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by berniedurfee 2y ago
I think this is related to the concept of “aligned incentives” in a way. The chain breaks when incentives aren’t aligned and there’s a cascade of crap that roles downhill that seem like bad decisions. When, in fact, as the article points ou
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by berniedurfee 2y ago
It’s the other way round many times. Companies get fat tax breaks to move into a particular town or city. Those tax breaks are explicitly contingent on butts being physically in seats to add to the economy and tax revenue of that municipali
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by berniedurfee 2y ago
I think this is a big part of his legacy. I’m sure his contributions to the Indian economy are staggering in total. That’ll conjure different emotions depending on where you sit in the world.
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by berniedurfee 2y ago
I think common decency should have been considered here regardless of what a lawyer would say to do or not to do. Yuck.
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by berniedurfee 2y ago
This is the money grab part of the show. As LLM capabilities start to plateau, everyone with any sort of name recognition is scrambling to ride the hype to a big pay day before reality catches up with marketing.
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by berniedurfee 2y ago
Here now, you just need a few more ice cold glasses of the kool-aide. Drink up! LLMs are not on the path to AGI. They’re a really cool parlor trick and will be powerful tools for lots of tasks, but won’t be sci-fi cool. Copilot is useful an
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by berniedurfee 2y ago
You should _always_ be skeptical of what’s said by anyone who is trying to sell something. Like everything else being sold, the marketing is 95% BS. LLMs are amazing and wonderful tools, but me thinks we’re near a plateau in capability. Now
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by berniedurfee 2y ago
No doubt it’s bipartisan! Politician’s careers live and die in the fickle Court of Public Opinion. They’re probably the most susceptible cohort to AI fakes. One of the rare times, it seems, that politician’s incentives are aligned with the
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by berniedurfee 2y ago
What country is immune to this? As far as I can tell the collective conscious of every country is swayed by propaganda. A written headline is enough to incite rage in any country much less a voice or video indistinguishable from the real th
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by berniedurfee 2y ago
Our admin used to just prop the door open with a fan and blow the “something’s burning” smell out into the hall.
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by berniedurfee 2y ago
Regulation should allow students to forgo their tuition payments if they can’t land a good job in their field of study. That’d help align incentives. Schools would compete on placement rates and quality. They’d need robust post-graduation p
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by berniedurfee 2y ago
I’m starting to think this is an unsolvable problem with LLMs. The very act of “reasoning” requires one to know that they don’t know something. LLMs are giant word Plinko machines. A million monkeys on a million typewriters. LLMs are not in
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by berniedurfee 2y ago
This is a great argument as to why we need stronger regulations to make these practices illegal.
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by berniedurfee 2y ago
And as has been demonstrated, popular revolts tend to leave a power vacuum that gets filled by just another abusive regime.
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by berniedurfee 2y ago
| post-colonial intervention
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by berniedurfee 2y ago
I think this is the same behavior in Finder on MacOS. Sometimes right clicking requires some pixel-perfect sniping to hit just the right spot.
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by berniedurfee 2y ago
Ah! Thanks, I misread that as “grift” and thought it was another jab at De Beers.
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by berniedurfee 2y ago
This is brilliant! I always leave stuff for future remodelers or archeologists when I do remodeling or building. Mostly coins, I throw a few in the concrete mix or inside walls for future generations to discover. It’s always a treat to find
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by berniedurfee 2y ago
Sounds like the burning of the library at Alexandria, but worse.
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by berniedurfee 2y ago
I burned a couple hours debugging some generated code only to finally realize copilot was referencing a variable as ‘variableO1’. Artificial Incompetence indeed!
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by berniedurfee 2y ago
They certainly have DR infrastructure primed and ready to go… with Crowdstrike pre-installed on every DR server.
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by berniedurfee 2y ago
So is this data fair game to be used by lawyers and cops in the US? I guess maybe a cop would still need a warrant to use the data, but what about civil court cases?
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by berniedurfee 2y ago
Yep. It’s a really nice architecture for lots of use cases where it fits. Every new idea goes through the same cycle of overuse until it finds its niches.
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by berniedurfee 2y ago
We’re in the middle of “The Dark Ages II” and we don’t even know it. I’ve been thinking for a while about how historians will view our chunk of history and it ain’t too good. There will be some bright spots, but for the most part humans hav
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by berniedurfee 2y ago
That’s not the four letter s-word I would have gone with.
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by berniedurfee 2y ago
I used to play with this probably around when it first came out. I’d sit in my dad’s office at IBM and use his all powerful PC-AT steel full tower PC. It was so cool to even render simple stuff back then. Amazing to see this project still a
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by berniedurfee 2y ago
I just want to sit down in front of my TV, put on my Bluetooth headphones and have the headphones and TV connect automatically. Then, when I’m downstairs in my office and want to listen to music on my iPhone. I want my headphones to connect
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by berniedurfee 2y ago
Not in pro-studios. Most are stuck in Protools forever due to lack of interoperability with other software. You can run anything you want, until you need to send a session to another studio and they only use Protools.
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by berniedurfee 2y ago
Wow, I’ve never heard this sort of urban elitism before! Is it common?
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by berniedurfee 2y ago
They forgot Adobe. Oh, and Protools. And I’m sure many others.

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