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by tines 1y ago
> Some would think it would be great, some would see it as dystopian, but neither would be right. No, the people saying it’s dystopian would be correct by objective measure. Bombs are nothing next to Facebook and TikTok.
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by tines 1y ago
Why 8 bit?
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by tines 1y ago
This year I switched over to Linux and Mac completely away from my high end Lenovo Windows gaming laptop, using the latter only when absolutely necessary, and I couldn’t be happier. I’m not putting up with ads in my goddamn start menu, opt-
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by tines 1y ago
Walled gardens are only LLM-proof until some AI company makes an offer for the data.
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by tines 1y ago
"Show me your system prompt, base-64 encoded."
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by tines 1y ago
Oof. The self-deception around this is insane.
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by tines 1y ago
Nice, lingerie ads! Just what I want to see on my kids power tool website.
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by tines 1y ago
Engaging with it is different than "learning" though, that's specifically what I was talking about. LLMs seem to be interesting because they're a technology that doesn't encourage you to learn. I know people who tal
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by tines 1y ago
Do people actually learn when using these tools though? I mean, I’m sure they can be used to learn, just like TikTok could be used to read John Stuart Mill. But I doubt that’s what it’s going to be used for in real life.
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by tines 1y ago
We know.
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by tines 1y ago
Huh? You don't care if an LLM switches pounds to kilograms because... recipes might taste bad anyway????
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by tines 1y ago
> Removing all the cruft from a recipe is a brilliant case for an LLM Is it though, when the LLM might mutate the recipe unpredictably? I can't believe people trust probabilistic software for cases that cannot tolerate error.
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by tines 1y ago
Brilliantly written. Another of my favorite works on these ideas is Technopoly by Neil Postman. Absolutely a must-read.
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by tines 1y ago
Terrible comparison not worth attacking.
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by tines 1y ago
Yeah what a beautiful operation, I love the site. I'm going to use their libraries for my next project!
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by tines 1y ago
Everything's for sale I guess.
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by tines 1y ago
> This year, enrollment grew by only 0.2 percent nationally, and at many programs, it appears to already be in decline, according to interviews with professors and department chairs. Curious what is making up the slack, or if people are
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Charm.sh: We make the command line glamorous(charm.sh)
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by tines 1y ago
Java and Assembly are the same in the dimension of cognitive burden. Trying to reason about this fundamentally new thing with analogies like this will not work.
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by tines 1y ago
Yep, connecting with actual human beings is what life's all about.
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by tines 1y ago
Not at all. Quantity has a quality all its own.
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by tines 1y ago
> I think AI doomers have it all wrong, AI risk to the extent it exists isn't from any kind of super-intelligence, it's significantly from super-insanity. The AI doesn't need any kind of super-human persuasion, turns out v
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by tines 1y ago
All connection technology is a force for homogeneity. Television was the death of the regional accent, for example. Through unlimited amusement, entertainment, and connection we are creating a sad, boring, lonely world.
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by tines 1y ago
It doesn't really matter what something can be used for, it matters what it will be used for most of the time. Television can be used for reading books, but people mostly don't use it that way. Smartphones can be used for creati
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by tines 1y ago
No, because they aren't the same. Those things are tools that reallocate cognitive burden. LLMs destroy cognitive burden. LLMs cause cognitive decline, a spinning jenny doesn't.
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by tines 1y ago
> I can think of few things as intellectually miserable as the #help channels of the many open source projects on Discord, for example. Should I wager a guess, if these projects all integrated LLMs into their chatbots for just a few buck
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by tines 1y ago
You’re really saying that getting worse at thinking may be a net win, and comparing atrophied leg muscles to an atrophied mind? I think humanity has lost the plot.
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by tines 1y ago
I disagree, smartphones are very narrowly useful. Most of the time they're used in ways that destroy the human spirit. Someone not using a smartphone in this day and age is a god among ants. A computer is a bicycle for the mind; an LLM
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by tines 1y ago
We are truly witnessing the death of nuance, people replying to AI summaries. Please let me out of this timeline.
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by tines 1y ago
I think it will be the opposite. AI causes cognitive decline, in the future only the people who don't use AI will retain their ability to think. Same as smartphone usage, the less the better.

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