ben_jones

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by ben_jones 2y ago
In real time we’ve seen “LLMs are the future” becomethe AI research into AGI is the future”. What’s the next movement of the goal post?
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by ben_jones 2y ago
Have you ever seen an instagram post where someone flashes wealth they don’t truly have? Be it a rented Lamborghini or a stack of twenty dollar dolls? Or a stack of ones with a couple hundred obfuscating the other denominations? There are m
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by ben_jones 2y ago
Hi Philip! This tool looks amazing! My company specializes in selling to underserved communities in the AMEA region. Can your product help me connect with LGBT customers specifically in the Sudan and Saudi Arabia? Thanks! PS can I get their
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by ben_jones 2y ago
> If the Challenger launch had been pushed back what major effects would there have been? An administrator would’ve missed a promotion.
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by ben_jones 2y ago
Thus the conclusion should be heavily scrutinize future infoq .com articles and perhaps future articles by the same author Eran Stiller. We shouldn’t detach responsibility from the publisher and author.
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by ben_jones 2y ago
People need to stop giving Musk credit for the macro economic conditions of 2019, 2020, 2021, and 2022. A lot of the stock gains had nothing to do with Teslas executive decisions during that time frame.
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by ben_jones 2y ago
Also Boudica
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by ben_jones 2y ago
> It doesn't really matter if the result is called AI or not I strongly disagree. Wildly overvalued companies disrupt the economy and present huge risks - see Tesla or Nvidia (currently valued at $100m per employee - $3T market cap
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by ben_jones 2y ago
I bought it for iOS and it failed to load on my iPhone 15 pro despite showing compatibility and successfully installing (multiple times). I have no clue how they can sell games that don’t even start and the App Store allows it. Edit: looks
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by ben_jones 2y ago
My prediction is it’s going to increasingly call traditional software under the hood but credit the AI as innovation.
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by ben_jones 2y ago
“Knowing somebody at Google” has long been the best customer support route for non enterprise customers, which represents almost all google customers (per capita).
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by ben_jones 2y ago
People like watering down good versus bad as if it were binary. They don’t care to think a good person can sometimes be bad, or that many crimes are crimes of opportunity, because then they’d have to question their own goodness
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by ben_jones 2y ago
> Housing prices are still set by supply and demand. You can't charge LA prices in Atlanta no matter what kind of fancy scheme you run. And yet the market can remain irrational longer then you can remain liquid. We do not live in a
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by ben_jones 2y ago
Facebook, I mean Meta, has benefitted from the enshittification of the tech industry. Next to TikTok they’re better moralistically. Next to Sam Altman, I mean OpenAI, they’re better moralistically. Next to other companies doing layoffs they
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by ben_jones 2y ago
> it's only us white collar workers in high paying fields like Tech, Finance, etc that have the dry powder to execute on purchases With inflation, layoffs, and lack of union representation, I suspect software engineering median sala
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by ben_jones 2y ago
Is there a way to turn it off other than an obscure query parameter in the URL? An honest release of this feature would have a “turn it off” button right next to it and I’m not seeing one.
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by ben_jones 2y ago
People push back on the Crypto/NFT <—> LLMs comparison but I think it’s spot on. Crypto failed because it could never be honest about its trade offs and the reasons for centralization in the first place. It couldn’t be honest abo
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by ben_jones 2y ago
Institutional investors panic > board panics > executives panic > evps panic and dictates incentives to ship AI > directors, ems, and below, who actually know how shit works, take a submissive role because they have mortgages in
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by ben_jones 2y ago
The risk is AI laundering the rest of America’s middle class wealth to the 1% resulting in falling healthcare outcomes, education outcomes, and life expectancies, and much worse working conditions for all industries. We’ve seen a huge shift
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by ben_jones 2y ago
We’re talking about reaching out to an individual for consent, not getting consent, and then deliberately choosing a voice actor to circumvent that lack of consent. Sam’s statement partially contradicts this by saying they contracted the vo
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by ben_jones 2y ago
CAC as in Customer Acquisition Cost if anyone else was wondering
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by ben_jones 2y ago
Shhh we’re raising trillions for this technology remember?
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by ben_jones 2y ago
Assuming you serve that content out through a CDN a lot of optimization work will be handled there and customization should also be handled there. I’d be shocked if CDNs don’t allow you to do much/all of that out of the box. Honestly t
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by ben_jones 2y ago
> Because you've got to take care of your sick mother was very famously a reason. With aging parents I empathize a lot with this appreciate you raising it. It’s true the locals will have many reasons to be here and will continue to
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by ben_jones 2y ago
> What other options do you have? Many companies are plopping offices right next to university clusters, which is a good solution if you need both talent and cost efficiencies. Consider the research Triangle in North Carolina as one exam
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by ben_jones 2y ago
> It’s going to be ugly for a while. As a life long Bay Area resident I’ve gotta assume 10 years+ before non tech businesses find some casus belli to operate the ex-warehouse converted to open office buildings throughout SF. I say non te
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by ben_jones 2y ago
Global 24/7 operations in a litigious industry is going to take a lot of people. Then they have over 615 million users. That’s a lot of overhead in customer support, billing, etc. Then they’re expanding into incredibly diverse markets
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by ben_jones 2y ago
We should publish the b-school, and b-school networking graph through the career of a malicious individual. People will take action faster if they knew Thaddeus Wrappesalot went straight from lacrosse captain to executive chairmen hiking ve
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by ben_jones 2y ago
AI is a giant liability shield. You can blatantly steal shit and profit of it. Of course enforcement agencies are going to have a field day with it. Announcements like this are just a pretense that they aren’t already counting the money.
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by ben_jones 2y ago
It’s a raw form of the same old celebrity worship we see with athletes, actors, and wealthy people. It’s in your pocket at all times, it’s in your friends pockets at all times, and there’s a tight feedback loop from the algorithm. Silver li

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