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by wisty 3mo ago
And the US also pays a TON of tax dollars to a broken, overregulated system. IIRC if you look at the cost of Medicaide, Medicare, VA, and other federal and state spending it's the same as most other countries per capita or as a percent
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by wisty 3mo ago
I'm just waiting for Bezos to order all work with human agents to use the same API and guardrails as an LLM.
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by wisty 3mo ago
Individual gains from llm seem much larger than net productivity increases. I think a major source of this discrepency is people creating more work for their coworkers at the speed of slop. Especially the people with no idea. "I did a
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by wisty 3mo ago
I think they mean the use of UE5 in movies.
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by wisty 3mo ago
Selling get rich quick schemes, workout plans, etc?
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by wisty 3mo ago
As an Australian it's hilarious to hear that. We have less than 10% the density of the USA. And yeah, we blame everything on density too, even though 90% of the country is a desert with noone in it (so no need to lay cable or build roa
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by wisty 3mo ago
Partial agree ... I suspect: If you know what you are doing it is a power tool. If you don't know what you are doing it's also a power tool - if you measure a lot of devs then the bad ones (or anyone having a bad day, or the wron
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by wisty 4mo ago
I'm not paying for a super computer to do my taxes if a cheap pc can do it for free. So yeah, commercially it might be a death knell. Yes there's still a market for super computers, but would your rather own Apple or Cray?
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by wisty 4mo ago
You don't need to work at google to have common sense. An employee who does no real damage isn't getting canned unless they made someone look bad. Maybe he did some damage? Did it create a security issue, e.g. if someone handed it
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by wisty 4mo ago
Partly the jank is just a cost thing. Even major studios struggle with branching and merging stateful quest lines in game. I guess From picked a system that is cheap, robust, but kind of annoying for players, who forgive it because they oth
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by wisty 4mo ago
It's hard and expensive to do branching games. Most games just fake it with a "branch and merge" system (save Carley or Doug, but the one you save is still going to leave the party forever in 20 minutes). Fromsoft wants to do
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by wisty 4mo ago
If you only have morals when it's at no cost to yourself, do you have morals?
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by wisty 4mo ago
IMO the WORST thing you can use chat for is advice in a field you are unfamiliar with. It's way better at search and grunt work when you already know what you want. All IMO: Syncophancy (and in extreme cases AI psychosis) is a huge pro
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by wisty 4mo ago
Why try to disrupt software though? Isn't this the classic "dev wants to do start-up, has no skills ouside dev, do builds a dev tool" trap?
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by wisty 4mo ago
Banning all technology because someone might misuse it is an illogical extreme. As far as I can tell the ruling is more nuanced. If AI is defaming you, there needs to be a way to correct the record. A company being open to liability does no
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by wisty 4mo ago
You can draw a line somewhere. Peole argue against conciousness by constructing (deliberately or not) an example where the line is drawn in a silly place.
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by wisty 4mo ago
While "psychosis" is kind of an overextension, I think there's a more general problem of peole falling victim to AI syncopancy, leading to them creating their own bubble chamber for their worst (and often most self destructiv
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by wisty 4mo ago
Seems like you think AI psychosis has taken over Substack? For anyone wondering what the answer is: You can argue whatever you want (and people will argue both sides), but it's almost all bullshit that dances around the big question. E
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by wisty 4mo ago
AFAIK every argument against conciousness being emergent is just a weak "God of the gaps" argument (since we don't fully understand it all) or a nonsense analogy like the Chinsese room where if you seperate the hardware and s
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by wisty 4mo ago
Most people are fine with slavery as long as it's not "one of us" (which to most people means humans). Vegans might object that we should broaden our definition for what counts as "one of us". "Pro life" p
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by wisty 5mo ago
You're too optimistic on the skills of teachers and school admin. Let's ignore good teachers and principals, they aren't an issue. Bad teachers and admin will do what bad students do when facing a high stakes test - forget th
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by wisty 5mo ago
Kind of. Everyone needs to draw a line. Call it an "explore vs exploit" problem, if you want. Sure, you want to fail a bit so you know where the line is, or to push it forwards a bit. But there is, at least in principal, always a
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by wisty 5mo ago
No one here wants to say it, so I will. A lot of people are relatively stupid. If you're not that smart, then it's not worth learning how to do something. Learning is harder and even if you learn about a topic, you can't make
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by wisty 5mo ago
Counter argument - even stone age Chat GPT 3 was great at making reasonably convincing sounding arguments and newer models are great at aligning those arguments to souces (laws or cases). Chat is IMO better at ambiguous nonsense than object
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by wisty 5mo ago
Turning up to a potluck with no food says "I don't care". Turning up to a potluck with a bag of garbage you got for free in the dumpster on the way says "I don't care, and I'm so dumb I think you're too d
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by wisty 5mo ago
Or it's just shares in companies (productive or otherwise). People get mad over how much Bezos has, but if it's all Amazon shares who cares? It's spending, not saving that consumes scarce resources. Get mad about his jet, sur
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by wisty 5mo ago
> would you be ok going to prison as an innocent person, as a known, understood, and societally-accepted side-effect of a safer society? Yes, more so than if it was someone else.
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by wisty 5mo ago
IIRC the US has a bizzare system where you get a loan for bail from a private loan shark, so you pay a (not refunded) bond to the loan shark who pays the bail, then the loan shark (sorry, bail lender) eats the loss (or hires bounty hunters
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by wisty 5mo ago
This was on the tail of sectarian conflicts (e.g. Cromwell) in the UK, and people fleeing them to the US. You're right than I'm oversimplifying it, and being very US centric.
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by wisty 5mo ago
In the US, it's seen as a God-given truth that no innocent person should ever be punished. Partly because it was founded (in part) by oppressed minorities fleeing states where the were constantly harassed by authorities. (Irony - the U

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