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by whatnow37373 2y ago
How is this not "sanitizing inputs"? The basic idea behind your proposal exists and is called prepared statements. It's actually, I hope, the normal way to write queries these days. You write your query like: "SELECT * F
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by whatnow37373 2y ago
I don’t see how the benefits of kerning, if any, outweigh the enormous costs.
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by whatnow37373 2y ago
Humans tend to have pyramidal power structures, because of [reasons]. I don't see how this relates to the topic? > It’s not even the same person every time, people trade off being that key person. So it's the role that delive
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by whatnow37373 2y ago
Being 10x as productive then has more to do with your position than your skills. The Roman emperor could make or break entire regions by vaguely wagging a few fingers. If and when he made a good decision - which could often easily be attrib
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by whatnow37373 2y ago
I claim that being able to work alone or in a small high-performance team is a _luxery_. It's comparatively easy to be performant in those circumstances. The realities of business are what we are usually fighting. The "complacen
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by whatnow37373 2y ago
TBF people like Eliezer warn about the general threat of AI, not LLMs. Not just isolated AI systems either, but the societal forces that lead to it. Strong AI is the result of a civilization developing it and being dependent on (sub-compo
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by whatnow37373 2y ago
> causality and entropy are not man made Given that we fundamentally depend on our own, very human, sensory and cognitive apparatus to make any kind of judgement I have a hard time imagining a proof or even a convincing argument of this
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by whatnow37373 2y ago
This doesn't track (my) reality and I want to signal to others that this type of development is perfectly viable. I have a normal job using go + angular/react, lots of databases (postgres) and lots of bare-metal OS shenanigans. I
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by whatnow37373 2y ago
Use AI to interview students. A conversation is more informative than a static written essay. With LLMs this is now starting to become a possibility. Turn the tables!