yifanl

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by yifanl 9d ago
It isn't, but the history of profitable software has been repackaging the same data in different UIs.
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by yifanl 11d ago
It's almost as if moral values aren't assigned universally.
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by yifanl 23d ago
What's the difference between the two exactly?
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by yifanl 24d ago
Ads are the hacking of attention. Without attention, ChatGPT cannot exist.
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by yifanl 1mo ago
We're way too far down this current UIUX disaster to pretend "sane defaults" is a nice-to-have.
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by yifanl 1mo ago
You can't, as that removes the main value add of the AI.
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by yifanl 2mo ago
Sublime
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by yifanl 2mo ago
Nintendo would be the big publisher who still largely releases games the same way, but they aren't American.
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by yifanl 2mo ago
They did it on permissively licensed code would be the difference.
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by yifanl 2mo ago
You don't get to decide how you're hated is the point.
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by yifanl 2mo ago
Thank you, I take great pride and effort in compressing as much emotional weight into as short a statement as possible.
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by yifanl 2mo ago
I agree that if things were different, things would be different, but I'm not sure what this adds to the conversation.
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by yifanl 2mo ago
And then what happened?
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by yifanl 2mo ago
> For the most-dominant military power in the world to "whoopsy" run out of weapons because of a low-stakes engagement isn't readily believable. This is a concerning statement, as it implies it'd be impossible for the
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by yifanl 2mo ago
They set off circuit breakers for KOSPI twice in two days.
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by yifanl 2mo ago
We're back to Von Neumann architecture in the worst way possible.
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by yifanl 2mo ago
They have authority over you, therefore all interactions must be taken under that context.
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by yifanl 2mo ago
What running shoes are you buying that last 2-3 years?
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by yifanl 2mo ago
Can I have LLMs replace my GLP-1?
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by yifanl 2mo ago
Only truly exceptional executives can be SBF or Elizabeth Holmes.
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by yifanl 2mo ago
Its true that things change, but it's also true that there will eventually be a day when the last programmer is hired.
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by yifanl 2mo ago
There's actually zero difference between a bottle of water and a river reservoir if you think about it.
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by yifanl 3mo ago
Rule's maybe too strong a word, but knowing that you have all the good ideas and wanting to structure everything to support those good ideas... it's not a bad word for it. Like, it's certainly easy to point out that there a
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by yifanl 3mo ago
This is one of the oldest ideas of civilization, wanting society to be ruled by philosopher kings (who happen to be people just like me!).
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by yifanl 3mo ago
If they gave the engineers appropriate severance packages, then they're at least out that much as a stupidity tax, but that's probably the most we can expect as far as consequences for the exec suite.
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by yifanl 3mo ago
This is good to keep in mind, but we'd need a substantial proliferation of nuclear before we get into a position where over-standardization is a problem.
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by yifanl 3mo ago
I don't doubt there are exceptional people working at BigCo at any role you or I can name, but by definition, it isn't possible that _everyone_ working there is exceptional.
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by yifanl 3mo ago
> Wherever these tens of thousands of qualified ex-Meta, ex-Microsoft engineers willing to work less are, I'm not seeing them. Two possible reasons: 1. People who are truly in-demand still have an easy time of finding jobs without g
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by yifanl 3mo ago
OpenAI is much more eager to jump on board with the administration than Anthropic is, Altman is a lot of things, but he definitely knows which wheels need grease.
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by yifanl 3mo ago
I just ask it to spellcheck the Webster dictionary about 50 times an hour.

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