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by tivert 2y ago
> The core issue is that the system is just not good at catching outliers, and the only conceivable way to do so would be incredibly wasteful and expensive. But in this case, I don't think it would be "incredibly wasteful and e
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by tivert 2y ago
> The irony is that Musk was a folk hero in many corners of the internet because he was viewed as a visionary. And rightly so, because Tesla revolutionized electric vehicles and especially the charging infrastructure, and SpaceX is revol
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by tivert 2y ago
> I suspect some men use AI to generate conversation dialog or bios in dating apps, as if online dating wasn’t bad enough as is. I believe Bumble is trying to sell the idea that the future of online dating is your chatbot talking to thei
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by tivert 2y ago
> I can relate , My retired Dad discovered GPT and has been using it to post pages-long updates about his retirement trip. Like, how does that even work? For it to be anything more than total bullshit, he'd have to type up all the d
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by tivert 2y ago
It should feel good, because getting an AI emails from a friend is the utopia silicon valley software engineers have promised. You should be happy to be part of their journey of increasing productivity.
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by tivert 2y ago
> It was glorified user research. It doesn't sound like it was just that: > The Safety Advisory Council's members include Dr. Sameer Hinduja, co-director of the Cyber Bullying Research Center, and Dr. T.L. Taylor, the co-fou
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by tivert 2y ago
> Ergo I think the large shift will not be from jobs to no-jobs, but from jobs to entertainment-based jobs. And that, in and of itself, is dystopian. Furthermore, there's far more inequality in "entertainment-based jobs" t
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by tivert 2y ago
> If you look at the current public models, you are correct. They're not looking at the current public models. > Look at what people say on this very site — complaining that models have been "lobotomised" (I dislike thi
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by tivert 2y ago
> I never understood the newspaper format. Seems like a paperback would be a better format though I guess that would be a magazine. Define "better." Newspapers don't need staples, and (at least historically) they could be
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by tivert 2y ago
> I do see though how AI is a huge threat to them. Using Claude 3 for coding and being able to ask questions about my specific issues and getting tailored responses every time to my exact issue (vs watching a general video and applying t
911.
by tivert 2y ago
> We are No Azure for Apartheid, a group of technology workers within Microsoft and its subsidiaries... I wonder how long until they're identified and fired.
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by tivert 2y ago
> they still have a huge leverage to literally force Mozilla to keep Firefox behind. I wonder if that was part of the reason Mozilla chose to lay off the entire R&D team that was working on their next-generation browser engine that
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by tivert 2y ago
> And she was often right when the cases involved something to do with Catholic theology, but I'm not sure that counts because in those cases, Mulder was the skeptic and she was the believer (as Mulder is agnostic and Scully a devou
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by tivert 2y ago
> Here's to surviving in the face of a near century long ethnic cleansing and apartheid. Century long ethnic cleansing and apartheid, indeed. Where are the Jews in Syria? Egypt?
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by tivert 2y ago
https://www.reddit.com/r/fatFIRE/comments/tp2ds9/rfatfire_fr... : > FatFIRE is Financial Independence / Retire Early at an overabundant or luxurious level. Unlike FIRE (and leanFIRE in particular)
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by tivert 2y ago
That makes sense, thanks! Though I'm surprised they kept the wood beams. They would look cool on their own, but they look stupid right next to the I-beams.
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by tivert 2y ago
> In Spanish, we have a saying: "Perfect is the enemy of good." It's a saying in English too, frequently formulated as advice: "don't let the perfect be the enemy of the good." > Here, the preference is t
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by tivert 2y ago
> Nobody does that? People get rid of old HW mostly because new SW is bloaty and slow so it's cheaper to upgrade your HW than to wait or hope in vain for the SW devs to finally optimize their shit. Software developers usually get or
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by tivert 2y ago
> The desktop and its applications were snappy even in a virtual machine configured with only 2GB of RAM and two vCPUs. It's a sad state of affairs that not all desktops can say that.
920.
by tivert 2y ago
Blaming the voters is basically denialism. It doesn't accomplish anything and it typically works to prevent the problems from actually being solved. However, I think what we might be seeing here are the contradictions of liberalism com
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by tivert 2y ago
> Paul Christiano, Dario Amodei, and Geoffrey Irving write equations on a whiteboard at OpenAI, the artificial intelligence lab founded by Elon Musk, in San Francisco, July 10, 2017. Can someone explain the architecture in that photo? It
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by tivert 2y ago
> For me, "universal" is pronounced with a j sound, not a y sound... Is your mother tongue non-English? If so, what language are you talking about? I'm monolingual, but I think German pronounces a J as a English Y.
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by tivert 2y ago
> We were hearing a little while back that it had become exceedingly difficult to concoct diplomatic cover for intelligence agents, in a world full of socials. > Does the availability of AI mean that (as long as you own, or at least c
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by tivert 2y ago
No, it's not a simple binary like that. PIPs aren't about ability, they're about performance (as in "doing the thing"). For instance, someone who can meet the PIP requirements can still choose not to meet them y
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by tivert 2y ago
> was a lot of words about nothing It's worth remembering that just because you can't make sense of something, it doesn't mean there isn't sense to be had. Software engineers seem particularly prone to forget about t
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by tivert 2y ago
Oh good. I was worried our future AGI tyrants, that are software engineer overlords are mindlessly racing to create, wouldn't be able to exploit us like in the Matrix. Now I can rest easy.
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by tivert 2y ago
> They can and will tell future employers that you suck and aren’t eligible for rehire though. I believe that's increasingly uncommon, I believe due to legal risk. I think it's usually the case that HR will only verify the bare
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by tivert 2y ago
> The comments here and on Twitter are really weird. I don't like the guy either but surely anyone has to agree that there's a difference between being told, "We don't want you on as CEO anymore", and being told
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by tivert 2y ago
> If I were going to work for someone I would prefer to work for a person who is so beloved by his employees that they’d rather quit than not work for him, absolutely. I think it's a stretch to assume he was "beloved by his emp
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by tivert 2y ago
> ...now the conservatives can use emergency powers to deal with protests too. The cat's out of the bag, and people with left-leaning politics who were okay with the powers being applied to the trucker protest, I'm sure we&#x27

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