xvector

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by xvector 10mo ago
Two users sharing the same residential IP address
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by xvector 10mo ago
compensation for previous products just hasn't been the norm, and if it becomes the norm, countless humans will suffer due to the slowing of progress. we will never be able to automate anything because the risk:reward ratio simply won&
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by xvector 10mo ago
One thing I've noticed - artists view their own job as more valuable, more sacred, more important than virtually any other person's job. They canonize themselves, and then act all shocked and offended when the rest of the world do
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by xvector 10mo ago
They are solving for privacy before solving for the UX. They should actually make something useful first, and then work backwards to making it private before releasing it.
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by xvector 11mo ago
If this is true, the case then becomes "Meta was a monopoly from start_date-tiktok_date" which isn't a very meaningful claim since they are not arguing it is a monopoly to be broken up. Anyways, I disagree - this is not the
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by xvector 11mo ago
Correct, yeah.
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by xvector 11mo ago
Wasn't the case here really weak to begin with? I remember reading the FTC's initial filings and they just sounded absurd. The very premise that Meta didn't face meaningful competition from TikTok was a farce. I'm not ve
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by xvector 11mo ago
Big players don't want this either, we rely on open source software and frequently contribute back This is just another dumb EU reg that hurts everyone
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by xvector 11mo ago
Let's turn that around. What personal data wouldn't help train an AI model?
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by xvector 11mo ago
Where can I read more about this? Quick search turns up nothing for me
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by xvector 11mo ago
They also have plenty of domestic and foreign intelligence agents literally working with sensitive systems at the company.
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by xvector 11mo ago
Total non-issue. Parenting has never been about what the child wants, only what is best for them.
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by xvector 11mo ago
I think it is fairly shortsighted to think that modern society is approaching "steady state" when we are on the "stick" part of the hockey stick curve of progress. There are plenty of risks to take today (with things lik
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by xvector 11mo ago
> I would assume you don’t want to take the risk when it’s comes to your own life/offspring or am I wrong? I would, but that's mainly because of congenital psychosis that runs in my partner's family. Would gladly take the
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by xvector 11mo ago
> But in this case i feel the wider harm to society outweighs the potential good to the individual. This is where you have it wrong. The risk is not to society, it is to the individual. One family can take on immense risk to discover som
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by xvector 11mo ago
We have become too risk averse as a species to make any real progress on this front. Our ancestors would make the most daring bets in pursuit of a better for their children. Hunter-gatherers setting off in an unknown direction in search for
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by xvector 11mo ago
The same can be said of things like mRNA vaccines, but they have done good for society. You're also just wrong - the first scientist to genetically edit human embryos edited in immunity to AIDS.
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by xvector 11mo ago
> People aren’t allowed to mutilate babies what the hell are you going on about? Circumcision is absolutely mutilation. > Genetic tampering can lead to all kinds of unknowable nightmares. You can "tamper with your kid's DNA&
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by xvector 11mo ago
They shouldn't be banned, but regulators would regulate their own shadow if they could. People are allowed to mutilate their babies, raise them in whatever destructive fashion they please, avoid vaccinating them in an environment where
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by xvector 11mo ago
You can't simultaneously expect people to learn from AI when it's right, and magically recognize when it's wrong.
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by xvector 11mo ago
No, it's because that's not how training an LLM works.
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by xvector 1y ago
Yup, that is precisely what I did and what I'm encouraging others to do as well. Edit: On-call is not always disclosed. When it is, it's often understated. And finally, you can never predict being re-orged into a team with oncall.
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by xvector 1y ago
And these companies often say "it's baked into your comp!" But you can typically get the same exact comp working an adjacent role with no oncall.
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by xvector 1y ago
No one dies if our users can't shitpost until tomorrow morning. I'm glad there are people willing to do oncall. Especially for critical services. But the software engineering profession as a whole would benefit from negotiating co
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by xvector 1y ago
After some thankless years preventing outages for a big tech company, I will never take an oncall position again in my life. Most miserable working years I have had. It's wild how normalized working on weekends and evenings becomes in
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by xvector 1y ago
I got an Eames chair recently and would be devastated if my phone damaged it!
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by xvector 1y ago
People can be as hostile to the US as they want, it's all noise until they develop comparable capabilities.
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by xvector 1y ago
Most r/all subreddits - news, politics, etc - have a fairly extreme political bias. They ban/remove anyone right of center. This creates an echo chamber that you probably don't want to base an LLM on. Also, Reddit is mostly t
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by xvector 1y ago
I am not the one being unoriginal here. You are thinking that AI will obsolete critical thinking, so there's no point developing with it. However, in your moral crusade against using AI you are missing the big picture. No one is making
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by xvector 1y ago
There are plenty of ways to manage those drawbacks, and a mind-boggling number of use cases where it's "good enough" already. But it's not my job to convince you, my lived experience working with the tech is enough to co

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