wholinator2

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by wholinator2 1y ago
Well the difference between those two statements is obvious. One looks and feels, the other processes and analyzes. Most people can process and analyze some things, they're not complete idiots most of the time. But also most people can
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by wholinator2 1y ago
The turing test point is actually very interesting, because it's testing whether you can tell you're talking to a computer or a person. When Chatgpt3 came out we all declared that test utterly destroyed. But now that we've ha
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by wholinator2 1y ago
Yeah, asking llm to edit one specific thing in a large or complex document/ codebase is like those repeated "give me the exact same image" gifs. It's fundamentally a statistical model so the only thing we can be _certain
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by wholinator2 1y ago
I think the key point that would make this delightful is the whitelist. Lord knows the moment its opened up it'll be spammed with the worst things bored teenagers can find.
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by wholinator2 1y ago
Everyone I've spoken to about that phenomena agrees that it happens to them. Whatever we are reading at the time, it reformats our language processing to change writing and, I found, even the way i speak. I suspect that individuals co
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by wholinator2 1y ago
Its funny cause the mood among the young people is that the American government is entirely run by geriatrics for other 50+ people. I'm sure they'd be very happy with better representation, though apparently not enough to get them
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by wholinator2 1y ago
Yes but the GP used poor individual performance as their only positive reason of layoffs not needing justification. So the reply was that individual performance is almost never a factor in actual layoffs, a point which you and I agree with.
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by wholinator2 1y ago
Very interesting idea. You could even take it a step farther and include multiple layers of string mixing. Though i imagine after a certain point the obfuscation to suspicion ratio shifts firmly in the direction of suspicion. I wonder what
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by wholinator2 1y ago
Yeah, people hate that. It just instantly destroyed the immersion and believability of any story. The moment i smell AI every single shred of credibility is completely trashed. Why should i believe a single thing you say? How am i to know i
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by wholinator2 1y ago
Well yes but seems business has decided truth is worth less than money. Or now that i think of it, everything is worth less than money. Even, money is the only thing worth anything. They don't care about people, pride, products, or tru
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by wholinator2 1y ago
Re: 3 - Do we know how many of those chatgpt queries are actually people? Cause i can't think of a use case to automate things with Google searches, but i can think of a million ways to automate bullshit with chatgpt. How much of that
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by wholinator2 1y ago
Maybe I'm reading too far but "heads will roll" has connotations outside the strictly legal sense
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by wholinator2 1y ago
I agree, the llm _vastly_ speeds up the process of "rebuilding the theory" of dead code, even faster than the person who wrote it 3 years ago can. I've had to work on old fortran codebases before and recently had the pleasure
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by wholinator2 1y ago
To be fair, "small convenience" is extremely reductive. The sum of human knowledge and instant communication with anyone anywhere the size of a graham cracker in your pocket is godlike power that anyone at any point in history wou
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by wholinator2 1y ago
See, this is the thing that I, as a non-founder, have trouble understanding. Presumably the product is started by an enthusiast, an enthusiast _for the product_. Is it just hard to maintain that level of enthusiasm over time? Is the sum of
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by wholinator2 2y ago
This is amazing. One of the better dark-naive mashups I've ever seen. It seems to hit 3/4 for me. I Definitely would've laughed
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by wholinator2 2y ago
> It takes effort, just like it did back then. I think this is a sentiment missing from lots of the rose glasses back watching. It took effort to find all these fun things, it still takes effort to find fun things. The only difference is
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by wholinator2 2y ago
Now see I'm curious, would it be better if we had no context on what the comic _is supposed_ to be? Or is this only hilarious in comparison to the typical "i hate mondays, how many pieces of flair", type schtick the original
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by wholinator2 2y ago
This is a very interesting take to me. So you think language should be policed by a self selected cabal of experts? While i might agree for something like specific scientific findings being held tight by a small group of experts, i think la
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by wholinator2 2y ago
I'm confused, are you asking we close our eyes and only operate on internal bias? Where does the world matter if no single metric is relevant? Regardless of number metrics, what do you think matters? I think a family that can no longer
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by wholinator2 2y ago
Dog whistle for what? Please define what it is a dog whistle for. Maybe in that context you'll find the common definition understood by people using it
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by wholinator2 2y ago
I agree the term is vague. But what then would you have us call it? The whole, constitutional crisis, outright flouting of the rule of law, suspension of due process/disappearing of political enemies in the streets type thing that is v
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by wholinator2 2y ago
Hi, I'm just some young guy but i wanted to thank you for contributing to what makes this site great. It feels to me like this is one of the last bastions of the true news aggregator/comment media of old and i really appreciate ev
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by wholinator2 2y ago
I've heard this is a recommended paradigm for mixing, to only ever pan things R, C, L and nothing in between, but it doesn't make sense to me. Possible because i have to mix on headphones, but it sounds much too extreme to me. Sur
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by wholinator2 2y ago
It's likely just a statement of emphasis, though the correct usage would be something like, "now, something something something..." with a comma instead of a period
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by wholinator2 2y ago
Lmao my entire undergraduate physics program is still entirely labview instruments.
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by wholinator2 2y ago
Very true that they're hiding things. I actually wrote some code (that strung together other people's code) to complete a simulation pipeline for non adiabatic molecular dynamics. I was tasked with writing documentation to teach t
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by wholinator2 2y ago
You seem very angry yourself, and willing to let that anger guide you to harming someone. Are you so different from that teacher? In fact, you might be worse, while he only gave a grade (one of many surely, likely to have no long term impac
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by wholinator2 2y ago
That's actually crazy to me. Like, a sealed, generic brand bag from the cold section of a chain grocery store vs a block purchased from the deli and shredded by hand? The difference is massive! Taste will vary between the two anyways b
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by wholinator2 2y ago
And insight. Insight can be gleaned from a comprehensive knowledge of all previous trials and the pattern that emerges. But the big insights can also be simple random attempts people make because they dont know something is impossible. Whil

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