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by brokencode 1y ago
Yup, any day now people will suddenly realize that LLMs suck and you were right all along. Any day now..
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by brokencode 1y ago
I think the thing people hate about that is the lack of effort and attention to detail. It’s an incredible enabler for laziness if misused. If somebody writes a design or a report, you expect that they’ve put in the time and effort to make
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by brokencode 1y ago
> “most people agree that the output is trite and unpleasant to consume” That is a such a wild claim. People like the output of LLMs so much that ChatGPT is the fastest growing app ever. It and other AI apps like Perplexity are now begin
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by brokencode 1y ago
If that were the case, people would watch classic movies, read novels, etc. No, I’m pretty sure social media has seriously hurt the average person’s attention span. The idea of sitting down and watching a two hour movie is really quite daun
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by brokencode 1y ago
I mean, that’s what I’m saying too. I think AI companies will have to pay for content to be competitive in the market. Either that or I guess they could write their own content. Yes, the government needs to force them to stop stealing first
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by brokencode 1y ago
I didn’t downvote you, but I do disagree. Yes, the AI companies are stealing. This is an area where the legal system needs to catch up. Once it does, AI companies should have to negotiate contracts with publishers in order to legally use th
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by brokencode 1y ago
Could somebody downvoting this explain why? Shouldn’t AI companies pay for the content they train their models on and summarize?
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by brokencode 1y ago
All I can say is that it’s really sad how politicized science has become. Oil company propaganda has really done a number on some people.
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by brokencode 1y ago
I am not familiar with UK’s debt situation and am not disputing that they may need to balance the budget. But I don’t think the 0.08% line item for scientific research is where I’d start. Science is already deeply underfunded despite a disp
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by brokencode 1y ago
This ARIA program’s budget is apparently only about 800 million pounds, which is a tiny fraction of UK’s overall budget of over a trillion pounds. These types of highly speculative projects are inherently risky, making them unappealing for
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by brokencode 1y ago
You are using the nuke example as a straw man since the negative impact is clear, but most technology is not so clear cut. We have machines that can do the work of 1,000,000 men, for example. The magnitude of technological advance alone doe
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by brokencode 1y ago
AI feels particularly disruptive now because it’s new and we don’t know how it will affect society yet. But people surely felt the same way about gunpowder, the steam engine, electricity, cars, phones, planes, nukes, etc. Or look at specifi
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by brokencode 1y ago
Every new technology is a greater force multiplier, with potential to be used for good or evil. That’s literally the point of technological advancement. Even nuclear bomb technology has a more positive side in nuclear reactors, radiotherapy
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by brokencode 1y ago
The downsides you list aren’t specific to AI. Globalization and automation have destabilized labor markets. A small handful of billionaires control most major social media platforms and have a huge influence on politics. Other types of tech
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by brokencode 1y ago
Even regular sync functions in JavaScript can do lots of computations that take a long time. And others perform effects like starting a timer or manipulating the DOM. Should these be indicated with keywords too? I agree that await is a nice
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by brokencode 1y ago
The first ones to discover this would have been rich though. I doubt they cared what would happen to anybody else in the long run.
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by brokencode 1y ago
Developers often pick languages and libraries based on the strength of their developer tools. Having great dev tools was a major reason Ruby on Rails took off, for example. Why exclude AI dev tools from this decision making? If you don’t fi
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by brokencode 1y ago
Yeah, they’re saying that this compression is almost as good as is theoretically possible without losing any information.
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by brokencode 1y ago
You’ve also not added anything to the conversation. Instead of a snarky response, you could have asked for some examples of how small businesses have used their small size as an advantage. This may have led to insightful and constructive re
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by brokencode 1y ago
I personally like being able to choose because I understand the tradeoffs and want to choose the best one for what I’m asking. So I hope this doesn’t go away. But I agree that they probably need some kind of basic mode to make things easier
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by brokencode 1y ago
Idk, it feels like this is what you’d expect versus the actual reality of building something. From my experience, even building on popular platforms, there are many bugs or poorly documented behaviors in core controls or APIs. And performan
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by brokencode 1y ago
Out of curiosity, what do you work on where you don’t have to experiment with different solutions to see what works best?
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by brokencode 1y ago
If it could be implemented that way and would be helpful where Google fails, then why has nobody done this? I’d love to try this out if you can point to a product that does this. You can criticize LLMs all you want, but the fact is that the
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by brokencode 1y ago
Okay, so how does the average person search through vector embedding? I would like to try this out.
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by brokencode 1y ago
Well he needs the public not to vote in a bunch of democrats in the midterms. And, if his MAGA movement is going to live on in Vance or others after his term, he will need public support.
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by brokencode 1y ago
You may be right here. The tariffs might not directly cause enough pain for the average person to matter. The big unknown still is the impact on the economy and job market. His actions may reduce competitiveness of American companies global
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by brokencode 1y ago
Great idea, I’m sure that would have helped. Maybe they also could have had Anthony Fauci personally reply to antivax conspiracy theories on Twitter. That would have won hearts and minds. You think Trump is “friendly” and of course he is. H
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by brokencode 1y ago
A violent crackdown against who? The people who stormed the capital and assaulted police officers? Even AG Barr said there was no evidence of widespread fraud. The “plausible evidence” you speak of was a firestorm of unsubstantiated claims
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by brokencode 1y ago
What in your mind should have happened differently in response to Jan 6? No widespread fraud was ever proven that could have swayed the election. Should we have pretended there were major flaws with our voting system just to help you with y
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by brokencode 1y ago
There are millions of voters who voted for Biden in 2020 and either sat out or voted for Trump in 2024. Not everybody is part of the cult. Many people simply thought Trump would take the economy and prices back to 2019. If he doesn’t, he’ll

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