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by thuuuomas 3y ago
Regardless of what’s “natural”, widespread contamination from industry should reduce or remove the limits to industry’s liability. Externalities are real & must be accounted for.
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by thuuuomas 3y ago
I agree with your concerns. To me, it seems like AI boosters subscribe to the ideology of Infinite Growth Forever & all their claims of “AI creating new types of employment that will provide for displaced workers” rest on that hollow rh
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by thuuuomas 3y ago
> The patience and understanding of an LLM cannot be beaten. Embarrassing. Hope somebody hugs you today.
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by thuuuomas 3y ago
> AGI would give you access to millions of times more resources than you currently enjoy. So I would suggest that you have absolutely nothing to worry about on the income/employment front. Pure theology
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by thuuuomas 3y ago
I love to live within smelling distance of the urban slaughterhouse. I love not knowing what chemicals may be wafting out of tanks buried, forgotten beneath my brownfield luxury condo.
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by thuuuomas 3y ago
Curating training data is an exercise in editorial judgement.
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by thuuuomas 3y ago
Why is this relevant to the performance of a computer program? It makes sense to me that computer programs & humans should continue to be judged by different standards.
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by thuuuomas 3y ago
Every gas station in my area offers a lower cash price.
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by thuuuomas 3y ago
What does disingenuous mean
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by thuuuomas 3y ago
Have you checked out any of the minikanren logic programming environments people have implemented in scheme? The Reasoned Schemer is an accessible introduction to that space if you’re not put off by the socratic-themed dialogue. & the B
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by thuuuomas 3y ago
Wow, that’s insightful. I bet nobody’s ever examined contemporary capitalism thru the lens of the cellphone before!
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by thuuuomas 3y ago
Need someone to write something anthropological about crypto/ai/eacc utopian futurism & our society’s historic levels of stimulant/dissociative use.
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by thuuuomas 3y ago
I consider this an over-correction that serves to benefit the status quo. I’m interested to hear why you think otherwise.
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by thuuuomas 3y ago
Here’s my pithy slogan advocating this - If your safety systems fail, we pierce the corporate veil.
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by thuuuomas 3y ago
This tedious, snarky response is neither clever nor insightful. Like, we get it - you resent your coworkers & consider them beneath you. Hopefully, your unique, elite output keeps you employable for a few quarters longer than them.
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by thuuuomas 3y ago
“This account of misery likely conceals the reasons that the author, in my estimation, would deserve their suffering.”
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by thuuuomas 3y ago
I wonder if that Tesla that exploded at the Canadian border in NY prompted threats of regulatory action.
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by thuuuomas 3y ago
Sounds like a good reason to promote the merits of your own project, instead of the tools you use.
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by thuuuomas 3y ago
LLM codegen should herald the death of the MVP. It’s time to solve problems well.
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by thuuuomas 3y ago
> It doesn't matter what the cook thinks. This is the fantasy of GenAI boosters stated concisely - that these statistical methods present a new objectivity that avoids the shortcomings of human subjectivity. Of course, these web-sc
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by thuuuomas 3y ago
> that labour can be reallocated further up the value chain Not in America - upskilling workers is too expensive. Displaced workers are gonna break rocks in debtor’s prisons & the median voter already thinks they deserve it. AI will
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by thuuuomas 3y ago
It’s poor taste to expect every passing reference to be scoped to your specific minimum of background knowledge.
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by thuuuomas 3y ago
> I was able to curate only 172 rows of data Skill issue - focus more on data integrity & less on HN clout
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by thuuuomas 3y ago
“Grok” is more about in-group signaling like “LaTex credibility” or publishing blog posts on arxiv.
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by thuuuomas 3y ago
Incarceration is dangerous
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by thuuuomas 3y ago
> why didn’t those idiots use this unverifiable data I disapprove of?
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by thuuuomas 3y ago
People in your personal life deserve the assumption of positive intent. Corporations, corporate communications, public figures, etc. are not deserving of the assumption of positive intent.
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by thuuuomas 3y ago
Which calculations? What data? What biases? What goals?
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by thuuuomas 3y ago
You can just say “Worse Is Better”. > …what really advances our use of tools - and what holds us back. It’s money! It’s cost! The cheaper tool wins. “Worse Is Better”
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by thuuuomas 3y ago
“Security thru obscurity” - the TAM of boutique, specialist gear is small enough to deter most profit-motivated copycats. Waiting on the Behringer OP-B tho I guess :)

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