silencethendang

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by silencethendang 3y ago
It seems like Einstein was saying "there's no such thing as a theory-free fact," specifically in his case that observation itself is influenced by some pre-existing theory. Some deduction is involved. But this begs the questi
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by silencethendang 3y ago
I said something similar in my response. I think your first point depends on how much reliance on LLM's determines things like quality of writing and general creativity. For now, comedy (which is a big source of reposted content) proba
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by silencethendang 3y ago
LLM's need to be trained on something, and the more the 'market' for text is flooded with ChatGPT output, the more relatively scarce human-written text will be. However, if in the long-term, LLM's hinder peoples' ab
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by silencethendang 3y ago
The complexity exists because it creates demand for products that eventually become entrenched over time (Terraform, Kubernetes, DevOps products, SCRUM/Agile etc.). I don't think this is necessarily bad, but I don't think the
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by silencethendang 3y ago
These articles make me question what "success" means in the AI space. Is "success" just making a lot of money or raising a giant funding round or achieving a valuation? If so, then yeah, there's probably some room f
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by silencethendang 3y ago
Sorry for the late reply. I've never heard of the Al Roth book, but seems interesting. I'll check it out. I mostly became familiar with Mechanism Design when I took the first year microeconomics sequence in graduate school (basica
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by silencethendang 3y ago
For #2 - I'm not a PE insider, but I'm pretty aware of a lot of corporate dynamics in big tech, which increasingly seems like it's indistinguishable from any other corporate sector. I think we have a habit of thinking of com
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by silencethendang 3y ago
I know aligning incentives is usually something that falls under the broad category of "management" or people skills in a company, but there's a subfield of economics that studies exactly how to do this in a structured way (
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by silencethendang 3y ago
I've been reading this book. I’m not actually done with it, but I’ve gotten through a pretty substantial portion of it. The author clearly has a bias, having worked as the DOJ as a prosecutor, but also has the facts to back up what he’