sp527

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by sp527 5mo ago
Depends on the "human employee." If you're burning an "unimaginable" number of tokens, you're already in the top decile of employees, at least. Will the top decile not become obsolete? Maybe. I certainly hope s
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by sp527 5mo ago
Oh there's plenty of evidence. Because a lot of these people have been committing to repos in public for over a decade. Wouldn't take much to show the world just how fallible human coders really are.
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by sp527 5mo ago
You sound blissfully ignorant. I'd honestly advise staying that way. The alternative is depressing af.
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by sp527 6mo ago
Sure. Would you like WWII, medieval-era Christianity, or Khanate Asia?
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by sp527 6mo ago
> Violence is not a panacea, but often, the outlet. This couldn't be further from the truth. History demonstrates categorically that violence is the last and most reliable form of recourse available to the disempowered, once socie
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by sp527 6mo ago
(1) We already automated the critical path of a great deal of processes, where that made economic sense. The long tail exists, but it's not replete with as much juicy low-hanging fruit that makes for splashy use cases. Rather, AI will
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by sp527 6mo ago
> So the greatest physics, maths, poetry and pop music are done by people in their 20s. I think there's a chance this is itself a type of selection bias, because you're over-indexing on the famous. And fame has consequences. Ma
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by sp527 8mo ago
Yet another illusion. A lot of Americans are very good at finding ways to persecute people for having an opinion, often using economic consequences as a cudgel to enforce groupthink. And, at this very moment, the government is compiling lis
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by sp527 8mo ago
> ethically coherent with American values I'm a lifelong US citizen and burst out laughing at this. What values? What coherence? Do you mean the NSA man-in-the-middleing all that traffic and leaving a backdoor for Mossad? Imagine th
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by sp527 8mo ago
The cynical pessimist in me agrees with you that the odds are somewhat bleak. The slightly irrational optimist in me says "rage against the dying of the light". Also, there has never been a better time to learn about philosophies
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by sp527 8mo ago
I'm definitely making certain assumptions, such as: (1) democratic rule endures, (2) even absent true democratic rule, the populace can still resort to violent rebellion as a failsafe, (3) psychopathic tendencies amongst said elite are
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by sp527 8mo ago
Turns out that's mediated by the sexual impulse, and can be short-circuited via contraception.
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by sp527 8mo ago
Agreed. The quality of life bar will be higher for sure. But it will still technically be a "subsistence" lifestyle, with no prospect of improvement. Perhaps that will suffice for most people? We're going to find out.
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by sp527 8mo ago
The likely outcome is that 99.99% of humanity lives a basic subsistence lifestyle ("UBI") and the elite and privileged few metaphorically (and somewhat literally) ascend to the heavens. Around half the planet already lives on <
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by sp527 9mo ago
This video is clickbait drivel. Her criticism is purely about the man, not Feynman as a physicist, a thinker, or a teacher. Feynman was probably on the spectrum and he had a lot of problematic behaviors. That doesn't meaningfully alter
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by sp527 10mo ago
> The hacker, who asked for anonymity because he feared retaliation from the company, said he reported the vulnerability to Doublespeed on October 31 Lmao. Nice.
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by sp527 10mo ago
It's almost like a lot of our technologies were pretty mature already and an AI trained on 'what has been' has little to offer with respect to 'what could be'.
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by sp527 10mo ago
> If or when that happens, I think the economy would morph into a new thing completely focused on serving the whims of those "owners." I think you might be a little behind on economic news, because that's already happeni
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by sp527 11mo ago
Maybe most men don't want to see other men naked? Does this have to be any more complicated than that? It always struck me as really weird tbh.
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by sp527 1y ago
I think what you're missing here is that China would be (is?) happy to fund the development, because it's in their national interest and necessary in order for their companies to stay competitive, so long as there are trade restri
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by sp527 1y ago
It's hard to think of someone less qualified to opine on the direction of AI than this guy.
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by sp527 1y ago
Oh trust me I know. I worked at Palantir well before it was public and had firsthand experience of Alex Karp. He would draw incomprehensible stick figure box diagrams on a whiteboard for F100 CEOs, ramble some nonsensical jargon, and someho
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by sp527 1y ago
It's such an egregiously bad error, you almost have to wonder if Altman did it intentionally for publicity (which does seem to be working).
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by sp527 1y ago
> This is why Python or JavaScript are great languages to start with (even if JavaScript is a horrible language) The author was hemorrhaging credibility all along the way and then this comment really drove home what he is: a bike shedder
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by sp527 1y ago
That's what Anduril is for
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by sp527 1y ago
I can't even begin to imagine what sort of mind could observe the quality of Big Tech's software output and conclude that there's nothing wrong with their hiring process.
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by sp527 1y ago
And yet if you flip the paradigm entirely, you pretty much get coding bootcamps, which certainly don't have a great track record either. The answer is probably some more ideal balance between theory and practice, like Waterloo's C
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by sp527 1y ago
Any green energy project that isn't nuclear is a waste of money and resources. Nuclear is now being pursued in earnest by the tech industry itself. There's no problem here.
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by sp527 1y ago
You really don't understand subtext...
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by sp527 1y ago
This is a very primitive, pre-genAI type of thought process. People like you can only see copyright infringement when it's blatantly staring you in the face, like Studio Ghibli style AI images. Why is it obvious in that case? Because w

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