PostOnce

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by PostOnce 8mo ago
If it turns out that AI isn't much more productive, it could also turn out that people still believe it is, and therefore don't value software companies. If that happens, some software companies will struggle to find funding and
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by PostOnce 8mo ago
Some of them are, most of them are standard typesetting, which you would think would be all the easier to OCR, due to the uniformity. But because you're curious, there are some fairly famous handwritten books that maintain their handwr
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by PostOnce 8mo ago
Tell that to all the OCR fuckups I see in all the ebooks I read.
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by PostOnce 8mo ago
Economic incentives are only one of the many incentives weighing on the scales. There are others.
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by PostOnce 8mo ago
How did you find a sales coach, how did you determine which was the one for you / any good at their job?
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by PostOnce 8mo ago
One favorable ruling could cause all of that corporate fuckery to come crashing down, but it doesn't seem imminent.
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by PostOnce 8mo ago
at $4 a month he is going to need one hell of a lot of customers and zero churn to even keep the lights on over his ramen bowl.
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by PostOnce 8mo ago
it might even be more profitable to pay once. What are the odds a user stays subscribed to this for >4 years vs paying $199?
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by PostOnce 8mo ago
Differing from your memory and differing from reality aren't the same thing. Nor is it uncommon that "the stepmom doesn't like the estranged kids" Nor is it uncommon that a deadbeat dad is an asshole. Whether or not it&#
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by PostOnce 9mo ago
It's very suspicious that the phrase "a veteran like you" comes up in sequential comments to different users in the same reply chain given that: 1] it's likely the context for a theoretical LLM on HN would be the one com
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by PostOnce 9mo ago
It's not a "witch hunt" per se, in that I'm not out to "get" someone else, it's more like I want to affirm that a human being put some thought into what I'm reading, because otherwise there is no poin
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by PostOnce 9mo ago
Not everything is absolutely black and white, but here is my best effort to convey my take: Two wrongs don't make a right, nor does the second wrongdoer make me more sympathetic to the first. Frankly, none of the oil wealth in Venezuel
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by PostOnce 9mo ago
I am testing a theory. If my theory is true, you will reply to this comment. My theory is that you are not a person using an LLM to edit text, but are automated. If you are not automated, spare the reply. If you are automated, then please d
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by PostOnce 9mo ago
I appreciate your pointing out this is an LLM, I didn't realize until I checked the comment history. The future of the internet looks less bright each day. I also don't have a flag option on the LLM comment or I would flag it.
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by PostOnce 9mo ago
Jobs is probably a good example here, and obviously there aren't many Jobses in the world. As far as I know, he started with nothing really. Bill Gates however was born rich and had powerful, well-connected parents and grandparents. Ob
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by PostOnce 9mo ago
"Might makes right" is an observation, not a profession of moral philosophy... In other words, the mighty will generally get their way, no matter how wrong that way is. As far as the tankers go, they're not transporting Toys
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by PostOnce 9mo ago
Don't get me wrong, I like him, he's a quick wit, it's just not true that he started with nothing, he started with a lot.
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by PostOnce 9mo ago
Yes he did start with a "small loan of a million dollars"! Buffett started with 1.2 million dollars (105K in 1956) in investments from his family, i.e. his aunt, sister, and father in law. It is very nearly impossible to get rich
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by PostOnce 9mo ago
Developers would prefer to write good software, the challenge and the craftsmanship are a draw. However, the customers do not care and will not pay more so the business cannot justify it most of the time. Who will pay twice (or five times)
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by PostOnce 9mo ago
What about "I attempted to guide it and it took 5 times longer and I ended up having to do the entire thing myself anyway"?
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by PostOnce 9mo ago
It sure seems like it. That or delirious, misguided fans who want AI to succeed even though there would be no benefit in it for them if that were the case. They'd just be serfs again. I watched a man struggle for 3 hours last night to
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by PostOnce 9mo ago
If you'll cut one corner to save money, you'll cut another. https://techforce.gov/footer-robot.png This is an example of a cut corner. AI slop with irregular pixels for the face, thumb melted into finger, ipad not
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by PostOnce 9mo ago
If anyone knew the answer to this question, Anthropic would be profitable. Currently they project they might break even in 2028. That means that right now, every time you ask an AI a question, someone loses money. That of course means no-on
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by PostOnce 10mo ago
Lego... incompatibilities? Isn't compatibility a huge part of the draw of Lego? I've never heard of incompatibilities, what are they? The only problem I've noticed product wise is there are now mold defects after they started
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by PostOnce 10mo ago
If you had them side by side, or vividly remember the typography of xkcd specifically, maybe. But most people I think would not notice a comic's handwriting font had changed, as long as it were plausibly handwriting. Perhaps we could t
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by PostOnce 10mo ago
I am a huge AI skeptic, check my comment history. I agree with you. The Nano Banana Pro burrito is almost perfect, the wood grain direction/perspective is the only questionable element. Almost no one would ID that as being AI.
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by PostOnce 10mo ago
But will an illiterate person be able to articulate themselves well enough to get the LLM to do what they want, even with a speech interface? Will they possess the skills (or even the vocabulary) to understand the output? We won't know
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by PostOnce 10mo ago
A question for the not-too-distant future: What use is an LLM in an illiterate society?
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by PostOnce 10mo ago
When someone is not willing to even attempt to do a 30 second task, assumes they can't, asserts they can't, and people chime in to say AI is the only way they can achieve it, it seems worthwhile to point out the consequences. Shou
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by PostOnce 10mo ago
It's better to consider the consequences of possible futures than not to; considering the future makes us human.

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