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by shermantanktop 2mo ago
If you don’t know how to do that now, the fastest way to learn (for most people, surely) is to have an LLM teach you and critique your efforts. And then you’ll realize that it’s unlikely you’ll get practice at doing it from scratch, since t
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by shermantanktop 2mo ago
The only important question in this space is how to balance the speed of development of this technology with safety. And globally, as a human race, our answer is: speed. Yes, lots of AI scientists spend lots of time and energy on safety. Bu
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by shermantanktop 2mo ago
> Recently, I was at a baseball game with my partner. One of the reasons I enjoy going to baseball games in person is to watch the crowd. As I looked around, however, I noticed something different: many people had tuned out of the game a
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by shermantanktop 2mo ago
He points out the value of introspection, which the literary culture has in spades, but the scientific culture utterly lacks. If we get the worst outcomes from AGI, the scientists who worked so hard to enable it are unlikely to reflect deep
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by shermantanktop 2mo ago
“Orthogonal” is similar. It’s been commonplace for decades in my world but seems Claude-ish.
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by shermantanktop 2mo ago
You can invert that. Why do people with similar or the same genetic code (identical twins) have such variation in symptoms? Ultimately, the symptoms are what people experience, and treatments often center on mitigating symptoms. Having an
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by shermantanktop 2mo ago
Building understanding through use, as opposed to reading, is not a controversial idea.
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by shermantanktop 2mo ago
Literally the next thing that happened after I posted this yesterday: my kid texted me that Dolly Parton had died. That’s how some news gets to me—- it’s important to someone I know. It turns out that that is both a good filter and fast en
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by shermantanktop 2mo ago
The speech model for the voiceover should be named “Max Vocalfry.”
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by shermantanktop 2mo ago
The tagline for MTurk used to be “artificial artificial intelligence.” It appears now we can get along with just a single “artificial.”
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by shermantanktop 2mo ago
If we acknowledge that humans are fallible, is human judgment unnecessary? and what replaces it? Pre-codified behavior rules are just delayed human judgment, and have holes. Machine judgment is very the thing you are trying to control. W
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by shermantanktop 2mo ago
Does LinkedIn activity paint an accurate picture of wherever you work? I can’t say that’s true for me and my company. It’s not all lies or anything, it’s a fragmented view that emphasizes conflict and the most visible 10% of what the com
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by shermantanktop 2mo ago
Anyone trying to use a kv store for relational workloads is The same kind of person who uses a kv cache with durability features instead of a kv store. You can’t blame the tech for their mistakes.
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by shermantanktop 2mo ago
becomes? i think that happened like 15 years ago...
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by shermantanktop 2mo ago
Personally I have zero interest. If it's a big enough deal, it'll get to me somehow. Knowing about it 15s after it happened and then seeing a flood of uninformed speculation would be stressful. Others do value that, no judgment,
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by shermantanktop 2mo ago
Is it too late to get zuck back to whatever he was doing before his current activities?
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by shermantanktop 2mo ago
I had to stop and think, but I follow your mathematical reasoning. Although 1:1 is not a realistic number; i'd think more like 4:1 or more? and if men over 60 are around, it's going higher for sure.
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by shermantanktop 2mo ago
I had a coworker who talked all the time about their improv activities outside of work. They also dropped “yes, and” into business meetings with execs, and would then explain why. They asked me if I thought it would be a fun team-building
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by shermantanktop 2mo ago
Is there someone who could be convinced by this article, but who doesn't already agree with it? I'm discouraged that public discourse about ideas has become so partisan that it ends up being partisan to express an opinion that tou
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by shermantanktop 2mo ago
That's what makes us so smart!
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by shermantanktop 2mo ago
And then the void wraps a cold clammy tentacle around your leg, just to show you that two can play that game.
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by shermantanktop 2mo ago
What is newsworthy here? Price goes up, customers leave.
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by shermantanktop 2mo ago
I came to a similar conclusion during my masters, with less data and a less well-articulated rationale. I realized that I already had a talent for intellectual bullshittery, and grad school was encouraging it rather than giving me core ski
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by shermantanktop 2mo ago
If you were suffering from Dunning-Krueger, how would you know?
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by shermantanktop 2mo ago
I've never seen this happen as a reaction to actual incompetence, where the person is a net negative and a drag on everyone. I have seen something similar, though: a valued employee doesn't have balanced functional skills at thei
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by shermantanktop 2mo ago
I just told my boss to remove a line in a doc because it sounded too AI-y. He then said that he had written it himself.
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by shermantanktop 2mo ago
He did both! Along with The Great Chain of Being by Lovejoy. We also studied the Divine Comedy (all three ugh), the librettos for the Magic Flute and the Barber of Seville, Frankenstein, and lots more. I took multiple courses with him, so
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by shermantanktop 2mo ago
I read this in college, with a fantastic professor (RIP) who also assigned Huizinga's "Homo Ludens." I loved it ...if only the rest of academic history was so free-thinking and human-centric, I might have stayed. "Night
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by shermantanktop 2mo ago
Advertisers always say they are educating and informing, so that their "audience" is "learning" about their product. And there's a bit of truth to that, for new products - people don't know about it yet. But i
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by shermantanktop 2mo ago
Never done anything directly . But large-scale protests can move the Overton window.

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