee, people ain't dumb.
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by sdwr 3y ago
The finger-cutting in chess must be a reference to https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yubitsume Which makes more sense in the criminal underworld than in chess. That kind of feedback loop is terrifying and beautiful. A si
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by sdwr 3y ago
Open your brain-hole for a second. The parent comment mentioned the disalignment of value and meaning. The now - later time axis is a clear explanation for part-to-most of that disalignment. Think of prestige jobs that pay less, or unpaid i
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by sdwr 3y ago
Value is instant - a dollar in the hand. Meaning is delayed - shaping thr future. Choosing meaning over value is an investment.
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by sdwr 3y ago
> My most important advice, which I think is evident in the advertising campaign, was that the pill needed to target a disease. This is huge. There are tons of people who believe in a "church and state" style separation between
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by sdwr 3y ago
I've had a nerd boner for semantic web constructs for years. My take is it's more useful than ever in the age of AI. Both for machine synthesis, but also for escaping the flood. Metadata, shared bookmarks, make the internet a plac
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by sdwr 3y ago
Havent read the whole thing, but the first 2 show a lack of experience w "prompt engineering". To get it to write a conversation, either lead it in: > Donald Knuth: So, Steve, what do you think about ChatGPT? Steven Wolfram: or
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by sdwr 3y ago
Yeah, the cycle goes: 1. be overly vigilant to a real or percieved threat for an extended period of time 2. "threat-finding" starts leaking into regular life 3. freak out about a normal situation falsely identified as a
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by sdwr 3y ago
I don't want to get baited, really don't want to get baited here, but here goes. I've had my own struggles with mental health, maybe I can phrase it in a helpful way. This reply is for the book writer: All your points may ver
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by sdwr 3y ago
What are the solutions? - vacant buildings suck, but there's no urgent cost to ignoring them for 5-10 years - multi-use "free-for-all" buildings like those big apartment blocks in Hongkong. Doesn't mesh w/ western
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by sdwr 3y ago
Really terrible! It's hard enough to trust people as it is. The workers here are approaching the qualia of ChatGPT's experience, instantiated in a role for a brief moment. Also something something atomization of society.
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by sdwr 3y ago
I got first-hand (virtual) experience with this playing Dyson Sphere. Late-game tech requires a whole web of dependencies. Doubling from 1x <shiny item> per minute to 2x <shiny item> means doubling the entire supply chain all th
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by sdwr 3y ago
The list seems to cover 90% of all sci-fi, and, if you squint a little, 80% of all stories ever written.
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by sdwr 3y ago
Username what it says on the tin!
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by sdwr 3y ago
The context is that CS Lewis was a devout christian and evangelist, and is referring to spiritual desire. I read "The Great Divorce", and interpreted it as metaphorical, in the "kingdom of heaven on earth" way. How hones
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by sdwr 3y ago
Thanks for the real life example! I don't like the bland, watered-down tone of ChatGPT, never put together that it's trained on unopinionated data. Feels like a tragedy of the commons thing, the average (or average publically acce
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by sdwr 3y ago
> anthropomorphizing the fictional ‘ai’ to tell it it’s nature - it relies on the LLM’s world model to then also anthropomorphize a fictional ai assistant that obeys those instructions There's a lot of information compressed into th
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by sdwr 3y ago
I keep coming back to: - 30 rock - arrested development - curb your enthusiasm and - jake and amir - joel haver - brian david gilbert all in short clips on youtube
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by sdwr 3y ago
"corporate apologetics" - This is pretty clearly about the actual experience of working as a front-line worker in content management. Percieved time pressure, edge cases, lack of context, juggling 100 different priorities.
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by sdwr 3y ago
You are the only programmer I admire! Redis is elegant, simple and useful.
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by sdwr 3y ago
Profit excludes salary, overhead, and expenses!
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by sdwr 3y ago
As an occasionally crazy person myself, I agree. Tried living without electricity for a few weeks in 2020, everything felt much more sharp and visceral. Feels like modern tech has a numbing, coddling effect. You can explain it however you w
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by sdwr 3y ago
> It's researchers accurately reporting their findings In a low-confidence, hedged way. A "good" article has the balls to come in with a real question, and use statistics as tools to answer it. If the answer is messy or nu

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