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by amag 6d ago
Better in which way? It doesn't seem like the RNG is much of a bottleneck[0]. So this code is just more complicated than the original[1] IMO. It is also most likely more costly by involving a bunch of extra divs, logs and (for XP-level
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by amag 1y ago
And in Sweden, another "nordic socialist country", there's no tax on property nor inheritance, as well as very low taxes on invested capital. There are about 1.5x more USD-billionaires per capita in Sweden than in the US. I t
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by amag 1y ago
You mean I can't sue society if I die nine years into retirement?
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by amag 1y ago
> are predicted to get to what 90-95 on average? That may be true, but will we (who are in our 40's now) have the same quality of life at 90-95 as a now 75-year old will have at 80-85?
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by amag 1y ago
Of course there is no guarantee that your 65-75 years will be good, but it's a lot more likely that your 65-75 years will be good than your 75-85 years.
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by amag 1y ago
This is truly sad. As a Swede I fear my country may follow suite. The retirement age in Sweden used to be 65 and now it's 67. Looking at older people around me, most lead a much less active life after 75. So, if we were lucky we used t
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by amag 2y ago
Well, people in offices need new shiny phones every year and new Teslas to get to the office after all...
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by amag 2y ago
I really wish people would stop talking about MD5 already. It is almost never the answer. On a modern CPU you get HW accelerated SHA-256, it will always be much faster than your best software MD5. If your SHA-256 hash is too long, chop it
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by amag 2y ago
> Perhaps the doom isn't so imminent? Perhaps, or perhaps we don't know what the fall of civilization looks like? I remember watching a talk by Jonathan Blow where he poses that question. Did the Egyptians who built the pyramid
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by amag 3y ago
Last I used it, even pretty small grammars took forever to build. I had to be very diligent not to let the grammar cpp-file depend on anything else in my codebase.
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by amag 4y ago
If you for instance work with software developers, true vulnerability shows at a code review not at a occasional game of soccer or similar. Few software developers identify themselves as great soccer players so it's not a threat to t
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by amag 4y ago
Also consistently forgetting the 15 times larger population.
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by amag 4y ago
As I've said countless times in other comments, this is not a shallow job security issue. My post is about how I believe AI will change us as people and society in a much more fundamental way than we may think. In ways we might not hav
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by amag 4y ago
> The bleakness you feel might be due to a poverty of imagination. Thank you for your diagnosis. It may _also_ be due to the opposite. If you know anything about how the brain works, you'd know that in general more imaginative peopl
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by amag 4y ago
No, I don't think it is simple. In fact I think it is impossible. Just looking at the division in this thread tells me that there will never even be an agreement for taking such a stand much less follow through.
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by amag 4y ago
> AI does not make stuff like this go away. It actually frees more people to become these imbue-ers of meaning, if they are so inclined. Yeah, but in that very example I feel the value and narrative behind it is in the memory of the gran
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by amag 4y ago
Of course it's an absurd argument but my point is that in a fully automated world in abundance we will have 10 billion tourists. Also I like to differ between performing and creating. For instance playing the piano might still be worth
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by amag 4y ago
Yeah, but it's only possible because we, the software engineers, make it so. We could as a collective refuse to work on AI but we won't because it's a pretty, shiny, object with far too much lure for us to resist.
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by amag 4y ago
No need when I can examine myself to know myself :). While not actively working for it, I'm at least inspired by the FIRE movement. I am also self-employed so I don't see job security as the meaning of life. Still this whole threa
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by amag 4y ago
Thanks for this optimistic post and to be clear I don't expect alphacode to put me out of a job. I've seen the hilarious examples where people get ChatGPT to for instance claim that abacus-based computing is faster than GPU-based
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by amag 4y ago
> Our society currently affords ample opportunity to "productively" avoid those questions. I fully agree. > Some people already have answers to those questions, and stand to gain from that toil being removed. I used to belie
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by amag 4y ago
Thank you for the ad hominem attack. It's always a pleasure to discuss things with people who like to jump to conclusions and assume things about people they don't know anything about. Personally I prefer not to pass judgement on
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by amag 4y ago
As I stated in other posts, this isn't really a fear about losing my job as much as on losing my will to live...
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by amag 4y ago
It isn't? So companies aren't trying to produce things as cheap as possible to increase their margins? And robots that are never sick, takes no vacation, needs no rest and are mostly an upfront investment aren't cheaper than
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by amag 4y ago
And when there are 10 billion people at the base camp of Mount Everest because they have nothing better to do?
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by amag 4y ago
These are all good options of course, still with the lack of creative things, it might not be enough for all people.
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by amag 4y ago
The problem is that those people you are talking about already are the first victims of automation. They have to work two jobs because just one doesn't pay enough when a company can automate it cheaper. The road ahead is not nicely pav
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by amag 4y ago
This! Perfectly stated!
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by amag 4y ago
I feel many people are just reading the first paragraph of my post and reacting to that, my point is further down in my original post. Still to reply to your comment: Sure, in the short term that is true, but I'm thinking long-term con
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by amag 4y ago
You misinterpret, I'm not worried about my job. I wouldn't mind working less but I'm worried that sooner than we think we will be reduced to pure consumers (we're already pretty far ahead in that respect) and then life w

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