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by skohan 3y ago
Yeah I mean I am only speaking for myself. I am done with them but you are free to fly with whoever you want.
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by skohan 3y ago
Maybe but they already lost my business for life. You only get so many chances and there are plenty of other airlines.
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by skohan 3y ago
Yeah the problem for the consumer is how opaque it is. They're all competing to get the lowest ticket price on the aggregator price, and then claw back a profit either through obtuse language during the checkout process (i.e. insuranc
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by skohan 3y ago
I would imagine he would have leverage to get a pretty good deal if OpenAI want him back
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by skohan 3y ago
But would you say the others besides GPT-4 are unsuitable? That's the claim I find surprising
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by skohan 3y ago
But probably better for Sam to stay with OpenAI right? More power leading your own firm than being an employee of MSFT
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by skohan 3y ago
What is your use-case? I have not worked with them extensively, but both PALM and LLAMA seem as good as GPT-4 for most tasks I have thrown at them
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by skohan 3y ago
I think it also heavily depends on the language you are working with. For instance, unit tests are much more important in a duck-typed language than a strongly typed language, since the compiler is less capable of catching a number of issu
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by skohan 3y ago
Do you think we know enough about what intelligence is to rule out whether LLM's might be a form of it?
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by skohan 3y ago
And yet we make progress. It seems we've historically mostly been effective at hanging on to positive change, and discarding negative change
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by skohan 3y ago
Imo the brand is the most meaningful piece here. To many people ChatGPT is AI. Even if LLM's continue to be commodified, the brand recognition will probably give them a lead until someone else can do something fundamentally new and
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by skohan 3y ago
In some cases the context is hard to explain because it's complex, or it relates to something about the domain of the use-cases which is very particular to this implementation. If all you need is some small detail, like how to accompl
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by skohan 3y ago
Did you reflect on the case that actually you might be the smug one in this scenario, assuming that every person who asks a question doesn’t know what they are talking about, and you know better than them? I have experienced this many tim
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by skohan 3y ago
It's been interesting to observe the monoculture as an American living in Germany. For instance, during the George Floyd protests in the states, there were mass demonstrations against police brutality in the US being held in Berlin. I
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by skohan 3y ago
Idk to be honest, it seems like you are defining esoteric in a very narrow sense, which borders on "no true scotsman", such that anything AI would be capable of producing would no longer fall within the definition. Imo stack can
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by skohan 3y ago
So what would you consider esoteric knowledge then? I have to be honest I never heard of Stack Canaries before - it seems like a fairly specific term of art and I would have a hard time thinking of it as "common trivia"
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by skohan 3y ago
I still think specific, esoteric knowledge gets devalued. The way I experience AI is that it's like a super-powered search. It's like having an undergrad with limited knowledge read everything and come back to you with an answe
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by skohan 3y ago
Oh I do. But are teenagers going to have a thick skin for instance? It's fine for me to reject it for now, but if it becomes a social expectation it will be hard to say no without facing social consequences. This is how American cult
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by skohan 3y ago
The tipping function on electronic payments is a blight. I'm starting to see this regularly in Berlin, a place where tipping is not customary in many settings and just having this as a step you have to click through on the payment p
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by skohan 3y ago
That hasn't been my experience. Purely anecdotal, but it seems to me that if a topic has been written about with a high degree of accuracy a small number of times, AI is more likely to be factual than a topic for which there is a lot
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by skohan 3y ago
Totally agree. AI tools devalue esoteric knowledge, and increase the value of conceptual understanding.
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by skohan 4y ago
I agree. I think we are getting close to where a machine can do "programming" but it will be a while before a machine can do "software engineering". I.e. maybe you will be able to use AI to solve a problem, like "w
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by skohan 4y ago
Well presumably it will get better, and it will get better at an accelerating rate.
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by skohan 4y ago
I agree - I think the existing big tech firms will "own the means of production" with AI, which currently depend on expensive hardware infrastructure. What remains to be seen is which disruption happens through the use of AI, whic
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by skohan 4y ago
Yeah fair enough, but I still think "wearing something on your face will be one of the main modes of media consumption" is far from a safe bet.
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by skohan 4y ago
It seems obvious to me AI will be the next major disruption. Radically decreasing the need for human labor has an obvious productive advantage while there is no evidence people would prefer to leave reality.
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by skohan 4y ago
Oh come on this has nothing to do with anything except for blocking withdrawals
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by skohan 4y ago
Crypto has no governing body so how can it have rules?
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by skohan 4y ago
Surely you would agree that having crypto wired into the banking system inspires more confidence than “I give you a briefcase full of cash and you give me an entry in a ledger” You have to have an awful lot of trust that this briefcase full
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by skohan 4y ago
It's not just the US which has adopted this approach. Iirc Germany for example doesn't allow Chinese tech for telecom infrastructure over concerns about security.

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