taurath

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by taurath 2mo ago
As a self taught developer, LLMs can help you learn, it can help you explore ideas, and it can even build up a syllabus for you. It will also encourage you at every step to let it make decisions for you, paper over anything you don't e
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by taurath 2mo ago
The deeper you get into dissociation, the more a LOT of mysterious or mystical human experiences start to make sense. The public generally doesn’t understand the mechanism or that our brains can do it, or how far it can go into structural d
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Nvidia in Talks with OpenAI to Guarantee $250B Financing for Data Center(wsj.com)
8 points by taurath 2mo ago|1 comments
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by taurath 2mo ago
Artisanship takes a back seat to the business peoples demands, and the business oriented people have been melding with software people for decades. Still, classes of bugs we used to have all the time are not very common anymore. But watchin
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by taurath 2mo ago
> The number of things being found with hindsight remind me of "move fast and break things" development. It is the same mentality in all of business rn, everyone is ruthless and doesn’t give a single fuck about consequences bec
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by taurath 2mo ago
Yes it is
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by taurath 2mo ago
They are going after everything, everywhere because their leadership is sociopathic and believes the means are justified by anything they can get away with. Mark had that aha moment that people would just freely give him their data, and had
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by taurath 2mo ago
That doesn't explain the observation of things that used to work breaking though, without any new features!
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by taurath 2mo ago
Its not you, it has gone up marketly. Microsoft and Google products are both subjectively far more prone to showstopping errors. There is no quantitative data for this so some will never be satisfied with this answer (or ANY answer unless i
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by taurath 2mo ago
Well because you said that, we're going to add public investment in crypto too, everyone gets an NFT with their taxes this year.
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by taurath 3mo ago
Cambridge MS will open doors that will never open for you otherwise. Amazon will be there in 2 years, you won’t have control over your destiny, and things can go much more wrong there with toxic people and no recourse.
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by taurath 3mo ago
How is the token-cost-be-damned part in the latter example? I do find that both porting and translation projects have a much higher signal given the ease of mapping to tokens, when there is a proven working source to refer to - the source i
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by taurath 3mo ago
It has a lot of the properties of magic. You can put on quite a magic show with a trillion dollars.
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by taurath 3mo ago
Yeah I think its possible that for many folks its the first time they're coming up on these concepts, and it troubles them in the same way that the concept of death troubles them (and me, to be clear!). For me its as simple as watching
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by taurath 3mo ago
This is religious fervor folks, as AI 2027 was. I grew up in evangelical christianity, and to them the end of the world is just around the corner, the same way it has been since I was a small child and likely will be when we are all gone. T
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by taurath 3mo ago
> shifted the material dynamics to better align the incentives of governments with the people ... recently, as in the last 10 years?
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by taurath 3mo ago
> This is how you behave when you think you're so much smarter than everyone around you that consequences don't apply to you. Its also how some folks act like when they've done something they morally can't deal with -
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by taurath 3mo ago
I demand that does technological experiments involving children be supervised by someone who understands the ethical and moral effects it can have. Its not like a YouTube video. We don’t move fast and break things when the things are kids,
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by taurath 3mo ago
> What would be some requirements to be comfortable with it? I’d have to know less than I do about what capabilities LLMs have and don’t have.
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by taurath 3mo ago
It was amusing for a moment watching all these logical technical people act like religious fundamentalists about AI, fitting problems to the predetermined solution, but now it’s just upsetting how much the people with no empathy or understa
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by taurath 3mo ago
> your opinion of kids needing a good human teacher is overfit to your experience of having those growing up None of the AI stuff has been proven to be safe or effective for kids going thru an extremely important growth time for personal
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by taurath 3mo ago
There’s no choice here, and often the companies are profitable, but if there is any stickiness to the product the customer gets the privilege of having a company they built trust with turn around and betray them with massively increased fee
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by taurath 3mo ago
I made an educated guess that John Deere is roughly the size of Monsanto so in the tens of billions category, which is usually enough revenue to play really dirty with senators, regulators, lobbyists, and customers.
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by taurath 3mo ago
And how much they gave to behave is directly related to how much they donate to the election fund, because that is literally the world we are living in now, as every single tech CEO all know and behave as.
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by taurath 3mo ago
> Deere must pay $1 million collectively to the five states for antitrust enforcement costs and will be subject to strict compliance oversight for the next 10 years. $1 million fine for probably $10 billion in profit. I know what lesson
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Simple Made Easy – Rich Hickey (2011) [video](youtube.com)
4 points by taurath 3mo ago|0 comments
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by taurath 3mo ago
It’s 2026 what the customer wants is probably an indication of what not to do if you’re a hyperscaler. Whoever ends up actually winning after the crash will be the ones who figure out the needs of users, not the needs of the financial mac
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by taurath 3mo ago
I'm not arguing against the improvements to the average person in the last 100 years, but I am saying the system that exists TODAY produces poverty, desperation and homelessness on the bottom end, and massive wealth to the top, and a h
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by taurath 3mo ago
> And they don't understand that most people just want a meaningful job, not handouts and not free stuff. Wanting my tax dollars to go to children who can’t access food is not begging for a handout - you’re repeating middle school R
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by taurath 3mo ago
“Just think differently” but the answer starts with have a pile of money

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