wvenable

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by wvenable 4mo ago
I understand how the system works. I also know that the free LLMs are dumb as rocks. But they're not all dumb as rocks -- it's a continuum. You're the person who doesn't seem to understand that it's not all or no
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by wvenable 4mo ago
> It is not designed to give you the most accurate answer, it is designed to give you the most likely series of words following your prompt. That's not specifically true either; training is more complex than that. ChatGPT had to be
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by wvenable 4mo ago
> And if you ask an LLM about an effective cure for cancer and it spits out to drink bleach, are you going to follow it? But it's not going to do that. It's literally designed to give the best and most accurate answer that it
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by wvenable 4mo ago
I think you might have reached a nonsensical level of AI contrarianism when it leads you to the statement "doing stuff isn't essential"
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by wvenable 4mo ago
So never learn anything? Be entirely beholden to other people for everything? People who somehow themselves also have complete knowledge? I've done so many things myself now and that has given me the confidence to do even more. If I
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by wvenable 4mo ago
What's your point? I could just not ask an LLM and not do anything. Is that better somehow?
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by wvenable 4mo ago
How can I argue about such a hypothetical?!? If I ask an LLM or my mother-in-law about how to get wine out of the carpet, and I get wine out of the carpet, maybe I have done it wrong and my house will burn down! Who knows?! Your argument
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by wvenable 4mo ago
My point is if you ask your friend/LLM how to build a house and then build a house then you've learned how to build a house. I've build a lot of "houses" recently that I wouldn't have attempted if I didn't
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by wvenable 4mo ago
If I ask my buddy for help, I don't cross reference everything he says either even though he could just as easily be wrong. A lot of what I'm talking about is every day stuff not nuclear physics. LLMs are not even close to that
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by wvenable 4mo ago
You've described school. You get told about things and given a hammer to leverage what you've been told. An LLM absolutely shortens the research part of learning. If I had a human of who had a moderate level of skill who would e
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by wvenable 4mo ago
If you read the article you'll notice that it's all opinion. The main quote about research is "There is disappointingly little peer-reviewed research on the effects earphones have on our daily lives and interactions."
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by wvenable 4mo ago
The key word there is appear . How do you know? You're making a lot of assumptions about people and why do things and whether or not it's healthy. You see dozens and dozens people with earphones on at exactly the time when mos
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by wvenable 4mo ago
Suggesting you can just practice your way out of biological sensory issues is also grossly insensitive; that's why I made that comparison. Stating that using this kind of technology is "unhealthy" both for a person and societ
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by wvenable 4mo ago
With or without headphones, people aren't just chatting around on the subway all the time. I love my headphones and I also chat with my neighbours. This is just the same argument that has been repeated since the dawn of the walkman. 5
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by wvenable 4mo ago
My son, for example, has sensory issues and cannot tune out anything. The "you have to practice it" is like telling a paraplegic that if they just exercise more they'd be able to walk. People are different and have differ
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by wvenable 4mo ago
> I can sleep, eat, shower, and meditate just as well in the middle of a deadly riot ... as I can in a forest or a dead silent bed room. You should realize that there are people who can't do that.
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by wvenable 4mo ago
> GMail and Google Maps were revolutionary when they came out, sure, but the vast majority of Google's products now are... fine? at best? Is that... good? I mean take maps -- what more can possibly be done to that product that woul
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by wvenable 4mo ago
Played Half-Life Alyx this way entirely on a Quest 2, and I have gotten sick in VR, but I had no problem with it. The technology has actually gotten better since I last spent a significant amount of time with it.
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by wvenable 4mo ago
> You can't move the compute away in a headset. Meta has shown pretty convincingly that you can literally stream VR apps/games over Wifi from a PC to a headset and have a great experience. You will need some compute on the d
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by wvenable 4mo ago
Since it's tethered anyway for the battery, I think Apple made a mistake just not building it as a (smart) monitor tethered to a separate PC. Imagine if the vision pro could just be plugged into a small compute module with a battery or
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by wvenable 4mo ago
"The reasonable man adapts himself to POSIX: the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the POSIX to himself. Therefore all progress depends on the unreasonable man." ― George Bernard Shaw, probably.
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by wvenable 4mo ago
Although some people due want to literally take from the rich and give to the poor, the actual problem with wealth inequality is that game is rigged. Capitalism not natural order; it has rules and winners and losers. It's actually mor
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by wvenable 4mo ago
When I rent an apartment, I'm obviously receiving something of value in return. The question is where the landlord's increasing profit comes from. If they make more profit from building new housing, maintaining it, improving it,
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by wvenable 4mo ago
Let me more specific. I am talking about wealth that is generated by capturing value from existing assets, transactions, and people rather than by producing new goods, services, or productivity gains. Examples are rent-seeking (making mone
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by wvenable 4mo ago
All of us. Fees, commercial and residential rents, products that cost the same but are smaller. None of this generating new wealth.
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by wvenable 4mo ago
Do they really? The poor have castles and servants and hardly work? No, the real poor work 60 hours a week and live out of their cars. My children, who are not poor, with good jobs still can't afford their own home -- where is their
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by wvenable 4mo ago
If so much wealth is being created , why is everyone so poor?
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by wvenable 4mo ago
> How does creating wealth hurt others? Creating wealth doesn't. Extracting wealth does. We have long switched from a creating economy to an extracting economy.
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by wvenable 4mo ago
This isn't an article about creating or even using attributes; it's a fairly low-level deep dive into how they're implemented. It's definitely nothing I've ever had to think about when using attributes but I can app
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by wvenable 4mo ago
> Windows is also a rare bird in UTF-16. Web browsers use UTF-16 internally. So Windows isn't even largest "platform" that uses UTF-16.

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