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by thoughtpeddler 9d ago
OK, I have to say, that was extremely fast and you are giving this v1 some good effort. Thank you!
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by thoughtpeddler 9d ago
Wait, why can't you search by tool instead? It's just people-first? Cool idea but try harder for your v1!
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by thoughtpeddler 9d ago
The chessbot analogy is compelling but it does smuggle in assumptions about its generalizability. I'm partial to how so far the history of AI progress has shown that digital neural networks are capable of generalizing more and more, wh
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by thoughtpeddler 9d ago
Whenever I raise these same concerns of skill atrophy and de-centering of humans from critical functions to friends in the tech industry (that I also work in), I'm almost always met with some version of: > "But how is this any
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by thoughtpeddler 9d ago
One could argue that corporations as "slow AI" (per the Charles Stross interpretation, where these organizations are the original 'paper clip maximizers' that optimize a given objective reward function) have already been
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by thoughtpeddler 15d ago
Reminds me of what happened once most people and households transitioned to individually-carried cellphones as opposed to the 'house phone' (i.e. landline). You used to have to call 'the house' before you got routed to s
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by thoughtpeddler 19d ago
Great piece. Fully agreed. We must actively fight to ensure we remain empowered and centered within this experience.
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"Intelligence curse" means promise of abundance and UBI unlikely to be fulfilled(intelligence-curse.ai)
7 points by thoughtpeddler 19d ago|0 comments
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by thoughtpeddler 22d ago
Reminds me of this post from earlier in the year (from a VC, Michael Dempsey) titled "VC-Backed Startups are Low Status"[0], which I'm inclined to agree with, having been in the industry for over 15 years now and witnessing h
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by thoughtpeddler 24d ago
For all the people here alleging that AI companies will train on your data even when you as a user explicitly opt out of training and their terms say they will respect that, etc - do you also believe that within a few years of them having h
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Why Software Developers Are Highly Unrepresentative of Broader AI Use(paulkedrosky.com)
3 points by thoughtpeddler 24d ago|0 comments
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ChatGPT Subsidy Chart reveals $3k monthly spend nets $62k API-equivalent value(aicharts.io)
1 points by thoughtpeddler 24d ago|0 comments
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My girlfriend asked me why I have 15 Codex subscriptions(hraness.com)
2 points by thoughtpeddler 24d ago|1 comments
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by thoughtpeddler 24d ago
Newport does tend to be more level-headed, but honestly, the people that have gotten AI 'right' so far (in the true technical sense of how scaling laws held, etc) had their strong convictions set back in the mid-2010s, when Newpor
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by thoughtpeddler 24d ago
Doesn't it say something about our society that (a) it's known (at least among smart people, however 'smart' is defined) that AI is going to take away jobs, and (b) the way its treated is that people gather to online d
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Smuggled Infinities (2023)(adventurecapital.substack.com)
1 points by thoughtpeddler 25d ago|1 comments
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Anthropic's Claude for Mac desktop app now has built-in browser(thenewstack.io)
5 points by thoughtpeddler 28d ago|0 comments
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by thoughtpeddler 28d ago
Not sure the larger point you're trying to make (maybe we're on the same page?), but it's a fact that AI has come from heavy long-term investments by the academic and public sectors, yet private companies are accruing most of
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by thoughtpeddler 28d ago
From my hazy recollection from law school, the US appeals courts are called "circuits" because back in the day, they weren't actual buildings but rather judges that would go around town-to-town within their jurisdiction in a
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by thoughtpeddler 29d ago
Spend a lot of time thinking about why individuals shouldn't trust large AI cos, now it's interesting getting to think about how the AI companies themselves don't trust each other. Capitalism is viciously cold and uncaring.
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A deep dive into Grok Bot(flaviocopes.com)
2 points by thoughtpeddler 29d ago|0 comments
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by thoughtpeddler 1mo ago
Agree with rewriting with Gemini, but I'd characterize its output as very "neutral" and "encyclopedic", rather than "human" (contra Claude which is as of recent models "trying-too-hard-to-be-human&quo
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by thoughtpeddler 1mo ago
I had a student in my class propose an "AI for emergency response" that leveraged local models. Not a far stretch from what we see here with CoMaps, plus a small Gemma or similar low-parameter model running on-device to help with
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by thoughtpeddler 1mo ago
The meta on this post is that the minimalist blog design by iamwillwang.com is itself really cool. Great work!
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by thoughtpeddler 1mo ago
What if it was stood up by a swarm of AIs themselves?
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by thoughtpeddler 1mo ago
My experience as a practitioner and educator in the space lead me to think it might be an issue of how AI cannot be easily perceived at a 'classical level' by most humans. In other words, people are 'far from the metal'
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by thoughtpeddler 1mo ago
What do you recommend people who are technically inclined enough to participate meaningfully here on HN, but do not work at the labs and cannot assist in that capacity, do to help the broader public understand this technology better and mit
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by thoughtpeddler 1mo ago
GutHub, a SaaS for tracking your gut microbiome
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by thoughtpeddler 1mo ago
These discussions always gloss over the reliability of delivery (i.e. is your email making it to the intended inbox or getting squashed into spam, or even shot down before making it to the recipient), especially when custom domains are used
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I don't want to work in a factory(jaspercroo.me)
3 points by thoughtpeddler 1mo ago|1 comments

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