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by topaz0 11mo ago
Lots of commenters replying with 'actually some people want this', or 'actually I want this'. Two points on that. First, OP addresses this by noting that when mozilla asked the community what they wanted, the replies
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by topaz0 11mo ago
So you can get 10x the brain damage in the same amount of time. This is not a great case.
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by topaz0 11mo ago
vim
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by topaz0 11mo ago
I feel it
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by topaz0 11mo ago
Just because they can digest PET does not mean they cannot digest other things. Being able to switch between food sources as they become more or less abundant is a very common adaptation.
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by topaz0 11mo ago
In those cases the correct term is "denialist". Skeptics care about evidence for or against the thing, and there is plenty of evidence in favor of skepticism about AI, unlike about vaccines or evolution.
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by topaz0 11mo ago
Funnily enough, DK is also not real -- just a statistical artifact of a poorly chosen analysis.
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by topaz0 11mo ago
The document editing part of it is collabora, and then it has a bunch of extra things around that.
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by topaz0 11mo ago
If you're interested in the specific thing that other people mean by that word, the original Cory Doctorow essay that coined it is well worth a read: https://pluralistic.net/2023/01/21/potemkin-ai/
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by topaz0 11mo ago
That's also not what "enshittification" was coined to describe.
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by topaz0 11mo ago
Those things can happen, sure, but GP is saying that the term "enshittification" was coined to describe a very specific kind of phenomenon about monopoly internet platforms and their pattern of first building dependency and market
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by topaz0 11mo ago
I think it's disingenuous to characterize these solutions as "LLMs solving problems", given the dependence on a hefty secondary apparatus to choose optimal solutions from the LLM proposals. And an important point here is that
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by topaz0 1y ago
It would be different if I worked in chinese or hindi or something, or worked with other people who do. Also worth noting that even terminals that score badly on this benchmark handle most of the things you mention just fine (e.g. accented
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by topaz0 1y ago
I can't remember the last time I used a non-ascii character in the terminal. I know that's not the case for everyone, and they deserve good terminals too, but it does mean that the criteria measured here have no relevance to my ch
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by topaz0 1y ago
Yes
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by topaz0 1y ago
Agree with other commenters that this seems like a bad idea. Why on earth should the release image contain all of the cruft of development?? Why on earth should it contain historical versions of all that cruft??
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by topaz0 1y ago
The distinctiveness of LLM language comes from overuse of specific words, not because it has a particularly sophisticated vocabulary. Some of the words it overuses may be considered sophisticated by some people, but that's not what mak
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by topaz0 1y ago
Part of it is the guilt-by-association with the other bad writing habits of LLMs, but I think a lot of it is just that LLMs genuinely overuse them, and that homogeneity is grating just like it's grating when you notice a text reuses a
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by topaz0 1y ago
$300M/year is less than $1 per person. This is not why healthcare is expensive.
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by topaz0 1y ago
It's a bit much to blame the user for this when the product is crafted specifically to give the impression of being magical. Not to mention the marketing and media.
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by topaz0 1y ago
The idea of TDD is that you should have the tests before you have the code. If your code is failing in real life before you have the tests, that's no longer TDD.
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by topaz0 1y ago
I strongly agree with this sentiment, and it seems to be vastly underappreciated in the last few years.
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by topaz0 1y ago
Hey I'm not disagreeing that he was in cognitive decline, but the idea that all executive action should be nullified because of that is crank shit.
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by topaz0 1y ago
Not sure what the downvotes are for -- it's trivial to find examples of this contruction from before 2023, or even decades ago. I'm not disagreeing that LLMs overuse this construction (tbh it was already something of a "writi
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by topaz0 1y ago
Yes, this is absolutely part of it, and I think an underappreciated harm of LLMs is the homogeneity. Even to the extent that their writing style is adequate, it is homogeneous in a way that quickly becomes grating when you encounter LLM-gen
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by topaz0 1y ago
100% of LLM output is slop. Done.
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by topaz0 1y ago
Easy -- turn off the computer and have a competent human do the interview
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by topaz0 1y ago
I came here to say this -- it's going to be slop no matter what.
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by topaz0 1y ago
I don't think this is true. The LLMs use this construction noticeably more frequently than normal people, and I too feel the annoyance when they do, but if you look around I think you'll find it's pretty common in many regist

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