Silamoth

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by Silamoth 1mo ago
Yes, just file a ticket and let the people with relevant expertise and context handle it - obviously. Do software engineers ask Claude for recommendations on handling network outages and bug IT with “AI” slop? Do accountants bring “AI” slop
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by Silamoth 2mo ago
Interesting. I feel the same way about Medium - it’s mostly a bunch of undergrads and tech bootcamp students regurgitating basic tutorials. But in my experience, Substack is much higher quality. I actually read several Substack blogs regula
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by Silamoth 2mo ago
If a lot of people make the same claim, then from their perspective, you’re the one with a “wildly different” experience. What makes you so certain your experience generalizes to “most people’s experiences”?
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by Silamoth 2mo ago
You don’t “need” any LLMs to do software development. Plenty of us were productively writing code for years before these models were released, and many of us continue to do so. The “AI” companies want to sell you hype. But you don’t “need”
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by Silamoth 2mo ago
In what world is rent lower than mortgage? Part of the reason my fiancé and I bought a house is because it was cheaper than renting. Not just long-term, but our monthly payment is actually noticeably lower. Of course, we did need to pay a d
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by Silamoth 3mo ago
Funny enough, I see it the exact opposite. LLM slop code degrades software quality. While one person may appear to move quickly, the software quality suffers dramatically. It takes them (or other team members) more time to fix the issues th
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by Silamoth 3mo ago
Not the person you were responding to, but genuine question: How are you interacting with computers without practically ever using a mouse? And how do you expect to use CAD software without a mouse?
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by Silamoth 3mo ago
Do they? And if so, by choice? I don’t like “AI”, and I don’t use it. I read lots of stories where people are forced to use it at work but don’t use it otherwise. Do you know of people who don’t think “AI” will have a positive impact on soc
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by Silamoth 3mo ago
That’s a pretty naive model of how laws get passed in the US. A lot of laws would be different if your model held true.
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by Silamoth 3mo ago
Regardless of American vs. British spellings, those are not the same sound. Some British people may pronounce them the same. Americans definitely pronounce them differently, though. For instance, the word “water” has a hard “r” sound at the
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by Silamoth 3mo ago
This should be entirely non-controversial. Listening is much more passive. You can zone out more easily without re-reading. You don’t have to work your brain to figure out pacing or anything like that. I think the only people who claim audi
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by Silamoth 3mo ago
I had a similar experience in my undergrad software engineering course. One group literally took a JS facial recognition library and wrapped a halfway decent UI around it. That’s it, that was their entire project. But the grad student teach
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by Silamoth 3mo ago
Hackathons are about making and finishing something. That’s the whole premise: Instead of spending months working on a personal project that goes nowhere, give yourself a time constraint so you’re forced to finish something. Now you have so
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by Silamoth 3mo ago
I’m all for hardware hackathons. But I think there’s still a place for software hackathons: Just don’t use LLMs. Generating an entire application with LLMs kinda defeats the point of a hackathon to begin with. It’s supposed to be about show
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by Silamoth 3mo ago
If a couple gives birth to a baby with a debilitating condition and dies after 6 weeks, that’s an additional baby death. If instead of having that baby, a couple gives birth to a healthy baby, it will likely survive into adulthood, meaning
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by Silamoth 3mo ago
Did you read TFA? It explicitly mentions Bloom’s 2 sigma problem. The best quality education, based on the data, is private tutoring with mastery learning. That is unaffordable for most. Nothing about the data indicates that “ideology and p
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by Silamoth 3mo ago
MGTOW nonsense most certainly is not the common mode of operation for young men. Where are you getting this idea?
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by Silamoth 4mo ago
It’s a sad state of affairs when so many think math is about “rote memorizing formulas and rules like a robot”. That’s how math is taught through freshman or sophomore material for a somewhat ‘general’ audience. But real math is nothing lik
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by Silamoth 4mo ago
Much of the US is in a drought. While we can generate plenty of electricity, doing so with outdated fossils fuels and ‘natural gases’ introduces a lot of pollution that harms people and the environment. We need to be careful about making th
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by Silamoth 4mo ago
You say that like environmentalists support those things. We don’t. We regularly criticize golf courses as a waste of water and land. We regularly call out the water waste and ecosystem impact of manicured, uniform lawns.
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by Silamoth 4mo ago
I promise most people don’t care enough about you to spread rumors that paint you in a nasty light. If someone is doing that, you need to hang out with a new crowd and make some new friends. But most people have too much going on to care ab
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by Silamoth 4mo ago
Nothing about this screamed AI slop to me. What makes you think it’s AI slop?
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by Silamoth 4mo ago
The problem, I’m a picky eater. I never order something that simple. I always need it with “No X” or “Only Y”. Cashiers often struggle with that, even if they understand me well (which they don’t always). It’s easier for me to see everythin
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by Silamoth 4mo ago
Glad someone else feels the same way! Knowing that I enter my order in correctly is the biggest win there for me as a picky eater. The cashier is just entering it into a computer anyways, so it makes sense for me to enter it in myself. I ho
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by Silamoth 4mo ago
Hmm. I’ve never really had those issues. It’s also much faster and easier than ordering with a human. I guess it does try to upsell you, but humans often do, too. And to me, it’s worth it to just click “No” in exchange for the added conveni
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by Silamoth 4mo ago
Out of curiosity, what issue did you have with the McDonald’s self-order kiosk? I actually think McDonald’s has the best kiosk I’ve ever encountered. The little animation that plays when you add an item to your cart is a little annoying (bu
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by Silamoth 4mo ago
This is exactly it. A human capable of reasoning might not know how to write code. But they can learn and be taught. Eventually, you can give them a vague problem, and they’ll know what clarifying questions to ask and how to write the code.
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by Silamoth 4mo ago
If that’s really the case, then I’d say 2015 you needed to do more reading and thinking about AGI and the nature of intelligence and consciousness. The Chinese Room thought experiment is a good starting point for thinking deeper about what
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by Silamoth 4mo ago
I asked this elsewhere, but do you have an example of this knowledge? Have prediction markets ever revealed genuine knowledge? If so, has anyone ever acted on the newly revealed knowledge in a meaningful way?
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by Silamoth 4mo ago
What insights are being gained? Every time this topic comes up, I see someone vaguely mentioning insights from prediction markets. But no one ever has concrete examples - real or even hypothetical. Can you give an example of insights derive

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