JustinCS

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AI As Profoundly Abnormal Technology(blog.ai-futures.org)
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by JustinCS 1y ago
I agree, real intelligence may also potentially be explained as all "math and probability", whether it's neurons or atoms. A key difference between our brains and LLMs is that the underlying math behind LLMs is still substant
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by JustinCS 1y ago
That's reasonable, I certainly believe that there are many fake and manipulative people who say what's best for their personal gain, perhaps even the majority. But I still think it's reasonable to imagine that there are some
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by JustinCS 1y ago
I'm not highly concerned but I think there is merit in at least contemplating this problem. I believe that it would be better to reduce suffering in animals, but I am not vegan because the weight of my moral concern for animals does no
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by JustinCS 1y ago
Those are good points and that's why progress is not guaranteed or trivial, just plausible.
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by JustinCS 1y ago
When you put it like that, it makes me wonder if we can just stick to using the self-driving cars in the Bay Area and not go to these bad and dangerous places.
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by JustinCS 1y ago
I agree with this, it reminds me of how most people don't need to write assembly anymore, but it still helps with certain projects to have that understanding of what's going on. So some people do develop that deeper understanding,
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by JustinCS 1y ago
This sounds like an assignment to learn to use LLMs, which as an isolated assignment sounds reasonable. Students should learn how to use tools of all kinds to maximize their effectiveness. It might be a bigger problem if all assignments are
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by JustinCS 1y ago
Even as AI generates more writing and code, we still have a way of ranking quality: Good writing and successful projects tend to get more popular and prominent. This selection can allow LLMs to continue to improve. They get a huge flow of s
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by JustinCS 1y ago
It really depends what I'm building, and I find that these are often additional tasks that are done later after the core functionality is validated. I've most often built apps used internally or to test concepts for early user fee
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by JustinCS 1y ago
I'm saying from the perspective of someone overseeing a frontend dev, that I can just try out the app feature and see if things seem to be working as expected. Though as you mention, it's necessary to check a variety of devices an
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by JustinCS 1y ago
This isn't really true, everyone has a different basal metabolic rate, and effectiveness with absorbing calories from food can vary as well. Even small differences can add up to large effects, the difference between being at net-zero,
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by JustinCS 1y ago
I find that frontend takes most of the dev time for most apps, and I certainly consider it "harder" to get everything working to the quality level I want. However, backend work is usually more critical, as problems can result in d
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by JustinCS 1y ago
Related to taking tiny steps, I've set up a daily habit checklist with the lowest bar possible, even lower than the author's suggested log statement. When it comes to software dev, it's just "open my IDE and look at my n
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by JustinCS 1y ago
This seems like a case of selection bias, where they are looking at all the Gen AI startups and seeing that they are making revenue faster than previous startups. But Gen AI startups have mostly only started very recently, so it's obvi