taurath

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by taurath 3mo ago
You must not have ever worked for a company owned by one. The statement is not what I’ve heard, it’s what I’ve experienced, and it matches the experience of others in my large developer network. It’s great for concentrating ownership and ma
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by taurath 3mo ago
My mindset in the workplace is not about these facts, its more about what I present to people to help their worldview and advocate for a world where we don't just hold qualitative data (those who are doing well are likely to meet other
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by taurath 3mo ago
I find it to not be acceptable if AI's trend is to degrade performance of both AI and humans at the same time, that's kinda not the goal, right? Why are we spending money to make us dumber?
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by taurath 3mo ago
I don't understand the logic here - a methodology to increase efficiency by 90% in training doesn't exist until it does - could you explain what you mean by "I don't see why it won't exist"? Are you seeing cons
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by taurath 3mo ago
"I deal with the goddamn customers so the engineers don't have to. I have people skills, can't you understand that?? What the hell is wrong with you people!?"
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by taurath 3mo ago
Sure and thats fair, there's probably many things that are good enough that I miss, but I'm talking about the most obvious possible websites being used regularly as sources in web search. Identifying poor sourcing or misinformatio
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by taurath 3mo ago
> LLMs with sufficient scaling can become frontier AI researchers kicking off the exponential The cost is already outrunning the benefit to a massive amount, and the predicted expotential is not here yet. I predict it'll always be a
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by taurath 3mo ago
I know within a second whether the search result I am looking at is obvious AI slop (search for almost any health condition, recipe, esoteric questions etc almost always have slop at the top of the result), but LLMs regularly source those s
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by taurath 3mo ago
If someone has a vibe coded website with bad statistics but shows up on a web search, what tools will it use to check those statistics? How will it know what data it needs to validate? What tools will it use?
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by taurath 3mo ago
> How much do these models need to do before people throw their hands in the air and say, ok this is happening What is "this"? Most people arguing against some of the more fervent predictions and promises of "inevitability
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by taurath 3mo ago
They say that only after they buy up like half of the IP in the entire gaming industry without a plan and it doesn't end up being a fast enough money printer. Activisions back catalog is the result of hundreds of acquisitions and IP pu
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by taurath 3mo ago
> We will deliver success through a flatter organization that is built around makers (individual contributors focused on building), player-coaches (leaders who remain deeply involved in the work while developing their teams), and directl
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by taurath 3mo ago
> you can always find a plausible sounding excuse why failure is inevitable I think this starts to make an inferred narrative about how failure is inevitable and that its excessive complaining, when there is large amounts of data showing
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by taurath 3mo ago
> Upward mobility still occurs in the US, at all levels. This is not a super relevant statement as it can be made with a single example - the rate of mobility is down relative to when those who'd give the advice experienced (which h
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by taurath 3mo ago
Just start a small business, or build wealth through real estate is a take that indicates some severe divorce from the reality of poverty in America. You need both capital (which folks don’t have access to) and the ability to absorb risk (w
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by taurath 3mo ago
At the same time that they launched a for you recommended feed and set it as the default on the new one. Reddit built its house out of Digg doing stuff like this - it’ll be interesting to see if someone else comes and just provides a servic
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by taurath 3mo ago
Niche communities, or companies as “community”?
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Reddit now experimenting with "For You" default feed for some users(old.reddit.com)
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by taurath 3mo ago
Either you have a perfect memory, or you’ve never been touched or moved sufficiently by a movie or show.
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by taurath 3mo ago
No they won’t the money will go to the local branch of Kroger Walmart McDonalds and Home Depot who will pay their shareholders and all the money will leave
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by taurath 4mo ago
It’s so funny, because they did well for you you’re now incredibly on board for all of society. I tried them and my health got massively worse and I couldn’t eat at all, on a sub minimum dose.
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by taurath 4mo ago
As a counter example, I found myself unable to eat anything at all even with anti nausea meds, and my head utterly in a fog that felt like I was becoming ill.
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by taurath 4mo ago
We used to debate things like the harms to society of gambling, now it’s a silent decree that it’s not only legal but the basis for our economy. The same group who used to preach family values turned out to be the biggest casino pimps and p
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by taurath 4mo ago
They believed and were financially incentivized to embrace the hype and operationalized it because technical leadership thought rapid PoCs would apply to the rest of the tech stack.
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by taurath 4mo ago
Nowhere can build 3 bedroom apartments, except penthouses. It’s not only a national problem, but an international one - almost the entire west can’t build these.
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by taurath 4mo ago
Best way to have social capital is an introduction into a space where money and power exist. Many spaces no matter what you do you will never be able to get in without an intro, and they have extremely few opportunities. Being college buddi
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by taurath 4mo ago
> mechanisms built into the system to prevent people from different classes to meet IME these mechanisms are a natural outflow of how those with money and power delegate power or invest money. I have friends with a private plane. I also
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by taurath 4mo ago
If one is thinking about not getting a degree and trying to go straight to work, as someone who did so (albiet out of poverty rather than choice) but didn't end up like Zuck, please heed my warning: Social capital matters more than jus
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by taurath 4mo ago
This whole forum has a bunch of people who work for a guy who did the sieg heil twice at a political rally and is now a trillionaire, and the rest work for VCs and boards that have gotten rich working with him. Thats just one of them. Remem
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by taurath 4mo ago
Sorry, but context rot is real, and I’d be curious how your code is playing out in the real world. Is it shipping? Is it a known product with stable docs? Is it greenfield? Aspects of coding are faster certainly, but oh gosh can it get very

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