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by timoth3y 7mo ago
I thought about that as well. It's certainly a concern. In the end I decided that the concrete benefits from giving Anthropic access to this kind of data outweigh the potential risks. Granted, they might be banking on me making this e
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Claude helped me find direction in life
7 points by timoth3y 7mo ago|2 comments
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by timoth3y 7mo ago
The saving grace of the SP500 and most similar indexes is that they are cap-weighted. So if SpaceX only, floats 5% only that 5% of their capitalization counts for index calculation. The Nasdaq100 is more complicated. SpaceX's 5% would
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by timoth3y 7mo ago
A Multitudes study recently cited in Scientific American showed exactly this. AI led to not only longer hours overall, but also a shift from development to bug fixing and a 19.6% increase in out-of-hour commits. So longer hours, less intere
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by timoth3y 7mo ago
Every few years a bill is introduced requiring profitable companies to pay additional taxes to cover the cost of the SNAP (food stamp) benefits received by their employers. Lobbying ensures such proposals never gets far, but it seems like a
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AI causing programmers to work longer hours fixing bugs(scientificamerican.com)
9 points by timoth3y 7mo ago|1 comments
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by timoth3y 7mo ago
A Google survey of 5,000 developers finds AI helps developers release more software—while logging longer hours and fixing problems after the code goes live. It seems that LLMs always do the enjoyable work and leave us with the drudgery. It
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by timoth3y 7mo ago
William Shatner is someone I really wish I could dislike. I mean, he is certainly not a conventionally talented singer or actor. He's laughably, painfully bad sometimes. But the man keeps going! He's one of the hardest working peo
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by timoth3y 8mo ago
The article fundamentally misrepresents what AI is doing. It claims that people using AI to create works that violate copyright is equivalent to individual artists painting pictures or people writing fan fiction. But that is not at all what
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by timoth3y 9mo ago
Many of the original Loony Toons and Warner Brothers cartoons fall into this category. The reason they were produced from the 1930s to 50s was to be run in movie theaters before the main picture. Since they would run before different kinds
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by timoth3y 9mo ago
Can you walk me though some of the insights you gained? I've read several of those books, including Kitchen Confidential and Confessions of an Economic Hit Man, and I don't see the connection that the LLM (or you) is trying to dra
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by timoth3y 9mo ago
What meaningful connections did it uncover? You have an interesting idea here, but looking over the LLM output, it's not clear what these "connections" actually mean, or if they mean anything at all. Feeding a dataset into an
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by timoth3y 10mo ago
I think if we are going to ban people under 16 from social media, we should also ban people over 70 from social media. At least as much mental and societal damage is done by elderly falling for bigoted, scammy, manipulative nonsense online
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by timoth3y 10mo ago
I think a lot of this has to do with the explosion of CEO (and by extension CxO) pay over the past 30 years. Today, a CEO can turn in a few quarters of really solid earnings growth, they can earn enough to retire to a life a private jets. B
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by timoth3y 11mo ago
The "us" AI is making rich is not the same "us" as the "us" AI is making unhappy.
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by timoth3y 11mo ago
> "we don't care why or how it works - we want to make the outcome happen". That's the primary difference between science and engineering. In science, understating how it works is critical, and doing something with th
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by timoth3y 11mo ago
> Every US president in history has left office peacefully, the most probable outcome is that future presidents will too. Trump did not leave office peacefully last time. The most probable outcome is that he will not leave office peacefu
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by timoth3y 1y ago
The TV series Columbo was a brilliant inversion of the British deceive story. Naturally, every story started with an upper-class murder, but from the start the audience was shown who the killer was and how the crime was committed. The &quot
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by timoth3y 1y ago
At it's core, it is a systems problem. When emergency powers are granted to the same person that has the power to declare the emergency, those powers are effectively no longer restricted to emergencies. The exception will eventually s
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by timoth3y 1y ago
There is some important nuance needed. Plato was not against writing. In fact, he wrote prolifically. Plato's writings form the basis of Western Philosophy. Plato's teacher Socrates was against writing, and Plato agreed that writi
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by timoth3y 1y ago
> I have come to the belief that corporations are persons not only in law, but are persons also in reality. Their legal personalities are only the recognition of real, underlying, group personalities. The author's (along with "
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by timoth3y 1y ago
> Update Federal procurement guidelines to ensure that the government only contracts with frontier large language model (LLM) developers who ensure that their systems are objective and free from top-down ideological bias If foundation mo
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Trump Targets "Woke" AI(wsj.com)
2 points by timoth3y 1y ago|1 comments
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by timoth3y 1y ago
"The order would dictate that AI companies getting federal contracts be politically neutral and unbiased in their AI models, an effort to combat what administration officials see as liberal bias in some models" We saw where this f
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by timoth3y 1y ago
The same holds true for everything from cave paintings to Roman frescos. It's part of human expression. The tools of that expression shape it. For example, Bach's music was shaped by the fact that the harpsichord had no sustain. T
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by timoth3y 1y ago
Non-competes (including stealth non-competes like the OP mentioned) are being abused by US employers seeking leverage over their employees. In fact, 12% of hourly workers earning $20 or less had to sign non-competes. These workers do not ha
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by timoth3y 1y ago
Marlowe's "The Life and Death of Dr. Faustus" was written 300 years before Goethe's version. In Marlowe's version Faust goes to hell. I always found Goethe's ending to be unsatisfying, and prefer Marlowe's
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by timoth3y 1y ago
There is also a strong signaling effect. For better or worse, which books people are reading (or say they are reading) is often used to determine which "camp" they belong to. People who took the time to read Musk's biography
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by timoth3y 1y ago
This is so frustrating. Energy Star has been a huge success over the past 30 years. It's (now) widely supported by industry, has reduced the TCO to consumers for most household appliances, and results in hundreds of billions of kWh of
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by timoth3y 1y ago
Even though I understand LLMs penchant for hallucination, I tend to trust them more than I should when I am busy and/or dealing with "non-critical" information. I'm wondering if ChatGPT (and similar products) will mimic

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